That's actually good to hear. This game seriously isn't good for your mental health lmao (as long as you are the average player and not playing it bot lobbies).
I really appreciate that you tell everybody you're in reverse boosted lobbies. RU-vid keeps recommending random CoD channels to me where they upload videos like "I drop 50 kills EVERY GAME with this loadout!" and you can count on one hand how many times somebody even tried to shoot at them.
You right man, for example heroof youtube, that youtuber always get 2 nukes in every lobby with any wespon, its always in the videos "this m13b its meta" this wespon its broken, and.like you say they always get 90 kils against noob players. there are other YT that play and have to survive the sbmm and are good players.
@@Se777enthLevelkillcams have never been accurate tbh. But host advantage and lag is a thing nonetheless. Back in the day when you got host advantage if you were fast enough as a player you'd be invisible..all my nuclears in bo2 was host advantage since I went 25-0(ik nuclear was 30-0 I'm saying i streaked then camped for it 😂😂)before i even realised it all those games. And i wasn't good back then..at best a 1.5-2kd player till later where i got 'gud'.
This year it’s clear more than ever that activision has lost so many players simply due to SBMM alone. I realize the base games are not as good as they use to be, but if they simply went back to “ping is king” light SBMM, they would save so much of their player base, including me. People like me are desperate for a good shooter. Just a shame. The answer is clear to everyone except activision.
It's bizarre to me that they prioritize the 'new player base' when it's quite clear that the majority of people at this point of call of duty (20 years) is a large percentage of each games player base. Yet each year they are losing more and more players and clearly not gaining at the same rate
The story of the husband and wife has to be true. I say this because my younger brother visited me the other night and we played CoD like we did when we were in high school. He hasn’t played in years and we were going game for game. After he played, I would be put into lobbies with people who clearly were not good. I would dominate the lobby and then it would be his turn. He was then placed into lobbies with higher skilled players, making him do horrible and the cycle would continue. Eventually I let him play 2 games in a row to my 1 game and sure enough, his second game in a row would have low skilled players. SBMM has ruined gaming in a lot of aspects, and now it has ruined the fun in sharing gaming moments even with my little brother. We can’t even go game for game anymore and we have to change it up just so he can have some fun. Please, fuckin PLEASE can we go back to public and ranked lobbies? Leave the SBMM for the ranked lobbies, it’s literally ruining more than just a “gaming experience.”
'Ping-is-king' matchmaking needs to be the standard again. This current CoD system is gonna lose a lot of the remaining players, most of which are guys and gals like you and your brother.
You are right BT...I ran into instant poor latency in Warzone Caldera where as soon as I would get near an enemy player I would start lagging...running around the whole map looting no problems...but once I'd get near a gun fight I'd start lagging...coincidence I think not
@@Scruffy6232 we ain't alone y'all...we have all been exploited by Call of Duty and can only make a difference if we all stand up for what is right and force Activision to get there heads outta you know what and give us the game we have always loved and deserve!!! And it may come down to not buying it for a few years for them to realize...but we can't give in and provide enough of a positive sales number for them to keep giving us garbage every year!!!
Imagine paying for good internet too, like for example you buy the best internet possible so you can play video games but then the shits all rigged because of sbmm
Skill based damage is absolutely a thing by the way. At least it was in MWII (I haven't played MWIII). I specifically remember the M14 being 2-3 shots to the body for a kill, but if I was absolutely blowing people out of the water then mid-game suddenly it became 4-5 shots for a kill which made it completely unusable.
It genuinely does feel like damage and even hit detection gets nerfed when you do well. I always assume it's a bad connection or laggy hitboxes or something, but it seems to happen so consistently across games that I'm starting to believe it could be real. I've been camo grinding the Tyr pistol in MWIII today, and it went from killing in 2 chest shots or 1 headshot at decent range, to barely getting any hitmarkers with the same build.
I noticed it in COD WZ2! Never been big into the game as ive always been a Battle field sweat, but i gave it a go when it came out! Im sensitive to latency and Lag and For the first two weeks the game ran perfectly and i was destroying everything! I thought it was all a little odd...i got better at the game very fast and quickly noticed what seemed like Lag switching on every other person i was up against and truly felt i was being nerfed and fck it off! Never experienced anything like it in BF and it was very noticeable!
