It's actually painfully obvious on mobile. We not only get the lobbies you describe, where one team will all be last seasons top 5k, all master weapons and fully upgraded mythic skins, vs my team, a dude with no connection and 3 bots. But then, you'll get actual bot lobbies in ranked as well. I'm currently in the top 3% and for every 10 games I've got 4 without any living people in them!
Yup I just quit before it end try and rek as many pple but shits just crazy i can tell its being rigged some matches i do amazing others i get blasted cant even spawn 😂 or just get spawn infront of them
I be playing hard point with a 6 man And as soon as I see us blowing them out, the game starts spawning them near every new hardpoint giving them control, EOMM kicks in and then when that happens I just say “we r going to lose now” and we usually end up losing lmfao after we’ve been dogging them. It’s like a switch happens to make it seem like it’s comp but it’s not lmfao
An ex Activision dev already talked about this on tik tok, Wysosirius went over it like a year ago, its intermittent reinforcement. The guy said it's like rats pushing a button for food, if you give the rats the food (a good game) every time they push the button they won't push the button much, but if you only give them the food sometimes they'll keep pressing it all the time in the hopes they'll get some. That's what we are to activison, rats pressing that button hoping for that dopamine hit lobby.
Yup. This is why we cant get good games anymore. They prey upon the nostalgia of a time where good games were produced and developers cared about creating awesome games
@@blaine6097no they pray on the idoits who would pay for a reskin and refuse to not spend copious amounts of money on pixels . If they micro trans were slashed the game would take a u turn same with buying the new reskin cod games .
Yeah this is crazy. I played Rustment 24/7 in MW3 and got 117 kills and 42 deaths. New PR for me. The very next game couldn't break 30 kills. Kid you not. You can literally FEEL it in game. Seriously. This shit is insane. Multiple headshot hitmarkers from bullets going through bodies without anything even happening.
Same as me, downloaded it for the trial haven’t played proper cod in a while but I’ve always been a pupstomper and had good skill at pretty much every FPS I play ranging from cod to battlefield to Valornt CSGO insurgency etc, dropped a 60 bomb my first game warmed up game after bang feels like my gun is shooting pillows at people and get shredded in like 2 shots, many cases where I was shooting people and flicking off them believing I had put enough shots to kill (this is after playing cod for like 10 years getting used to ttk etc) but holy shit I knew something wasn’t right
You’re 100% right, same thing happened to me just yesterday I got 70 kills and next and games after that well I was negative 20-32 for example. I was really pissed off lol. Fuck this game it suck
game sucks gimme a loot box so i can waste my time trying to get a single gun variant for 5 months. its more worth it. WW2 cod was the last good cod made.
theres a reson you can still find lobbies in that game almost a decade later also the reason why i have more than a month time played on that game and love to play it still
I've been saying for ages that people are hung up on what Call of Duty USED to be. Those great devs have moved on. These devs are completely incompetent.
im a destiny 2 player mainly, came to play mw3 and bro the devs at bungie have been trying to tell the higher ups that they need to let them fix the game but the bungie higher ups refuse to let them do so. they actually just cut 10% of their employees because their recent dlc completely tanked. they fired devs that wanted to help the game. bungie has 2000 employees btw. this is the higher ups decision, not the devs.
@@quinxilence3047 they really are, that's why I hopped off destiny to try out mw3 because I ain't played since black ops 2 and mw3 is literally 10x worse then destiny 🤣 they're trying to protect this small minority of players at the expense of their main players sanity. I'm at point where im about to just stop playing games. It's the FOMO that's keeping us hooked
Crazy thing a book explain the practices will work and if they work in games... the kids will just go with it in politics because the practices are the same just change the nouns which is ALWAYS a corporation plan. For damage control 😂
Its to the point that you can refer to EOMM, ai and churn prediction on their instagram posts, and get banned from leaving comments on the entire platform for 24hours. Its happened to me 3 times now.
I love this breakdown. And I do think more players are aware. I've been in so many matches in MW and MW2 where my random teammates start with saying something to the effect of "I'm sorry if we lose but I just went (insert high KD gameplay here), so I'm probably gonna get shit on this match". It's NOT fun anymore, but has become an almost morbid curiosity about HOW BAD is the algorithm going to choke you/ throttle your connection. It's so blatantly obvious how lazy their system is when I purposely just walk forward and hipfire on shipment, and like clockwork, by the third or fourth match, while exerting the most minimalistic amount of effort I can muster, I will get all my streaks and go somewhere in 40-6 range. It's so LAUGHABLE listening to the try-hard players, sliding and hopping around, get so angry because they don't understand how I'm killing them and they're not killing me. It's SO RIGGED, and I don't understand how it's not somehow criminal to employ these systems that are so obviously manipulating our experiences. The "fun" I have now is trying to find the WORST class setup and see how "well" I can do with it, simply because I know the "system" (SB/EO/lag comp/connection throttle/ etc.) is going to force me a "win" at some point. In TWO DECADES of playing CoD, I've never had so many hipfire cross-map headshots with SMGs, as in the latest MW series. You have to know something is wrong with your multiplayer when the gameplay is almost indistinguishable from the campaign or zombies in its absurdness. CoD has truly become a joke in fps, and gaming in general. Sad, but I'm glad people are FINALLY opening their eyes. Great stuff BT👍
You ever notice too. On your screen there’s smoke or haze and you can’t see shit. Yet you get head shotted and in the kill cam they don’t see the smoke or haze…. Super strange
I bought the game for Zombies( which was a huge disappointment) and I've put too many hours grinding the camos there. I think maybe they see that I'm 'always on', so they think they can just let me constantly be the 'lamb' to everyone's 'lion'. I say this because, no matter what lobby or weapon setup I use, I NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER get a scrub lobby. **I am** the noob. Always.
What the study didn't take into consideration was that in an AI environment this can trigger anxiety,frustration, low mood and anger.Activision is walking a very dangerous line using addiction while incorporating this "Method" of making MORE money in their games,a very devious tactic especially to the OG players who are the people who made Activision a billion dollar company😢
Thank you for you comment, havent read such a truthful comment in a while. AV refused to consider the players who brought glory to this game back when gaming was just a daily hobby and not a shit show of people grinding their asses of for nothing. Its a shame and a evil fact that this company is earning billions using scammy and corrupt methods to milk costumers dry when in fact the game was pure joy and fun in earlier days. Its sad to see where we went and its even sadder that ppl still defend it and bring stupid arguments with no common sense. That being said, OG players made this game famous and now they are left in the dark for shit. If it was just about SBMM alone, i wouldnt mind, i can somehow live with that but the rigged gunfights, inconsistent shots etc., are not part of SBMM but as mentioned here its EOMM, nobody can tell me why the firstly, are silent about player numbers and SBMM when in fact every other company talks about it openly
The guys at the very top of Activision's profits probably don't really care at all if they end up burning the entire company and COD series down, as long as they can make a total killing in the process. These kinds of people are sociopathic, they look at human beings and see nothing but ways to make money for themselves. And it's obviously not just Activision. It's pretty much the entire wealthy elite of the world. There's no end to the corruption. It is in every nook and cranny you look, including video games, now that they have become such a lucrative industry. Money and amorality go hand-in-hand sadly.
There’s no way it’s the same founder and owner running this machine. They have been taken over by the evil entities of the industry. Just think about the satanic symbolism that’s in the game. Promoting all kinds of witchcraft and rituals. The Easter eggs and all kinds of weird stuff. Trust, activision was taken over a long time ago. Either that or they’ve transitioned to the dark side. This isn’t the game we once’s loved and we need to stop playing it as a whole.
I feel so vindicated, Ive been saying this since Feb of 2020. I noticed that my shots suddenly not landing or doing less damage. I also knew that they were tracking every single input you make in the game and building a profile of your play style and from that they can very easily manipulate your experience in game. for instance if you do a lot of quick scoping and get a high hit rate and our only playing with one type of rifle they will suddenly move your hit box 5 pixels up and3 to the right making you miss as you eye is in. they can alter any of your inputs, from slide cancel to ur hip fire spread. if you use a certain mechanic too much they will usually nerf that in real time as you play. it triggers a psychological effect in which you want to prove yourself, they are gaslighting you and its abusive AF, and it works very well short term. youll get more engagement as they keep triggering your emotional reactions. but in the long run it makes you numb towards it and you loose complete interest and it turns into disgust. only people who are severly damaged themselves will stay engaged and they become very toxic people. this game is literally making people worse.
@@MalikATLThat's a lie. I'm a console and PC player and I have damn good taste when it comes to games. Maybe you should think before making wild assumptions.
I've been wanting to sue them for the past 2 yrs bc I knew they were holding my games in their hands, and it pisses me off that I've spent money on this game bc getting screwed out of so many games from bullshit from the game manipulation. I quit spending money on it. I haven't spent money on the game over a yr and play it every day. Actually, I've not bought anything off COD since Cold War bc I thought everything also sucked since that shit game. F*ck Activision
Check out that new playlist called Mosh Pit. It's part of the free trial weekend. Low level noobs on the other time and they're destroying me. I know how it sounds. That I'm bad. Nah nah. The playlist is rigged in their favour so they'll buy the game.
The difference between CoD and the card tables at a casino is that if you know what you're doing at the casino, you can win some money legitimately and walk away after the pit boss kicks you out for winning too much. Call of Duty's card tables will basically give the dealer 20 aces in a row and when you call them out for cheating they'll tell you to buy a bundle and they'll stop
I want to point out that devs have actually (though unofficially) stated that it doesnt just take into account your K/D, it takes into account your gun, your specific build, class and perks, the time moving, distance sliding, if you are slide cancelling or diving, reload frequency, even the routes through the map that you take. Its not just comparing the k/d, its actually REALLY intrusive. Even if it gets more engagment in the short term, you loose players in the long run from burn out or just boredom. In a game which doesnt have a storyline you really need players to feel a sense of progression or they end up feeling like its just an artificial repetitive sweaty grind.
I read patents that say they suppossedly also take into account if you buy skins or not. Apparently when one player is put into lobbies or with teammates with cool skins they're more likely to spend money on some.
@@LoganCovers91 that's not even the worst of it, they will put you against a higher SBMM bracket with the premium skins if you haven't bought skins yourself, so you subconsciously associate buying a new skin with playing better.
During Cold War, I've always told my friends that you can influence how your next match is gonna play depending on how you played the previous match ie. If you get a good game by staying on one side of the map with an LMG, the next match you'll get a bunch of lmgs and snipers to counter you. If you rush with an smg or AR to counter that, the game will try to counter you again. I'm feeling like this is that system in play.
This could definetly be part of it. But it could also extend to your weapons doing more damage while theirs are nerfed against you, or hit registration in one person's favor. From top to bottom the game is designed to completely control your experience.
That is not true at all, at least in my experiences, I actually adapted doing this because of Movement Ghost so I could shoot down UAVs. The LMG Launcher cover common flank routes helps the entire team works well.
I had a friend of mine who did not buy MW3 2023 , trying the game in the beta weekend that is happening right now. This 'EOMM' and skill-based damage is real alright. As he was trying the game out, he chose the Bas-B from the default class. He was melting people with it. When I tried to use my own Bas-B class, it became a peashooter. I kid you not, this game is trying to 'convince' my friend, who did not purchase the game to : 1) Think he is actually good in the game 2) Make it enjoyable for him Meanwhile, I am just losing fights and my weapon suddenly becomes a peashooter. Simply amazing *claps claps*
Lol, I used that same default class in my second match of the trial and dropped an MGB on Shipment with over 100 kills and less than 20 deaths. But after playing some more EOMM/SBMM is in full swing
I started playing yesterday dropped a 60 my first game on shipment felt like I was rinsing everybody and then the games after I felt I was putting double the bullets I needed to kill into people I kept aiming off them thinking I had killed them (after years of playing fps it’s just habitual) I was so convinced something weird was going on
@@cjallenroxs6239 My first game already felt really off. Then I realised guns all felt very inconsistent. This continued after my first game, on an account that hasn't played any of the new CoD games. The game was obviously rushed and I'm not surprised it doesn't work properly
"Bad players overestimate their skills". Well, that explains why bad players always accuse good players of hacking, and why it's gotten worse and worse for every year.
Yeah well it doesn't help Activision have never really done anything about hackers either. They know a lot of the streamers hack and that will give them more sales. I played original MW2 back in the day, so before streaming was really a thing and hacking on that didn't really become prolific till about 2-2 1/2 years after release. I mean they were about, but you were looking at an extreme minority who did it, and got banned fairly quickly.
Quite easy to overestimate your skill the whole game build master of manipulation when once "you do notthing" then got bunch of killstreak SAE twice in one match another time can't reach more than uav after that tell really your skill matters or or the whole game works as slot-machine!
dude, its all over the internet how much cheaters there are. and if it's a big problem for kids to play COD you get your kids of the game. solved..... bunch of clowns.
