you have my whole post all wrong. i am not defending SBMM in any way shape or form. i want and expect connection based matchmaking in this day and age. what i am experiencing is lag. me getting "better" has absolutely nothing to do with anything i have posted. but it always seems to be brought up by PvP elitists. in the early days, i would have a good first round. then second round, 3-6 red bar players dominating the score boards. this would happen every night i played PvP. after 4-6 months of this, i quit playing PvP. i left other games for this reason and refused to let this game ruin my experience so i started doing PvE only stuff. i am so much happier since. on the subject of "getting better", how exactly can i get better when i seem to shoot nerf guns? most of my shots don't register or do a minuscule amount of damage. i have solid internet and am never red barring in PvP. and yes i can confirm my internet is solid, so don't go there. it comes down to the shitty P2P system PvP has and the horrible netcode and lag compensation bungie used in this game. when i have a "fair" game i do well. however, i am so out of practice now, it wouldn't matter anyway.