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The skilled based matchmaking that you are referring to is just for League Play.  It's not in the public lobbies.  They are using the same system for public lobbies that they have always used.  The problem that you and everyone else (me included) is facing is that there are a ton of head glitch spots in these maps and quite frankly it doesn't take a lot of effort for people to kill you from them even though you have to be very precise to kill them.  You have to adapt your game to manuver from one head glitch to the next which is quite frustrating for someone that likes to run and gun but that's how the game was built.

Maybe I missed it on Vahn's twitter but it's pretty unlikely.  What your friend is seeing is more likely the same thing that has always been in place.  Higher prestiges tend to get grouped together and always have.  Since the game is new, being a higher prestige at this point in the game likely means that you are either a really good player or have been living and breathing the game to get there.  Most likely you are a really good player and therefore you only have really good players to go up against.  Believe me, I've seen my share of jumping/dropping/spinning ninja's out there but I'm also about 1/2 way through my second prestige.  I'd expect in a month that the competition at the second prestige level won't be anywhere near as fierce as it is today. 

PS: Youtube commentaries aren't always based in reality.  I like several of the YT commentators but I've seen on numerous occasions where they have stated "facts" that where completely guesses and wrong on their part.

Just go to any random public match lobby. Go to Lobby Leaderboard & look at everyone's Score Per Minute compared to yours. Similiar? Yeah I thoughts so.

I noticed this before he even made the twitter announcement. I don't consider myself an awesome 1337 player by any means, but I always held at least a 2.0 KDR on any COD game. After my first couple games I noticed that everyone that was playing the game was just as good as I was. I didn't notice any 'bad' players, that you'd normally see in a room.

You know the ones that will walk everywhere. Be oblivious to you as you walk right up to them. Lay prone in the middle of nowhere..etc..

After basically being forced to either be in tryhard mode non-stop, or go negative, I then started to look at the combat records of the people in the rooms and found they almost ALL had very similar KDRs and SPMs to me.

This made me think the matchmaking was a bug, and that they may have accidentally pushed the League Play code onto the Public. But, now, we learn that this was on PURPOSE???

It's NOT fun at ALL to have to play as hard as you can every single time you get on COD. I sometimes want to just sit back and play a regular-weak class and goof off...I can't do that now. I'm forced to play at or near my max capacity all the time just to avoid going negative.

The whole point of multiplayer in a casual setting is to play with a wide array of players. Sometimes, you run into easy targets that you can shoot like fish in a barrel, and other times you are clobbered by 1337 12 year olds hopped up on red-bull and skittles.

I liked COD for having a mixture of thoses people in one room. Now, I'm forced to play with just one group AND have about a half-second to one-second delay sometimes in firefights..

I haven't even prestiged on this game yet because it's been so frustrating for me. I have had less fun on this version than all other versions combined. It's no fun to play a game that you're constantly forced to play competitively at non-stop.

This is crazy, I thought it was only in League Play. No wonder.

So if you play solo and in parties, the matchmaking will be really messed up. Really Vhaun?