xDefiant Gamers Protected by SBMM Want It Back lol
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xDefiant is just released and some gamers already want SBMM back. As it turns out, these gamers didn't want random lobbies or random challenges, rather they just wanted easy streamer lobbies. I'm going to be talking about this funny turn of events, and how the game is doing two weeks post launch. I'm also going to talk about some of the hit rag issues and upcoming updates to xDefiant.
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6:31 Two weeks post launch check in - เกม
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this entire video and discussion can be summed up to "skill issue" and it's absolutely hilarious
Pretty much XD
Somebody has to go negative. Doesn’t mean you’re bad.
Dude I can’t 😂😂
The irony is delicious 😂
It's funny AF to me how back in the day ppl were trying so hard to get good in games now they want the game to make them good
It reminds me of old school call of duty. Both teams were mostly composed of average players but both teams would have at least one player that was the obvious tryhard and that’s fine
Best way to have it!
Yeah I noticed this. Most people in my xDefiant lobbies are easy, with one or two enemies noticeably harder to take down. It makes it more fun. I can change how I approach the more difficult encounters if I know they're coming.
I still think its too early to say much though. Most people are still leveling guns and don't have a "main class" yet. Even a year from now, you can't guarantee anyone in a normal lobby is trying their absolute best to win. If you want to prove yourself the only real way to do that is through ranked.
Amen. It feels like old school cod and I'm having so much fun.
Only when a food quickscoper gets in it bothers me a little. Getting what feels like 6 bullets on a guy just to get scoped 3feet around the corner
The base of the community is way bigger than back then. More people are far better just at the average level. XD is just as sweaty as COD.
@@xstatixtribalelectronicmus2787 not even close. Like he said in the video people that complain about no sbmm have been protected by cod and are now complaining here in this game. The lobbies in this game feel very similar to OG cods because of no sbmm.
You're looking good Drift0r! It may sound weird, but it's nice to see you smiling and laughing. Keep doing what you do brother!
Shaymalan level twist that people just wanted easier lobbies rather than what they considered to be “random” lobbies. would have NEVER saw that coming
I honestly think that was the most OBVIOUS thing ever!
They are always like "Oh SBMM is so dumb, because I am so good so I always get with the most skilled players, but some times I just want to chill and don't have to sweat and tryhard all the time"
I am surprised anyone ACTUALLY believed that, and didn't just pretend to believe that because they felt the same way! Because what that really meant was:
"SBMM is so dumb, because I am so good, but I only get to play against all the other good players, I just want to dominate and own everyone once in a while, so I can get my ego boosted even more"
But as drift0r points out, they were actually NOT in the best lobbies, and now they get a taste of reality, and they don't like it!
@@KrydolphI think the first comment was sarcasm
@@chubbymonkey452 Hard to tell on just text! But we can hope
@Krydolph You obviously don't know what chill means in a game. In XDefiant if I swap to my pistol to sprint faster and decide eh, I'll just use the pistol this game. That's chilling, I'm still gonna try to do good. Still gonna sweat on occasions to do good. Still chilling. COD. You can't just whip out a crossbow anymore and have fun, you get owned a few lobbies then you start to do better so the game puts you with sweats using meta weapons and your getting dropped like you have both hands in your pants.
@@Dannyriding1what ive never gotten about playing "chill" is that its COD come the end of the day. Whether you want to chill or tryhard the end goal is getting more kills. Maybe youre chilling, but the other guys want to have fun and get killstreaks too. Its not like older battlefield games where if you wanna chill you just take a random vehicle and drive around the map. If people want to chill so bad, why dont they just make a private match with bots or friends? Showing my age here but thats what I used to to back in MW3.
This game is literally what ive wanted cod to be ever since jetpacks. When they said boots on the ground was back, i thought itd be like this
"Games are too sweaty. They need to get rid of SBMM."
_SBMM is gone_
"Game is too sweaty. They need to bring it back!"
Games are too sweaty, we all need to have a drink and smoke some weed.
Taking "don't hate the player, hate the game" literally.
