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The side effect of streaming going mainstream during the SBMM era of gaming means the top level players don't have any idea how bad the VAST majority of players actually are overall, in any game. The most common KD of players in Warzone (depending on when it was measured) hovers between a 0.76 - 0.86 but top players have been in the SBMM loop playing against other high level players for YEARS at this point. Someone who can manage a 2 K/D (top 1.0% of players to play in the modern era) has earned that against other highly skilled players. Of COURSE when a top 1% player who's only been playing against the top half of the playerbase (probably top 20% to be honest) for years hops into an SBMM free game like Battlefield, they are going to feel like the playerbase is horrid. Because it is. But so is the COD playerbase. And that was largely on display during the BO7 Beta. Top players suddenly dropping multiple nukes in a row, tons of triple-digit games etc. Because MOST players suck. A 1.0KD is a top 20% player. This is the flip-side of the SBMM protected players being upset to be head-to-head vs top players, top players don't see the actual skill level of the playerbase in routine play, so in SBMM free games, the player base can seem shockingly bad. TLDR: Good players in SBMM games are much better than they think they are, Bad players in SBMM games are much worse than they think they are, and you only realize this when you remove SBMM.

Breaking: according to discord chats @Battlefield anti cheat has detected Cronus Zen users in game and began issuing suspensions. Zen remains undetected in @CallofDuty even in the Black Ops 7 beta. BlueWaffle is a lead Dev.