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'Segregating high skill players from the population at large, forcing long wait times on them, is a form of discrimination': former Halo multiplayer lead on the 'failure' of SBMM in modern games (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 11 months ago by nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That still doesn't solve the problem of playing cannon fodder for low skill players.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Just nerf the shit out of them. Bullets do quarter damage, 5 HP, automatic last stand and have to be revived twice, FF is always on for them, they can be seen on the map at all times.

[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de -4 points 11 months ago

If you're bad at a multiplayer game, you'll die a lot. That's just part of it. Any good game will give new players a way to fight good players (TF2 has the anti titan weapons for example).

Poorly designed games will punish bad players for being bad (like unavoidable COD killstreaks for example).

SBMM is just a band-aid for a problem that lies much deeper.