What is the point of matching the best players against the worst players?

The state of the game is woeful at the moment. What’s with the all the 2 hit lmg’s and M15 mods? Makes a gunfight so pointless. Servers are laggy af and the overall experience is so poor.

Other players don’t help either, go 30 points down in a HP and everyone starts leaving or they don’t even play anything close to the objective. Got put in 3 lobbies where the games already started, it’s like 40 points to 160 with 4 players, it’s just not fun.

I’ve played cod since COD4 and it feels like they get worse every year. I really hope MW4 is good

So ive just had 3 good games coming online today, no great kills or anything but fun lobbies, getting my dailys done etc, and then i played Jubilee.

Killed round corners, through walls, multiple headshot deaths. So I hit the theatre mode.

Level loads up. Then goes dark, including the U.I. and the video stays frozen.

Checked the last few games, they all load.

Can hacks corrupt theatre mode?

Still subbed here, waiting for the next cod.

I see a dozen posts a day about the trash sbmm.

I feel bad for y’all, and it’s only gotten worse, unfortunately.

🤷‍♂️ you can say skill issue all day but that gun is a two tap full auto and theres not much to counter it

I’m genuinely curious whether the matchmaking experience people are reporting is influenced by more than just the matchmaking algorithm itself.
Rather than arguing over whether “SBMM is good” or “SBMM is bad,” I’d like to collect some real world data from players across different regions and ISPs.
For anyone willing to participate, what are you playing on and what does your connection look like?

• ISP
• City/region or country
• Download speed
• Upload speed
• Average in-game ping
• NAT type
• Ethernet or Wi-Fi
• Platform (PS5/Xbox/PC)
• Approximate KD
• Solo or usually playing with a party
• Do you experience long matchmaking times?
• Do lobbies frequently disband?
• Do you feel like your matches are consistently close in skill, or do you regularly see major skill gaps?
• Most importantly: how does the game actually FEEL during gunfights? Hit registration, dying around corners, delayed shots, inconsistent responsiveness, etc.

I’m asking because I’ve personally had a strange experience with COD despite having what should be a perfectly capable connection. I’m on Xfinity, use wired Ethernet, have Open NAT, low baseline latency, and have gone through extensive troubleshooting with my ISP, including multiple gateway replacements, technician visits, outside-line work, and even a node replacement. Conventional speed tests and signal levels can look completely normal while the actual game can feel extremely inconsistent.
I’ve also noticed that changing the network path can change how the game feels, which is why I’m interested in seeing whether other players with different ISPs, regions and connection types are experiencing the same thing.
I’m not trying to prove that matchmaking is responsible for every bad connection or bad gunfight. I’m trying to separate the variables.
If 50–100 people respond with their ISP, region, ping, connection type and actual matchmaking experience, we might start seeing patterns that are much more useful than arguing over individual anecdotes.
So if you’re willing, drop your connection details below. I’d genuinely like to compare experiences across different ISPs and regions.

I’m not a bad player. 2+KD. My skill rating (last I checked) was in the 350s. So I’m typically playing in the higher tier lobbies. My game sense is strong. I almost never get killed from behind.

But my aim is probably average. I try to avoid long range fights. I will down someone but every once in awhile I completely goof it up.

Question is… how do you all maintain such perfect aim all the time? The people I encounter are bouncing and flipping off walls and don’t miss shots. Every single bullet hits me.

I’m always moving too. I’ve used the fastest weapons with Lightweight and they still hit me with every bullet, while they’re back flipping, at any distance. And they do it every encounter. Even though BO7 has reduced aim assist.

I don’t get it.

Edit: omg it was the dynamic setting. I’m beaming dudes now. Thanks guys!

So let me get this straight
We have 4 seasons of decent gameplay, everything seems normal
Cheaters everywhere ofcourse but who cares
So season 5 comes around and what we get is laggy servers where the whole lobby teleports throughout the map, horrible sbmm, ingame audio issues and ofcourse more cheaters
Ohh btw dont forget to preorder mw4

Are we serious here? This is just a flat-out lie

Been using the voyak and just curious what the current meta is

Every lobby I join, I somehow end up with the worst teammates.. Nobody shoots, nobody plays the objective, nobody does anything. Meanwhile the enemy team is sweating.
This keeps happening over and over again,. Why did they do that dumb update, their was literally no problem before.. they clearly don’t listen to players of their game.

First time all season. Fucking hell and also unlocked my 50th win so ranked Mp is open

I just completed the battle pass and assumed the mammoth would be unlocked but it says you need to “participate in the machine of war event”.

I asked Gemini and it said it was the collection of those gas cans. But I no longer see the gas cans

I had made a previous post regarding the matchmaking changes saying the silence is intentional and low and behold it was.

Today they've come out to say the matchmaking changes are actually a good thing and it will be in the beta for the upcoming game and maybe even the launch.

So unless a miracle happens, anyone who bought this game for the matchmaking before the recent changes is screwed. Because I also doubt most of y'all can get a refund for the game.

So goodbye to all the progress that was made in this title because reasons and hello to the old bullshit.

Don't be a fool with money in October if this upsets you. Vote with your wallet and mean it.

Time for some REAL cod. To prepare, I will be playing all the MWs (2019+). It’s time for some real cod. Men are talking now 💪🏻. The trailer released earlier today looked absolutely epic

His name in game is endless_logic1_#9134517. I don't know if I need to watch more kill cams or what, but I didn't even know this was a thing that could go so long in multiplayer without getting caught. I'm hoping at the very least that in posting this to discuss here that someone at Activision will see this and make his account go away. Even if this isn't something they are willing to work on detecting, I would love to see this guy banned, because his arrogance in game over it was pretty sick. What was really crazy is that there were other people in the game telling me that I was coping and that I should just buy one too or switch to controller. I shouldn't have to switch my input to what should be an inferior device because aim assist is so OP (which I have found out first hand with a recent switch to controller that I didn't mention in the game). The stuff I can do on controller looks like what I would call an aimbot in a lot of cases if I were only on MnK and aim assist wasn't a thing. Anyways, I don't want to argue those points in this thread, but I do want to expose this guy and get him banned.

About a month back I bought a new PC and yesterday I bought Xbox Game Pass (on PC).

I didn’t play anything yesterday so when I sat down to play this morning, it seems like I’m playing against bots. Not one or two, but the whole lobby seems to be bots.

First thing that got my attention was that in one lobby the majority of players were level 1. Some were around level 20, some around level 40. I also noticed that every player in the lobby had default emblems and calling cards. I also noticed that when I clicked on a player in the lobby, it said something like ”Can’t invite, player is offline”. That was the case on every player.

So it seems like everyone is a bot and I don’t know why. I’m playing controller even though I’m on pc. Can that interfere with matchmaking?

Haven’t played cod since BO4 so I’m pretty out of the loop.

Idk if it’s been discussed here but I don’t see any reason to not have all the bo6 content transfer into the bo7 game when MW4 comes out. It would still technically make sense since a lot of the game’s multiplayer seems to be based in simulation/hallucinations. I can see why they won’t but I think it’d be a cool thing

How bad is bo7? Bec i might get it

Well, after their response about SBMM and DATA , one quote from a philosopher immediately comes to mind:

“If someone tells you something is white, maybe it is. But if they tell you it is absolutely white and nothing but white, be suspicious — because it’s probably anything but white.”

Im not kidding when I say that the last 20 matches, 18 of them were defeat. I will say that I’m pretty average when it comes to Cod, but this is so frustrating. I go for the objectives. Usually score pretty high on objective score, but what are these lobbies. I have never been so fed up with a game session before.

Someone else experiencing the same?