Sounds good in theory but it's going to negatively impact the matchmaking system.

Trying to find the possible match for your connection/region & now looking for players similar to your skill is going to create longer waiting times for a game.

This "True Skill Matchmaking System" will impact those YouTubers who rely on good gameplay to gain subs or make "YouTube money."

Most of their 100+ kill or double MOAB gameplays comes from playing lesser skilled players

We'll really see how good some of these COD YouTubers are when they're playing players of similar skill.

It should be a connection based type of system. It would be horrile to play people 5,000 miles away from you. The host would be horrible.

The connection on mw3 is ridiculous, it is bad that it disadvantages many players online who play solo against clans with a connection that creates a harsher form of lag compensation for the other side of the lobby, making games far easy for them and extremely difficult for the enemy.

In most games I team up with a pal of mine who (although he loves the game) isn't particularly good at it so we'd either go into games at his level where I'd have an unfair advantage or mine where he'll probably be kicked all over the place.

Whichever way you go with it somebody is going to have an unfair game, we could also be matched with players over longer distances meaning there could be even more lag than now.

skill would be way better, this makes the game more competitive, there is no spawn killing noobs, and it makes everyone have to actually earn their kills..

i cant figure out how they are going to implement this with mixed lobbies.  IE clans, parties etc.  in theory, this sounds good, but implementation won't work i would surmise.  or they use the BF3 system that doesnt do anything anyways.

Skill based matchmaking as in how Halo 3 tried to do it will just cause many of the same problems that Halo 3 had. such as account sellers and boosters. It will begin the downfall the CoD seires and make it more like the Halo genre. It will change the game from a fast paced game to a slower game. It will cause many people to give up CoD once they reach a level and can not get anyfurther because of the enemy players. If it uses anything like Halo's true skill rating, you might as well just go play Halo 3 at that point for the games would no longer be any different in how they were played or why.

Sure some will like it, but the majority of players will not. Sales will drop and the next fast paced arcade style shooter will come along and reap the benefits of the players that got tired of the new Halo... err CoD way of playing.

Try to make a game too competitive and loose players, make it too easy and loose players. So either way, CoD is boned no matter which way the developers go.

As a few people have already stated, Skilled Matchmaking is optional for BO2 multiplayer. There will still be the standard playlist to choose from.

I also dont think reverse boosting will be as big concern, I'm having a hard time believing that the huge number of boosting type losers that plague COD will enjoy constantly reducing their stats deliberately simply because it is so unlike normal boosting. Normal

boosting is far more rewarding. Going backwards doesn't have the same undeserved fake

rep that normal boosting gives. These people will probably stick to the normal matchmaking system.

I personally look forward to skilled matchmaking, a LOT, provided it works as intended. They way i interpret it is its designed for non scrubs, for players who actually want to better themselves. As a lone player I will be placed in a team of people I know will be giving 100% when I hit a certain level within the system. The scummy split screeners and loser quickscopers will stick to normal mode and/or I eventually won't get paired with them anymore once I progress in Skill matchmaking. I will get matched with teammates that want to play the game/objective and win.

Its having an interesting effect on the so called "amazing" big COD youtubers, the fakes amongst them (and they are numerous) will be the most worried for obvious reasons. Pub games will carry much less respect now. Skilled matchmaking is where the props will be.

They should let clans play each other more often. There should be playlist called mercenary with separate tdm, dom, kc, s&d and dom playlists. Small parties of 1 to 2 & 3 max for highly objective games should be allowed, no split screeners though. Next to that add a boot camp playlist for new players and less skilled (people with well below average all-round scores).

Most people online are average, so it would be much easier to just give (well) below average players and solo players more options to "fairer" games. A full party vs a group of screeners and two solo players should never hapen, yet it does constantly.