Played for a little bit this evening got a very nice 3.5 k/d in one match and after waiting 2-3 mins to get into another match, proceeded to get my shit pushed in. Anyone who dares to say SBMM isn’t a major factor in this game needs to get their heads examined. I’m average at best now but the moment I pop off (had a 2.1 k/d the match before), I damn near regret it cause I know I’m not gonna have fun in the next match. Shit is sad. Smh. Much love on the vids as always, BT!! SPEAK THE TRUTH FOR THE GUPPIES!!!
Remembered my 6. KD game first game of the day but all the other game on that day was unplayable like enemy team full of sweat and my team was full of bots... You regret making good matchs when you can't have fun anymore the game after it... Sbmm kill the fun of cod...
I almost feel like it’s player’s duty to reverse boost and bring these protected players back to reality and also counter Activision’s bullshit tactics
@user-sh3fk6hy6uanyone who says its a skill issue is obviously so terrible at the game that you never face any real Sweats lmao. IQ issue for you lmfao. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Hoping you see this, I don't think the worse connection is a delberate feature of SBMM but a consequence of it. Essentially, if you're an above average to good player, the system will be searching a much smaller group of players to match you with. This pool only gets smaller the better you are, and the system is proven to sacrifice game connection to put you in rigged hard lobbies. So essentially instead of playing with whoever is nearby (The old way) the system is matching you with what it sees as "correct" enemies regardless of the distance between you all, so your one lobby could have people in it who are hundreds if not thousands of miles from the servers and each other; this naturally makes the connection quality go to absolute shit.
Could be true. I have a little over 2kd account with around 1wl ratio and Im from europe and I see people from south america either on my team or enemy and I get a ton of packet burst
This might be true because when i got 40 kills in plunder i started to get a shit ton of packet burst in every Match and it was because i was the in brazilian servers. Every single player was brazilian and it kept happening until i went negative in a match
Yeah, the number of times I've found myself in Puerto Rican and Brazilian lobbies just makes no sense for someone in Texas. They're not even in the same time zone! Mexico is literally a 2-3 hour drive from me, but I RARELY find myself in a Mexican lobby. I'll get a few matches playing with other Stateside CST players, and then find myself getting connected to a match in session on the losing team on a PR or BR server with constant packet burst. And the packet burst is the weirdest part because I have clanmates who are still active duty so it's nothing for me to get into Korean and Japanese servers through them and my connection is never anywhere near as bad even though I'm connecting at more than twice the distance!
The story of the husband and wife is accurate. My lady joined me in a game last week, she literally started crying it was so rough for her. She knows how to play, but since I am a 1.8KD player it is so punishing for her she has only been playing Zombies since...there is no CASUAL play any longer. Also the Packet Burst gets worse the better I do in a round. Have a decent fibre connection, I optimised the network (I work with networks in my daily job) so I know the net connection is fine. This game is rigged!
Is there not some lawsuit? Like what if we all started filing complaints against our internet provider to put the pressure on Activision? No way we pay money for internet then we get bomb for it if we’re decent in a video game?
@@JCMusic_ I mean they fw our internet we put pressure on internet company to put pressure on activision? What’s your plan? keep playing the game and buying skins and shitting on other peoples ideas?
Do yourself a favour and setup a middle man acting either as a server/router, or as a vpn host (or use wireshark or similar, though i don't know if richochet will be triggered by this).. keep track of where the packets are going and keep tabs on your ping. If it's anything like what we have been experiencing you are going to have wildly differing pings on the same server, most often preceded by one or another player popping off for a match or two. We are literally getting thrown into their german datacenter over and over, under the same ip subsets/subnet/whatever, we have people living in the same house getting wildly differing pings to each other in the same lobby (again preceded by how well they did before all this starts... they live in an apartment and have 1gbit fiber.. no other game gives them issues).. If you want to get really into the thick of things, setup a linux server acting as a host/router/vpn and use the TC toolset to induce delayed packets, randomized packetloss, ping jitter etc. Doing this i have found that the game DOES NOT REPORT THE RIGHT PING times more than half of the matches we play ( i have pinged the server in question and gotten a fairly consistent 15ms.. with TC i added another 100ms and got fairly consistent 150ms.. ingame i was stuck at 80ms, or i had 150-200ms), half of the time it will not even report packet loss correctly despite intentionally dropping upwards of 50% of my packets (i am rubberbanding all over the place, but apparently it's not enough to trigger the packet loss warning). What is happening in cod right now just doesn't make a lot of sense if not done intentionally.
