A new discovery is shaking up the Warzone community and everything surrounding the game. Several YouTubers are highlighting a mechanic that lets you know the skill level of the players you'll face on the ground in Verdansk, allowing you to leave the match and drop into another with lower-level players.
What is the SBMM?
You may have read about the SBMM in Call of Duty Warzone in many places and wondered what exactly it is and why you should break it . Well, the explanation is simple.
Behind those initials lies the English term skill-based matchmaking (SBMM), which refers to a system for matching matches based on player skill . This system acts as a mechanism that selects participants for a session, striving to make it as balanced as possible. This prevents the game's meta from being disrupted by overly skilled or higher-level players .
That's why trying to identify less skilled players and then blending in with them is a way to win matches and quickly climb the ranks in Call of Duty: Warzone, even if your conscience keeps reminding you that such shortcuts disrupt community harmony and, above all, the fun of the game. It's literally a wolf in sheep's clothing scenario. A predator hiding among the weak. You've been warned.
Breaking the SBMM
But what if the wolf could find out where the sheep are sleeping? That's more or less what the method discovered by YouTuber Rara allows you to do after thoroughly investigating the matches of Hydro, another YouTuber who seemed to be doing very well in the battle royale. However, given the method he used, it's clear that it was a slightly less aggressive form of cheating . In short, a way of being a cheater!
As you can see in the video below, Hydra racked up a huge number of victories in Warzone , many of them in duos modes where the skilled player didn't have their partner and acted almost as if they were fighting alone across the map. This raised suspicions among some members of the community. Because no matter how skilled someone was with a trigger finger, the number of consecutive kills and deaths was often outrageous, so it was reasonable to expect that some kind of scheme with ulterior motives was behind it all.
spotting the wolf
As we've mentioned, many users have been reporting these practices lately, and everything points to players with thousands of YouTube followers using them without limits to attract attention and get on the success track: the better things go for you in Warzone and the more you showcase them on your channel, the more followers you gain, which makes your relevance skyrocket and, who knows, maybe your income too.
As you can see above, that's exactly what YouTuber Rara wanted to denounce. After analyzing Hydra's statistics with the online tool SBMMwarzone.com, he noticed that in all his matches he fought against players with an extremely low average kill count. But what really caught his attention was that he almost always played in duo mode, where his partner barely managed to make a decisive impact or add any kills to the match statistics.
Remember that SBMMwarzone is an unofficial tool that analyzes public statistics from Warzone player profiles, providing an overview of what's happening on the battlefield. This allows you to identify players with the best killstreaks, those with the most wins, and others who are showing significant improvement and could become stars of the shooter.
Looking for the easiest game
Knowing how Warzone 's matchmaking system works , the trick was to think in reverse to find the key. If the system is designed to find people of your same skill level, what happens if we perform that match search with a user who has just started the game for the first time? Well, obviously, they will encounter others of their same rank most of the time, which will allow them to predict with a certain degree of accuracy the ranking of most of them.
With these clues, it seems that some players have been using this small (albeit very mild) trick to ensure they always land in matches with players who have very few skills in the game, thus taking advantage of the situation and creating a bloodbath that, in most cases, allowed them to easily win first place in Warzone.
How can we do it?
The method for determining the skill level of other opponents is relatively simple: just create a new Warzone profile that remains at level 1, add it as a friend to your other account (the one you always use), and have it always search for matches in the battle royale . This way, your higher-level profile will always dominate the match, since most players will have a similar skill level to the lower-level profile you created for matchmaking.
Obviously, for this to work properly, you'll need a second computer or console so your basic profile can act as the host and your advanced user can simply join the game. Furthermore, another method some players seem to be using is joining matches based on geographic location . They've used VPNs or routers with geo-segmentation, like the Netduma R2, to find matches in countries with slow internet connections or a low concentration of highly skilled Warzone players . It's a much more complicated and cumbersome method, and less effective, but it can still yield results.
It has a solution?
The way the matchmaking system is designed is basically the most balanced mechanism that could exist to protect newbies from being shot, however it has become clear that the matchmaking system is very easy to control. The problem is that any type of variation would affect the initiated players, since a solution could be to calculate the average of levels. For example, if one player in a team pair is level 50 and the other is level one, the opponents should be similar pairs, something that would obviously be too rare to find, so the waiting lobby would never fill up. .
It wouldn't do to give priority to the highest level either, since the amateur player would die as soon as he stepped on the field of play, and it would completely frustrate his intentions to advance and grow in the game.
Is it legal to do all this?
Searching for ad-hoc matches doesn't break any of Warzone 's rules . You know the saying, "where there's a will, there's a way," but you can't deny that this seriously undermines the game's competitiveness . Many players are up in arms, and rightly so, as the game will lose its essence as this practice spreads and Activision does nothing to stop it.
Moreover, this method creates an even more serious problem: exploiting the low skill level of certain players to massacre them in practically rigged matches can discourage them, rob them of the desire to progress naturally , and therefore, we are practically driving them out of Warzone . And it doesn't take a genius to realize that if this happens, the game could be doomed because new generations of players, who absolutely must learn how to navigate the game's servers, won't join.
So the only advice we can give you is to stop with these cowardly tricks and keep looking for matches like always. There's no point in deceiving the spectators into thinking you're the king of the party. Cheater.