Is that really how CBMM works? (Destiny)

by Kahzgul, Thursday, March 03, 2016, 18:48 (3418 days ago) @ Korny

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.)

I always assumed the game would match you based on your ping to other players.

I have absolutely no idea how it works. I was just trying to come up with a reason why Kahzgul gets consistently matched with people in other countries, and I almost never do. Ping wouldn't explain it, because I certainly play with folks with lousy ping that's due to poor connections, not distance.

That would totally explain his bizarre experiences online that none of us seem to share. Maybe he's not completely insane after all; if only there was a way to science this...

Yeah, I'd figure it has more to do with my playtime than anything else (9:30 pm - 1 am, PST). Also I'm on PSN, which I firmly believe to be inferior to XBL.

The ISP issue seems unlikely since I've moved during this time and had a total of 3 different ISPs.

Last night my fireteam was me, on AT&T, my buddy from LA (I'm also in LA) on Comcast, and three friends from NorCal (ISPs unknown). Our connections to each other are always stellar, but it seems to only take one laggy guy to tank an entire game (thanks, token ring-esque netcode).

I can say that we chatted with the guys from Australia last night briefly after our elimination game and they said we were the best connection they had all night (which is also weird, because the connection was not good).