Thread 712747309

>QRD on skill based damage modifiers
since MW 2019, players have complained about faulty hit reg and irregular damage over the course of matches. Activision defenders have tried to gaslight players into thinking they are just bad at the game when they post clips of things like negative aim assist (harder to keep your crosshair tracking a target) or headshots doing the same damage as body shots.

Now we have even more evidence that they literally use the term "Skill based damage" in design documents and game code.
This comes after the leak that confirmed match making pairs low skilled players against opponents that have bought bundles and weapon blueprints so that whales buy more stuff to get easy lobbies and lower skilled players are manipulated into thinking skins = skill.
overtuned SSBM, hidden Skill Based Damage and hitreg modifiers, and even p2w lobbies designed to make new players buy bundles. All proven true.

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/v/ doesn't give a shit about these big multiplayer games because people who do don't need 4chan to satisfy their urge for human interaction

>COD
You deserved it.

sorry, I play counter strike, the only FPS game that actually requires skill, not aim-assist controller shooters for babies and black people

i didn't need this shit to known its truth and i hardly play cod

That's pretty funny. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving crowd.

>>712747309 (OP)
>cod is p2w
lmao how disgusting. no better than overbotch or any other "competitive" multiplayer on the market right now though. people will get mad but they'll continue to buy and play these games. wake me up when their outrage translates into meaningful change somehow.

Let's be honest, something like this is totally expected from Activision.

Based Activision
Subhuman FPS faggots deserve it

>bot
Hmm...

>>712747309 (OP)
It's a screenshot of a random tweet so it must be true.

people who play call of duty cant even read so how do you reckon they will get these news?

>>712748896
>pad aiming confirmed to be an aimbot
lol

>>712748185
>/v/ doesn't give a shit about these big multiplayer games because people who do don't need 4chan to satisfy their urge for human interaction
truuu

It's almost like this was a patented system a decade ago! Wow! Who would have thought they'd make use of a system they patented!
I am shocked!
Golly gee whillikers!

>>712747309 (OP)
>so what we did here is modify the bot difficulty
>BRO HOLY SHIT THEY MODIFIED THE BOTS SO YU OCAN CHOOSE WHAT DIFFICULTY TO PLAY ON THIS IS FUCKING CRAZY AND UNFAIR

>>712747309 (OP)
I dropped the series the after Black Ops 3, and stayed away after it decided it wanted to be diet fortnite. This makes me glad I did.

I still play the 360 games though.

>>712747309 (OP)
that's for the difficulty settings for the bots you can have in private matches, codschizos are so retarded lmao

>>712749009
every game with adaptative difficulty is shit
no exceptions

>from the creators of skill based matchmaking comes the new hit anti-skill based matchmaking
Who thought this was a good idea?

>>712749123
Did you just call a tendie game shit?

>>712749123
What do you mean? RE4, God Hand and Max Payne are all good.

>>712749209
never played god hand
i dont remember max payne adaptative difficulty
and original re4 adaptative difficulty its hardly noticable, unlike the demake

Who the fuck is playing COD in the current year lmao???

>>712749351
>i dont remember max payne adaptative difficulty
So you just save scummed through it?

sorry I only play UT99

>>712747309 (OP)
Cod paypiggies deserve to be wrung out completely.

>>712749170
this has been happening in single-player games for ages. in games like God Hand it's exposed to the player, but in most games it's not. especially in games like Uncharted or Call of Duty campaigns, they're constantly tweaking the difficulty as you play to try to keep it "fun"

>>712747309 (OP)
CoD is a game designed to be accessible to even the most drooling of retards among us. This shouldn't be surprising at all.

>>712747309 (OP)
>This comes after the leak that confirmed match making pairs low skilled players against opponents that have bought bundles and weapon blueprints so that whales buy more stuff to get easy lobbies and lower skilled players are manipulated into thinking skins = skill.
The "it's only cosmetics" crowd will never learn.

lol, lmao
AAA developers are basically democrats. You can expect anything that you can expect from the dems of AAA studios.
That’s what you get for playing triple a crap.

I hope the next COD is $100. These retards need to be bled dry

>>712749209
Calling God Hand's system "adaptive difficulty" is a real stretch. It's got a visible on-screen meter, so the player is aware of it and expects to manipulate it.

>>712747309 (OP)
Why should anyone care? Seriously asking. The ones that will not pay for shit will continue to not pay. The whales on the other hand do not care either! Because that's why they are whales - you can shit in their mouth literally and will still pay, you can humiliate them, make fun of them, create an entire game mode that humiliates them 24/7 from all POVs and they will still pay because retardation at that level is not curable. If the non paying players leave the game, they don't care because only the whales count and as I said, NOTHING (read the word again slowly) will get through the head of a whale.
People should focus imo on calling out devs that hated the customer and are now backpedaling in xeets and articles and the devs that can't optimize shit and continue to push out bloat. Talking real about COD in 2k25 is wild.

>>712750471
>Calling God Hand's system "adaptive difficulty" is a real stretch.
Is it? Adapting to your playstyle is exactly what it does.

