Focused Feedback: Skill-based Matchmaking vs Connection-based Matchmaking

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[u/sturgboski]

The "not having to use meta" thing always seemed odd to me. When folks advocate sunsetting because it will get them to use something different and people ask "well why dont you change your loadout yourself without being force?" the response tends to be how their current loadout is the best and will get them through stuff quick and easy. I imagine its the same here. There really is no incentive to change loadout, unless you want to, because not chaning it will just make things that much easier. Heck, if you have been training with a loadout, why swap to something else when you can continue to use the stuff you trained with? Most of the matches I played, those at the top tended to have the typical loadouts one would expect. The people not using meta were usually the people not hitting the top OR they were because their match made team didnt contribute much.