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With XDefiant releasing next week, Ubisoft is providing a slightly better look at the FPS game and what we can expect from it. For the time being, the expectation is a wild-west scenario with every person for themselves because, apparently, there will be no skill-based matchmaking in the casual playlist. ."The most important thing to know is—there is no skill-based matchmaking in our casual playlist. We believe that no SBMM is paramount to a fun and varied game experience in the long term.
SBMM will play a bigger role in ranked play, as it will"prioritise quality matches," according to the blog post."It is segmented by Rank levels and will only matchmake players within Rank range. It also employs latency and region preferences where possible." So, you'll probably have to wait a little longer to find a match. But as ranked play will be added in a future season, we won't know what XDefiant's version of SBMM will look like for a while.
On the other hand, some players enjoy SBMM just because they enjoy playing against people of a similar skill level, even if this gets messed up every now and then after a particularly good run. Elie is a news writer with an unhealthy love of horror games—even though their greatest fear is being chased. When they're not screaming or hiding, there's a good chance you'll find them testing their metal in metroidvanias or just admiring their Pokemon TCG collection. Elie has previously worked at TechRadar Gaming as a staff writer and studied at JOMEC in International Journalism and Documentaries – spending their free time filming short docs about Smash Bros.
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