@@fcksham7127 lmfao I'm not giving them a dime. But you're an idiot if you think your "plan" will work. You want a plan? Stop buying the game every year
I'm convinced of this as well. My brother got a geo-lock program to lock our server connections to US East Coast servers and it has been a night and day difference when it comes to connection quality. Good ping in every match, zero packet burst, and to top it off, the TTK doesn't feel inconsistent anymore. I still dislike the longer TTK, but at least I don't feel like I'm dying in 1 frame while it takes 7 business days for me to kill someone.
It really is about time for a class action lawsuit to be filed, if for nothing else but to find out what the systems in place are and the intent behind them. It really feels like whatever it is is there to actually cause harm because if you ever notice when you have good matches, you actually play less because you feel good and want to move on with your life. However, when the game is abusing you you play more because you're trying to figure out what is happening or trying to relive the good old times.
@@pdj2975 If SBMM is such a tightly guarded secret that means it's not in the EULA and that means you haven't agreed to it. And EULA's don't protect the company from causing harm, read my OG post.
@@pdj2975 You never have to read ToS for anything if something is illegal then it doesn't matter if it's in the ToS, if they are truly degrading your connection to the game willingly then that's something that (a normal person) would think to blame on the isp to cover themselves they would have to make it obvious (to the average person) that if you are playing cod your connection will be throttled and it's not because of your isp.
Are you really this dull? This is clearly a system to hurt cheaters, This is only hurting solo players thats why they are doing this. SBMM dont exist with teammates
People wouldn't get nothing out of a class action lawsuit.Because a judge would say if u don't want it don't buy it.Activison isnt making no one buy it and being there owned by Microsoft Activision dont have to care like they used to because they have so much money.Microsoft didnt buy Activision for cod they bought it for mobile alot of people didnt no that Microsoft dont give two damns about cod.
Honestly I feel what you said with better players not spending money is very very accurate, yes some players and content creators are skin collectors but the game already costs 70-100$ before buying skins and then we get unplayable lobby’s ect. Also I feel the better players also stick to one definitive skin (most times)
Mark my words, Activision will somehow think of something like putting SBMM in campaign once people stop playing multiplayer altogether. Once the game realizes you're dominating enemies on Recruit mode, the difficulty automatically changes to Veteran mode & enemies start grenade spamming you like the World at War days
@@YungRaze21i joked about that yesterday with friends, that they would scale zombies HP, damage and server latency based on your skill in that mode 🤦🏻♂️
This is happening simply because a lower skill bracket gives you a LOT more players to connect with and lobbies that are more centrally located to the server. In higher ranked lobbies, you’re more likely to connect to a distant server or have players in the lobby that are much more dispersed. This really accentuates the flaws of their netcode. Combine that with the higher ranked lobbies being super sweaty and it creates some terrible terrible matches. Also, you can’t really say it’s not small sample size when you say you have a small sample size in the high ranked lobbies. You need sample sizes in both playstyles to properly compare it.
definitely agree. Im a 1.83 KD and the only way ive been able to keep it up is by playing with a full party, otherwise im playing against Nuke squad every match lmao. also feel and know for a fact that lay so many shots on people sometimes , even first and somehow they still turn around kill me with what feels like 2 bullets. its honestly ridiculous
An original halo developer came out trashing mw3 on their sbmm system. He said it very well. Cod is discriminating against good players. The better you are the more discrimination you face.
Good players are also always going to be more critical of the game they play, because they unsterstand it more intricately. More often than not implementing feedback from good players is going to go completely unnoticed by casuals and make your diehard fanbase happier. It will improve the general health of the game which will in hand improve the experience of casuals even if they aren't aware of why.
@AgxntOrange yeah but we can't trust the streamers cause they'll gear the game to their preferred style of play. They'll alienate average and slightly above average players in favor of crackhead style speed.
