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9/2/2022 4:36:14 PM
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PvP: The above average scrub perspective*

My favourite type of matchmaking is SBMM. I love closely contested matches where my performance impacts the outcome of the match. That’s what motivates me and that’s where I have the most fun. I hate getting stomped and I get bored when I’m stomping someone else. I try to improve as a player, but it’s not my main motivation to play. I prefer loose SBMM in casual playlists and strict SBMM in competitive playlists. There are plenty of players similar to me, but there are also plenty of players who are not. Many players prefer CBMM. From reading lots of comments on these forums, here are a few things I feel differentiate a CBMM player from a SBMM player (I’m going to stick to ‘motivation to play’, rather than the technical preferences of queue times, connections etc). Average CBMM players enjoy a variety of matches (including stomping those well below them and getting stomped by those well above). Confident players can experiment with off-meta weapons and builds, without severely affecting their performance. Over time, improvement is visible in matches, through the frequency of kills, assists and deaths. Highly skilled players see the fruits of their labour, when they routinely dominate matches. A lot of the CBMM/SBMM ‘debate’ ignores any appreciation for what motivates different types of players. Many forum posts on this topic are so caught up in hurling insults at the other side, they completely undermine any comment being made. If you genuinely care about Destiny PvP, you will surely want the playerbase to be as healthy as possible. That means looking beyond merely our own preferences. There are people attempting to steer the conversation this way. Unfortunately, they are currently being drowned out by people who are only interested in their side ‘winning’. [spoiler]*I’m a 1.4kd in Elimination, 0.6kd in Trials[/spoiler]
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  • People need to figure out how to play For Honor. It's not easy to start and if you start to try PvP you will be destroyed. Without question. But if you [i]really[/i] want to do better, you take the beating and learn how it works. Because if you truly want to do better, then you will. The people who want SB over CB had every opportunity to do better, play Rumble to practice, play freelance Survival, make their own stacks, etc. But they didn't because they ultimately don't care about doing better. Majority of them play less than 10 games a week. The dedicated players wanted CB because they've already got their skills developed and wait for Trials to fight each other. There are outliers yes but not many. TLDR the people who want SB, don't care to try and improve. The people who wanted CB wanted to use Control to chill before going into the endgame. And unfortunately, the casuals were listened to instead of the dedicated population.

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