Man if tanks didn’t exist yall would be so free if there was no SBMM
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It is true that Xdefiant does not have SBMM in its quick games, if we compare it to OW2 and its extremely wide spectrum of QP searches, I would venture to say that they work in a very similar way.
Now, on the other hand, doesn’t Xdefiant have an SBMM system for its competitive games? If that is so, I assure you that it is a guaranteed disaster.
Usually play against masters tanks who run the lobby in quickplay, pretty annoying with how broken tanks are with 25% headshot reduction.
Never tried ranked in Xdefiant, quickplay is too chill lol
Even with SBMM there are so many stomps in OW. Imagine how bad it would be without it.
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I’m not currently loving our matchmaker, I’d be happy to try this instead.
Friendly reminder that the beginner playlist that most people have been running in XDefiant has SBMM. I sure hope you weren’t using it when you made the post AKJ. 
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Yes I understand you, but it is just what I mentioned before, the search spectrum in QP is extremely broad, to the point that on many occasions you will come across players with a much higher elo than yours.
I know that for some people it is tedious and demanding to play competitive games, but if you want the most even games possible, I recommend playing competitively, since they are competitive games the MM works in a more strict way in relation to the search spectrum and the difference between the players skills it is very close, this ensures you play with people of your level, contrary to what happens many times in Qp and which is what leads to so much frustration on the part of some players, imagine being a Bronze 4 player and run into a Platinum player in QP, well the game will be frustrating and you will probably not be able to face him due to the difference in skills.
Well that is not so common in competitive, where if we continue with the previous example being a Bronze 4 player, you ensure that the opposing team is also in Bronze and the players are people with a skill level very similar to yours.
You should also consider that although both games are shooters, the primary focus of both is totally different, OW is a Hero Shooter, one of the few on the market, where we find a great variety of heroes and abilities and therefore the balance of the game and its core cannot be compared in that way to Xdefiant, in the latter for example you will not come across a DJ frog skating on the walls or a girl in a mecha flying 20 meters above your head.
quickplay is more sweaty sometimes, going against gm’s. Find a lot of gm’s abuse quickplay
In competitive, you have smurfs every other game so it’s kinda the same
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Well, that is something that I cannot deny, cheaters and smurfs are a real problem that affects not only OW but the entire genre of shooters on the market, but it is something that has always existed and that unfortunately will always exist, it will happen in Xdefiant also eventually.
Likewise, I encourage you to play more competitively, believe me as you progress, things improve a lot.
But remember something, you are not always going to win, I don’t know if you see any OW content creators, but if you do you will notice that even the GMs of this game suffer in some games and have losing streaks and it is totally normal.
All I played was competitive until the season 9 changes, changing the hp/ hitboxes. Don’t find the game competitive anymore, there’s no skill gap
I bought the Premium BP on Xdefiant to give the game a try but I’m not sure I’m gonna stay after season 1.
To me it’s pretty beyond belief that the more you play the more you can customize your weapons. It gives Competitive no real purpose. There are certains upgrades that increase the amount of damage dealt with certain weapons…
Utter heresy…
The weapon customization gives you reason to grind, screw the battlepass lol
I agree with you on that, the changes in season 9 were horrible.
But I definitely and firmly believe that Blizz big mistake was the 5v5 change, leaving a single player in the tank role damaged the balance that existed since OW1, if you notice since the release of OW2 the changes directed at the tank position have been focused more and more on ensuring more survival for the tank, which is understandable under the 5v5 system, they are the most punished players in terms of damage currently, but that caused the global balance between the rest of the roles to be broken.
Blizz continues on its path to be able to balance the game correctly, but to be honest and because of the way the game has been handled in recent years, it will take a long time to achieve it.
Well, that’s being optimistic that at some point they will be able to properly balance the game. 
Felt like tanks were balanced before 25% headshot reduction on tanks.
Tanks weren’t too oppressive to where they were running you over, still stronger than a dps. None of them felt like they had a huge advantage over the other after the Orisa nerfs besides Cringema
It would be so bad lol. A top500 Tracer versus a bunch of silver or gold players would be wild.
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xdefiant has sbmm enabled playlists and sbmm disabled playlists. It’s nice having a choice.
Soooo, Call of Duty? Battlefield? Counterstrike? They already exist. Be free.
You do realize online shooters existed for a decade without any matchmakers at all, right? It was fine. Maybe players were not so scared of losing at a video game back then. It was a fun activity, not some defining personal characteristic.
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Those games don’t have Genji, Tracer, Sombruh, Pharah, Echo, Hanzoo, Sojourn, Torb, ,Illari, Kiriko, Cassidy the gunslinger, Ana, Zen, Bapt, Lucio…love Blizzards map design too
Tanks have always held it back triple tank, GOATS, double shield, raidboss tanks.
I mistook this as a matchmaker thread, not a tank-hate thread. My bad, lol.
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You need SBMM because of how broken tanks are…you need the tanks to mirror ranks or you just get ran over they’re so broken. Every game is a tank diff
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