It’s funny cuz you could call in streaks on the protected people and they won’t leave. In a sbmm lobby everyone leaves😂I wouldn’t doubt that in the near future their main marketing for a new game would be “We removed sbmm”💀
I don't want to be a conspiracy theorist but I believe the packet burst occurs when someone with lower KD is targeting at you either by aiming down the sights or hipfire. Pretty much when you fall into his field of view. You must check this out if it's true
I think above a 1.0 kd the packet burst is to keep your w/l ratio as close to 50/50 as possible. I’ve had so many games where we’ve been up over 100 points in hard point and all of a sudden my gun just stops working. Especially over 40 kills it seems they destroy your ability to kill enemies and the game ends up either really close, or mostly WE LOSE. WHAT CHANGED during that game we were destroying over 100 points up and WE LOSE?!?! There’s definitely something nefarious going on.
I have a 1.2 mainly just sniping and I’ve witnessed so much packet burst and high latency out of no where. The other morning when I was shooting bots to warm up my shot I had a bot in my lobby drop shooting and jumping around corners, I thought maybe I put it on veteran by accident. After shooting bots I checked and they were all recruit and my lobby was private. So for a bot to do that just blew my mind and gave me the creeps.
Definitely noticed this even since 2019, game feels sluggish as hell when they want you to lose, on a game they allowed me to win, I was watching tv, smoking, barely paying attention, and was super accurate for some reason lol
doesnt exist, its the server desync and tick rates. there are hundreds of servers and you dont always get a good connection. and its not like you can restart the server or reconnect. smh
@@simmerthemdownyou can DEFINITELY reconnect you do not know how server based games work especially when the game runs server side and not client side.
@@simmerthemdown Just wierd that all of the other games dont have these problems just cod, which wierdly sometimes has a higher ttk just on some players in the match
Let me dm you my take on Eomm. Little quote from it =: games like cod are longer what they once were. it is a manipulated experience capitalising on the addiction to constant accessible pleasure with the goal of artificially propping up player retention enough so that battle-passes / blueprints etc. see maximum purchase potential. They hide this goal under the false premise of ‘fairness’ and choose to never discuss it because of the implications of what they are really doing behind the scenes being made public. More and more people are becoming addicted to constant accessible pleasure therefore companies within the attention economy are competing for the consumers time by any means possible. Social media companies require it to sell their data and to keep advertisers happy, games require it to boost profits from micro-transactions and are motivated greatly to do so by the mass increase of gamers over the last decade which is projected to continue rising at a substantial rate.
I played with my friend last night, won every game, and I decided to play solo today. I got into the sweatiest lobbies I have ever seen in existence. Scuffs galore, top tier weapons only, camping x100, every game going full 10 minutes. What. is. this.
Happens to me every day dude. Ive been enjoying the game most with cross-plat OFF. I can't handle the X factor of anyone in the lobby can be cheating if on PC. As simple as macros to snake like the current exploit, or worse having wall hacks and juiced magnet aim
@@stee_peepdoes the game work fine with crossplay off. I want cross play between consoles but having pc in the mix is ridiculous. They could easily do what games like destiny or siege do with crossplay where the only way a console player is gunna match against someone on pc is if the console player has someone on pc in their squad or party.
has legit nothing to do with pc. i play on pc and i play with my friends on console, always crossplay on. they say there is no difference in crossplay on or off. also the most cheating is done on console and not on pc ;) obv its easier to aim with a mouse vs controller BUT idk if you have seen the latest scripts for controllers with aim assist cranked up to literal aimbot? i got 90 hours of playtime in mp and i have seen 1 obv aimbot and thats it. @@stee_peep
I believe skill based hit registration/spawn/latency issues have been in cod since mw2019, I remember telling my friends it was a thing and they all say I was “crazy” lol
My friend group mocked MW19 because in the respawn map overhead it gives you you could occasionally hear an operator in the background radio chatter say " that's too close to friendly" referring to an air strike or something, but we'd spawn by an enemy at least once a match so that line became a meme between us
i have never in my life played a single game of mw2019 where my bullets don't go exactly where i shoot every. single. time. that games gunplay was flawless and if you were losing fights it was because you were missing your shots. pure and simple.
i will say this, i have the telemetry bar turned on and it shows a packet loss section, when i start having packet burst that packet loss section does not change, activison is definitely throttling connections
That OD dude has been in a couple of my lobbies before it’s fucked. totally makes my s&d matches soooooo fun when it’s clutch time and the only dude on my team that is alive is shooting at the sky
Are you sure y'all are not just coping poorly with getting older and losing your hand eye coordination and reaction time? because all of these videos just seem to be implying that you want to be let back into the kiddie pen to beat up on children?