>>712750471
isn't god hand the exact opposite though?
like it has a base level of difficulty you start at the game gets harder if you do better with the capability to tone that down back to the base level
it doesn't get easier if you play shittier, it just doesn't get harder if you play poorly

>>712749445
you think i remember how the fuck i played a game from 2000? your guess is as good as mine

>>712747309 (OP)
>they have different types of skill based bots
so there are different levels of bots? what does the picture have to do with your post?
is this more cod schizo saying sbmm never existed when it always did? saying its bad because they get matched with "sweats" when they don't want to play fair games?

>>712749209
i love god hand but i think the adaptive difficulty detracts from the experience, call me a shitter but the jump from level 3 to level die is absurd and i usually get pulverized within 10 seconds of reaching lvdie, being punished for playing the game well is pretty bullshit
i just want a mode that keeps the game at level 3 at all times

>>712747309 (OP)
Oh no, bots might hit you harder... who cares

>>712751040
That's the way to go though, if you've played like a god once the game should know that you're full of shit if you start playing like a retarded child.

>>712747309 (OP)
You may be right, but who gives a shit? You're a fag if you still support COD. It's like
>BREAKING NEWS, THE MASS SHOOTER THAN MURDERED 75 PEOPLE IN A LOCAL CHURCH ALSO KICKED A KITTEN ON THE WAY OUT
At this point it doesn't matter.

>>712747309 (OP)
holy kek

>>712750586
>Why should anyone care
Because this type of psychological mind fuck is becoming (if not already) industry standard?

>>712747309 (OP)
YO, THIS NIGGA STILL PLAYING COD! HAHAHAHAHA!

>>712747309 (OP)
> follow the money
A tale as old as time. And guess what? SBMM combined with a rank ladder is the ultimate skinner box. The algorithm can meticulously predict your next 100 matches, design a win/loss schedule to hook you in a win/lose cycle. The longer you play their game, the higher the chance of selling an MTX.
I still don't know how animated skins aren't considered cheating. A video game is:
visual + audio
In a game like Valorant, just changing the recoil animation "cosmetically" is more than enough to make you play better.
Not to mention, how "rank" modes incentivizes "solving" the game, which is a plague in fighting games and RTS, where 90% of mechanics are just a waste of time and every player has to follow the current meta.

>>712747309 (OP)
Also, you are retarded if you think only COD is doing this. Every online game is doing it.

>>712747309 (OP)
Doesn't Overwatch do this too? Like it nerfs you to the ground if youre doing to good and pairs you with retards but if youre absolute dogshit itll make you godlike?

Based Act scamming retards

>>712747309 (OP)
So any proof other than a screenshot? Because I can write random lines in Notepad++ as well

>>712752537
Marvel rivals too.

>>712747309 (OP)
>he plays multishit games
Do yourself a favor and play Clair Obscur instead.

>WELP
>Big drama
>QRD
>CoD
sage

>>712747309 (OP)
Anyone who still plays this series after it transformed from figurative to literal slop should be deported to India.

>>712747309 (OP)
Okay is there any actual proof that this is actually used for skill-based matchmaking or is this just somebody looking at the data/files for multiplayer CPU-controlled players in custom games or large-scale multiplayer modes with bots like Invasion mode, and working backwards to suit their conspiracy theory?
This feels like when Activision released the report that almost all cheaters are on PC but almost all the false positive reports are console players reporting other console players. You guys will literally do everything up to blaming the Jews instead of just admitting someone is playing better than you.

>>712747309 (OP)
>artificially lowering your damage based on your skill to bottleneck the normies into thinking they're good

>>712747309 (OP)
>bottom of the barrel FPS designed to make itself as accessable to the widest possible pool of consumers takes steps to make itself as accessable to the widest possible pool of consumers to fuel it's live-service in-game store purchases which feeds off of the widest possible pool of consumers.
And water is wet.

>>712754170
literally play the game for like 2 hours and you will experience it

>>712747309 (OP)
This is completely expected and hilarious. I want to see the details.

>>712747309 (OP)
lol you know how crazy this shit is so what really is the point of playing cod just go play cs2 or if anything play the older cod games

or just take the dota pill

>>712747309 (OP)
If you kept playing any of these after Black Ops 1. You're a mark and you deserve it.

>>712747309 (OP)
Not seeing it, maybe they call it skill-based matchmacking because I'm so skilled and based :^)

>>712756261
>time played : 2 hours
maybe you would notice if you played more

>>712747309 (OP)
jej
fuckin jews

>>712749170
the psychologists they hired who helped them design a system meant to rape your dopamine receptors

>>712747309 (OP)
so? everyone going to buy next cod anyway. blackops 7 trailers has almost 40 million views you cant stop them making all the money in the world.

>>712757642
See >>712754949
Sorry I'm too skilled and based for you ;^)

>>712749123
I like Rimworld and Factorio.

>>712749013
No, it wasn't.

>>712749170
Both Harkness and Elo outdid them by at least 50 years on that.

>>712750586
>Why should anyone care?
Just stop posting if you'd rather spend your time being gay. Didn't read the rest of your post, because why read the ramblings of a faggot who doesn't care?

