Scump wants to see CoD Vanguard scrap SBMM permanently, for one big reason Sledgehammer Games \/ YouTube: ScumpOpTic Gaming icon Seth \u2018Scump\u2019 Abner has re-ignited the skill-based matchmaking (SBMM) debate ahead of Call of Duty Vanguard\u2019s early November release, and there\u2019s one big reason for it \u2014 the CDL pro wants to bring back his famous pub-stomp videos. SBMM has been a hot topic in Call of Duty for years. For many, the inclusion of a \u201cskill-based\u201d lobby system turns the game into a grind every single match. While some enjoy the challenge, others expect Call of Duty titles to lean more towards the casual side of gaming, and believe rank-to-rank matchmaking should be held back for ranked queues and playlists. In the past, Call of Duty has swung in the other direction, allowing the best of the best \u2014 in this case, Call of Duty League pros of eras gone \u2014 to match up with first-timers, Christmas rookies, and more casual players. This gave rise to famous \u201cpub stomp\u201d videos. Scump especially leaned into these old playlist dominations, often uploading videos of him rampaging through casual queues. In one famous video, \u2018SWEATBANNIN 88-0 Flawless,\u2019 the OpTic pro was near-unstoppable with 88 kills. The birth of skill-based matchmaking in the last few modern Call of Duty releases has skewered any chance for those videos, however, and Abner isn\u2019t happy. In his most recent YouTube upload, the CDL pro turned back the clock to watch his 88-0 gameplay. While he was watching, he took aim at Activision\u2019s decision to add SBMM to the franchise. \u201cA lot of people ask, why don\u2019t you do [pub-stomps] videos anymore? You know, the simple, short answer is, skill-based matchmaking,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s just not possible. You\u2019re just not going 88-0 against players that are around or at the same level. It\u2019s just not happening. People do get around it, they get around it, but I don\u2019t do that. It\u2019s the sad reality [of Call of Duty], because I know how much people loved all the pub stomps, but it\u2019s just not really a thing now.\u201d Scump wants to see Vanguard remove the feature, but admits \u201cwe\u2019ll just have to see\u201d what Activision does. \u201cTrust me, I wish I could do videos like this.\u201d Related segment begins at 0:37 in the video below. Scump\u2019s latest SBMM demands come as no surprise; Abner has been an advocate for scrapping the skill-based matchmaking mechanic from the Call of Duty franchise since the feature was first added way back in Black Ops 2. His stance is that \u201cSBMM does not belong in Call of Duty.\u201d Instead, the OpTic pro believes all new titles should always have a ranked playlist at launch, which would \u201callow people to sweat\u201d. He added: \u201cI\u2019m not trying to play Scuf wielding game fuel chugging demons with szn in their psn on Miami TDM. Also, to the noobies that are gonna cry about this, hold this choppy gunny.\u201d Unfortunately for Scump, it looks like the feature is here to stay: Dexerto revealed in late August that SBMM will indeed be boiled into Vanguard\u2019s multiplayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Scump wants to see CoD Vanguard scrap SBMM permanently, for one big reason Sledgehammer Games \/ YouTube: ScumpOpTic Gaming icon Seth \u2018Scump\u2019 Abner has re-ignited the skill-based matchmaking (SBMM) debate ahead of Call of Duty Vanguard\u2019s early November release, and there\u2019s one big reason for it \u2014 the CDL pro wants to bring back his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}