Pretty soon it's gonna wrap back around to "don't hate the game, hate the players". The blame has to go somewhere and when they can't blame the game for them not being good they'll go to the next best thing which is the people they are forced to play with.
Tbf, I drink and smoke weed every time I game. Lol
@@vulcan422 "Everyone but me is cheating."
@@NinjaPieceLOL Yep. It's been seen millions of times but nowadays it's gotten even worse among gaming communities. Fighting game scene in particular is almost all about this now. If it's not people bitching about the game, it's people bitching about other players.
If you cant find any bots, ITS YOU.
You are the bot in that lobby.
FYI drift0r claims there is no SBMM in COD
@@Dalmasen86you don't even need SBMM. He just wanted to say that if you can't get a match with bots, that's because you are one of the worst players in the game.
the game is amazing. no sbmm finally allows some diversity in lobbies. not every match feels the same. and it actually awards you for being good at the game and at getting better at it.
What does "reward you for being good at the game" mean in this context?
@@MiketheNerdRanger He can see self-improvement reflected clearly in his gameplay.
@@MiketheNerdRanger bigger numbers, but unfortunately, the average xDefiant player will slowly get better with time. Aka, if you aren't getting better, you're getting worse.
It's more than just "bad players" to kill. The opposing team has great, good, and bad (well bad is harsh, probably a bit below average ) and everything in between. I can mostly do well but will consistently meet my nemesis. It also reminds me of peak COD days when my friend groups consisted of some terrible skilled friends who wouldn't do too well most games, but they could still offer help in terms of playing objective, callouts, sacrificing themselves to show an enemy's location (I think of Enemy at the Gate sniper scene), and beyond. Plus it's still fun playing with friends even if they're mediocre and you can still win via individual effort since the opposing team isn't a carbon copy of you. Today such experiences are not as easily obtainable, as your bad friend will guarantee you lose a SBMM game and they themselves will have an awful time. It has sorta ruined a lot modern multiplayer games unless you have very similarly skilled friends.
@@MiketheNerdRanger”Good” imo means that you can play against both sides of the spectrum that your on, in terms of skill. So when you get better you get to be better and smash a lobby. You get “worse” and “better” players instead of an entire lobby of people at the same or near your skill. That makes it hard to be rewarded for getting better, because you will always be playing against people playing as hard as you are, so you will never feel like you’re learning any faster than anybody else. Which means you will never be rewarded for being better.
TL:DR "You're trash git gud"
"If you can't find the bots, then you are the bot" 😂
And fortunately, now it is actually possible to improve since you're not against copies of yourself and your skill level every match!
to be fair, i dont play COD but even i think people that want sbmm should get it, but the rest of us shouldnt be forced to...i really cant wait until AI gets good enough to give them what they want...they want Bots, but that dont seem like bots....
@@osbee_ Exactly
@@chuckironsight3914 If they want sbmm they can go back to playing CoD.
New gen players who grew up and started playing in MW 2019 they have been playing within brackets for literal years and have never improved at the game.
My main issue with the game is some matches I can melt people and others I can’t finish any kills. And some quick deaths.
I think it's the desync that's going on, seems to plague any shooter for the first month.
Nah this is all facts right here, it’s really gets the blood boiling lol
This is what I’m saying. And driftor seems to have gone off form here and just trying to clown on people wanting a higher number of “even” games. Strange take from him.
The networking still needs a lot of work
Im so glad SBMM is not a factor in XD. I'm not forced to run the meta loadouts in every game. I can enjoy the game and don't need to sweat constantly
In human psychology, the attribution theory is where, regardless of evidence, someone is incredibly unlikely to admit they were the reason behind problems they have faced
Fax this could also be attributed to cognitive dissonance
Yeah it’s not my fault I can’t keep on task… there was a shiny thing in the corner of my room distracting me :3
self attribution error righy
Ex (new, not OG) cod player here. I started played xDefiant pretty late after release, and so far I like it. I started out rough, I got pissed, and I went into the practice mode to try and do what my enemies were doing (along with doing things to improve my aim). The result? I ended up having fun for every match after that! Wanna have fun on xDefiant? Improve your skills, don’t rely on the game to baby you, because it won’t.