>>712753484
based

>>712747309 (OP)
I remember seeing a youtube video a few months ago of a guy talking about how CoD maps are shrinking to improve the skinnerbox effect. The people who still play this game are truly cattle

>>712747309 (OP)
>Skill_based_damage_ratio_bot_to_human_config
>Quickly look up context
>The COD crowd is going apeshit after finding a variable that controls how much bullet damage a bot does to a player
>They don't realize this variable has easily been in most if not every video game with AI opponents they've ever played.

This is just people who don't understand the way games are coded coming up with myths, legends and conspiracy theories on why they're not enjoying the newest games as much huh?

Their anti cheat system for Warzone can literally fuck with you making some character invulnerable and others do no damage or fuck with your controls so logically it is possible that they do this in multiplayer through SBMM

>>712747309 (OP)
I got a hair up my ass to play a online shooter a few years back and the latest battlefield came out shitty so I got CoD2ver.2. It was just dumb fun at first, running around shooting dudes and grinding camos and shit but then they put out their ranked mode and it was like literally 5% of the game because CoD pros are apparently no fun allowed so there were a couple maps, entire categories of weapons not allowed, maybe 2 of the gadgets you could use and few perks or anything and to follow that up they released a battlepass on top of their battlepass so I just fucked off from them forever. Thank you for listening to my speech.

>>712761393
>>They don't realize this variable has easily been in most if not every video game with AI opponents they've ever played.
You're full of shit but that is par the course for catposters.

I stopped playing COD when I noticed if I didn't play in days it would put me in 2 baby lobbies then for they rest of the night lobbies where I get destroyed. This happens every time I take a break. I hate this level of manipulation

>>712761201
CoD maps aren't fucking shrinking, Infinity Ward just makes ridiculously huge maps for no reason and then Sledgehammer and Treyarch who are way better at map design just more sensibly sized maps. This isn't even a fucking new development since they make so much of a ceremony of bringing back Shipment or Nuketown every year.
Hell just to keep people from abusing it smaller maps and shorter matches give less XP proportionately so mathematically it evens out long-term.
It's not the devs' fault people like playing 6v6 Stakeout, a map designed for 2v2 matches.

>>712761393
what it really means is that activision lied about DD (dynamic difficulty adjustments) in their games. SSBM or EOMM was only supposed to affect the creation of the lobbies, not the gameplay itself.

>>712762531
>It's not the devs' fault people like playing 6v6 Stakeout, a map designed for 2v2 matches.
people only play this map to grind tedious challenges

>>712761765
>I noticed if I didn't play in days it would put me in 2 baby lobbies then for they rest of the night lobbies where I get destroyed. This happens every time I take a break.
That type of thing actually prevented me from buying any of the reboot era cods. I tried their week long free trials each season and I noticed my first match of the day would either:
>an in-progress match that's already halfway over
>a piss-easy curbstomp against what I can only assume are people who have never played a videogame in their life
This process gets repeated because I only play on free trials and there's 1 per season so the effect is excacerbated but still it turned me off from the game more than encouraging me to buy it (which I think is their goal.)

That's probably what happened in pic rel
>>712756261
You have a 0.89 K/D, you lost your previous match and went 17/22 and next match you suddenly go 36/8 and get a 4.50 K/D? It just feels so inorganic.

>>712747309 (OP)
You deserve this if you continue to play CoD since 2019. You deserve to be a guinea pig for Activison's algorithms designed to push for maximized user spending.

>try Warzone with a relatively fresh account
>my first real gunfight is someone with a paid skin proceeding to jump-slide spam into the room and kill me in a second with his loadout about 3 minutes into the match, because he heard me running around from outside

>>712753202
>>712753484
Yes, it's real Co(ck)Dsuckers:
https://youtu.be/3xWW7M-Cht4

>>712756261
>0.9 KD thinks he's good

>>712747309 (OP)
CoD players are masochists, the same as anyone who plays multiplayer matchmaking these days

Every single modern multiplayer game uses bots.
It's why I don't really care much about them, it's all fake shit, no different from a singleplayer game at this point.
The only ones that aren't infested with bots are the unpopular PC games with no monetization with dedicated community servers, games like Mordhau or Hell Let Loose or Insurgency Sandstorm.

>>712747309 (OP)
Weird how this all these accusations come out after Sony loses CoD

>>712764204
SBMM debate was going on since MW19
EOMM debate was going on since MW22
It's nothing new.

>>712764204
They've had well over a year, technically two, to be salty. Nah, this shit's been baking over BO6 failing the community.

>call of duty
you deserve it

>>712749123
>TMNT arcade game
>bad

>>712747309 (OP)
i was wary of sbd but i should have paid more attention from 2019 and mw22 because there was probably a fuckton of bots in my games. Fighting bots that are meant to kill you no matter what was subconsciously making the games horrible to play.

>>712748185
/v/ is no longer a nation of gamers, it's been infiltrated and infested by casuals for years, just look at any Marvel Rivals thread

>>712747309 (OP)
modern mp fps truly is shit these days