I play a lot of Invasion, thought I was alone in thinking that gameplay was being manipulated. The winner is totally predetermined. The losing team gets respawned farther away, weapon tuning is effected, killstreaks drop deep in the enemy area, and I’ve noticed that latency skyrockets.
It’s funny, it’s so telling that Activision refused to address SBMM/EOMM for years, *because they know if players know about it it effects overall retention* your point is spot on. If players know, they hate it.
@@colbylawson5331Have you watched the video? EOMM literally has gambling science integrated into it. Look up the pigeon experiment linked to addiction studies. It works like that. There's another vid out explaining eomm and what it does.
The 'conversation' is hard to have because it takes a lot of word salad to tell you, a once actual game player, that you're now a "participant" that is only sharing an event with outcomes determined totally by the software company - without actually saying that.
The biggest response I get when talking to people about this same issue is “well if you don’t like it, don’t play” they want their drones, the people that pay for the battle pass, the people that will buy just about every operator skin under the sun which I will not do. All they have to do to get player base retention is simple, but they refuse to do it because of what their analytics state, but the reality is, until we as a community just stopped playing the game completely and give our reason for not playing collectively, I’m afraid this will never change for the better
Hey BT... I just wanted to run this by you, but I've recently started calling it Manipulative Match Making... here's a few reasons why... 1. The schemes change from year to year, this one seems like it will be evergreen 2. Always Aliterate if Able 3. I feel like the word "optimize" carries an overall positive connotation, where "manipulative" carries exactly the baggage it needs to with this system.
Once you figure out that what you do, how you play makes 0 difference because the outcome is already predetermined, playing the game is pointless. There is no "let me adapt to what this lobby is doing" it doesn't matter
Since MW2019 I noticed every time I come back playing CoD after long time, I get maybe 7 matches in a row where I destroy everyone and it goes back to "normal matchmaking".
It is so refreshing when a video has a solid commentary AND gameplay showing the commentator actually playing the objective instead of treating it like TDM.
I read this paper in college 2 or 3 years ago and remember sharing it to everyone yet no one seemed to pay attention. Glad it is getting more exposure but this is just a small piece of the pie. The single greatest marketing move they pulled was calling EOMM "Skill-Based" matchmaking as its let people shut down the conversation and just say: "oh you just want to beat up on better players" to hand wave how manufactured matchmaking feels.
I said it before but I'm going to bet that they're waiting to see how Christmas sales go and if they're bad then they'll have a half-assed legal team approved PR statement that either outright lies or tries to downplay SBMM. The most I expect is they'll say some bullshit about "tuning the matchmaking experience over the coming weeks" and either barely change it temporarily or just not touch it at all. The big players in the gaming industry are dead set in their "the player will have to take whatever we give them" mentality and even in the face of total abject failure they never change.
Yeah its the same with Disney and Hollywood no matter how their content fails and undersells they refuse to learn and go back to what really works that made them big in the first place.
They're not gonna change or address this at all. It's the new business model. They don't need 5 million players buying a single 79 dollar complete game. They just need a couple hundred thousand 12 year old with mommy and daddy's cc number. They don't "balance weapons every season" they monitor "what guns are being used how often and blah blah bkah" simply to determine when the maximum number of blueprints have been sold and to change the "meta up" for refreshed profit... that's it. That's all of it. That's all this is. It's not just cod it's huku net flix youtube casino games online sports betting, fb feeds, Twitter, Google searches. THIS IS HOW ALL ONLINE LIVE SERVICE WORKS ANYMORE. AND IT WILL NEVER GO BACK. WHY DO MORE WORK FOR LESS MONEY? There's Chinese kids playing cod mobile spending 3 k a moth on skins and blueprints. They don't need "actual enthusiasts " as players anymore. They need depressed, disheartened, hopeless people who don't choose Crack or dope as their addiction to simply choose their game. That's it. It's over. I'll be proven right in time. I said all this on their ad/post and 12 minutes went by before they deleted all of it. I was too on point. To rational. Too good at explaining it in a way anyone would say "holy shit he's right, I never thought about it but damn..." of qll the bashing, judgment of them and toxicity towards em in the comments, they deleted MY NO NONSENSE 20 YEAR COD PLAYERS explanation of their "tactic". That says all I'll ever need to know.
hats because psychopathic globalist social engineers have directed Disney leadership to turn the entire business into a propaganda machine. THATS why they don't change even as they've lost dozens of billions of dollars
Everything you said is absolutely true. I run Invasion a lot on Cod. What I’ve noticed is latency. If you’re doing to good it will shoot way up. I figured out that if you just die, let the game kill you, when you spawn back in the latency is fine. Back down from 3k to a normal 23 to 40. So now whenever it does this I just die and come back. So I know each game I’ll have to sacrifice a couple of lives. The game will also use inactivity to keep the score close. I can tell you how many time’s I’ve been kicked for inactivity while actively running and shooting
Dude the reason it persists is because they can have sinking player retention with increasing profit because the bad players have no idea that the game has been tailored to them to get them to buy skins. This is something Activision celebrated with MWII but I guarantee that kind of short term strategy is going to back fire and I bet thats exactly whats happening now.
It isn't short term, if they persist long enough for a new generation to get hooked on bad practices they win. This is why skins went from 2$ pre loot box to 20$ post loot box. Implement something horrible, step down making something better then what you just had but worse then before.
I’ma 100% agree on the fact that EOMM gaslights you, I thought I was a shit FPS player and constantly blamed myself for our team’s losses. Then I played XDefiant which has no EOMM and won 80% of my matches as top 3 player every game. The psychological manipulation of EOMM is disgusting.
The perfect way to find out if you’re a great cod player is by judging how often you lose and or how many hard matches you get. If you’re constantly winning, then you suck and EOMM was made for you, but if you’re constantly losing and or can never get a kill, you’re actually a great player and EOMM is working against you. If you use to constantly win, but now you constantly lose, then congratulations on finally becoming a great cod player.
I'll continuously lose matches in a row on shipment, have 110 kills and 30 deaths, have 10 caps on flags, and my whole team will be negative. It's like the sbmm depends on me to help the other players on my team, but I'm over here sweating my ass off for a loss.
This happens constantly!!! My husband and I lead the team in caps and defends but consistently lose domination. I'll have 70 kills or so, he will have 50 to 70 kills, each of us with 10 to 18 caps, and we still lose. The other 4 members of the "team" will have 0 to 4 caps each. You can spawn on a flag and get a cap more often than our "teammates" do!! It's the same with any other objective game. We've also noticed that in Warzone, if we win we won't be "allowed" to win the next few games. Only rarely have we won back to back games. We usually end up with 3 to 5 wins each evening on Warzone. Rather pathetic since we aren't bad players. We've gamed together since 2010 and have only skipped 2 CoD titles. Maybe 3 skipped titles but it all blurs together at this point. To us, it started getting really bad with Ghosts. Downhill from there. We watch more TV now. Lol. Gaming is just a good way to connect with old friends for us, though. A guy from hugh school, guys from work, guys we played with in 2010, and the teenaged children of our friends keep us company and we still try to have fun. I do wish the SBMM would go away. I'd like to know if I actually suck! Lol
if they porred even a tenth of the effort they put into EOMM into actually working on the game; they wouldn't even need EOMM because we would all be raving about the new CoD
They thing is they don't. Activison has absurd f u money so they can own an entire studio that is only dedicated to rigging the game. They're called demonware
it’s pretty sad to see the majority of the fan base turn on the game. although people have turned out of passion, activision has nobody to blame except themselves. seeing patents of hit detection debuffs etc. then experiencing it in a game is kinda sad to be honest. i hope they genuinely expose themselves & some sort of lawsuit comes out of it cause i cbf with it anymore. gone are the glory days
As a former COD pro... Ive been exposing the RIGGED GUNFIGHTS n ENGAGEMENTS since black ops 1 when they first started testing it. Now its an unplayable ILLUSION OF COMPETITION!!! The game wont let me (former pro) kill a LITERAL RETARD!! Aim resist, dmg nerf, hit registry, speed/animations, audio tracking... ALL OF ITS RIGGED while pulling the better player out of server time according to a wide variety of skill parameters of each individual! I could go into the endless lawsuits that led to endless patents all regarding ILLUSION OF COMPETITION... High influencers are WHITELISTED from the rigged engagements/gunfights while us pros were making microtransactions before high paying tournies to have less rigged engagements... NOT about the money, that only leads to puppets in power positions... not the puppet masters who control all mega corporations under the sun. Sadly most are not ready to understand how dark and deep this really goes...
Crazy how my ping is always the highest in the lobby when i have gigabit internet and a ludacris upload speed. Constantly suffering from packet burst and loss...
Damn, I actually wrote a long winded comment on one of your videos a couple days ago comparing SBMM to gambling in a casino. The study you posted just solidifies that comment I made. Shits crazy.
Love having my damage output, health, and hit registration completely rigged just to milk out skin buys and player engagement. It’s unreal what’s been going on since Cold War, basically being put into master rank lobbies for 8/10 games is practically a rat race. And the worst part is nothing will happen unless there is just a complete shift in management as well as the devs themselves, or the franchise just completely phases out and we essentially have any potential for future titles destroyed by essentially A-hole management and devs. Unreal, so unreal bro.
@@exiteternium been looking into the patent stuff for awhile now. With MW2019 it was more so just giving you the most obnoxious scum wannabe filled headaches. They had created two patents which a lot of people aren’t aware about, one for MW2019 which was more so SBMM focused(still atrocious), and an updated one for Cold War in which it actively rigged gunfights in terms of damage, accuracy, etc. I’m one of the few that probably noticed the difference and wyysoserius did a stream on the issue about a year or so ago which goes over the patent in its entirety.
Matchmaking is a reason for no longer playing. Insane how they’ll realtime manipulate hit recognition based upon skill. After a great few games, it’s like you’re being punished.
There’s other things that happen in this game that totally baffle me. Players on the other team totally ignore your teammates to shoot you. It’s like you have your own personal terminator hunting you and you alone. And the sudden loss of aim assist on certain enemies is also a massive turn off.
the aim assist problem persists since MW19, and it's really weird. I noticed it happens with specific players. You simply lose aim assist to that player for the entire match
Funny how everyone on here is a cod drug addict. All anyone does it bitch about the game but they still play it all day. That’s why I hate theee RUclips lames and there followers. If you don’t like it then don’t play it and don’t support these clowns who make a living off either bashing or playing it. Kids these days a idiots 😂
That’s the best you could do to connect a trans homophobic joke? Don;t get me wrong, I don[t care for the alphabet, I identify as a 3 toed sloth , people. However, that was very low brow and shows your lack of intelligence.
Thank you, Blame Truth, for putting out another video exposing the why modern warfare 3 as a fraud of a game. I just don't know how you keep putting out bangers but you continue to thrive. Hope you have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I always look forward to your videos.
The moment you acquire agency from within an echo chamber is the moment the echo chamber loses its grasp on your reality. This is very translatable to EOMM, as the moment a player understands what is happening, is the moment they can no longer legitimize it. Unfortunatly, echo chambers and ignorance derived perspectives is incredibly well studied and what tends to happen is quite a large portion of the people succumb to willful denial of the reality. ACTI know this, and are banking on it.
Since the new Modern Warfare I fell that in some point of the my night playing my shots doesn’t get the enemy anymore, I start super great, big k/d killing a lot and suddenly the shots doesn’t get the enemy anymore. Now everything that a suspicious makes sense!
