Online matchmaking has changed things for the better and for the worse. I used to play BF1942 online and there was no matchmaker. You could browse and join rand

Online matchmaking has changed things for the better and for the worse. I used to play BF1942 online and there was no matchmaker. You could browse and join random servers all day, or you found one with a good community on it. You frequented it, you got to know people, and you had a great time. They probably had a good admin presence and any cheaters or toxic people got banned quickly. Used to be too that everyone's computer was almost certainly wired into their router. Now, as you say, most people are one wifi with terrible connections. Now you get placed with random people you'll never see again, a fifth of whom it feels like are cheating anyway.