Whenever I lose a gunfight and look back at the kill cam, the other person is pretty much seeing things half a second ahead of what I am. It's really obvious and extremely frustrating. I also found that if you only play for 20-30 minutes and then switch off, the next time you switch on you're given a couple of 'easy' lobbies. If you play for more than 3 or 4 games you can physically see your ping increase from when you first switched on, because the player base is so small it's looking further afield to try and match you with equally skilled players. This is why I pretty much end up playing people in the far East and Eastern Europe, even though the lobby could quite easily be filled with local UK players, if SBMM wasn't a thing. Give it until after Christmas and all my lobbies will be at least 90 ping. Oh and I got kicked for inactivity on Karachi because I was in the small room overlooking the square and killing everyone, but the noobs didn't know where I was. The game obviously decided that I had an unfair advantage. Wouldn't be surprised if you get kicked for making it onto the top roof on Highrise either.
i havent touched mw3 but this is in almost every other cod or multiplayer shooter, its called peekers advantage. pushing gets you like milliseconds of an advantage over other players cause the data send and recieve time. u seek the info first, u find it first
Most of the time I "lose" a gunfight consists of me dying in literally 30ms from my perspective. Like almost the moment the enemy is visible I'm dead being shot 5 times.
Yea man I’ve seen a few clips of people sit in buildings and kill whoever runs in, then get kicked for “inactivity” but it’s pretty much a anti camp mechanism
The harder the algorithm has to work the more load it will put on their 'hamster level' servers. My theory is that there is simply more load on the servers with it running all the 'checksum' variables to ensure you don't get either bot lobbies or that organic experience. The interesting part here (if true) is that theoretically there should be the same load on low sbmm as high sbmm so the question becomes why? the answer to that (tin foil hat time) is that in those higher sbmm lobbies there is more nefarious elements controling the experience there that require server loads.
It's their Activision patent on: if you're a better player, your connection will be limited to people with lower skill so that they can see you faster for longer--gives them a chance to kill you. Ever since I learned about it and have been closely watching my gameplay on MW2, I have noticed that a lot. It's like ping-abuse for other games but it's built into the system of COD.
When Activision/Blizzard moved all of their online games to the World of Warcraft server hubs (Blizzard had a much better server infrastructure than Acti) they implemented what is essentially a Client end report to the server of a hitmarker, measured to the millisecond timestamp. If two players both land a killing blow headshot at the same time the player with the earlier timestamp gets the kill. The packet with the timestamp can come in after the other player saw the kill on their screen, yet still fall over dead. It's incredible. It's difficult because we ARE dealing with connections over distance. There is a legitimate question to who should win that duel. The issue is that people with lower ping tend to be punished by an experience that makes less sense as the players with higher ping are able to (albeit unintentionally) manipulate the server data by having a client playing in what is technically the past. I don't envy the developers for having to make a system that works for everyone in this type of situation.
I do remember the discounts on the bundle store being inconsistent for everyone back during MW2’s lifecycle. If you spend more money on the bundles, you would get like a 20% discount. If someone spent less money than you on the game, they would get like a bigger discount percentage. You would see this type of pricing on mobile games, but never in a AAA game like COD. Modern gaming at its finest.
This is 100% intentional. I covered this months ago during mwII. The higher the skill of your lobby and the better you do within the lobby, the more lag and packet burst you get. Until youre back to 1-1.5kd in the given lobby. When I played with 3 of my lower skilled friends, the lobby never had any connection issues lol😂
Shoot I have a 1.3 kd and i still get packet burst after a few good games. Weird thing is if i stop moving on the map the packet burst notif goes away but as soon as i start moving again it ramps up
So I played mw3 69.99 from Oct 10th untill yesterday I bought the vault upgrade just because I can. The games I played after buying the vault upgrade were great connection and not so good of players at all. I have a 1kd and 14/36 priceless camos right now. They put you in lobbies with people that don't own the skins as a form of advertisement. And those lobbies aren't good.
