Just another tired Matchmaking complaint onto the pile
"Just git gud"
"Just play with LFG"
"Just play with friends"
"It's a skill issue"
"mad cuz bad"
"You should be able to 1v3 a trials team"
"It's a skill issue"
Is this really all to say? It feels like it is. Every week, without fail. While there's plenty of discussion trying to push Bungie towards some way of balancing the PvP, there's just far too many comments hand-waving it away. "There's no problem but you". "I'm getting great matches, sounds like a skill issue" says the top 3% player to the bottom 40%.
"CoD SBMM exists, and it's garbage" without even acknowledging the deeper issue that is Activision manipulating their info to guarantee a 50% win rate, bouncing the players around like Yo-Yos in order to do so.
I'm feeling the issue isn't the average player skill, it's the massive divide between top and average skills. Those in the top do NOT want to let that go. And I get it, it's nice to feel like you're a god. But even in the "Endgame" events, there's hardly any competition and it's destroying the crucible playerbase. Nobody returns after their bounties / pinnacle unless they have brain rot like I do.
It also feels like a cause for Weapon Nerf crying. Top player got creamed by a fusion shot? Nerf it. Bottom players getting destroyed by hand cannons and shotguns? Nerf it. But never touch the stomp lobbies, no, the top players need their daily We Rans. It makes me sad that there's even an "I made you this" medal that people legitimately have on their accounts.
I'm no top-skill. I'm aggressively average at best. That middle ground trying their best to find the fun in PvP, but the uncompetitive matchups take that fun away. I can improve, but in the moment when I'm matched against someone DestinyTracker labels as a Top 500 LEGEND while I'm still around Gold or Silver, that's just not happening. Same goes for stomping people who are less skilled, it's not fun. I feel bad because there's no competition. I'm creaming them, and not even trying. It's not fun.
We need to address the issue in PvP that is an entire lack of matchmaking and lobby balance. And before anyone says "Well just go work for Bungie then", they don't hire Canadians. I tried. Would absolutely love to get hired and rip out the entire weapons sandbox to start fresh again and implement SBMM. But can't, I don't live in the States.
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Top 1 % players don't enjoy this matchmaking, bottom 1 % don't enjoy this matchmaking, just like everyone inbetween.
Literally noone does. Where do you get this from? High skilled players don't enjoy it because the team balancing (totally not sbmm yea right) forces them to play against a team of above average players while they get complete noobs in their team and noobs get steamrolled.
Before you suggest SBMM. We already have that. It is just renamed. We used to have even stricter SBMM in this game in season of the drifter and it did not work at all for this game. Player base is WAY to tiny for the pvp portion. We had 15+ minute queue times and asian 300 ping lobbies with stricter sbmm because way too few ppl play.
So the only solution is to remove literally every single team balancing sbmm algorythm and win rate restriction forcing match outcomes and make it pure CBMM. Just random matchups. That way atleast half the matches will be extremely fun for everyone while the other half will suck. Right now 99 % of the matches suck. Would be a step up imo.
Let's not forget how casual, unbalanced and cheese infested this game is. Seeking for balanced teams isn't only a matter of "fairness", it simply does not work for D2. So why not make it fun and enjoyable with good connections at the very least.