I guess i finally know what type.of players modern cod is for lmao
Modern CoD is like the McDonald's of gaming. It's soulless and bland but is popular anyway just because it's already everywhere and people are afraid to try new things.
This has been really boosting my confidence in my skill level after playing this game the last couple weeks. I have been SLAMMING lobbies. I haven’t felt this good at cod in years. I thought I was losing my touch, guess I was wrong :)
You covering this just made me download haha, thanks for everything throughout the years, Drift0r!
SBMM didn't ruin COD. EOMM did. Having fairly balanced teams are fine but I'm okay without it, but having the system decide when I can do well as an average player just isn't natural and it's annoying.
Lol ok bad kid, people not realizing they're as bad as they are is what ruins any game for themselves.
@@aelinstue9431no, OP is right. The problem with CoD nowadays isn't that there is matchmaking, but that it has a matchmaking system where it decides when it's time for you to win and when it's time for you to lose. Every CoD before now had SBMM and it didn't feel like this.
Team balancing based on the players in the lobby is very different from trying to match the skill level of all players put into the lobby though
EOMM?
@@Masterhitman935 engagement optimized match making. I E if you're having a good game it quickly shuffles you into a higher skill bracket or if you're struggling, for a period of time, it gives you a pity lobby where you're clearly higher skilled than anyone else.
EOMM could work if it recalibrated say once a week or month vs recalibrating off one "good game".
I admit I am bad. But it feels better being bested in a random lobby than feeling like I am being manipulated
Having a higher number of more evenly matched games is “being manipulated”??…
Glad Drift0r mentioned hitbox desync on fast moving players, as I am pretty sure that is the general problem is with the hitreg.
People seem to focus on the most extreme examples but those are almost certainly because the person's internet/router upstream momentarily crapped out. The real problem imo is that on fast moving players a couple shots that are on target will often not register and a couple that are off target will. It is a lot more subtle, and often only really noticeable if you rewatch a clip in slow mo, but feels bad regardless.
Ive noticed the issue with hit detection, lag, and desync as well. I recorded a few clips where I would get behind a player and while the player was still facing the opposite direction, somehow they were still shooting me and killed me first.
Sitting up let's go!!! Looking great!!!
Cant wait for Drift0r to stream this
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The gameplay with the shield was funny to watch 😂
I’m actually feeling like you here Driftor. I don’t have as much time to play anymore due to adult things, so I can only play 1-2 days for a couple hours when I have time.
I don’t do too hot majority of the time but I still have my moments. Still having a great time and will play this over CoD forever!
I have no problem admitting I'm below average. I'm a lifelong .9 to 1 kd player in cod and I still wanted them to get rid of sbmm. I know I suck. I can deal with it. The best time I ever had with cod was getting good at black ops 2. At the start I was around a .8 kd and wouldn't even put on the higher streaks bc there was no way I was getting them. At the end I was easily getting the higher streaks almost every match and going above a 1 kd. It was the only game I even got close to a nuclear streak.
Yeah my friends and i are exactly what you described. Cod players, sweaty and hopping on xd for while and having fun getting better there
Lots of gamers coping that they don’t have the reflexes they once did is hilarious😭
Crazy what age can do to people
There's no cope... I just work too much 😢
Well some of us were actually injured or born with disabilities I have fibromyalgia and nerve damage in my hand from a sharp piece of metal going through it I struggle to write my own name this took me over 5 minutes to type
That and everybody's just so used to SBMM and has gotten comfortable in their skill bracket. If you've been playing cod for several years, most likely you're gonna notice a difference in performance
Age has nothing to do with it. I have always been really good but honestly I have only gotten better with age. Most people just aren't good and will never be good regardless of age. Gen z is pretty trash and competitive shooters.
What are those lightup poster things you got behind you? they look pretty cool
My thing is... I *KNOW* I'm bad and always have been at shooters, that's why I'm putting in some effort to try to improve my abilities with XDefiant. Acceptance is the first step to getting better. I really like this game and want to see it succeed!
people often assume these kinds of games are about gunskill. they are not. id say about 80% of the skill is about positioning, reading the radar, and efficient movement. the other 20% is gunskill and abilities. the people that complain about sweaty games are the people who are solely relying on their abilities and gunskill. the game feels hard because you are actively making it harder for yourself by putting yourself in bad positions and not paying attention to everything.
