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#signalis#dead space#isaac clarke#meme#elster#replika#we're gonna have to kill this guy#fortnite????
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Innocently looked up art of characters from the book Iโm reading (Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson)
Why rhe fuxk is Kelsier in Fortnite. Like I read on Sandersonโs blog *why* but I actually cried out of shock
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Fortnite, are you sure about this? Did you think it through?
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Soaking this in
If you don't know what this is, here's an explanation: Both Fortnite and Call of Duty employ something called "Skill-Based Matchmaking" (SBMM for short), and it has become the bane of a certain subset of players who very vocally yell about how it is ruining multiplayer games.
In short, the game secretly and quietly keeps track of your "skill level." Even if a game has both ranked and unranked modes, it is always tracking this skill level stat that reports back how quickly and easily you're getting kills. When you connect to a new match, it tries to group you with players near your skill level.
The idea being you start with zero skill stat, and by playing the game well, your skill stat levels up until you eventually plateau and you are forever playing the game with people that are just as good (or bad) as you are, within some level of variance.
This means if you're one of these career streamer guys or a Youtube clip compilation sort of dude (or both), then you very quickly get put into high tier matchmaking pools with all the other career streamers and wannabe esports pros. Hence the very loud, very vocal complaints, because if you're one of those guys, the idea of having a "casual match" goes away. Everybody is always firing on all cylinders and you're expected to do the same in order to keep your rank and not look embarrassing to your captive audience.
So Activision apparently ran an experiment per Charlie Intel (article here) where they reduced SBMM's effectiveness, meaning the big fish pros and the little tadpole casual players were thrown into more games together.
The result was a sharp uptick in players rage quitting matches early, some even quitting the game entirely and never coming back. The report notes that while player retention for players with a high skill rank was improved, they make up such a small percentage of the player base (apparently less than 1%; the article has some grammar problems) that servicing them really doesn't make sense.
As it turns out, low level players don't want to get hopelessly destroyed by wannabe esports pros. And those pros make up such a small percentage of the player base it doesn't make sense to keep feeding them more low level chum, even though they are the hungriest for it. As more and more low level players permanently leave the game due to frustration, it turns into a wasteland where high level players are getting mad at each other until they also get frustrated and leave as well. SBMM ensures long term health for a game's multiplayer ecosystem.
And being a Fortnite player, it's so validating to hear this. "SBMM is ruining multiplayer" was always a narrative coming from streamers and youtubers who were frustrated by having to actually TRY instead of being able to score easy clip compilation fodder on clueless newbies.
Enjoy sticking to your smurf accounts now, I guess.
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Remember the one Fortnite skin with the built-in transing emote?
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hey google what's masochism. hey google am I a masochist. hey google,
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#danny phantom#tucker foley#savant par#everlasting trio#danny: note to self. the scary eyes do not effect tucker. at least i think.#danny: i mean it does mess up his fortnite game when I'm losing so like. still works well enough ig#zilly art
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DEAD BY DAYLIGHT WAS FIRST IN LINEโฆโฆ
#myart#chloesimagination#comic#five nights at freddy's#fnaf fanart#fnaf#trapper dbd#dead by daylight#Fortnite#fall guys#jonesy fortnite#GUYS I CANT BELIEVE THIS#HUGE HUGE#SPRINGTRAP IN DBD IS ABOUT TO BE SO REAL#literally drew this lil thing as fast as I could ๐ญ๐ญ#SHOUT OUT TO DBD LIKERS#ILL BE DRAWING SO MUCH OF THAT IN THE NEAR FUTURE#I HOPE YALL ARE READY#guys how was I right in my other comic that trapper was first in line#i saw the future
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the guy from fortnite,...
#sry im drunk rn#mgs#solid snake#fortnite#fortnite battle royale#metal gear#metal gear solid#mgs snake#mgs fanart#metal gear fanart#snake mgs#my art
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The final victor
#my art#honkai star rail#hsr#aventurine#2.1 spoilers#WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THE FORTNITE BATTLE ROYALE AVEN HAD TO GO THROUGH LIKE WTF
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