The matchmaking system in Call of Duty has been a hot topic of debate for years, often sparking theories and tests to uncover ...

SBMM stands for Skill Based Matchmaking and it is considered by many to be a bad thing for an online game like Call of Duty. It isn’t all doom and gloom though, so I will do my best to explain how the ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Ahead of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's release on November 14, Activision has confirmed a key detail about the multiplayer mode. Some playlists will ...

Whenever a new blockbuster first-person shooter drops, gamers limber up so they can once again argue over how multiplayer matches get made and the algorithmic systems that determine who plays against ...

The Finals does use a form of SBMM. This has been confirmed by Embark Studios in a Steam post, detailing the information in the 1.2.3 hotfix. In the post from December 2023, the devs say: “We’ve made ...

For years, skill-based matchmaking (SBMM) has been the hottest of topics within the Call of Duty community, with some proclaiming it ruins the experience, others saying quite the opposite.

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