So true. I guess some people's minds are stuck in the old days of CoD 4 and original MW2, where the greatest positioning technique was camping. And people complained about people who camped instead of farming the campers by preshooting them every time.
Good to see ol driftor sitting up and still making content. Dude the BO3 gun guides were goated back in the day!
Generally I've found when people say they're good at a game it turns out they're terrible and if they say they suck they're actually a top 1% god so it's not surprising to see people say "i'm normally good at fps games, why are my lobbies so sweaty"
2 easy fixes.
1. Won't ranked mode simply fix a lot of this?
2. When lobbies get lopsided, maintain the lobby into the next game and then balance from there by swapping players from team to team to balance the teams, while maintaining zero sbmm.
If we’re being honest, yes a foreign concept to the self proclaimed hardcore gammers, Xdefiant doesn’t have a skill issue but a network issue. lets see how hard the game is when the net code doesn't delete 75% or more of your shoots or give the other player +2 seconds of shoot around corner.
Superb, fella. Superb. So many people did NOT know what they were wishing for. 😂
im on east coast of US and it takes like 3 minutes to find a match usually.
Not me playing the game on one monitor and having this video playing on the other and me nodding along agreeing with all points made..... Cheers!!!
Glad someone is smart over there and moved this back to a launch window with little competition.
My worry for this game long turn is those casuals that get stomped every lobby will just quit and go back to cod/fortnite/insert fps....add in they have 6 months to build this fan base ip before half will go back for black op 6
I havent had a 2+ KD in an arcade shooter since Cod AW. The lack of SBMM is a blessing
Drift thanks for making this callout, I appreciate you greatly and I would love to hear some more opinions on some potential engagement related things in games lately, for instance I have a video where I talk about patents in Diablo 4
(I think they’re usually related to team balancing etc) but I think engagement is the name of the game ESP on PVE games moreso than PvP games… I think a lot of recent patents in game show blatant manipulation in one form or another where the user experience is clearly being tailored and xdefiant is clearly just breaking the mold…I had WAY HARDER lobbies at 8am than I had at 6pm on xdefiant which leads me to believe the match making is less strict depending on the size of player pool which would make logical sense, ONLY ABSOLUTE DEMONS play at 7am in Atlanta, maybe it’s just career guys who have to go to work an get their game on early but I see the best players in the morning
Nice to see you out of bed driftor!
It just goes to show how SBMM makes less skilled players think they’re better than they actually are, whilst making high skill players think they’re worse. Went from about a 1.2 kd in the recent call of duty’s to a 2.3 in Xdefiant. If you’re complaining about lobby’s being too hard, either get good at the game, or play ranked when it releases.
The people that want SBMM have Stockholm syndrome
I’ve said this too and people have said “I don’t think you know what that means” derp derp
No, like drifter said, they are just bad. And they like to have fun when they play. It is a lot more fun to be matched with bad players, and get kills, than it is to be completely melted and feel like half the other team cheats.
You need SBMM in the modern fps culture. There is way too many streamers, no lifers, and idiots with no jobs playing 10+ hours a day. SBMM is the only thing that brings some balance to each match.
@@drunkhusband6257you make 0 sense
People will make any excuse SBMM EOMM Bundles non of that matters people are the problem not matchmaking, still doesn’t change the fact XDefiant sucks and people are coping and TH-camrs are using it for clickbait and views
its as if the moment you satisfy the loudest group, the next group will start screaming even louder
I like gaining new rivalry from meeting equally matched players that I meet in the random battlefield of Xdefiant
This used to be the best feeling in old cod.
You slap around a lobby for a few hours and *that guy* pops in and instantly becomes the nemesis.
And then it's back to back rounds of the two of you wrecking each other
So what im hearing is that since i had around a 2.5 KD in mw2 and black ops 1... Im going to crush lobbies.
One of the reasons I like Planetside 2 is that you can play with anyone of any skill in a few thousand mile radius. Most gunfights are hard fought as players that can't handle the high skill just leave or get better.