As someone who has been playing Call of Duty since 2003 (I still have the original CD-ROM that I got on launch day in 2003), I've seen the evolution of multiplayer over 20 years and I'm just a regular player. I went through phases of being ultra competitive, running a clan and caring about Win/Loss and K/D. I would like to compare two different Call of Duty multiplayer experiences. Modern Warfare 2 (2009) vs. Black Ops 4 (2018). From 2003 to 2008 I was mostly into the single player campaign. I always played a 100 or so hours in each multiplayer starting in 2003 but often I just felt that I wasn't going to be able to put the time in to be a really good multiplayer player. However, starting in 2009 with Modern Warfare 2, I loved the campaign so much that it made me dive head first into multiplayer. MW2 was also the first Call of Duty I played on console (Xbox 360). I remember the first 4 months of 2010 being absolutely destroyed match after match but I was determined to get better, so I watched every killcam. I purposely switched to Search and Destroy so I could analyze how other players played if they only could spawn once. Slowly but surely I picked up tips and strategies for gunplay, proper grenade use, aiming around corners before peaking. I had become "decent". My KD was 1.13. Between the years 2003-2008 I had K/Ds in each yearly release of around 0.6. So by getting my ass beat, I put my time in to become better. While frustrating, it felt amazing that I was finally improving and felt like I earned this. Flash forward to 2018. Black Ops 4 releases without a single player game - (something I'm still disappointed about). So I went hard into multiplayer. I was spending much more time in multiplayer each year since 2009, but I increased this 10 fold with Black Ops 4. I started noticing odd things that would happen in hardcore search and destroy matches. Things that had never happened before and I would often complain to my friend who also helped me run our clan and she would often say "oh stop you just had a bad match, they just out did you". But I honestly felt that this wasn't simply getting bested, this felt artificial and strange. I will cite two things that would happen with clockwork regularity: 1. If you had a full five man party in search and you faced another full five man party, and you 4-0 them. Meaning you sweep the game, you won all the rounds of search and the opposing team did not win a single round. If that losing team stayed in the lobby, the next match would play out entirely strangely. That losing team would become nearly invincible. It wouldn't even be bullet-spongey, it would simply not register bullets. Final killcams for the round would routinely show someone on that losing team reacting slowly, aiming imprecisely but would be getting the kill with ample time as if the person they were shooting at was absolutely terrible. Whenever I was the person killed in the final kill, it would be not at all what I had just experienced seconds earlier in real time when I was killed. I have seen such egregiously strange things such as: It's a 1v1, me vs the last enemy on their team. I would be aim walking being cautious, then boom the enemy jumps around the corner perfectly aiming on me and lasers me with lightspeed. However when viewing the final killcam at the end of the round, that enemy player did NOT even jump, they simply ran around the corner, saw me and picked up their gun, aimed down sights and killed me easily. When I first saw that it clicked in my head what was going on. This was very clever EOMM. Basically, the server determined that this team should have the victory, they just lost 0-4 against the same team so no matter what the server was going to ENFORCE this victory at all costs. Anyone who was played 10-12 hours a day on Black Ops 4 will likely have experienced where killcams will fabricate what actually happened based on how likely it is that someone could defeat it. My theory is that since I was already aiming down sights expecting the enemy to come around that corner, the odds that enemy were to be instantly lasered by me were very high to the algorithm, the way to defeat someone who is already ADSing is to jump at them and laser them before they can move their ADS to you. 2. This is a smaller thing I noticed which is, if someone does a donut in one match, the very next match they will either be at the top of the leaderboard or near the top. Obviously someone could try more and that could easily explain why they had a bad match but was the top player in the next match. However, this was such a common occurrence that it became a running joke anytime someone on our team had zero kills in one match, someone on our team would say "dude dont get off you know you'll be top player next match!" We all eventually started seeing these abnormalities and we eventually referred to this as the "Fairness System". So this has been going on for much longer than you probably think. This rigging of multiplayer matches to enforce fairness and reward bad playing has been going on at least as far back as 2018.
I only play HC now, I was playing regular and kept finding I could unload close to a full 30 round mag into someone almost all hit markers, for them to turn around, shoot me and kill me with 2-3 bullets. I know I'm faster than most people (I hit them first) and I played so much og mw2 that I know the maps like the back of my hand. So HC was my only option. My k/d is still only sitting at 1 though. On original mw2 I had a kd of nearly 4 and an accuracy around 70% I'm playing on pc now and am admittedly not as proficient with a mouse and keyboard but not bad enough that my kd should be this low
I disagree but oh well. BO4 was the last COD that was fun to grind so the EOMMSBMM must not have been that bad. MW2019 is when things got sweaty and funky. I never played in 5 man groups tho so
This game mechanically is pretty good. But the matchmaking makes it unbearable at times. I did the camo challenges for Interstellar and playing in those higher lobbies with the off meta guns is extremely hard to keep a 1 KD. And even then if you get a streak going the game will beging to spawn you in front of enemies until you are at a 1 kd for the match.
The thing that i noticed in MW2 was preferred weapon based MM. I am 100% sure that whilst grinding camos on shipment the game put me into lobbies with players using specific weapons against me. When using a sniper I was up against people using melee weapons, use shotguns and everyone else was using shotguns. Use an smg I was locked down by snipers. Yeah I know i need to 'get good' but this was a thing I am convinced. Not touched MP this year.
I had a cat once. When he was a kitten he would chase around the room after a light dot on the floor made by a pen torch I would wave around. He was well into it, as long as I didn't make it too difficult for him to catch, or wave around too much. Then one day he saw the light dot appear on the floor, looked round at me, saw me waving the torch, and from that moment on never played the game again. Ever. That's how I feel about COD now that I've discovered EOMM.
Today, I tried MW3 for the free trial weekend. This game is one of the worst multiplayer experiences I have ever had. It blows my mind how people can still bury their heads in the sand and act like what is going on is okay. Me just playing a couple of hours can see literally everything described in this video. This isn’t normal SBMM. PS: I also find it hilarious when people from other gaming communities try to chime into this issue and bring up the “you guys just want to beat up on noobs”. Dude, just play the game. The matchmaking is not normal.
I actually had fun with the sbmm. It was challenging yet engaging when it did scale right. But when the eomm kicks in, that's when the game starts to hammer on your head
@TheUltimateHacker007 BO2 did it best. "PUB STOMP" was a thing, and if you wanted to actually play sweaty and competitive they had a LEAGUE. They fucked up moving away from that. I don't wanna face entire Faze clans when I'm leveling a piece of shit gun. Good luck getting any of the high kill streaks when everyone in your lobby is just as good as you. This is also why the barracks is gone- everyone's K/D is close to 1.00 so it doesn't matter. It USED to matter because it was a gauge of average skill, against random players. Not cherry picked skill bs.
Just seeing the shady nonsense thats happened to this franchise makes me so much happier that i went to singleplayer games. I would like to see CoD be good again but i dont think that'll happen anytime soon. Happy to see someone like BT voicing all this bullshit
Hi BT, I remember when I was playing mw2019, yea I know you don't like it but since I played it for more than 1000 hours, I can clearly tell that through the years the matchmaking system got more and more sketchy to the point that I get gunned even with the worst gun in the game with only 3 bullets. Especially in warzone 1 I remember that there was some kind of meritocracy regarding skill levels, if you could have done 10+ kills you were defined as the god of the game. On warzone 3 here, it's not the case... It feels like everyone has a game sense and is melting me with some really bad smg with a few bullets... Damn Activision always make me really entertained... It's really hard to even get 5+ kills because the EOMM or whatever it is, it seems like is messing with my aim assist and damage kinda like Ricochet does (does Ricochet anticheat even exist anymore?). So yeah, I really think they're trying to tune in more and more in every game they're releasing... Really really scummy
yes ricochet is a thing, and EOMM is combined with SBMM, and relies entirely on money spent in store assets. they have implemented machine learning into both.
As soon as I started to lose gunfights I knew something changed because I’ve always been a good player so when my performance gets worse I know exactly where it’s coming from
Just wanted to say ever since I saw these videos I've really noticed how often I get revenge spawns, like nearly every other death even on bigger maps I spawn either with the dude who killed me right in front of me or right around the corner
I had 3 revenge spawns in a row on shipment earlier. So ridiculous. Though I did learn to just spawn with my bullets already flying on shipment! It just sucks when the guy spawns literally right behind me and then I spawn in front of him 2 additional times. Very frustrating!
Here to leave my appreciation as always. Just hopped off the free trial & man and im exhausted. 3 hours. Thats it. Ive had the flu for the past 4 days & those 3 hours were worse than AIDS. Thank you BT for the entertainment & always telling the goddamn truth. I feel like this game is made with Steiner Math, super calculated but with no Kurt Angle in the mix. That's ashame lol Happy Holidays to you & Buddy!
The craziest part of this is that at the top percentile of competition in this game in MM, the engine cannot even keep up with the speed and it feels like 💩
I play against bots a good chunk to dial in on my shot and play with settings. What I notice in this game is they spawn in as paid characters before being altered shortly later to generic characters. Why would that be a thing 😉
What do you mean? The skins? I've watched videos before where a guy has proven skins are changed in real time to convince people that certain things aren't happening, like people becoming sponges
Here's the thing. My main question is if this system is active (EOMM or SBMM) whatever it is-- How are some players SO much better than others, and seemingly unaffected by these "manipulated/rigged" matches? There are players with 2.5KD + and win rates of x2 or more than there loses. If this system is truly in the game and it's supposedly affecting everyone? Or just SOME players? I truly don't understand how there are those players with very impressive stats. Are they just powering through it? Is their skill just too great of an amount to be affected by it? Listen, I've experienced it. I go 40 kills one match, and then the next match I struggle to get a UAV up. So it's definitely there, I'm not doubting it-- i'm asking how are some players just not affected by this? Because the way my games go, is that I get a lot of kills one match, and the very next I get less than 10 from struggling with the seemingly PRO players they put me against, and then the cycle repeats. I'm just really confused at how some players can EXCELL with this system active.
This was the first cod I’ve bought and played in probably 5 years. I think the game itself is pretty good…..the player base and sbmm is the issue…. NOBODY moves, hard point,dom, and kill confirmed are snooze fest games now.. games hit time limit before score limit and it’s sad…this younger generation of gamers just love to sit in spawn and snipe or Hide in rooms…..I dunno it’s sad….games are just not fun…I use to average 40-50 kills in a game of dom….lobby leader struggles to get 25-30 now
@@woodyfpv5331 I don’t really think it’s low skill lobbies…..I mean I have a 1.8kd which Is lower then normal for me but I think pretty good in todays cod, I’m not a top 1% gamer like back in the day when I was ranked in top 50 for score per min in the og mw3….but I’d def say I’m in higher skill lobbies….seems like just a lot of kd padding/ people afraid they might actually die irl if they die in the game
@@jasonpeterson8783you’re definitely in a lower skill lobby. Higher skill lobby’s people move around at a high rate. I’m a 3.09 KD and top 800 in the world for kills. The better you perform you’ll start seeing it especially from a score per min standpoint.
It's the new generation of gamers. Mfs are scared to talk in comp modes, scared to W key, constant meta chase, etc. I noticed the change in the last like 3-5 or so years.
I had a Domination match once where we were the winning team by a margin of like 20 points and I swear: even though my team had two objectives the other team, every points tick, got 3 (three) points, while we got one, until they passed us, but then since we kept the same they still lost... because it would get too obvious right The fact that this is even remotely "considerable" to have actually happen in your hame and that they have this egalitarian ideology enforced (apparently it helps with one-off sales huh)... that's just ridiculous and insulting
It was obvious in MW2019 that something was seriously wrong with the matchmaking. I went from a consistent 2kdr to a flat 1 in that game with almost no streaks earned. I never even tried to go for the higher streaks because they were just unattainable, utterly miserable. I stopped playing 6v6 and played gunfights simply because there was less room for rigging the games, it's such a shame because that game felt like it had so much potential to be great but for me it just wasn't fun at all and seriously put me off buying another IW title again.
It's funny that some absurd things happened to me in MW2019, like entering matches that had already ended (so that I didn't even have the opportunity to play) and in them my team had always lost by a huge margin.
Love this video. Randomly came up in my YT feed, wasn’t a subscriber but I am now. I’ve been saying this to my friends since MW2019. But my CoD experience is different from theirs as I was on PC back during CoD2:UO and CoD4 MW where we had dedicated servers and PunkBuster on PC. The net code was spot on, the connection was always good, as you connected to servers geographically closest to you, and the gameplay was simple and polished. If you were bad at the game, you just had to play til you got better. There weren’t any outside predatory tactics influencing your game. Where their experience had only been on console with P2P hosting, lag switching and 100ms ping was just the norm. So to them this gameplay is normal, but to me, getting killed, when on my screen, I’m running to and make it around the corner, clearly behind cover and on my opponent’s screen I’m just out in the open all willy nilly, is insanely infuriating. Pair that with the BS that you’ve covered in this video and it just makes you want to never pick up the game again. I sincerely hope all of this comes to light and causes Activision and CoD to eat a massive shit sandwich, failing miserably until they go out of business.
One interesting thing I noticed is that all those studies did their own "simulated matchmaking" with the different MM types. I can guarantee that those simulations do not take into account human psychology and the randomness of it in order to make their predictions on the best MM. I honestly we have got to this point as a result of someone bullshitting to upper management on the results of the EOMM through covid when everyone was playing games online so engagement was negligible...
I think Ricochet is a small window into what EOMM is doing to help/hinder players. Ricochet basically acts as a troll to reported "cheaters", and if they can do that to reported "cheaters" behind the scenes, then just imagine what they can do to casual players who suck ass.
i played a full match with the starting ar and had a 30.65% accuracy that game but somehow went 15-30, theres something more wrong than anybody knows lmao the game literally feels like you're pulling a lever on a slot machine except when you win you just get like a 7 killstreak which is nothing to write home about.
