The only people that complain about skill based matchmaking are the pros who want easy wins. Why don't we have a matchmaking system like Halo Reach, that would solve all the problems. It's been 10 years since it released can't be that hard.

Keep your cable connected to your controller while playing as this eradicates lag. Give it a try

Idk why they don’t give you the option of preferring skill or connection-based matchmaking

Yeah, Crucible is not a fun experience now.

I’m 45, don’t blame yourself it’s this game that’s the problem... there’s hardly any primary gunplay anymore it’s all special ammo weapons, heck special weapons even outgunning heavy weapons which is why everyone apes people getting or with heavy. Find your favorite special ammo weapon, put on a scavenger mod and watch your numbers improve, sucks but in this sandbox the motto is if you can’t beat em join em. :/ or even better yet just play something else till the expansion drops in Nov, your sanity will thank you!

I’m 56 years old. I can relate to many of your comments. I most certainly prefer SBMM. But my own view is that the debate about SBMM and CBMM will be endless unless Bungie makes some wholesale changes in philosophy about PvP. For instance, I think Clash/Control should be available every week with a SBMM solo option the way Survival is. Meanwhile, I do think it’s fair that both Trials and Iron Banner are run as CBMM, but I think Iron Banner should have a solo queue option even in that mode, to militate against the impact of 6 man stomp teams that appeared regularly last cycle. For the same reason, as it is currently set up, there should be a solo option for any 6 man CBMM PvP mode. A lot of problems would be at least attenuated just by adding that option. All that being said, I have been getting through the current CBMM options, albeit without a whole lot of enthusiasm. One thing I do is largely play Survival since it remains SBMM. And that has had the additional benefit of allowing me to work on getting both Luna’s Howl and Revoker before both weapons are sunset at the end of this season. I will lbe one of the very last players to get either of them, but at least I likely will get them. I do empathize with your experience though. And while as I did last cycle, I will again weather next week’s Iron Banner, I am sure it won’t be my favorite experience for many of the reasons you cite, though. One final note. I reached 1060 base on two of my characters this week, after a lengthy battle with RNG (lol, but that’s an altogether different grievance with the system). It’s a relief when you do hit that magic number, because then you don’t have to worry about Pinnacle drops at all. You just play what you want to play, and can ignore PvP altogether if that suits you.

Thats a sign to quit, not to ask for a handicap.

SBMM is bad, also young players are 90% of the playerbase

So i can spend 500 years in orbit and match people from mars? Ill pass.

I feel your pain but it's not reflexes it's hand/eye co-ordination. It definitely deteriorates over time but like someone else said take your time and don't go rushing in. I'm 48 and my aim is rubbish but this season I changed the way I play and found weapons that I find easy to play with (currently malfeasance and last perdition) and I don't rush into encounters unless I know I'm going to win (usually with shoulder charge) If you take your time, hug walls and step back when shot and hide until health goes back up you will definitely enjoy it a little more unfortunately there's so many people using cheats and mods right now there's always going to be a couple who ruin it for you but just ignore it and have fun

Play comp. Survival or freelance survival. It's way more enjoyable for us oldies than Control is now.

Nowadays the old thumbs are taking a beating trying to play fast, i use 8 sens on console and i keep up but you feel it in the joints now. I’m telling you now, these kids that grew up with the sticks in hand are gonna have a high number of arthritic hand problems when they get to our age or older. The tendons around the joints wasn’t designed for repetitive thumb stick gaming. Alot of us older gamers came up through the arcade parlour, first gen consoles and handhelds then back and forth between MnK and consoles again. Our wear and tear has been distributed over a lifetime of multiple gaming devices. It’s probably the main reason i play better with Warlock than any other classes in D2 because outside of Top tree dawnblade their mostly passive neutral game caters more to positioning with a rifle or bow in hand and i honestly find the pace of playing tactically more agreeable at my age than playing aggressively. Not talking about camping at the back of a map with a sniper, taking covered leverage spots on the map, blind corners, choke points and lanes and anticipating spawn flips and waiting to pop your super to wipe em coming out.

As a scrim player I don't use reflexes that much. Yes it's a tool but it's not everything. I'd say 50% is awareness and thought process. The other 50 is gunskill, ability use, and as you said reflexes. Reflexes play a small part of the game. They can be great but doesn't mean abusing them is the smartest play. If I were you learn to snipe and have a sidearm

I'm 49 and I do pretty well in PvP. Has little to do with age. PvP is not in a good place because the sandbox isn't very fun, but you can do well. If you haven't yet, switch to Hunter, it's EZ Mode. Literally the least amount of skill required to do some damage in PvP. And you have to run the meta, as much as I hate that. Use the guns that are killing you.