Call of Duty Players Really Do Need to “Git Good” ▉

David Coulson, videogamer.com:

XDefiant has already become one of the standout games of 2024, drawing in millions of players in its first couple of weeks of release. Despite it’s success, the game does have some drawbacks including overpowered sniping and bunny hopping mechanics. And with the lack of SBMM, player opinions have been divided between the best direction that the game should go in.

To say that the player base has been divided is… misleading. It seems the general player base is grateful to finally have actual matchmaking back, as it used to be and should be, where generally “ping is king”. There really is no division honestly and the only people complaining are the COD kids that thought they were good because of Skill/Engagement Based Match Making.

Welcome to the party. Buckle up.

U/xikutthroatix took to Reddit to discuss the current issues with XDefiant when it comes to hit detection and the netcode not working correctly saying,

“I can not learn from my mistakes with the current state of the game because I don’t really know when I’m making them because of the netcode and hit reg. I can’t use certain weapons e.g. M16 – I keep getting hit markers and doing no damage or barely any damage when the person I’m shooting at kills me.”

This however is a valid criticism. I know Mark Rubin has said the team is working on this and has said it’s due to the Google servers they use.

Despite being heavily downvoted, u/Kabal82 replied with a good point saying,

“Honestly, the whole “git good” and get “better mentality” from the devs and the elites in regards to sbmm is going to kill the game. Nobody wants to play casual matches and get pub stopped. COD succeeds because they let casuals and less skilled players have thier time to shine within similar skilled player matches. Guarantee, if the devs stick to thier guns over no sbmm it will be the death of the game.”

This refers to a recent social media post where an XDefiant content creator told players that if you can’t find bad players then it means you’re the bad player in the match, which Producer Mark Rubin quoted to say he agreed.

No, It won’t. If anything it’s going to make the player base better in the long run. In fact it seems to have the behemoth that is Call of Duty so scared I’ve seen an absolute blitz in early marketing for Black Ops Gulf War 6. I’ve even heard rumors they’re going to “tone down the SBMM” in that game as well because XDefiant is doing so well without it.

This new generation of COD kids needs to sit down, shut up, and take their lumps like the rest of us did to get good at not just COD but any FPS in general.

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