Im a headshot machine and cod’s algorithm know this. Which is why i have been nerfed since riccochet dropped together with vanguard. Maby i was unaware before this, but as soon as vanguard dropped my spr stopped to one tap headshots. First i thought i was bad, so i went to private game and headshotted 250hp bots until every quickscope was a succesfull headshot while jumping, sliding, 180 etc those bots. But since ur not allowed to play priv game offline anymore that ofc made it only Worse. Entire weeks went by and i was sure the spr was nerfed. I constantly ran warzone with 270ms ads spr for close combat, and a kar98k with 280ms ads for ranged battle, and throwing knives. So i started to record, slow down the Clips and analyse them. The game will curve my bullets. -A close up headshot will curve Even point blank and hit their right tie giving me a white hitmarker. - a throwing knife will either pass true enemy dealing no damage, or curve around them. Even point blank. - damage nerfs - hitmarker nerfs - audio nerfs - aiming sway nerf - elephant hitbox - flinch nerf - ads nerf - spawnbased nerfs - loot nerfs - recoil nerfs My crossbow stopped to one tap headshots. When i Watch clip i litterally see it deal half of 270 upon impact on head/neck. Because in warzone 1 enemies had health bars in killcam. And 135 is not a damage number for crossbow. I did the same mistake with private games in warzone 2 and crossbow. I went in and made sure every shot would be a headshot vs 250hp lifed bots. Dropped double Nuke vs those bots in a single game. And now crossbow will pass true around 70% of enemies dealing no damage. I Even have video of me shoting dolls in firing range where 7 of 10 arrows just pass stright true the dolls dealing no damage, hitting the wall behind. My throwing knives goes towards enemy and then suddenly just jump into the air. That happens at a rate of 70% as well. Got several videos of that as well. I have Clips of exploding sniper rounds explode in enemy head, blood squirts from their skulls and i deal 0 damage. I run them down to 1/8 or 1/16 speed to catch this shit properly. If i play with a friend with low kd on work, then it gets Even Worse. We are talking 10 first bullets does nothing. Even on slow firing guns like tac56. Guns with no recoil will suddenly bounce to moon after 3 shots as well when shoting an enemy.
I had bad time. Ofc it dont stop there. Im feeling Worse and Worse the more i play. Eomm is not working alone on making skillgaps as low as possible ofc. There is no fast quickscoping snipers, you can go 450ms ads flinchwhore fjx. Or 400ms with a shitty scope. Ofc 468 velocity. The meta is a 650ms ads sniper. Compare those to 270ms fast movement, fast bolt action, almost no flinch spr from warzone 1 who could quadwipe a team alone inside a building. Compare the longrange 650ms ads 1k velocity katt amr to a 280ms, silenced, fast movement low flinch kar98k with 920 velocity. Compare a warzone 1 crossbow with ballistic knife and throwing knives to a crossbow who need to hit head, but deal no damage 70% of the times, with a combat knife who cannot shot and throwing knives that are filled with helium and most likely just gonna jump into the sky. Or a ballistic riot shield setup compared to a melee + shield with 10% penalty to movement with drunk throwing knives and enemies immune to stun and a piereable riot shield due to elephant hitbox. Every single thing in this game is made to have skillgaps as low as possible. Every patchnotes: - increased limb and lower body damage - decreased head and neck multipliers. Lets talk about warzone random fill: - Duo, u Get a kid who cannot Even say hello in english «hrelto» . Lands in, drive a car into the gas, which then explodes and down himself when he come to Get the loadout u bought. - Quads: try 7 games in a row where the game give u no team mates, then on the 8th game u Get 3 idiots, which dies after 20seconds in ressurgent and then leave.
What fascinates me is that these game companies hired psychologists to break down what really creates addiction so they could use digitally induced dopamine to simulate what occurs with narcotics. Now not only have they simulated what occurs with drug addiction but have also simulated what happens with acclamation to said substances. With every new hit your high gets thinner and thinner until you are chasing a high that you will never get again while going broke and destitute in the process.
Bad for Microsoft but unless they make the decision to talk about everything in a transparent way, they will never get ROI from this franchise, ever. Could they make studios do their best efforts with new guidelines without talking about these changes to make the games better? Sure, but that will make a slow transition to bring old players to trust on these games again instead of telling to the internet "hey this was fucked up, here are the changes now on". On the other hand I really wish cod was dead to the point they can go the route described above.
Bad for Microsoft? Don't they own Activision blizzard now? Microsoft is their boss, I don't know why they don't put their foot down, fire those responsible, and fix the game? It's like Microsofts CEO is Tony Khan. Bad ratings, bad sales, and they just don't care whatsoever
Definitely noticed my bullets just stop causing damage after I reap three or four wins in a row. My team usually takes a 10 min break after the third or fourth match to reset the algorithm. Seems effective.
BT you are the man. I been following you since the OG Cod days and stopped playing call of duty after ghosts. I thought it couldn't get any worse back then.
EOMM is killing CoD, but even if EOMM wasnt a thing, the games probably would still not be enjoyable to play. The issue that many players used to have before CoD went to Advanced movement was that the games felt too same-y. Looking back and its clear that both dev teams at the time had very distinct styles and game mechanics that while fundementally the same, they were still able to have each CoD feel like its own unique experience with distinct settings/tones, game engines, various features and mechanics that both teams would often piggyback and improve upon. CoD nowadays have just been, for lack of a better word, dickriding everything that MW19 did with little to no improvements that each game, with Cold War being the exception, basically feeling like mods to MW19 that have poor map design, game mechanics, heavy reliance on nostalgia and would rather want you to buy bundles while most, if not, all of your matches are rigged to have a certain outcome before it even begins. Unless Microsoft gets Activision to finally open up about EOMM, we probably will continue to see CoD on a downward spiral, and I dont want to see that as someone that has been playing since CoD4.
Awesome video, and I’m glad that this is starting to be talked about more. I’ve been playing CoD pretty exclusively since World at War, so I feel like I’ve got some good insight as to how the game has changed over the years. I remember hearing one time about how the game is also rigged if/when you purchase in-game items. They were talking about how if you’re not doing good in the game, you’ll get matched with players who are doing well and also wearing cosmetics purchased through the store. This subconsciously tells your brain that if you purchase those items, maybe you’ll be as good as those guys. So you cave in, purchase the items (skin, weapon blueprint, whatever), and they’ll throw you in lobbies with noobs, thus making you feel better about yourself in the game and solidifying in your subconscious that the reason you’re doing good is because you purchased the items. And thus the cycle starts all over again (you’re now one of the “good players” that the noobs are looking up to, motivating them to make in-store purchases). Not sure if it’s the same thing, but that’s all I could think about while watching this video. Nobody does what they do out of the goodness of their heart. They’re a corporation designed to create $$, and we’re all falling victim to their scams.
Damn bro that’s fucking deep. Been playing most games since cod4. Uninstalling cod now and not buying another game, fuck that. I’ve been getting into battlefield v recently anyway😂
Start a petition/Movement/# or something were we send them a message that essentially says they need to address the match making and correct course or we collectively vow not to purchase their next game.
I agree that they tried to implement a system to entice you to play more, that's kinda the point of making a video game. I think they shy away from talking about it because it has failed so tremendously. There's also gotta be some pride getting in the way too. As for the mass exodus of players, well that's an obvious reason, if you want to play and look really good all the time you have to actually perform that way, self satisfaction is what they are relying on to keep people coming back, and unfortunately that is not something many people value like they did a decade ago. I don't like the system and it is defintely frustrating, but there's always two sides to consider and what reasons might be behind them. I can't genuinely imagine they intended to upset such a large portion of the dedicated playerbase, financially that would make zero sense. I think they messed up and don't wanna admit it
I could deal with EOMM, but not PBO - Performance Based Optimization. My bullets doing less damage in a gun fight, thrown my sights off the target, etc to level the k/d's in the lobby🤦♂️ THAT is most frustrating
The only game that did lootboxes right was Overwatch. But guess what. The „Sequel“ Overwatch 2 (its a DLC like mw3 but for free and removes the option to play Overwatch 1) completely removed them so they could gain more money on selling overpriced skins.
What's annoying is if you get in a lobby your next one is going to be completely different people. I'm good at COD but like last night went on an 8ish win streak, going positive by a long shot, and then I got shat on completely for a whole game
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Enjoyed the vid, hopefully you catch mine when I upload hopefully in a week.
I can guarantee they won't talk about matchmaking until after they get their christmas and new years sales.
Just f off bud u don't even play the f'n thing so why do u care rt
Careful on this subject bt. I don't want Bobby K to epstein you
Detective BT
It's 'hard' for them to talk about it because they know if they told the truth, everyone would be disgusted with their practices
kinda sounds like real life in the political world lol
@@ItalianMetalHEDyeah it's exactly the same thing, the corruption is just unreal
We are already disgusted. The thing they are scared about are the lawsuits
Yeah, it's gonna be epic when everyone wises up to the fact that every match is pretty much a manipulated lie.
What we allow, will continue to be.
It sucks when less than 30 seconds into a match you know exactly which team the game has predetermined as the winner.
Bingo!!! That’s the biggest give away and it reflects to our individual gameplay
It's actually painfully obvious on mobile. We not only get the lobbies you describe, where one team will all be last seasons top 5k, all master weapons and fully upgraded mythic skins, vs my team, a dude with no connection and 3 bots. But then, you'll get actual bot lobbies in ranked as well. I'm currently in the top 3% and for every 10 games I've got 4 without any living people in them!
Stole the video of a smaller RUclipsr
Yup I just quit before it end try and rek as many pple but shits just crazy i can tell its being rigged some matches i do amazing others i get blasted cant even spawn 😂 or just get spawn infront of them
I be playing hard point with a 6 man
And as soon as I see us blowing them out, the game starts spawning them near every new hardpoint giving them control, EOMM kicks in and then when that happens I just say “we r going to lose now” and we usually end up losing lmfao after we’ve been dogging them. It’s like a switch happens to make it seem like it’s comp but it’s not lmfao
An ex Activision dev already talked about this on tik tok, Wysosirius went over it like a year ago, its intermittent reinforcement. The guy said it's like rats pushing a button for food, if you give the rats the food (a good game) every time they push the button they won't push the button much, but if you only give them the food sometimes they'll keep pressing it all the time in the hopes they'll get some. That's what we are to activison, rats pressing that button hoping for that dopamine hit lobby.
Damn
Damn we Theo Von now?
@@misc376 ey?
Yup. This is why we cant get good games anymore. They prey upon the nostalgia of a time where good games were produced and developers cared about creating awesome games
@@blaine6097no they pray on the idoits who would pay for a reskin and refuse to not spend copious amounts of money on pixels . If they micro trans were slashed the game would take a u turn same with buying the new reskin cod games .
What they’re worried about is losing sales. Imagine parents reading “call of duty abusing children’s psychology to stay addicted to their games”
They all called me crazy. They mocked me for saying this was going on and now it’s all coming out. Thank god.
Manipulating gameplay experience needs to be illegal
Creating addiction for commercial purposes should be illegal.
AMEN@@LukeVincent78
@@LukeVincent78Tobacco and Nicotine companies laughing hard right now
100% it should be illegal for it to be in any video game.
....they have that user agreement that said; by installing the game ,you can't file lawsuits 😅
Yeah this is crazy. I played Rustment 24/7 in MW3 and got 117 kills and 42 deaths. New PR for me. The very next game couldn't break 30 kills. Kid you not. You can literally FEEL it in game. Seriously. This shit is insane. Multiple headshot hitmarkers from bullets going through bodies without anything even happening.
Same as me, downloaded it for the trial haven’t played proper cod in a while but I’ve always been a pupstomper and had good skill at pretty much every FPS I play ranging from cod to battlefield to Valornt CSGO insurgency etc, dropped a 60 bomb my first game warmed up game after bang feels like my gun is shooting pillows at people and get shredded in like 2 shots, many cases where I was shooting people and flicking off them believing I had put enough shots to kill (this is after playing cod for like 10 years getting used to ttk etc) but holy shit I knew something wasn’t right
You’re 100% right, same thing happened to me just yesterday I got 70 kills and next and games after that well I was negative 20-32 for example. I was really pissed off lol. Fuck this game it suck
game sucks gimme a loot box so i can waste my time trying to get a single gun variant for 5 months. its more worth it. WW2 cod was the last good cod made.
theres a reson you can still find lobbies in that game almost a decade later also the reason why i have more than a month time played on that game and love to play it still
During Xmas week I dropped 115 kills with throwing knives on shipment. The next game was I was back to my average of 35
If their plan was to "manipulate me to keep playing" they failed horribly 😂😂
Haha! Same thing I’m thinking !
It's to manipulate kids to buy bundles in the store, and given they are still sticking by the system then I imagine it is working
They don't want you to play. They want the people that spend money to play.
Same, they must think we're bafoons😭😭
@@Mortlerickle123for me as someone who plays warzone and matches up with top streamers almost every game its fun to me still lol😊
I've been saying for ages that people are hung up on what Call of Duty USED to be. Those great devs have moved on. These devs are completely incompetent.
im a destiny 2 player mainly, came to play mw3 and bro the devs at bungie have been trying to tell the higher ups that they need to let them fix the game but the bungie higher ups refuse to let them do so. they actually just cut 10% of their employees because their recent dlc completely tanked. they fired devs that wanted to help the game. bungie has 2000 employees btw. this is the higher ups decision, not the devs.
