lame truth here I have returned and if you guys
are happy to see me back drop a like on this video I'd appreciate it took it a little easy last
month and I was going to make another video after my last one to to kind of cap off July there but
uh to be completely honest I I was disgusted I was absolutely disgusted at this mind [ __ ] guinea
pig [ __ ] experiment that the Call of Duty devs ran about skill-based match making eomm whatever
you want to call it to the point where I'm like I don't even know what to talk about like there's so
much I want to talk about but I'm just disgusted it's depressing to talk about it it literally
is I I I I've seen I'm sure you've seen this news passed around but if you haven't uh they are
now using Ai and this is confirmed they are now using AI to make bundles in Call of Duty as if the
Boba bundle the fuzzy wuzzy Jeffrey steam bundle yada yada isn't enough to turn your stomach now
it's all of that but made by AI made by some you know Terminator too I need you close your boots
and your motorcycle AI hell that would be a lot better of of a bundle to put in why not put in
Terminator or something why not get the right spend that Daddy Activision money stop getting
chich and Chong who most of your player base is too young to even know who the [ __ ] they are
tell me when I'm telling lies wait would the kids even know what the [ __ ] Terminator is honestly
I think think a new movie just came out recently I'll be honest with you I stopped watching it
T2 cuz like can you really top Terminator 1 and Terminator 2 I don't think so I just kind of
stopped watching there so I I did watch three once but anyway let's get back to the video here
back to the meat potatoes if you will Ex defiant just did another balance pass on their weapons
and I can say this without any hesitation I I think right now the weapon balance in X defiant
is the best weapon balance we've either ever seen or since maybe like Black Ops 2 I'd say nothing
feels overpowered most weapons in the game pretty much every weapon in the game now feels viable
they've all done this or they've done this all I should say while keeping the unique feel and kind
of niche of the weapons intact it's actually I'm actually really impressed and I'm not just saying
that like they have really done a fantastic job at the weapon balance they actually just buffed
the aa2 which I mean me and and X Cal we're like the only people using that gun in the whole game
pretty much so I'm happy to see it buffed it's not overdone or anything this is a match with it
uh post buff it's I mean I had no trouble doing this pre-buff so whatever but regardless uh let's
cover the skill-based matchmaking study and just kind of I don't know talk about this before the
release of Black Ops 6 the beta comes out August 30th I do believe there and if anyone's hopeful
if anyone at all is hopeful that Black Ops 6 is going to be this amazing game uh look no further
than this most recent sbmm study they did that they did by the way not us not someone else not
an independent third party not with very clear outlined variables I mean they treated the
player base as guinea pigs and then changed things on a whim to fit their narrative here's
the thing let let me give you guys an example before I even show you the uh exhibits and the
EV evence let's say you guys go to Burger King okay you go to Burger King for the past 5 years
you order a whoer occasionally you'll get like a different kind of burger but for the most part
you order a Whopper you go to Burger King you get a Whopper for the past 5 years that's how it's
been well one day you wake up you go to BK and instead of a Whopper on the menu or any burger at
all for that matter everything has been replaced with some form of chicken like it's some Third
Rate KFC and when you ask hey uh where are the burgers the the um you know cashier just does the
Chick-fil-A girl look at you and doesn't respond okay now what would you do in that situation you'd
probably walk out the goddamn door not only that but you would probably you would probably not
go back not only that but you'd think that maybe you were going insane and that you were um in the
wrong restaurant and it would mess with your head a little bit well that's what they did with this
most recent skill-based matchmaking study where they turned it off and then gathered data they
gave people a consistent experience on Call of Duty for the past 5 years then to prove their
point that skill-based matchmaking is a good thing they turned it off without telling anyone
and then bad players were suddenly not protected anymore and were getting stomped more a little
bit more probably and then uh they quit out and they backed out we don't have any indication
of what the servers were doing at the time either we don't have any indication of when
this occurred they didn't give us the actual details of this quote unquote experiment I wish
they could just be honest for once I wish they could just tell the truth for once and just say
hey we have skill-based matchmaking in the game to help the bad players feel not so garbage at
the game so they will spend money in the store because at the end of the day that's all it's
there for it's not there for player retention if anything it's showing that for the most part
Call of Duty at least traditional multiplayer wise a skill-based matchmaking has way more vocal
people against it than that are for it and that's why X defiant even exists I mean think about this
ex defiant exists because of this issue right now and speaking of that let's see what Mark has
to say lead on X defi about this skill-based matchmaking graph thing he says so just making
sure I'm reading this correctly did retention drop by less than 2% basically the worse people
