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I haven't played the game, but based on what I'm reading about it, there's a couple of confounding factors: 1. There are a lot of different game modes for CoD

I haven't played the game, but based on what I'm reading about it, there's a couple of confounding factors: 1. There are a lot of different game modes for CoD -- Cold War has eleven game modes. This means that the pool of players for each mode will be smaller, making fair matchmaking more difficult. 2. Some of those game modes have unusually large teams -- two of the signature game modes in Cold War have ten or more players to a team. This makes it more difficult for a matchmaking algorithm to fairly assess any individual player's contribution to their team's win/loss. It also makes it more likely that one or more teams will contain a player whose skill has been poorly assessed, meaning that their team has an unfair advantage or disadvantage.

asdfasgasdgasdg 6y ago
I think that point one is true in many games, but cold war is probably not one of them. There are probably tens or hundreds of thousands of people queuing for a game of black ops cold war at any given point in time. Even if you divide by ten different queues, there should be enough granularity to give decent matchups to people at all skill levels. And I don't know if I would call combined arms or dirty bomb signature modes. 6v6 is the bread and butter of the annual call of duty.
- duskwuff 6y ago
  > Even if you divide by ten different queues, there should be enough granularity to give decent matchups to people at all skill levels. Could be. I don't know what the numbers look like, and I wouldn't be surprised if the player base is being split up in other ways (e.g. console vs. PC, geographic regions, etc) at the same time. > And I don't know if I would call combined arms or dirty bomb signature modes. By "signature modes", I mean that those game modes were created specifically for CoD: Cold War, rather than ones which are shared by many FPS games, or carried over from previous games in the series.

asdfasgasdgasdg 6y ago

I think that point one is true in many games, but cold war is probably not one of them. There are probably tens or hundreds of thousands of people queuing for a game of black ops cold war at any given point in time. Even if you divide by ten different queues, there should be enough granularity to give decent matchups to people at all skill levels. And I don't know if I would call combined arms or dirty bomb signature modes. 6v6 is the bread and butter of the annual call of duty.

duskwuff 6y ago
> Even if you divide by ten different queues, there should be enough granularity to give decent matchups to people at all skill levels. Could be. I don't know what the numbers look like, and I wouldn't be surprised if the player base is being split up in other ways (e.g. console vs. PC, geographic regions, etc) at the same time. > And I don't know if I would call combined arms or dirty bomb signature modes. By "signature modes", I mean that those game modes were created specifically for CoD: Cold War, rather than ones which are shared by many FPS games, or carried over from previous games in the series.