I think cod and this game will coexist together fine. Although i dont like this aspect i get it but i do wish the guns werent so grindy. With how much i work ill never be able to grind all of these
you look better man, glad to see
Fr I can now finally casually hop on for 5 games pub stomp because all the ttvs In public matches n get off for till next day
The reason why I would prefer the way xDefiant has handled matchmaking is that it allows for players underperforming now to get better over time. This felt impossible with the way the SBMM is implemented in COD. No matter if your skills improve, it’s nullified by being matched against sweats 24/7
I was bad when I played my first couple of games. After that getting my settings correct and adapting to the different feel of the game, now it feels really amazing. I get rolled still but personally I excel at these type of objective, hero shooters and push the objective hard to get into engagements. For me, Xdefiant is incredibly fun and I haven’t gotten frustrated once because if I match a really good team I know what I’m doing wrong and where to correct to win. Also, I’ve actually been able to get high kill games, 40 plus, where I haven’t been able to in Cod for a while.
I am not afraid to admit I am not the best at this game but it is pushing me to get better. The game is solid overall.
my only gripe with the game is the lack of gamemodes (plz get rid of payload this aint overwatch), operator balancing, and most of all is getting into random regional servers, plz let us select our regional servers.
The skilled players in xDefiant are usually the ones that constantly bunny hop to throw off people's aim and taking advantage of the game's poor hit registration.
XDefiant plays just like old CoDs for me when I had a 1.7 KD. Do great 4 out of 5 games, with a random struggle mixed in. And I’m casually playing. I love it. I don’t have to sweat to have a good time
Oh how the turns have tabled
Good to see you actually sitting in a chair in this video i hope ur feeling better
I was definitely one of those people saying the game was too sweaty day 1. For me, back when I played Cod, I'm a 1.5k/d but I don't value kills as much either. I'll actively let people escape my sights if I know they won't bother me while I go win the game for my team. So, it's probably lower than my current skill but you get the point.
My version of "sweat" is that people were already exploiting the game's systems, via jump spam and slide jump pre-aiming around every single corner. The kind of people that say they could go pro without actually growing their individual skill, they just use whatever is considered to be the "best," either by loadouts or playstyles.
And a lot of that still reigns true, however since the playerbase has expanded, that has all calmed down. Especially since the announcement that certain movement is getting patched because it's considered a legitimate exploit not designed for the game.
One of the worst lobbies I've been in is at least a couple ppl I went against was at a constant 120 hp
I love the casual vibe of this game it’s the perfect palette cleanser after I get bored of multiverses
As an adult casual at this point, I think the matching is great. Yeah it sucks when you have a match where you go 10/15 and just can’t do anything but kill trade at best. But that’s what makes it fun. Then you get to chase getting positive again. My issue with this game beyond hit detection (which is not great) is all of the character gimmicks. Make them just basic operators with no weird abilities and this game is fantastic. I don’t understand why every game has become a hero shooter where you have so many variables. Just let people go up against each other and test their abilities against one another.
Remember when all the cod kids were like “if you hate sbmm then you’re not as good as you think you are” well how the tables have turned
xdefiant is sweaty because call of duty sbmm made all games sweaty doesn’t matter what game you play they are all sweaty this isn’t 2015 anymore
Random lobbies are great, the only thing they need to do is highlight people who are grouped together
I love it. I'm also on the lower end of that bell curve since I got more responsibilities and I'm not playing fps arcade shooters as much as I used to.
But the game feels genuine. Likewhen I play COD now I just got stomped, stomped, stomped and then Activision gives me a pity game. And it's really not fun when you're able to track that cycle. With xDefiant its a more mixed bag in terms of players in a lobby- some are bad, some are good. It's refreshing in a way
Since CoD introduced jetpacks I haven’t had fun with it. I played each year but haven’t had that same experience since jet packs/sbmm was introduced.
Coming back to Xdefiant I’m either finishing 1st or close 2nd, then I do have the lobbies I get giga stomped but definitely having much more fun with it.