@@daMillenialTruckerglad to see another D2 player on a COD vid about sbmm. A lot of these businesses practices are ruining casual gaming. It’s sad
@@quinxilence3047 they really are, that's why I hopped off destiny to try out mw3 because I ain't played since black ops 2 and mw3 is literally 10x worse then destiny 🤣 they're trying to protect this small minority of players at the expense of their main players sanity. I'm at point where im about to just stop playing games. It's the FOMO that's keeping us hooked
@@daMillenialTruckeryou just gotta play better games
@@globalpotaoto6681 like what lol 🤣
I don't play COD, but I enjoy hearing about all the nonsense these companies have been implementing. Absolutely wild.
Crazy thing a book explain the practices will work and if they work in games... the kids will just go with it in politics because the practices are the same just change the nouns which is ALWAYS a corporation plan. For damage control 😂
I playing call of duty after during cold war beta and never play ever again, smmb is what made me stop caring about CoD games, it's that bad honestly
EOMM study in full: web.cs.ucla.edu/~yzsun/papers/WWW17Chen_EOMM
Casino study: www.wired.com/2012/03/the-psychology-of-casinos/
Its to the point that you can refer to EOMM, ai and churn prediction on their instagram posts, and get banned from leaving comments on the entire platform for 24hours. Its happened to me 3 times now.
I love this breakdown. And I do think more players are aware. I've been in so many matches in MW and MW2 where my random teammates start with saying something to the effect of "I'm sorry if we lose but I just went (insert high KD gameplay here), so I'm probably gonna get shit on this match". It's NOT fun anymore, but has become an almost morbid curiosity about HOW BAD is the algorithm going to choke you/ throttle your connection. It's so blatantly obvious how lazy their system is when I purposely just walk forward and hipfire on shipment, and like clockwork, by the third or fourth match, while exerting the most minimalistic amount of effort I can muster, I will get all my streaks and go somewhere in 40-6 range. It's so LAUGHABLE listening to the try-hard players, sliding and hopping around, get so angry because they don't understand how I'm killing them and they're not killing me. It's SO RIGGED, and I don't understand how it's not somehow criminal to employ these systems that are so obviously manipulating our experiences. The "fun" I have now is trying to find the WORST class setup and see how "well" I can do with it, simply because I know the "system" (SB/EO/lag comp/connection throttle/ etc.) is going to force me a "win" at some point. In TWO DECADES of playing CoD, I've never had so many hipfire cross-map headshots with SMGs, as in the latest MW series. You have to know something is wrong with your multiplayer when the gameplay is almost indistinguishable from the campaign or zombies in its absurdness. CoD has truly become a joke in fps, and gaming in general. Sad, but I'm glad people are FINALLY opening their eyes. Great stuff BT👍
You ever notice too. On your screen there’s smoke or haze and you can’t see shit. Yet you get head shotted and in the kill cam they don’t see the smoke or haze…. Super strange
@@Apqueen868every. Freaking. Time.
lmao crazy asf. the fact that multiplayer and zombies looks anywhere near close it sad asf
@@Apqueen868I had that happen so much in MW2019. I love MW2019, but that was absurd.
I bought the game for Zombies( which was a huge disappointment) and I've put too many hours grinding the camos there. I think maybe they see that I'm 'always on', so they think they can just let me constantly be the 'lamb' to everyone's 'lion'.
I say this because, no matter what lobby or weapon setup I use, I NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER get a scrub lobby. **I am** the noob. Always.
What the study didn't take into consideration was that in an AI environment this can trigger anxiety,frustration, low mood and anger.Activision is walking a very dangerous line using addiction while incorporating this "Method" of making MORE money in their games,a very devious tactic especially to the OG players who are the people who made Activision a billion dollar company😢
Thank you for you comment, havent read such a truthful comment in a while. AV refused to consider the players who brought glory to this game back when gaming was just a daily hobby and not a shit show of people grinding their asses of for nothing. Its a shame and a evil fact that this company is earning billions using scammy and corrupt methods to milk costumers dry when in fact the game was pure joy and fun in earlier days. Its sad to see where we went and its even sadder that ppl still
defend it and bring stupid arguments with no common sense. That being said, OG players made this game famous and now they are left in the dark for shit. If it was just about SBMM alone, i wouldnt mind, i can somehow live with that but the rigged gunfights, inconsistent shots etc., are not part of SBMM but as mentioned here its EOMM, nobody can tell me why the firstly, are silent about player numbers and SBMM when in fact every other company talks about it openly
The guys at the very top of Activision's profits probably don't really care at all if they end up burning the entire company and COD series down, as long as they can make a total killing in the process. These kinds of people are sociopathic, they look at human beings and see nothing but ways to make money for themselves. And it's obviously not just Activision. It's pretty much the entire wealthy elite of the world. There's no end to the corruption. It is in every nook and cranny you look, including video games, now that they have become such a lucrative industry. Money and amorality go hand-in-hand sadly.
There’s no way it’s the same founder and owner running this machine. They have been taken over by the evil entities of the industry. Just think about the satanic symbolism that’s in the game. Promoting all kinds of witchcraft and rituals. The Easter eggs and all kinds of weird stuff. Trust, activision was taken over a long time ago. Either that or they’ve transitioned to the dark side. This isn’t the game we once’s loved and we need to stop playing it as a whole.
😂😂😂 drama queen.
@@nightvision3182
I feel so vindicated, Ive been saying this since Feb of 2020. I noticed that my shots suddenly not landing or doing less damage. I also knew that they were tracking every single input you make in the game and building a profile of your play style and from that they can very easily manipulate your experience in game. for instance if you do a lot of quick scoping and get a high hit rate and our only playing with one type of rifle they will suddenly move your hit box 5 pixels up and3 to the right making you miss as you eye is in. they can alter any of your inputs, from slide cancel to ur hip fire spread. if you use a certain mechanic too much they will usually nerf that in real time as you play. it triggers a psychological effect in which you want to prove yourself, they are gaslighting you and its abusive AF, and it works very well short term. youll get more engagement as they keep triggering your emotional reactions. but in the long run it makes you numb towards it and you loose complete interest and it turns into disgust. only people who are severly damaged themselves will stay engaged and they become very toxic people. this game is literally making people worse.
maybe you're just not hitting the target as much as you think some games. lol
Time to get more versatile 😉
Yes!
THESE UNHINGED CONSPIRACY THEORIES NEED TO STOP - JUST GET GOOD LOL
I am personally at that final stage idc about anyone outside of my family and without realizing it it’s really affected my life
As a former product owner and now a senior product manager i can assure you, the hole is way deeper.
It must suck to know that BT gets more views a video than CoD gets on Steam a day.
Cause us PC players have better taste than console players
@@MalikATLThat's a lie. I'm a console and PC player and I have damn good taste when it comes to games. Maybe you should think before making wild assumptions.
@@MalikATLBro cut the elitist s#it out. You're not better then anyone. Don't divide....Unite!
@@MalikATL Least hateful PC player mindset
No it doesn’t. Means we’re all smart enough to not play.
I am sick of having my gameplay manipulated. Especially after seeing videos like this & doing my own research & finding out what Activision is doing.
I've been wanting to sue them for the past 2 yrs bc I knew they were holding my games in their hands, and it pisses me off that I've spent money on this game bc getting screwed out of so many games from bullshit from the game manipulation. I quit spending money on it. I haven't spent money on the game over a yr and play it every day. Actually, I've not bought anything off COD since Cold War bc I thought everything also sucked since that shit game. F*ck Activision
I feel you buddy activision are the worst company feel bad for sledge hammer
Check out that new playlist called Mosh Pit. It's part of the free trial weekend. Low level noobs on the other time and they're destroying me. I know how it sounds. That I'm bad. Nah nah. The playlist is rigged in their favour so they'll buy the game.
All the bootlickers would now say skill issue even when there is cleary no skill gap in the game 😂😂😂
Play squad dude no sbmm
The difference between CoD and the card tables at a casino is that if you know what you're doing at the casino, you can win some money legitimately and walk away after the pit boss kicks you out for winning too much. Call of Duty's card tables will basically give the dealer 20 aces in a row and when you call them out for cheating they'll tell you to buy a bundle and they'll stop
I want to point out that devs have actually (though unofficially) stated that it doesnt just take into account your K/D, it takes into account your gun, your specific build, class and perks, the time moving, distance sliding, if you are slide cancelling or diving, reload frequency, even the routes through the map that you take.
Its not just comparing the k/d, its actually REALLY intrusive. Even if it gets more engagment in the short term, you loose players in the long run from burn out or just boredom. In a game which doesnt have a storyline you really need players to feel a sense of progression or they end up feeling like its just an artificial repetitive sweaty grind.
I read patents that say they suppossedly also take into account if you buy skins or not. Apparently when one player is put into lobbies or with teammates with cool skins they're more likely to spend money on some.
@@LoganCovers91 that's not even the worst of it, they will put you against a higher SBMM bracket with the premium skins if you haven't bought skins yourself, so you subconsciously associate buying a new skin with playing better.
now I know why I felt a relief like I broke some kind of addiction and none of it is present in really good games. It WAS an addiction
During Cold War, I've always told my friends that you can influence how your next match is gonna play depending on how you played the previous match ie. If you get a good game by staying on one side of the map with an LMG, the next match you'll get a bunch of lmgs and snipers to counter you. If you rush with an smg or AR to counter that, the game will try to counter you again. I'm feeling like this is that system in play.
This could definetly be part of it. But it could also extend to your weapons doing more damage while theirs are nerfed against you, or hit registration in one person's favor. From top to bottom the game is designed to completely control your experience.
How does it work if you play in a party? Does it go based off stats of party leader?
@@ChristinaMagma I believe so. I've played in parties where I would stay consistent while my friends weren't. Could be wrong tho
That is not true at all, at least in my experiences, I actually adapted doing this because of Movement Ghost so I could shoot down UAVs. The LMG Launcher cover common flank routes helps the entire team works well.
@@thatguyjoe3649they done that before too
I had a friend of mine who did not buy MW3 2023 , trying the game in the beta weekend that is happening right now. This 'EOMM' and skill-based damage is real alright. As he was trying the game out, he chose the Bas-B from the default class. He was melting people with it. When I tried to use my own Bas-B class, it became a peashooter.
I kid you not, this game is trying to 'convince' my friend, who did not purchase the game to :
1) Think he is actually good in the game
2) Make it enjoyable for him
Meanwhile, I am just losing fights and my weapon suddenly becomes a peashooter.
Simply amazing *claps claps*
Lol, I used that same default class in my second match of the trial and dropped an MGB on Shipment with over 100 kills and less than 20 deaths. But after playing some more EOMM/SBMM is in full swing
I started playing yesterday dropped a 60 my first game on shipment felt like I was rinsing everybody and then the games after I felt I was putting double the bullets I needed to kill into people I kept aiming off them thinking I had killed them (after years of playing fps it’s just habitual) I was so convinced something weird was going on
Dude, MW3 is just bad alright. No one is messing with your game.
@@sirderpycow3348then how come the same shit happened to me?? Did hella good during my first mw3 match. Then shit got worst.
@@cjallenroxs6239 My first game already felt really off. Then I realised guns all felt very inconsistent. This continued after my first game, on an account that hasn't played any of the new CoD games. The game was obviously rushed and I'm not surprised it doesn't work properly
"Bad players overestimate their skills". Well, that explains why bad players always accuse good players of hacking, and why it's gotten worse and worse for every year.
Or when the game rigs a gun fight into their favor so they call you trash
Yeah well it doesn't help Activision have never really done anything about hackers either. They know a lot of the streamers hack and that will give them more sales.
I played original MW2 back in the day, so before streaming was really a thing and hacking on that didn't really become prolific till about 2-2 1/2 years after release. I mean they were about, but you were looking at an extreme minority who did it, and got banned fairly quickly.
Quite easy to overestimate your skill the whole game build master of manipulation
when once "you do notthing" then got bunch of killstreak SAE twice in one match another time can't reach more than uav after that tell really your skill matters or or the whole game works as slot-machine!
@@llauren4173the manipulation is off the charts since the new mw2 dropped. It seems worse in the new mw3 .
dude, its all over the internet how much cheaters there are. and if it's a big problem for kids to play COD you get your kids of the game. solved..... bunch of clowns.
I play a lot of Invasion, thought I was alone in thinking that gameplay was being manipulated. The winner is totally predetermined. The losing team gets respawned farther away, weapon tuning is effected, killstreaks drop deep in the enemy area, and I’ve noticed that latency skyrockets.
Honest to god we need some lawyers involved in this now. Some officials of some sort need to be involved about this
100 percent!
