MrBiron

I've been enjoying this a lot more than BO6. The reduced SBMM and better maps just make it a much more enjoyable experience. I only dislike 3 maps and 2 are remasters (Hijacked and Nuketown).

I played last night for a couple of hours and had a blast. The lack of SBMM just makes the game so much more fun. You don't have to worry about the game punishing you and I had a consistently good connection. The maps I played were all pretty decent and so much better than the small clusterfuck maps we got in BO6.

It's server de-sync. It was a problem in the beta and it looks like they still haven't fixed the issue.

People are genuinely angry about this delay and I find it quite amusing. It's just a game. They're acting like it's the end of the world 🤣

It's definitely down to them trying to appeal to the COD audience. If I want to play COD then I'll play COD. I don't want to play a BF that's like COD. I play both of them because they're different to each other.

The maps are just bad. I've played BF since Bad Company and I've generally enjoyed most of them (we can all just forget Hardline exists) but I just don't like this game. I don't remember getting shot in the back as much as I do in this game. I think it's because the maps are really small compared to previous BF games.

I'll be playing this. I really enjoyed the first game. Although I have watched a review where it said that the humour has been toned down which is a shame.

Fucking 8Thoughts! I'd rather get kicked in the balls than listen to that bellend.

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.