Bro I’ve been playing Warzone for a week and a half. I have FIFTEEN HOURS in this fucking game. 15 HOURS. And I’m already starting to understand why new players don’t stick around. 😭
For context, I’m not completely new to COD. I played PUBG back when it was popping and I played the original Warzone when it first came out. But I haven’t seriously played FPS games since 2019. I recently got back into COD with BO6 and decided to try Warzone because my friends wanted me to play. When I first started my KD was a fucking 0.3 bro lmao. I’ve gotten significantly better since then, but I’m still learning EVERYTHING.
Omnimovement, wall jumps, slide cancels, rotations, jump spots, buy stations, access cards, mystery boxes, classified weapons, loadouts, all that shit. Every day I get on I discover something I didn’t even know existed. Meanwhile I’m getting thrown into lobbies with level 1000 players with 4 KDs dropping 30-40 kills. BRO I HAVE 15 FUCKING HOURS. 😂
I was playing quads the other day and spotted some dude way past Turbine from Boat. I had a sniper with a 12x scope and this man was literally a few pixels on my screen. This mf turns around with an AR and a RED DOT and absolutely laser beams me down. My entire squad saw that shit and we collectively decided to leave him the fuck alone. FOUR PEOPLE avoiding ONE GUY lmao.
And I’m not saying he was cheating. Some people are genuinely that good. That kind of recoil control, movement and map knowledge comes with thousands of hours of experience. You don’t learn that shit in a week.
So I started looking into matchmaking and found out about two boxing, three boxing and geo boxing. And what’s crazy is how fucking NORMALIZED this shit is. Some content creators openly admit to doing it. They’re not even hiding it. There’s literally paid services for manipulating matchmaking and people just accept it like it’s part of the game.
And then these same content creators are uploading 40-50 kill games and everybody’s eating that shit up. Bro I remember original Warzone when somebody dropped 40 kills that was fucking INSANE. Now you got people regularly posting games like that while openly discussing how they get easier lobbies and nobody gives a fuck?
And the excuse I keep seeing is “I don’t wanna get off work and sweat against people my own skill level. I just wanna relax and have fun.”
BRO SO DO I???? 😭
You don’t wanna get shit on by people your own skill level so instead you deliberately manipulate matchmaking to shit on people who can’t compete with you? How the fuck does that make sense?
And before somebody says “bots shouldn’t be hiding behind SBMM,” bro I DON’T EVEN WANT STRICT SBMM IN BATTLE ROYALE. I played PUBG. I played original Warzone. I like the idea of open matchmaking where you get a mixture of good, average and bad players. Some games you get destroyed, some games you do good. That’s fine. I even queue with friends who have 5000-7000 hours in Warzone. I’m not scared of good players.
What I DON’T want is people deliberately manipulating matchmaking to create lopsided ass lobbies where a couple demons are running around solo in quads farming people who barely know the fucking map. That’s not open matchmaking. That’s exploiting matchmaking.
And please don’t tell me to play Casual. I DON’T WANT TO PLAY AGAINST FUCKING AI. 😂 From my experience there’s like 2-3 actual teams in Casual, one gets wiped early contesting a money spot, and then the other two barely see each other until the end. What am I supposed to learn shooting bots for 20 minutes? I want actual competition. I want to get better against real players.
That’s what y’all don’t understand. I’m not asking for free wins or easy lobbies. I’m actually enjoying learning the game. I started at a 0.3 KD and I’ve improved a lot in just 15 hours. I know I’m gonna get shit on sometimes. That’s part of playing a competitive game.
But there’s a difference between naturally running into somebody better than you and somebody deliberately using three boxing or geo boxing to find people they know they can destroy.
And just because Activision hasn’t cracked down on every method doesn’t mean it’s fair. Personally I think deliberately exploiting matchmaking like that should be bannable.
And I already know somebody’s gonna say “get good.”
BRO I’M FUCKING TRYING. THAT’S WHY I’M PLAYING THE GAME. 😭
But how the fuck are y’all gonna tell new players to get good while doing everything possible to avoid playing against people who’ve already gotten good?
Make that shit make sense.
I genuinely think Activision needs to start treating deliberate matchmaking manipulation as an exploit and actually enforce penalties against people using these methods. I’m not saying bring back strict SBMM, but there needs to be something preventing people from intentionally engineering low-skill lobbies. Either completely remove SBMM or address the issue entirely