Plot Twist they forgot 😂😂
BT its time for you to drop another suplex
plot twist
your a nim rod
i am lord sosa the great
bow down to me fool
Suplex City!
It’s funny, it’s so telling that Activision refused to address SBMM/EOMM for years, *because they know if players know about it it effects overall retention*
your point is spot on. If players know, they hate it.
I stopped play COD the moment that crap became so easily witnessed. Oh how I long for the days of og Modern Warfare.
They can't talk about it because parents try to sue cod for game addictions and sbmm will prove all the predatory greedy actions
Can't really sue for a game addiction unless gambling is involved, though this isn't the case with MWIII.
@@colbylawson5331Have you watched the video? EOMM literally has gambling science integrated into it. Look up the pigeon experiment linked to addiction studies. It works like that. There's another vid out explaining eomm and what it does.
@@colbylawson5331Fortnite got sued for getting kids addicted to gaming do your research
Its 18yr rated,doubt this would be realistic unfortunately.wish it could
Activision is actually gas-lighting their player base. This would hit hard in court if enough people gathered together for a class action lawsuit.
And what law did they break?
@@JordanMorrisYTeven moral law. Most of playerbase are young people and they are already addicted to gambling by this system.
The 'conversation' is hard to have because it takes a lot of word salad to tell you, a once actual game player, that you're now a "participant" that is only sharing an event with outcomes determined totally by the software company - without actually saying that.
The biggest response I get when talking to people about this same issue is “well if you don’t like it, don’t play” they want their drones, the people that pay for the battle pass, the people that will buy just about every operator skin under the sun which I will not do. All they have to do to get player base retention is simple, but they refuse to do it because of what their analytics state, but the reality is, until we as a community just stopped playing the game completely and give our reason for not playing collectively, I’m afraid this will never change for the better
Hey BT... I just wanted to run this by you, but I've recently started calling it Manipulative Match Making... here's a few reasons why...
1. The schemes change from year to year, this one seems like it will be evergreen
2. Always Aliterate if Able
3. I feel like the word "optimize" carries an overall positive connotation, where "manipulative" carries exactly the baggage it needs to with this system.
Once you figure out that what you do, how you play makes 0 difference because the outcome is already predetermined, playing the game is pointless. There is no "let me adapt to what this lobby is doing" it doesn't matter
Since MW2019 I noticed every time I come back playing CoD after long time, I get maybe 7 matches in a row where I destroy everyone and it goes back to "normal matchmaking".
Did you play mw2019 and did SBMM ever effect you
1. I am happy that you speak about this.
2. You shouldn‘t waste over 6 minutes in the beginning, because this really IS absolutely importaint.
It is so refreshing when a video has a solid commentary AND gameplay showing the commentator actually playing the objective instead of treating it like TDM.
Pubs are for kills, the score only matters to extend the game as long as possible to get more kills
@@mrNCSUman lmao whats wrong for going for wins in public matches?
@@conayoll nothing is wrong, but don’t bring up someone else’s gameplay style if you don’t want yours critiqued as well
@@mrNCSUman wtf does that have to do with your original comment?
why are pubs only for kills and why dont wins matter in pubs?
@connoryeoell don't worry about it. CoD players are a strange breed
I read this paper in college 2 or 3 years ago and remember sharing it to everyone yet no one seemed to pay attention. Glad it is getting more exposure but this is just a small piece of the pie. The single greatest marketing move they pulled was calling EOMM "Skill-Based" matchmaking as its let people shut down the conversation and just say: "oh you just want to beat up on better players" to hand wave how manufactured matchmaking feels.
Good point
I said it before but I'm going to bet that they're waiting to see how Christmas sales go and if they're bad then they'll have a half-assed legal team approved PR statement that either outright lies or tries to downplay SBMM. The most I expect is they'll say some bullshit about "tuning the matchmaking experience over the coming weeks" and either barely change it temporarily or just not touch it at all. The big players in the gaming industry are dead set in their "the player will have to take whatever we give them" mentality and even in the face of total abject failure they never change.
Yeah its the same with Disney and Hollywood no matter how their content fails and undersells they refuse to learn and go back to what really works that made them big in the first place.
@@johndoe-dj3iywell said!
They're not gonna change or address this at all. It's the new business model. They don't need 5 million players buying a single 79 dollar complete game. They just need a couple hundred thousand 12 year old with mommy and daddy's cc number. They don't "balance weapons every season" they monitor "what guns are being used how often and blah blah bkah" simply to determine when the maximum number of blueprints have been sold and to change the "meta up" for refreshed profit... that's it. That's all of it. That's all this is. It's not just cod it's huku net flix youtube casino games online sports betting, fb feeds, Twitter, Google searches. THIS IS HOW ALL ONLINE LIVE SERVICE WORKS ANYMORE. AND IT WILL NEVER GO BACK. WHY DO MORE WORK FOR LESS MONEY?
There's Chinese kids playing cod mobile spending 3 k a moth on skins and blueprints. They don't need "actual enthusiasts " as players anymore. They need depressed, disheartened, hopeless people who don't choose Crack or dope as their addiction to simply choose their game. That's it. It's over.
I'll be proven right in time. I said all this on their ad/post and 12 minutes went by before they deleted all of it. I was too on point. To rational. Too good at explaining it in a way anyone would say "holy shit he's right, I never thought about it but damn..." of qll the bashing, judgment of them and toxicity towards em in the comments, they deleted MY NO NONSENSE 20 YEAR COD PLAYERS explanation of their "tactic". That says all I'll ever need to know.
hats because psychopathic globalist social engineers have directed Disney leadership to turn the entire business into a propaganda machine. THATS why they don't change even as they've lost dozens of billions of dollars
Then please stop giving them what they want already
All the times I've yelled ..,im getting fkn robbed !!! I will never buy another cod😢😢
Everything you said is absolutely true. I run Invasion a lot on Cod. What I’ve noticed is latency. If you’re doing to good it will shoot way up. I figured out that if you just die, let the game kill you, when you spawn back in the latency is fine. Back down from 3k to a normal 23 to 40. So now whenever it does this I just die and come back. So I know each game I’ll have to sacrifice a couple of lives. The game will also use inactivity to keep the score close. I can tell you how many time’s I’ve been kicked for inactivity while actively running and shooting
Keep this up, we need to spread the word on EOMM, if more people know about it they will have no choice but to go back to randomMM.
Dude the reason it persists is because they can have sinking player retention with increasing profit because the bad players have no idea that the game has been tailored to them to get them to buy skins. This is something Activision celebrated with MWII but I guarantee that kind of short term strategy is going to back fire and I bet thats exactly whats happening now.
It isn't short term, if they persist long enough for a new generation to get hooked on bad practices they win.
This is why skins went from 2$ pre loot box to 20$ post loot box. Implement something horrible, step down making something better then what you just had but worse then before.
I’ma 100% agree on the fact that EOMM gaslights you, I thought I was a shit FPS player and constantly blamed myself for our team’s losses.
Then I played XDefiant which has no EOMM and won 80% of my matches as top 3 player every game. The psychological manipulation of EOMM is disgusting.
I am waiting xdefiant so bad 😭
Don’t play these games anymore. If it doesn’t have a server browser just skip it. Squad is a good one that has no sbmm.
Play Battlefields. No sbmm/eomm
squad is literally nothing like cod, that's such a random game to recommend... @@dawsonfoster8310
@@railasvuo Bf 2042 has this system as well, why do you think they've removed server browser
The perfect way to find out if you’re a great cod player is by judging how often you lose and or how many hard matches you get. If you’re constantly winning, then you suck and EOMM was made for you, but if you’re constantly losing and or can never get a kill, you’re actually a great player and EOMM is working against you. If you use to constantly win, but now you constantly lose, then congratulations on finally becoming a great cod player.
I'll continuously lose matches in a row on shipment, have 110 kills and 30 deaths, have 10 caps on flags, and my whole team will be negative. It's like the sbmm depends on me to help the other players on my team, but I'm over here sweating my ass off for a loss.
This happens constantly!!! My husband and I lead the team in caps and defends but consistently lose domination. I'll have 70 kills or so, he will have 50 to 70 kills, each of us with 10 to 18 caps, and we still lose. The other 4 members of the "team" will have 0 to 4 caps each. You can spawn on a flag and get a cap more often than our "teammates" do!! It's the same with any other objective game. We've also noticed that in Warzone, if we win we won't be "allowed" to win the next few games. Only rarely have we won back to back games. We usually end up with 3 to 5 wins each evening on Warzone. Rather pathetic since we aren't bad players. We've gamed together since 2010 and have only skipped 2 CoD titles. Maybe 3 skipped titles but it all blurs together at this point. To us, it started getting really bad with Ghosts. Downhill from there. We watch more TV now. Lol. Gaming is just a good way to connect with old friends for us, though. A guy from hugh school, guys from work, guys we played with in 2010, and the teenaged children of our friends keep us company and we still try to have fun. I do wish the SBMM would go away. I'd like to know if I actually suck! Lol
if they porred even a tenth of the effort they put into EOMM into actually working on the game; they wouldn't even need EOMM because we would all be raving about the new CoD
They thing is they don't. Activison has absurd f u money so they can own an entire studio that is only dedicated to rigging the game. They're called demonware
it’s pretty sad to see the majority of the fan base turn on the game. although people have turned out of passion, activision has nobody to blame except themselves. seeing patents of hit detection debuffs etc. then experiencing it in a game is kinda sad to be honest. i hope they genuinely expose themselves & some sort of lawsuit comes out of it cause i cbf with it anymore. gone are the glory days
The 19 minutes it took you to explain their matchmaking for them was time Kratos could speed run the MW3 campaign
You’re so witty and funny
repeated himself so many damn times.
@@usersony112 🤣🤣🤣
As a former COD pro... Ive been exposing the RIGGED GUNFIGHTS n ENGAGEMENTS since black ops 1 when they first started testing it. Now its an unplayable ILLUSION OF COMPETITION!!!
The game wont let me (former pro) kill a LITERAL RETARD!! Aim resist, dmg nerf, hit registry, speed/animations, audio tracking... ALL OF ITS RIGGED while pulling the better player out of server time according to a wide variety of skill parameters of each individual!
I could go into the endless lawsuits that led to endless patents all regarding ILLUSION OF COMPETITION...
High influencers are WHITELISTED from the rigged engagements/gunfights while us pros were making microtransactions before high paying tournies to have less rigged engagements...
NOT about the money, that only leads to puppets in power positions... not the puppet masters who control all mega corporations under the sun. Sadly most are not ready to understand how dark and deep this really goes...
Crazy how my ping is always the highest in the lobby when i have gigabit internet and a ludacris upload speed. Constantly suffering from packet burst and loss...
Damn, I actually wrote a long winded comment on one of your videos a couple days ago comparing SBMM to gambling in a casino. The study you posted just solidifies that comment I made. Shits crazy.
They don’t want to talk about it because they know the lawsuits will start to roll in
Love having my damage output, health, and hit registration completely rigged just to milk out skin buys and player engagement. It’s unreal what’s been going on since Cold War, basically being put into master rank lobbies for 8/10 games is practically a rat race. And the worst part is nothing will happen unless there is just a complete shift in management as well as the devs themselves, or the franchise just completely phases out and we essentially have any potential for future titles destroyed by essentially A-hole management and devs. Unreal, so unreal bro.
been a thing since MW2019..
@@exiteternium been looking into the patent stuff for awhile now. With MW2019 it was more so just giving you the most obnoxious scum wannabe filled headaches. They had created two patents which a lot of people aren’t aware about, one for MW2019 which was more so SBMM focused(still atrocious), and an updated one for Cold War in which it actively rigged gunfights in terms of damage, accuracy, etc. I’m one of the few that probably noticed the difference and wyysoserius did a stream on the issue about a year or so ago which goes over the patent in its entirety.
It’s been way before cold war dude lol
Why is the FCC or any other organization doing anything about this? This is honestly so evil by Activision.
Matchmaking is a reason for no longer playing. Insane how they’ll realtime manipulate hit recognition based upon skill. After a great few games, it’s like you’re being punished.
There’s other things that happen in this game that totally baffle me. Players on the other team totally ignore your teammates to shoot you. It’s like you have your own personal terminator hunting you and you alone. And the sudden loss of aim assist on certain enemies is also a massive turn off.
If you cant aim without aim assist get good
i totally agree with aim assist. Sometimes i am losing aim assists for no reason and i realize it instantly
@@Aye_itsju Alright, then turn it off. Let's see how much worse you perform.
the aim assist problem persists since MW19, and it's really weird. I noticed it happens with specific players. You simply lose aim assist to that player for the entire match
@@Aye_itsju If you need EOMM to play CoD get gud.
It’s funny how Activision doesn’t mind getting kids addicted to gambling but don’t start talking about changing the TRANSmission in your car😂
I see what you did there, that's a good one 🤣
No he means it literally. Somebody get a temp ban for talking about changing his transmission.