are the more they're likely to quit out but Nero said it best in that last tweet like most of
those people are so bad they probably don't care or it was a shock to the system because
they've been protected and then good players I mean as you can see on the graph as the higher you
get up they actually gain retention because it's like oh I'm not being Gaslight or punished or put
into lobbies with bad connections anymore there's so many variables other than skill and individual
performance that I I I there's no way to actually take this scientifically can't just say it's
purely based on skill it is a flawed experiment and it is complete horseshit it is complete an
utter horeshit especially considering I see brand new players on X defy all the time that get their
[ __ ] pushed in and stay on the game and they go like 6 and 28 or whatever they don't care man
they're listening to little yachty rolling a blunt and listening to their smoke detector beep at them
because they need to change the batteries they do not care Robert bowling OG Call of Duty 4 Modern
Warfare 2 Modern Warfare 3 Guys says this uh in relation to that whole test has considered skill
as a factor in spmm are drastically different things the major changes since Cod 4 have been the
other reasons and way that skill is weighted and used particularly the introduction of Activision
patented process for matchmaking unskilled players with high skilled players who own Cosmetics the
low-skilled player doesn't own but is likely to buy so when people say spmm sucks they're
referring to the totality of the system not the simp simple fact that any skill is considered
Mark ruin actually confirmed that Cod 4 had a little bit of spmm back in the day like I'm I'm
talking so minute but ping was King and as someone who played Call of Duty I I mean I've probably
forgotten more about Call of Duty than most of you guys know unless you've been playing as long
as I have and I just want to say like from Cod 4 when I started playing up until I'd say Black
Ops 4 skill-based matchmaking was unnoticeable unnoticeable to me personally and I'm not just
saying that like I I never would have known it was a thing unless someone pointed it out you play
Modern Warfare 2019 on it is night and day night and day down to the connection quality there is no
reason on Black Ops 4 I should be getting 20 to 40 ping every single match every single server and
then get getting put into a Bangladesh Lobby on 160 ping because I popped off one too many times
on 10 no thumbs or whatever like that that is stupid and this whole sacrificing a good player's
enjoyment someone who puts in the time puts in the effort puts in the money to get better at the game
I mean truthfully someone who puts in the time the effort and the money to get better at the game
should have a better experience because they've earned it if you are having a bad time in a public
match do you know what you do you back the [ __ ] out and you search again or you stay take your
lumps and see what you're doing wrong you can you can record your gam play super easy now and
you can watch it back and you can see what you're doing wrong you can watch so many people online
and see where you are not doing what they're doing you know what I mean like you could watch this
game play and see hey how do I use the aa2 let's watch BT use it he he knows how to do it okay
let's watch this and try to replicate it you will do better this is how it's always been you know if
I go to the the gym and I work out for 30 minutes I don't expect to look like the guy who goes to
the gym and works out for 3 hours every day it it just it's not realistic I don't know where this
baby participation metal mindset came from in regards to video games I think things just got too
popular and they saw the money that could be made on fooling these dummies and people with like low
competitive drive and all this stuff I don't know man I truly do not know with that said ranked
is more popular than ever it seems like so it seems like that ranked experience is still wanted
so then why in the hell do we have skill-based matchmaking in pubs then if we have a ranked
experience which is you you know where you stand you get rewards based on your success yada yada
why do we even have skill-based matchmaking and public matches is is that just for people that are
so bad they cannot handle the uncomfortable truth that maybe they need to do better this is a real
example I'm going to give you guys all right this is a real example I'm going to give you guys and
I'm not I'm not saying this to like you know crap on anybody or whatever and I'll keep everybody
Anonymous but I have a friend that I try to give tips to on X defiant I will watch them play and
I will tell them exactly what they're doing wrong where they're going wrong what they should do more
of yada yada and I swear to you I swear to you maybe 10% of the information gets taken to heart
and they actually do it so many people want to be in this comfort zone and they want to do things
their way and they want the game to adapt to them that's why I see so many people with the reaction
time of a sloth and Frozen molasses and the aim of someone with half of a thumb that they lost in a
deli accident at their local Subway complain that people jump too much in X defiant or whatever I'm
going to be completely real with you guys my aim has gotten to a point on X defiant and my tactics
with shotguns especially has gotten to a point on X defiant where if people jump I have no trouble
hitting them I really don't people jump and they move and they slide cancel and they do all that
stuff because they don't want to get shot do you expect everyone to run around on the same plane
