TLDR: vpn lobbies are full of sweats, hacks, and maybe a couple bots. If you’re an average player with a fairly common kd such as 1:0 like myself, don’t use a VPN. You’ll get shit on and hacked on.
Ok, so the other night and I’m watching some of my favorite steamers do their thing, rack up ungodly amounts of kills, having fun in chat, and seeing the usual comments come in saying things like “bot lobby” “aimbot” etc.
I’ve always known steamers and good players usually abuse SBMM by using a vpn but it never really affected me until mw3. These players are indeed very good at the game, but don’t be fooled, they also have several tricks up their sleeve.
SBMM is completely fucked and lobby’s are heavily stacked against us because of the amount of vpn players. I can see it being a bigger problem than cheating itself. This game literally got more difficult since mw3 and I’m genuinely suspicious as to why?
Here’s where things get interesting:
I started to watch the (insert twitch streamers name here) killfeed and it was literally stream snipers dropping on them just to feed them kills. They were fans. Prox chat was used and they’d even yell his name like it was a game of cat and mouse. Just for the entertainment value. The average viewer doesn’t know this, nor cares enough to watch the killfeed and see the same gamertags appear like 20 times in the same lobby’s.
I felt like this was some sorta joke. Purely for entertainment purposes, which it is. But it’s also extremely manipulative.
Of course we’ve always known that using a vpn will somehow miraculously give us easy lobbys right? Kinda. But not for average kd players like us.
Being a pc player myself, and having a vpn for over 15 years now for m movies/plex server, I decided to connect to random servers in different geographical regions.
Regardless of what country I chose to connect to, I was placed in the sweatiest, nastiest, hackiest lobbys I’ve ever seen. It was laughable.
I even kinda thought it was funny cuz I’ve never seen so many hackers and sweats in a single lobby before. I’m literally never one to make hackusations either, cuz i know people are extremely good at the game and I do know when things are unusually suspicious.
I was in their lobby. The same lobby as the “professional twitch streamers” all the sudden. Wild huh?
The few points I’m trying to make here are this:
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SBMM is fucked now more than ever, as we are playing an algorithm. We aren’t playing COD, COD is playing us.
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If you are an average player, around 1kd or less, then do not even think about using a vpn to try and get you easy lobbies. It will ever happen. YOU and I ARE the bot lobbies that they seek.
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Having a god tier gaming pc like I do will not make you a better player. My kd never went up after switching from Xbox to a 4090 build at 240hz.
It’s graphically stunning, and higher performing, but doesn’t help me win fights. -
Your favorite Twitch streamer uses vpn and has a few tricks up their sleeve to make vods and get high kill games. It’s a network between them all and they also don’t want to be in eachothers lobby’s when they’re live streaming to hundred/thousands of viewers.
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If you wanna see half the lobby using Aimbot and walls, and get completely shit on, use a vpn.
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If you wanna suffer like the rest of us in more subtle way, then don’t use a vpn.
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I did see several people ricochet’d from the lobby though. It shows they got kicked by Ricohet at the bottom left. That was entertaining.
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Merry Christmas. Thanks for reading.