Funny how everyone on here is a cod drug addict. All anyone does it bitch about the game but they still play it all day. That’s why I hate theee RUclips lames and there followers. If you don’t like it then don’t play it and don’t support these clowns who make a living off either bashing or playing it. Kids these days a idiots 😂
@@jamesdesormeaux1074i’m lost now
That’s the best you could do to connect a trans homophobic joke?
Don;t get me wrong, I don[t care for the alphabet, I identify as a 3 toed sloth , people.
However, that was very low brow and shows your lack of intelligence.
Thank you, Blame Truth, for putting out another video exposing the why modern warfare 3 as a fraud of a game. I just don't know how you keep putting out bangers but you continue to thrive. Hope you have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I always look forward to your videos.
The moment you acquire agency from within an echo chamber is the moment the echo chamber loses its grasp on your reality. This is very translatable to EOMM, as the moment a player understands what is happening, is the moment they can no longer legitimize it. Unfortunatly, echo chambers and ignorance derived perspectives is incredibly well studied and what tends to happen is quite a large portion of the people succumb to willful denial of the reality. ACTI know this, and are banking on it.
Since the new Modern Warfare I fell that in some point of the my night playing my shots doesn’t get the enemy anymore, I start super great, big k/d killing a lot and suddenly the shots doesn’t get the enemy anymore. Now everything that a suspicious makes sense!
I think when they make a new yearly cod they spend most of the time making sure Sbmm eomm is working at 100 percent than making a decent cod
They have an entire studio dedicated to it called demonware
As someone who has been playing Call of Duty since 2003 (I still have the original CD-ROM that I got on launch day in 2003), I've seen the evolution of multiplayer over 20 years and I'm just a regular player. I went through phases of being ultra competitive, running a clan and caring about Win/Loss and K/D. I would like to compare two different Call of Duty multiplayer experiences.
Modern Warfare 2 (2009) vs. Black Ops 4 (2018). From 2003 to 2008 I was mostly into the single player campaign. I always played a 100 or so hours in each multiplayer starting in 2003 but often I just felt that I wasn't going to be able to put the time in to be a really good multiplayer player. However, starting in 2009 with Modern Warfare 2, I loved the campaign so much that it made me dive head first into multiplayer. MW2 was also the first Call of Duty I played on console (Xbox 360). I remember the first 4 months of 2010 being absolutely destroyed match after match but I was determined to get better, so I watched every killcam. I purposely switched to Search and Destroy so I could analyze how other players played if they only could spawn once. Slowly but surely I picked up tips and strategies for gunplay, proper grenade use, aiming around corners before peaking. I had become "decent". My KD was 1.13. Between the years 2003-2008 I had K/Ds in each yearly release of around 0.6. So by getting my ass beat, I put my time in to become better. While frustrating, it felt amazing that I was finally improving and felt like I earned this.
Flash forward to 2018. Black Ops 4 releases without a single player game - (something I'm still disappointed about). So I went hard into multiplayer. I was spending much more time in multiplayer each year since 2009, but I increased this 10 fold with Black Ops 4. I started noticing odd things that would happen in hardcore search and destroy matches. Things that had never happened before and I would often complain to my friend who also helped me run our clan and she would often say "oh stop you just had a bad match, they just out did you". But I honestly felt that this wasn't simply getting bested, this felt artificial and strange. I will cite two things that would happen with clockwork regularity:
1. If you had a full five man party in search and you faced another full five man party, and you 4-0 them. Meaning you sweep the game, you won all the rounds of search and the opposing team did not win a single round. If that losing team stayed in the lobby, the next match would play out entirely strangely. That losing team would become nearly invincible. It wouldn't even be bullet-spongey, it would simply not register bullets. Final killcams for the round would routinely show someone on that losing team reacting slowly, aiming imprecisely but would be getting the kill with ample time as if the person they were shooting at was absolutely terrible. Whenever I was the person killed in the final kill, it would be not at all what I had just experienced seconds earlier in real time when I was killed. I have seen such egregiously strange things such as: It's a 1v1, me vs the last enemy on their team. I would be aim walking being cautious, then boom the enemy jumps around the corner perfectly aiming on me and lasers me with lightspeed. However when viewing the final killcam at the end of the round, that enemy player did NOT even jump, they simply ran around the corner, saw me and picked up their gun, aimed down sights and killed me easily. When I first saw that it clicked in my head what was going on. This was very clever EOMM. Basically, the server determined that this team should have the victory, they just lost 0-4 against the same team so no matter what the server was going to ENFORCE this victory at all costs. Anyone who was played 10-12 hours a day on Black Ops 4 will likely have experienced where killcams will fabricate what actually happened based on how likely it is that someone could defeat it. My theory is that since I was already aiming down sights expecting the enemy to come around that corner, the odds that enemy were to be instantly lasered by me were very high to the algorithm, the way to defeat someone who is already ADSing is to jump at them and laser them before they can move their ADS to you.
2. This is a smaller thing I noticed which is, if someone does a donut in one match, the very next match they will either be at the top of the leaderboard or near the top. Obviously someone could try more and that could easily explain why they had a bad match but was the top player in the next match. However, this was such a common occurrence that it became a running joke anytime someone on our team had zero kills in one match, someone on our team would say "dude dont get off you know you'll be top player next match!"
We all eventually started seeing these abnormalities and we eventually referred to this as the "Fairness System". So this has been going on for much longer than you probably think. This rigging of multiplayer matches to enforce fairness and reward bad playing has been going on at least as far back as 2018.
I only play HC now, I was playing regular and kept finding I could unload close to a full 30 round mag into someone almost all hit markers, for them to turn around, shoot me and kill me with 2-3 bullets.
I know I'm faster than most people (I hit them first) and I played so much og mw2 that I know the maps like the back of my hand. So HC was my only option. My k/d is still only sitting at 1 though.
On original mw2 I had a kd of nearly 4 and an accuracy around 70% I'm playing on pc now and am admittedly not as proficient with a mouse and keyboard but not bad enough that my kd should be this low
I disagree but oh well. BO4 was the last COD that was fun to grind so the EOMMSBMM must not have been that bad. MW2019 is when things got sweaty and funky.
I never played in 5 man groups tho so
This game mechanically is pretty good. But the matchmaking makes it unbearable at times. I did the camo challenges for Interstellar and playing in those higher lobbies with the off meta guns is extremely hard to keep a 1 KD. And even then if you get a streak going the game will beging to spawn you in front of enemies until you are at a 1 kd for the match.
Facts some of those guns were painful to use against like all meta guns every game
The thing that i noticed in MW2 was preferred weapon based MM. I am 100% sure that whilst grinding camos on shipment the game put me into lobbies with players using specific weapons against me.
When using a sniper I was up against people using melee weapons, use shotguns and everyone else was using shotguns. Use an smg I was locked down by snipers.
Yeah I know i need to 'get good' but this was a thing I am convinced. Not touched MP this year.
Every time I try using snipers the enemy has shotguns smgs vice versa
I had a cat once. When he was a kitten he would chase around the room after a light dot on the floor made by a pen torch I would wave around. He was well into it, as long as I didn't make it too difficult for him to catch, or wave around too much. Then one day he saw the light dot appear on the floor, looked round at me, saw me waving the torch, and from that moment on never played the game again. Ever.
That's how I feel about COD now that I've discovered EOMM.
Great description
Today, I tried MW3 for the free trial weekend. This game is one of the worst multiplayer experiences I have ever had. It blows my mind how people can still bury their heads in the sand and act like what is going on is okay. Me just playing a couple of hours can see literally everything described in this video. This isn’t normal SBMM.
PS: I also find it hilarious when people from other gaming communities try to chime into this issue and bring up the “you guys just want to beat up on noobs”. Dude, just play the game. The matchmaking is not normal.
I actually had fun with the sbmm. It was challenging yet engaging when it did scale right. But when the eomm kicks in, that's when the game starts to hammer on your head
@TheUltimateHacker007 BO2 did it best. "PUB STOMP" was a thing, and if you wanted to actually play sweaty and competitive they had a LEAGUE. They fucked up moving away from that. I don't wanna face entire Faze clans when I'm leveling a piece of shit gun. Good luck getting any of the high kill streaks when everyone in your lobby is just as good as you. This is also why the barracks is gone- everyone's K/D is close to 1.00 so it doesn't matter. It USED to matter because it was a gauge of average skill, against random players. Not cherry picked skill bs.
if I have to sweat every round ok so be it, but let's make it a fair fight at least and not manipulate my connection or spawns to force deaths on me.
Just seeing the shady nonsense thats happened to this franchise makes me so much happier that i went to singleplayer games. I would like to see CoD be good again but i dont think that'll happen anytime soon. Happy to see someone like BT voicing all this bullshit
Hi BT, I remember when I was playing mw2019, yea I know you don't like it but since I played it for more than 1000 hours, I can clearly tell that through the years the matchmaking system got more and more sketchy to the point that I get gunned even with the worst gun in the game with only 3 bullets.
Especially in warzone 1 I remember that there was some kind of meritocracy regarding skill levels, if you could have done 10+ kills you were defined as the god of the game. On warzone 3 here, it's not the case... It feels like everyone has a game sense and is melting me with some really bad smg with a few bullets... Damn Activision always make me really entertained...
It's really hard to even get 5+ kills because the EOMM or whatever it is, it seems like is messing with my aim assist and damage kinda like Ricochet does (does Ricochet anticheat even exist anymore?).
So yeah, I really think they're trying to tune in more and more in every game they're releasing... Really really scummy
I drop like 18 maybe more a game my average on the stats say 12.7 its really not hard you just have to be a push hard kinda guy bro
@@bugsbunny3623the game is rigged so no one is gonna just believe "trust me bro".
yes ricochet is a thing, and EOMM is combined with SBMM, and relies entirely on money spent in store assets. they have implemented machine learning into both.
As soon as I started to lose gunfights I knew something changed because I’ve always been a good player so when my performance gets worse I know exactly where it’s coming from
Just wanted to say ever since I saw these videos I've really noticed how often I get revenge spawns, like nearly every other death even on bigger maps I spawn either with the dude who killed me right in front of me or right around the corner
I had 3 revenge spawns in a row on shipment earlier. So ridiculous. Though I did learn to just spawn with my bullets already flying on shipment! It just sucks when the guy spawns literally right behind me and then I spawn in front of him 2 additional times. Very frustrating!
Here to leave my appreciation as always. Just hopped off the free trial & man and im exhausted. 3 hours. Thats it. Ive had the flu for the past 4 days & those 3 hours were worse than AIDS. Thank you BT for the entertainment & always telling the goddamn truth. I feel like this game is made with Steiner Math, super calculated but with no Kurt Angle in the mix. That's ashame lol
Happy Holidays to you & Buddy!
What does aids feel like? How long have you had it? Are your symptoms getting worse or better?
@@RecKzXP I'm assuming it doesn't feel great but I imagine the best person to ask would be.. Joe Cecot.. maybe..? 🤔 Haha
The craziest part of this is that at the top percentile of competition in this game in MM, the engine cannot even keep up with the speed and it feels like 💩
I play against bots a good chunk to dial in on my shot and play with settings. What I notice in this game is they spawn in as paid characters before being altered shortly later to generic characters. Why would that be a thing 😉
What do you mean? The skins? I've watched videos before where a guy has proven skins are changed in real time to convince people that certain things aren't happening, like people becoming sponges
Here's the thing. My main question is if this system is active (EOMM or SBMM) whatever it is-- How are some players SO much better than others, and seemingly unaffected by these "manipulated/rigged" matches? There are players with 2.5KD + and win rates of x2 or more than there loses. If this system is truly in the game and it's supposedly affecting everyone? Or just SOME players? I truly don't understand how there are those players with very impressive stats. Are they just powering through it? Is their skill just too great of an amount to be affected by it? Listen, I've experienced it. I go 40 kills one match, and then the next match I struggle to get a UAV up. So it's definitely there, I'm not doubting it-- i'm asking how are some players just not affected by this? Because the way my games go, is that I get a lot of kills one match, and the very next I get less than 10 from struggling with the seemingly PRO players they put me against, and then the cycle repeats.
I'm just really confused at how some players can EXCELL with this system active.
Reverse boosting, cheating, netduma filtering etc. it’s such an easy system to bypass it’s comical
This was the first cod I’ve bought and played in probably 5 years. I think the game itself is pretty good…..the player base and sbmm is the issue…. NOBODY moves, hard point,dom, and kill confirmed are snooze fest games now.. games hit time limit before score limit and it’s sad…this younger generation of gamers just love to sit in spawn and snipe or Hide in rooms…..I dunno it’s sad….games are just not fun…I use to average 40-50 kills in a game of dom….lobby leader struggles to get 25-30 now
You are in low skill lobbies. That is the polar opposite of my experience in objective lobbies.