I hope that this helps the community realize that sbmm has pros and cons both ways and some people are gonna like it one way and some the other and we can finally let go of the heated sbmm debate; people are gonna complain no matter what system a game uses so I hope that those arguments receive less attention now that we've seen what both sides look like
People need to learn, that sprinting all the time is not neccessary to do good in XDef
You might be missing one point Drift0r. The average player in xdefiant is probably waaaaaay better than the average player in cod. The reason i think this is that the only people i know who have heard of/want to play/ have started playing xDefiant are serious cod players or daily cod players or sweaty cod players, but when i talk to potatoes who play cod for 30 minutes after work or only on the weekends, they say they've never heard of xDefiant, and me telling them about it having no sbmm doesnt seem to motivate them to try it out.
Okay, so i made all this up, but you could see this scenario being the case, and we havent eliminated it as a possibility
I was pleasantly surprised to very much not be one of the people being protected by sbmm, xdefiant is a great breath of fresh air, every game feels like a casual game and not the last round of a tournament
It's been sweaty for me because I made the mistake of ranking up the shotguns and pistols when everyone is using full autos or snipers. Can't wait to get these weapons over with.
I love how I can do really well and not be punished for it the next five games afterwards.
I'm definitely above average in Black Ops 4, the most recent FPS I've spent a significant time playing. I played a couple games of XDefiant in the beginner playlist (with SBMM) and got wrecked. If I'm doing bad in the only playlist with SBMM, I have an uphill battle. I don't know if it's worth climbing that hill, so long as a game I'm good at is still active.
If you just started and have less than 10 hours on the game just keep playing and you'll get better. A lot of people had a bit of a hard time transitioning their cod skills into this game since it's not the same as cod just similar. It took me a few hours but once I got comfortable with my sens and controls and learned how to play the maps better I started dominating lobbies. It's just the normal process of adapting to a new game but if you are an actual good player that stands out in most shooters you will stand out here with some practice. Something that helps you get better as well is watching some high level players on Twitch for example. Watch how they play and what they do and try to copy it and also try to understand why they are doing it. If you take time to get better at this game you will be rewarded due to the lack of sbmm.
The fun math side of this is that it’s incredibly unlikely you will run into someone who is not higher skill than you unless you are in the 99th percentile. Even then the gap between skill levels aren’t linear so even if you on paper are similar skilled by rank the macro and micro could be completely different.
I’m 100% sure that the data since it’s so new is heavily towards lower skilled players being the majority.
Agree with your first math statement (incredibly unlikely you will run into someone who is not higher skill than you), but not your last one. In a normal distribution bell curve, the "majority" are average. The left tail end (below average "bad" players) are minority, as are the right side ("good") tail
People don't seem to understand that the average FPS player's skill has increased drastically since "the good ol days" of COD.
It's time for you to make a comeback Drift0r !! Bring us the weapons stats and testing etc back !!
I just wished my team would help with the objectives more. Im usually player of the match even while being on the losing team which is pretty frustrating.
I hadn’t realized how much worse and lazy I had gotten playing cod over the last decade. I struggled on XDefiant at first because of it but it’s been so rewarding to improve and get back to my normal
I’m really enjoying XDefiant so far, I haven’t been able to play CoD since 2019 so this game has been scratching an old itch. However it’s obvious the matchmaking does take parties into consideration, which isn’t a problem. Playing solo is cake compared to playing with a pre-made party of friends.
Honestly it’s kinda revealed that I’m average to maybey slight above average which is a little better than I thought I was
Of the time I have put in so far, I have had a lot of close games, some I have been stomped and others I have top score and kills.
It's been refreshing to just load in and play the lobby that I have been put in and there has been a good amount of variation in the weapons and setups.
SBMM in an arcade shooter is condescending if you really think about it. The essence of Arcade is to just hop in and go. No waiting for lobbies to fill, no minute plus launch times, no map voting, no wasting time, just throw everything together and send it.
I think as xDefiant grows, average matches will become a bit more chill. Right now a huge percentage of above average (and better) COD players are moving to xDefiant, so the average player is well above average COD player.
