With xdefiant released next week, Ubisoft is looking a little better at the FPS game and what you can expect from it. For the time being, expectations are a Wild West scenario with everyone for themselves, apparently, no skill-based matchmaking Casino

As part of XDefiant's "commitment to transparency", Ubisoft outlined what matchmaking looks like in a blog post on xdefiant's site. It was a great experience. "The most important thing to know is that there's no skill-based matchmaking on a casual playlist. We believe that SBMM will not be of the least importance to a fun and diverse gaming experience in the long run. Frankly, skill-based matchmaking means that all casual games are repetitive — as much as ranked "

Instead, casual play prioritizes fast connection times when looking for matches to place players. Other factors that determine who to play against in casual mode are:

However, when a lobby is entered, team balance occasionally occurs. "The casual lobby doesn't use skills to decide who gets into the game, but once everyone shows up, it will balance the team for a fun match

According to a blog post, SBMM will play a bigger role in ranked play because it "prioritizes quality matches . "It is segmented by rank level and only matches players within the rank range. It also employs latency and regional preferences as much as possible."So you'll probably have to wait a little more to find a match. BUT WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE SBMM VERSION OF XDEFIANT WILL LOOK LIKE FOR A WHILE, AS RANKED PLAY WILL BE ADDED TO FUTURE SEASONS. 

The debate surrounding whether SBMM is actually suitable for casual play in FPS games is fairly divided, with the biggest opponents being Call of Duty players. 1 poll on Broad R/CallofDuty showed that 84% of respondents believe SBMM is ruining CoD, as they encourage a boost as well as a system that can hold low-skill players back as it suppresses them into a bad lobby. 

"This idea that only sweat hates SBMM is wrong," one player says in a thread. "It's the fairest system, and SBMM is about what's not fair. Most online PVP games do not have SBMM, and they are not a sweat festival. In the game a bad player is assumed to be underperform; the average player performs on average and the good player performs well. People just hate the idea of removing SBMM because streamers want it too."

On the other hand, some players enjoy SBMM just because they enjoy playing against people of similar skill levels, even if this sometimes gets messed up after a particularly good run. 

At the end of the day, no one will be happy, because the grass on the other side is always environmentally friendly. So, when it's released next week, we'll have to wait to see if CoD players appreciate xdefiant's approach to matchmaking.