Well that’s gonna wrap up my 2026 season, such a roller coaster year of emotions many highs and lows. Appreciate everyone who supported me throughout the year from running a flex to being benched before champs/EWC to come back in and get the results we were able to produce with the little time we had Im very proud of. Thanks to Falcons for the opportunity and the team/staff for being there along the way. Excited for the years to come 🤝
I'm sorry for being so negative and essentially only tweeting about this lately but I just can't believe how they turned my favorite modern CoD into such a terrible experience literally overnight with the S5 update and I feel the need to voice my experiences and vent a little.
It's been a couple weeks since the big Matchmaking change in BO7 and I've been completely avoiding anything but the very limited Open matchmaking modes so I decided to try out some Quickplay TDM to see if things had settled or if maybe I overreacted with my initial impressions. I didn't...
This was my first match on as I tried to grind some Tempest camo progress on the Sturmwolf. Everyone was using a meta gun and there was 0 room for error. The surprising part is there was only 1 party of 2 and everyone else was solo so it's not just a case of me filling into a lobby with a couple of really coordinated, high skill parties which can happen; this felt like a very carefully tailored experience because the odds of getting 12 mostly solo players of this caliber into the same lobby without some heavy-handed matchmaking should be extremely low.
They advertised more match variety with this system but I'm not sure I've ever experienced such a strict feeling system in pub TDM. At least the team balancing is working I guess.