The lobbies are probably smoother because at that skill level the game has a much bigger pool of players to matchmake you with, increasing the chances of the players in that lobby being closer geographically speaking
Nah mate never was like that when COD had a smaller pool of players solely on one platform only (e.g PS, PC or Xbox) lol, invalid point mate if you had ever played in high SBMM lobbies, you would understand
@@jaydenstockman34 there is 100% a larger pool of players geographically in the lower skilled lobbies. It’s simple there are more ok players than sweats.
@@jaydenstockman34 exactly because they probably knew that across a single platform they wouldn't have the numbers for such an aggressive sbmm eomm matchmaking system as they have now. But mw2019's introduction of crossplay completely changed that. And coincidentally when the sbmm issues began
I think bots have been in since Warzone. I joined my sister’s game when she downloaded og Warzone for the first time. Her and I were stomping the entire lobby, and when we won I was thinking “that’s it?” All the players were an absolute joke. I’m pretty sure out of the 23 or so kills I got, 20 of them were bots. How this crap is even legal is beyond me.
Gaming has been so bad lately that I don’t buy games anymore till I see a couple of reviews on them. I didn’t buy MW3 because of packet burst and SBMM. I had the same problem with MW2 plus MW2 was made for camping ⛺️. Thanks 🙏 for making these videos I appreciate it so much because it saves me money 💰 Don’t PREORDER games it’s not like the old days
Literally only playing games from 2018 and before I know what you mean everything’s a scam now and nothings made with passion it’s all about making a half baked product and selling micro transactions along with it it’s sad that I’m playing battlebit and polygon over a premium cod AAA title
You are right. This happens to me almost every time I start playing like a pro, my latency skyrockets or i get disconnected from the lobby. I thought it was hackers, but this makes sense.
I never experience high latency. I got fiber optic, so I'm always averaging 5-30 ping. However, I'll go 3 kd 2 maybe MAYBE 3 games in a row, then get absolutely trampled on for the next 4 or 5 games (mostly because of trash teammates). I play a lot of search, so bad teammates can make a day and night difference in your gameplay. This pattern has been super aggressive in MW3. I've been playing since BO1 and this weird shit has NEVER been this bad.
Man I've been screaming since mw2019 that this game has been feeling so bias against me with hitmarkers hitting more than normal, more lag than normal, constantly being put in sweat lobbies that I don't even stand a chance in anymore. It's nice to know that there actually might be something happening behind the scenes and the light being shed on this is amazing
Game is 100% manipulated. Just saw a video showcasing ricochet anti cheat changing the fall damage of small jumps for cheaters. If they can do that for cheaters, you can bet your a** that they are changing the game for high skill players.
And can they detect cheats effectively? Not really. I wonder if it's starting to just lump in that if you do too good for too long, you get things manipulated.
Hey BT. I think if you have a netduma, you should test if packet burst is still there even when limiting it to your closest server. I think if you get packet burst when in a high sbmm match, then you'll have definitive evidence
In this game not even a netduma or a VPN could save you they already know you have a netduma with a relay connected. So you are still gonna get high ping lobbies and packetburst. Trust me dude,this game is manipulated to the core just like society. Source: I have a netduma, and it does not work.
I noticed that too! I’ve started playing Zombies and not one single time have I had a packet burst issue or lag. Not even in the red zone with the Abomination, herd of zombies, and special zombies chasing me. Then I switch to MP aaand… packet burst
Shadow ban “loop” I got stuck in on MW ll was unreal. 7 days of “under review” just to wait and get another shadow ban after 2 games and wait another week.
Had a 1.5 kd on MW2. Got shadowbanned a total of 3 times. Shit was maddening. And it's incredibly shady, at least other games have the good nature to say "hey, somebody is accusing you of cheating. Your account is banned/under review." Meanwhile CoD doesn't tell you SHIIT and you need to go to their support page to find out.