as you and not move and and just have you shoot at them easy and then it's just a battle of like I
guess who sees who's who's first at that point do you want that if you want that there's a little
game called Doom you don't even have to like aim up and down in that game go play the original
Doom you know like seriously go play the original doom on easy there you go it's probably still too
hard for you but I digress you know let's go back to that situation though where I'm like trying to
give someone tips you know if I say like hey you should jump more hey you should slide cancel more
hey you should reload after a kill you should you should do all this stuff and they continue to not
do it and they continue to get the same results I have nothing like there's nothing I can do you
know what I mean if I'm telling you exactly what you need to do and you can't do it or you won't do
it there's there's like nothing I can do you know what I mean like you got to just accept your lumps
like I I don't know man there are so many I mean look I I'll be real with you I am not God's gift
to FPS in fact I suck ass at a lot of games that I play for the first time I'm a very slow learner
but I have a very high ceiling my brain works in a way where I want to figure out how to be good at
something and I will do anything and I'll take any path and I'll make as many mistakes as I can or
as many mistakes as it takes I should say to get to the point where I can call myself good at it
when it comes to X defiant here for example I feel like I'm pretty damn good at this game I haven't
played ranked yet I'm just a pub stomper but like I feel like I can go into any public match get
MVP nine games out of 10 now like that's just how I play that's that's where I wanted to get to
I put in over 200 hours into the game to get there boom I'm not God's gift to FPS there's nothing
special about me I really don't think there is I'm maybe above average at every single metric
but when I combine all those metrics to become above average in every facet then the people that
don't get out of their comfort zone and don't do this or don't do that when they play the game get
[ __ ] on and instead of getting better instead of realizing they have a weakness in this particular
area because there's no skill-based matchmaking to protect you in this game you you land where you
land you know what I mean instead of just getting better they go on Twitter they go on social media
that whatever and they whine and complain there are times to whine and complain trust me I I
do it all the time here it's when things are not fair when things are not fair when nefarious
things are going on behind the scenes you should complain when it's just your lack of skill being
the main culprit the main issue you don't need to complain you need to go back and take a look at
what you're doing wrong and improve tell me when I'm telling a [ __ ] lie viewer tell me please so
with Black Ops 6 on the horizon let me transition into this with Black Ops 6 on the horizon if you
guys think this is going to be different I'm sorry you're an idiot repeat after me they will never
sell you a game so good you don't buy next year's installment they just they'll never do it and with
this skill-based matchmaking study dropping right before Black Ops 6 and with nothing nothing
in regards to the matchmaking changing if you think this is going to be different this is going
to save Cod this is going to be the best Call of Duty ever you're a [ __ ] [ __ ] and I'm sorry to
break that to you but God damn y'all need to stop y'all need to stop just calm your emotions please
for a second look at this logically and tell me this game is going to be good the Treyarch making
this game is missing so many key players I've seen fall off from Treyarch over the years vard Jason
Blundell uh Tony Flame you name it the the key like Director people that led the way are gone and
now Treyarch has put in I mean something as simple as doors into the multiplayer and tax Sprint into
the multiplayer is super telling by the way it's super telling because these two things were the
main selling points of their last game Cold War in that they weren't [ __ ] in the game they they
didn't have doors or tax Sprint they wanted that traditional Call of Duty and many people hold Cold
War in high regards as the best cod in the past 5 years and I'm inclined to agree with that they're
they're leaving all that behind to do some door tax Sprint omy movement thing this game's going
to suck and it comes down to those dumb decisions at at the people leading the way and the shitty
matchmaking the fact that the game's going to be dead in 10 months not even a year but 10 months
not even 10 months probably 6 months let's be honest Moder Warfare 3 who in the hell plays that
who plays it I I mean it just got released on Game Pass and I've been giving Sledgehammer Games all
the credit in the world no one cares the the game it's like the game comes out it's popular for
two three months and it falls off a cliff and that's it we wait till next year that's Call of
Duty every single year it's going to happen again it's going to happen again and happen again
as long as you keep buying it and playing it every year and expecting different results it's
literally the definition of insanity at this point I'm sticking with ex defiant I know the Hypes
died down on it and you know it's not as popular as it was when it came out I don't care I I enjoy
playing it I'm going to keep playing it I hope you guys enjoyed I hope you guys enjoyed the X toine
gameplay I will catch you on the next one shout out the new buff shotguns on this game they're
very good I'll see you later have a good one peace this some parting advice something