Man these kids would be straight up crying back in original modern warfare games. Internet has gone soft
Personally it doesn't really matter to me if SBMM is in the game or not. I'd still enjoy it either way. Although, it is nice to have a game trying something different compared to other titles.
I like it. I get a mix of morons who shoot circles, and 4mans with 4-5 letter names. B-hopping left and right with every kill
I was considering trying Xdefiant, because I'm a fan of objective based shooters, and I heard this game was going to be that. However, after watching how the game plays, and how they were catering to bring in the COD crowd, I knew that this game would never be a competitive objective based shooter. Sure it will have competitively skilled players, but the team aspect would die early, because they wanted to appeal to a large player base that doesn't care about teamwork. So, I don't want to throw everyone in the same box. There used to be a lot of players who spent most of their time playing search and destroy or some hardcore objective mode on COD. COD had and still has a lot of objective game modes to be an objective team coordinated game. The reason why COD never became that was because they never gave more incentives to coordinate. The option was always there, but the incentive wasn't. This game seems to be taking some steps towards being a shooter that benefits from coordination, but it doesn't demand it, and then when you appeal to a fan base that doesn't care to do it either, the whole player base will learn to not do it, and it will just become a casual shooter. Is it ok to be a casual shooter? Absolutely, but the game didn't start off with that selling point. Seems to me that they wanted to get the more objective based people in first, then the more casual base in, so the promoted one philosophy and now they are promoting the other. It's smart, because if they said this was going to be a casual shooter first, the people who like to coordinate and play objectives wouldn't have come, but now they are already in it lol. They marketed well, but for a game featuring Ubisoft shooters, half of which are tactical shooters, they aren't keeping it true to it's core. Not a big deal though, there is R6 Seige for those who like round based objectives, and I hear Ghost Recon is returning to their roots, which is the one I'm waiting for if I wanted a military based feeling shooter.
I like the fast queue times. I will say that it seems like they could do a better job of evening the teams once the lobby is put together. I understand I'm just ok at this game. But I've played games where there was no one in my team higher than level 35 and no one in the other team lower then level 60 and we got rolled. Just even out the teams a bit and we're golden.
The term "Sweaty" is saying someones good but not wanting to actually admit their good and just scoff at them.
I can totally see XDefiant taking one of the top most played spots if they don't pull a Halo Infinite and actually update this game regularly.
That damn snow map is my LEAST favorite, it’s so easy to get spawn trapped or sniped trying to get the objective to the first check point
Every single time I’ve played on the map Emporium (I think that’s the name) my team gets spawn trapped.
@@jf3028 the first few times was actually ok and then I think everyone figured out the sniper perches/positions; once you lose a wave it’s damn near impossible to break through
Being bad is okay, we were all bad at these games at one point or another. I just feel like SBMM has introduced the expectations for bad players that they should just be good without taking the time to get good. People just want things handed to them without the willingness to work for them, and I swear I see it in all aspects of life these days not just video games.
I miss the old call of duty KD matchmaking but if it was a thing in xdefiant I would like it to be in a separate playlist
I was always a fan of SBMM , I host tournaments and before I invented a discord bot to organize teams with MMR , it was a nightmare for bad players , to the point where they would not come back for days, after installing SBMM , the games were much closer and everyone enjoyed it much more. I will always support SBMM.
Sbmm is great in a competitive setting.
It's not great in a casual game that's unranked *and hidden* that also has a ranked mode
What about the welcome playlist?
It's amazing most of my matches are always one sided. No matter how good I am, I can't dominate the whole other team by myself. Especially while I'm the only one playing objective. The other team is almost ALWAYS filled with people who are higher levels above me. While I have noobs.
I never played CoD but I reckon the region does matter in this equation with regards to some lobbies feeling sweaty.
I can easily wait for 5mins+ for a match no matter which mode I chose, and I see the exact same people over and over again and the matches are often reasonably well balanced, its rare to have a single person completely decimate the lobby(and even when they do a lot of them complete ignore the objective and lose as a result), I'd say at least 80% of my matches are 'close win/close loss'.
But then I play off peak and get put into other regions ( 180+ping ) and I get some of the most lopsided matches around where it legit feels like I'd have to try to lose.