Every time I'm popping off all of a sudden I can't aim at enemies and it takes almost a full clip to kill them. The game literally punishes you for being good. You'll notice bots randomly join and start killing you when you're winning just so you can lose or have a close game. I see no incentive to be good when I get screwed over by SBMM and bots.
ive experience things that have no explanation like dying to my own semtex thrown on the other side of an enemy after missing the stick or an already blown up car blows up while im near it to even a fresh trophy system killing me from an enemy grenade, ive even experienced times that my character was moving forward and i could not stop them. There is definitely skill based hit reg and they are trying to hide it by making the snipers no longer 1 shot. While they were still one shot i would get hit markers aiming at someone face while other times i could hit them in the toe and get the kill.
The personalized store bundles were definitely a thing I remember going to check my deal which was different from the one you got on your vid. Murdashow covered it too
I want to back up the lobby story: During the MWIII free weekend, I was curious about the new Call of Duty game, not knowing anything about it. I swear to God, I was first in a list because I was lying on a map with a huge, long road and a river. The map looked like a Saharan city with palm trees and a central building surrounded by water. I chose the sniper class, or whatever it's called, and I was able to kill running 'players' on the bridge the whole game, and man, it never stopped. I thought that this game was full of easy bots or whatever, or I am a god :D
I’m so convinced, how there are so many lvl 55 base skins players when skins carry over from the last game . They sit on head glitches and run in the open after the kill or never play objective in the back .
Cod are shooting themselves in the foot, people are becoming more and more aware of there weird scummy tactics. I just hope xdefiant can live up to the hype and give activision a wake up call..but I doubt that’ll ever happen at this point.
At this point, its impossible to say the true reasoning to why all this stuff is implemented. Theres so many possible answers. Hell it could even be the Activision WANTS you to reverse boost so that you'll buy 2 copies of the game and session join.
I’ve noticed I have been getting into very easy lobbies because I actively try to go negative in order to bum rush objectives. Last year I did a similar approach but I would still try to pop off at times and go 30-4 or whatever.. but this year I am actively trying to never go to positive and only focus on objectives/ shooting down UAV’s
yeah I have just been levelling guns so my kd isn't bad at the moment, but now that I'm doing the challenges it is so hard because everyone is a laser. I'm seriously considering just going 0-30 for a whole day to lower my kd and get some better lobbies for doing my challenges.
Has anyone actually had a look at the patent(s)? One thing that I'd experienced but didn't even realise it was happening until I read it; they log when your gaming sessions occur so know roughly when you are going to log off, then SBMM you into an easier lobby so you stay and play longer. It's twisted man.
Glad to see you expirement this on the personal level mate Unlike other cod RU-vidr that i see on short where most of them keep showering me with how good cod wwIII and how this system isn't a scam or rigged
I was wondering why when I would do really well in one match, let's say 20 and 5. The very next game, I couldn't shoot anybody if my life depended on it. It felt like when I was about to shoot someone in the very next match, they would skip around making it hard to hit them.
There is a crazy amount of people getting out of the map cheating. It's driving me insane, there is an under the map exploit on the war map, a guy was on top of the bridge on underpass and under the map on quarry. It's embarrassing tbh
Have been reverse boosting since MW19. The difference is night and day. You’ll see a significant difference if you drop to around 0.8-0.7, if you’re a COD veteran you should be able to win FFAs consistently. I’m currently at 0.57, trying to drop down to around 0.25 or so in MWIII, that way all my friends who play with me get my bot lobbies too! However, like Blame said, it’s still boring because stomping noobs gets old too after a while. The mixed, random skill levels of lobbies back in the day are simply not a thing anymore unfortunately. In the golden days, some matches would be neck and neck, sometimes you’d get Christmas noobs, others you’d go against some cracked quickscopers, you never knew how close the match would be. But now, it’s either get raped by SBMM sending you against a full 6 stacks of wannabe Optic members and TTVers on adderall who dropshot every gunfight and jumpshot every corner of the map, or reverse boost and shit on squeakers :/
I'm almost a 1.4 in multiplayer and things keep getting harder as I continue to get it higher. Constant packet bursts after hitting 1.35+ it never happened before that.