@@woodyfpv5331 I don’t really think it’s low skill lobbies…..I mean I have a 1.8kd which Is lower then normal for me but I think pretty good in todays cod, I’m not a top 1% gamer like back in the day when I was ranked in top 50 for score per min in the og mw3….but I’d def say I’m in higher skill lobbies….seems like just a lot of kd padding/ people afraid they might actually die irl if they die in the game
@@jasonpeterson8783you’re definitely in a lower skill lobby. Higher skill lobby’s people move around at a high rate. I’m a 3.09 KD and top 800 in the world for kills. The better you perform you’ll start seeing it especially from a score per min standpoint.
It's the new generation of gamers. Mfs are scared to talk in comp modes, scared to W key, constant meta chase, etc. I noticed the change in the last like 3-5 or so years.
Hope they starting forming a class action lawsuit on this greedy company!
I had a Domination match once where we were the winning team by a margin of like 20 points and I swear: even though my team had two objectives the other team, every points tick, got 3 (three) points, while we got one, until they passed us, but then since we kept the same they still lost... because it would get too obvious right
The fact that this is even remotely "considerable" to have actually happen in your hame and that they have this egalitarian ideology enforced (apparently it helps with one-off sales huh)... that's just ridiculous and insulting
It was obvious in MW2019 that something was seriously wrong with the matchmaking. I went from a consistent 2kdr to a flat 1 in that game with almost no streaks earned. I never even tried to go for the higher streaks because they were just unattainable, utterly miserable. I stopped playing 6v6 and played gunfights simply because there was less room for rigging the games, it's such a shame because that game felt like it had so much potential to be great but for me it just wasn't fun at all and seriously put me off buying another IW title again.
Skill issue.
It's funny that some absurd things happened to me in MW2019, like entering matches that had already ended (so that I didn't even have the opportunity to play) and in them my team had always lost by a huge margin.
Love this video. Randomly came up in my YT feed, wasn’t a subscriber but I am now.
I’ve been saying this to my friends since MW2019. But my CoD experience is different from theirs as I was on PC back during CoD2:UO and CoD4 MW where we had dedicated servers and PunkBuster on PC. The net code was spot on, the connection was always good, as you connected to servers geographically closest to you, and the gameplay was simple and polished. If you were bad at the game, you just had to play til you got better. There weren’t any outside predatory tactics influencing your game. Where their experience had only been on console with P2P hosting, lag switching and 100ms ping was just the norm. So to them this gameplay is normal, but to me, getting killed, when on my screen, I’m running to and make it around the corner, clearly behind cover and on my opponent’s screen I’m just out in the open all willy nilly, is insanely infuriating. Pair that with the BS that you’ve covered in this video and it just makes you want to never pick up the game again.
I sincerely hope all of this comes to light and causes Activision and CoD to eat a massive shit sandwich, failing miserably until they go out of business.
One interesting thing I noticed is that all those studies did their own "simulated matchmaking" with the different MM types. I can guarantee that those simulations do not take into account human psychology and the randomness of it in order to make their predictions on the best MM. I honestly we have got to this point as a result of someone bullshitting to upper management on the results of the EOMM through covid when everyone was playing games online so engagement was negligible...
I think Ricochet is a small window into what EOMM is doing to help/hinder players. Ricochet basically acts as a troll to reported "cheaters", and if they can do that to reported "cheaters" behind the scenes, then just imagine what they can do to casual players who suck ass.
Cod has a free trial until Monday and I’ve Been going 40-15 and still losing tdm matches yea something is very wrong
I played one game on shipment and closed the game lol
😂 bro it's not worth free, the stress is toxic and the developers are cancer.
And soon ass you buy it you’ll go 40-39. 🤣. Don’t buy it. IT FN SUCKS
I started playing the trial as a level 1 and got paired with level 55’s lmao
i played a full match with the starting ar and had a 30.65% accuracy that game but somehow went 15-30, theres something more wrong than anybody knows lmao the game literally feels like you're pulling a lever on a slot machine except when you win you just get like a 7 killstreak which is nothing to write home about.
This makes sense, I've noticed if I just wreck shop on 2 or 3 games in a row I start to lag a lot but
Im a headshot machine and cod’s algorithm know this. Which is why i have been nerfed since riccochet dropped together with vanguard.
Maby i was unaware before this, but as soon as vanguard dropped my spr stopped to one tap headshots. First i thought i was bad, so i went to private game and headshotted 250hp bots until every quickscope was a succesfull headshot while jumping, sliding, 180 etc those bots.
But since ur not allowed to play priv game offline anymore that ofc made it only Worse. Entire weeks went by and i was sure the spr was nerfed. I constantly ran warzone with 270ms ads spr for close combat, and a kar98k with 280ms ads for ranged battle, and throwing knives.
So i started to record, slow down the Clips and analyse them. The game will curve my bullets.
-A close up headshot will curve Even point blank and hit their right tie giving me a white hitmarker.
- a throwing knife will either pass true enemy dealing no damage, or curve around them. Even point blank.
- damage nerfs
- hitmarker nerfs
- audio nerfs
- aiming sway nerf
- elephant hitbox
- flinch nerf
- ads nerf
- spawnbased nerfs
- loot nerfs
- recoil nerfs
My crossbow stopped to one tap headshots. When i Watch clip i litterally see it deal half of 270 upon impact on head/neck. Because in warzone 1 enemies had health bars in killcam. And 135 is not a damage number for crossbow.
I did the same mistake with private games in warzone 2 and crossbow. I went in and made sure every shot would be a headshot vs 250hp lifed bots. Dropped double Nuke vs those bots in a single game. And now crossbow will pass true around 70% of enemies dealing no damage. I Even have video of me shoting dolls in firing range where 7 of 10 arrows just pass stright true the dolls dealing no damage, hitting the wall behind. My throwing knives goes towards enemy and then suddenly just jump into the air. That happens at a rate of 70% as well. Got several videos of that as well.
I have Clips of exploding sniper rounds explode in enemy head, blood squirts from their skulls and i deal 0 damage.
I run them down to 1/8 or 1/16 speed to catch this shit properly.
If i play with a friend with low kd on work, then it gets Even Worse. We are talking 10 first bullets does nothing. Even on slow firing guns like tac56.
Guns with no recoil will suddenly bounce to moon after 3 shots as well when shoting an enemy.
I had bad time. Ofc it dont stop there.
Im feeling Worse and Worse the more i play. Eomm is not working alone on making skillgaps as low as possible ofc.
There is no fast quickscoping snipers, you can go 450ms ads flinchwhore fjx. Or 400ms with a shitty scope. Ofc 468 velocity. The meta is a 650ms ads sniper. Compare those to 270ms fast movement, fast bolt action, almost no flinch spr from warzone 1 who could quadwipe a team alone inside a building. Compare the longrange 650ms ads 1k velocity katt amr to a 280ms, silenced, fast movement low flinch kar98k with 920 velocity.
Compare a warzone 1 crossbow with ballistic knife and throwing knives to a crossbow who need to hit head, but deal no damage 70% of the times, with a combat knife who cannot shot and throwing knives that are filled with helium and most likely just gonna jump into the sky.
Or a ballistic riot shield setup compared to a melee + shield with 10% penalty to movement with drunk throwing knives and enemies immune to stun and a piereable riot shield due to elephant hitbox.
Every single thing in this game is made to have skillgaps as low as possible.
Every patchnotes:
- increased limb and lower body damage
- decreased head and neck multipliers.
Lets talk about warzone random fill:
- Duo, u Get a kid who cannot Even say hello in english «hrelto» . Lands in, drive a car into the gas, which then explodes and down himself when he come to Get the loadout u bought.
- Quads: try 7 games in a row where the game give u no team mates, then on the 8th game u Get 3 idiots, which dies after 20seconds in ressurgent and then leave.
What fascinates me is that these game companies hired psychologists to break down what really creates addiction so they could use digitally induced dopamine to simulate what occurs with narcotics. Now not only have they simulated what occurs with drug addiction but have also simulated what happens with acclamation to said substances. With every new hit your high gets thinner and thinner until you are chasing a high that you will never get again while going broke and destitute in the process.
Been saying this for years the game is rigged. I'm just glad that it's finally being talked about.
It was rigged since og mw2 that's when I went to battlefield 3
Bad for Microsoft but unless they make the decision to talk about everything in a transparent way, they will never get ROI from this franchise, ever.
Could they make studios do their best efforts with new guidelines without talking about these changes to make the games better? Sure, but that will make a slow transition to bring old players to trust on these games again instead of telling to the internet "hey this was fucked up, here are the changes now on".
On the other hand I really wish cod was dead to the point they can go the route described above.
Bad for Microsoft? Don't they own Activision blizzard now? Microsoft is their boss, I don't know why they don't put their foot down, fire those responsible, and fix the game? It's like Microsofts CEO is Tony Khan. Bad ratings, bad sales, and they just don't care whatsoever
@@GraveMemories 2024 is when the change goes into effect. this is the last game activision will own.
one thing i’ve noticed is that every time i play a good warzone match, the next one is always buggy and laggy
Definitely noticed my bullets just stop causing damage after I reap three or four wins in a row. My team usually takes a 10 min break after the third or fourth match to reset the algorithm. Seems effective.
BT you are the man. I been following you since the OG Cod days and stopped playing call of duty after ghosts. I thought it couldn't get any worse back then.
EOMM is killing CoD, but even if EOMM wasnt a thing, the games probably would still not be enjoyable to play. The issue that many players used to have before CoD went to Advanced movement was that the games felt too same-y. Looking back and its clear that both dev teams at the time had very distinct styles and game mechanics that while fundementally the same, they were still able to have each CoD feel like its own unique experience with distinct settings/tones, game engines, various features and mechanics that both teams would often piggyback and improve upon. CoD nowadays have just been, for lack of a better word, dickriding everything that MW19 did with little to no improvements that each game, with Cold War being the exception, basically feeling like mods to MW19 that have poor map design, game mechanics, heavy reliance on nostalgia and would rather want you to buy bundles while most, if not, all of your matches are rigged to have a certain outcome before it even begins. Unless Microsoft gets Activision to finally open up about EOMM, we probably will continue to see CoD on a downward spiral, and I dont want to see that as someone that has been playing since CoD4.
Mw3 would be a hit without eomm. It is a good feeling game other than the manipulation part.
Can we as a community not just sue the shit out of them for this?
Awesome video, and I’m glad that this is starting to be talked about more. I’ve been playing CoD pretty exclusively since World at War, so I feel like I’ve got some good insight as to how the game has changed over the years.
I remember hearing one time about how the game is also rigged if/when you purchase in-game items. They were talking about how if you’re not doing good in the game, you’ll get matched with players who are doing well and also wearing cosmetics purchased through the store. This subconsciously tells your brain that if you purchase those items, maybe you’ll be as good as those guys. So you cave in, purchase the items (skin, weapon blueprint, whatever), and they’ll throw you in lobbies with noobs, thus making you feel better about yourself in the game and solidifying in your subconscious that the reason you’re doing good is because you purchased the items. And thus the cycle starts all over again (you’re now one of the “good players” that the noobs are looking up to, motivating them to make in-store purchases).
Not sure if it’s the same thing, but that’s all I could think about while watching this video. Nobody does what they do out of the goodness of their heart. They’re a corporation designed to create $$, and we’re all falling victim to their scams.
Damn bro that’s fucking deep. Been playing most games since cod4. Uninstalling cod now and not buying another game, fuck that. I’ve been getting into battlefield v recently anyway😂
Start a petition/Movement/# or something were we send them a message that essentially says they need to address the match making and correct course or we collectively vow not to purchase their next game.
I'm glad I haven't purchased a cod game these past few years. Best decision ever made as a gamer lol.
I agree that they tried to implement a system to entice you to play more, that's kinda the point of making a video game. I think they shy away from talking about it because it has failed so tremendously. There's also gotta be some pride getting in the way too. As for the mass exodus of players, well that's an obvious reason, if you want to play and look really good all the time you have to actually perform that way, self satisfaction is what they are relying on to keep people coming back, and unfortunately that is not something many people value like they did a decade ago. I don't like the system and it is defintely frustrating, but there's always two sides to consider and what reasons might be behind them. I can't genuinely imagine they intended to upset such a large portion of the dedicated playerbase, financially that would make zero sense. I think they messed up and don't wanna admit it
I could deal with EOMM, but not PBO - Performance Based Optimization. My bullets doing less damage in a gun fight, thrown my sights off the target, etc to level the k/d's in the lobby🤦♂️ THAT is most frustrating
The only game that did lootboxes right was Overwatch. But guess what. The „Sequel“ Overwatch 2 (its a DLC like mw3 but for free and removes the option to play Overwatch 1) completely removed them so they could gain more money on selling overpriced skins.
What's annoying is if you get in a lobby your next one is going to be completely different people. I'm good at COD but like last night went on an 8ish win streak, going positive by a long shot, and then I got shat on completely for a whole game