We've started cheesing the matchmaking. (Destiny)

by Claude Errera , Thursday, March 03, 2016, 16:00 (3281 days ago) @ Kahzgul

Put the worst member of your fireteam (win/loss record, not k/d) as the leader. You'll be matched more often against teams that player can compete against (and that the rest of your team can murderize).

In other news, I've found that I'm still getting matched with absurd laggers from other countries on the regular (last night: Japan, south africa, australia, colombia, mexico). SBMM still exists and I do not believe they've relaxed it much at all. The occasional match with no lag is great (1 out of every 4 games-ish, it seems), but come on... Are there so few people playing this game that our only possible opponents are in different continents?

I am rarely matched with folks outside the US. I'm guessing that the system somehow believes you're in most of those places; it's possible your ISP does a weird job allocating IP addresses. (I've seen addresses that are in a block that's ostensibly in, say, Europe, but the actual physical location is Kansas.)