So I live in the middle of nowhere and play on Starlink. Every game besides MW 1, 2, and 3 that I play online I have anywhere from 50-70 ping max. (Its obviously going to be higher than normal internet) on COD, i'm getting 100-150 and constant packet burst for 5-10 games. After doing terrible, I'll get graced with 50 ping and absolutely stomp, then the cycle starts over again
This is why I haven’t played COD in the last few years. Tired of losing after doing well. Or be crushing the other team and the last few min all of a sudden you start getting smoked. It affects the TTK, movement, connection, etc for whoever’s winning. Remember when you could pug a good group and smoke fools 200/73 or the like. Now it’s 200/189 if you’re lucky. I’m not the best player. I can go 30/8 or 8/30. But soon as you start having a 3/1 K/D spread in game you get issues with ping, hit detection and all the others
Dude yes! Ive been experiencing lag so dam bad. I started blowing myself up with a frag or just running out like a dumb ass getting killed and my k/d ratio went from a 1.4 to a .99 and i started playing normally again and not one issue with lag the last two days. This is definitely a thing in this game.
Great video. I was clenching watching that first gameplay hoping you'd drop the nuke, it's unfortunate how it ended lol Bad players probably are more likely to have other bad players close to them, therefore SBMM can connect them to nearby servers, and doesn't need to fly them overseas to find people of their skill level, as is the case with above average players. Or bad players just straight up get bot lobbies like in Fortnite and the game feels better. Based on what the old Halo dev said and what you're covering in this video, this kind of discrimination against above average players by actively rigging our matches, connection and experience, should be enough to build up a pretty good legal case against Activision. We just need a hero with a lot of legal knowledge, time and money to step up, or just hope things change under Microsoft's directive. I've gone back to Black Ops 4 recently and I'm having a great time. The difference in the quality of the all around experience is night and day.
@@calwhitt01 Technically 10 using the SBMM. If he did one with SBMM, one reverse boosting, one with SBMM etc until there were 10 of each. If he had connection issues only in the SBMM games it would be pretty conclusive evidence of his theories. Then again I avoid multiplayer like the plague so I don't really care either way in the end.
I remember getting kicked for doing too well in Vanguard. Also I get constant packet burst and extrapolation in mw3 and my buddies that haven’t played multiplayer in years that are lower SBMM say they never get it. Also what you said about the store and making bad players think they’re better than they are so they buy skins on store is facts.
And the fck up part is even you have just 100 cp you don't get a discount or don't have a big discount on bundles. My friend check out hers account she had no cod points but in some bundles she got like 35 - 50 percent discount. I checked mine a 1000 cp and all bundles I have is below 10 percent 😅 bs and scamming like a mf.
Dude you not only saved me hella money from not buying a cod since 2019 but you've saved me from so much extra mental stress holy shit lol. Stop buying COD until Activision is completely out the door.
holy shit i think your on to something. i just went positive for a few rounds and bam out of the absolute utter blue im lagging like ive never lagged before its unreal
I hopped on yesterday because truth be told besides the annoying sbmm I actually enjoy this call of duty at its core and can see shg has tried with it. Played 2 games got packet burst so bad on each but only when I was on a streak and lagged out of both games. We can’t have nice things anymore
hypothesis: certain accounts are tagged and locked into certain server distribution, (i.e. "burgers",streamer lobbies etc.) so in theory people that have large followings are seen a better on there streams. we have seen it time and time again at live events, the skill level isnt just there and its fluffed up by their lapdogs. NDA's exist for a reason.
They should just add a 'lobby percentile' that flashes around the edge of the screen, like a water-mark' to indicate how good or bad the level of this lobby of players are regarded as in the grand scheme of things. Conversation about this topic would then be over!
the higher your skill, the harder it is to find people on your level. This happens in every game not just CoD. Of course the chances of you getting worse latency are higher. Other than that I agree with you on EOMM. Whatever it takes to keep players playing and spending. It's in the name: engagement optimized.
Not gonna lie this is very true. And funny enough today i was playing with some friends who just started cod agian. I did very very good for 3 matches in a row 4th match packet burst popped up packet loss jumped the latency shot from 20 to over 100 the whole match. I asked them are they having issues they said nothing was bad for them. Yup im pretty sure this is true. Also this stupid reporting system is still broken ive been voice banned 10 times since it came out lmfao what a shit show.
The connection problem isn’t only in Multiplayer. Me and my brother play Zombies mostly and Everytime we get some really high tier loot like a schematic the game crashes and we lose all of our stuff.
