MrBiron

Yeah I noticed that as well and it makes me very wary of them doing it. We all know Activision can't be trusted.

They've actually done it. No SBMM lobbies for this game. Amazing.

One of the COD leakers has said that the no SBMM matchmaking will be in this game but they don't know if it's the default matchmaking or if it will be a separate playlist. Obviously it needs to be default with SBMM reserved for rank play. If it's in its own playlist then I'll just be sticking to that.

Activision have fucked themselves with this one as it's shown that they're lying pricks. They put out those documents about their matchmaking process and they claimed that ping is king. This reduced skill matchmaking system shows that isn't the case at all. It's now 100% obvious that skill takes precedent over anything else when matchmaking.

I feel that Treyarch have shot themselves in the foot by adding this reduced SBMM (it's not gone completely) playlist. It's shown players just how strict the current system is so removing for launch will turn those players away from the game completely.

Treyarch added a classic matchmaking playlist where skill was only used minimally and it was absolutely fantastic. Getting into a game took a few seconds and it didn't feel like you were getting screwed by the matchmaking system if you did well, plus I was always in lobbies with a ping of around 9ms rather than it jumping between 9ms and 40ms. It was actually fun. It shows just how ridiculous SBMM is in this COD and how the system will prioritise skill over connection. Hopefully they'll use that system going forward but I doubt it. If they remove it then they're fucked IMO as they've shown players how the game could play if it wasn't for their SBMM system so those players just won't get the game.

I played a few games last night and I enjoyed it 🤷‍♂️ The maps so far are a major improvement over BO6. I quite like the extra movement we've got with the wall jumping.

A new Advanced Warfare sounds amazing to me. I'm now looking forward to playing the beta.

I watched a video from somebody at COD Next and they said the maps are really good this time around. They feel like actual MP maps rather than a bit of the Warzone map that's been turned into a MP map. That's good for me as the maps were my biggest gripe with BO6.

A breakdown video of the MP trailer + new details about MP. There are 16 maps at launch. 10 of them are medium sized. Thanks fuck they aren't all tiny again! My main gripe is the perk balance. The Perk 1 slot has all of the most useful perks and Perk 3 slot has perks that are pretty much useless.

You can't play for more than 30 minutes without the framerate taking a nosedive on consoles. The solution? Restart your game 🤣 There is absolutely no way in hell that Gearbox didn't know this was an issue before release. Unless they didn't play test their own game.

I've tried it because it's on GamePass. I just can't seem to get along with it, same as with the first game. MetroidVania is probably my favourite type of game as well.

That's utterly pathetic that other devs are complaining about this game 🙄

I've been playing through the campaign with a friend and it's still enjoyable. It does look very dated I agree. It should have been updated to at least UE4.

Digital Foundry did a good video on this. It is a lazy effort. It's basically GoW Ultimate with a couple of extra tweaks. It's still running on UE3 🙄 I've grabbed it because it's on Game Pass but there's no way I would have bought it.