Call of Duty Warzone players have found a new app that shows statistics for everyone in a game, including KD, allowing them to choose who they play against.
As in many other games, the debate over skill-based matchmaking – SBMM – has raged like wildfire in Warzone, especially when it comes to the cream of the crop.
In theory, SBMM was created to match you with players in your skill range, however, some players have taken advantage of reverse boosting – purposely with worse performance so that their rank is dropped – as well as playing with lower level players to get a better lobby.
However, there is now an add-on application for PC players that allows them to view, before the game starts, the statistics for each player and team in their lobby – allowing them to choose who they want to play with.
Warzone gave Call of Duty a great new life, but it was not without problems.
Popular content creator of the war zone JaredFPS showed how detailed the app is on January 2 during its broadcast, noting that it “spoils the game completely”.
Before loading the lobby, the app quickly shows the best rated players in the game, including their levels – so you can get an idea of who might be a hacker and who might be real.
As Jared shows, with the pre-game countdown slowing down, the app can be opened to show statistics for everyone in the game. This includes the average KD ratio of the lobby as a whole, the players with the best KD, their average rating and even how many suspicious matches they have had and total head shots. It is quite detailed, in general.
Yes, the official war zone is marked in chalk
This app completely spoils the game and now makes a lot of things make sense🙃 pic.twitter.com/6J5hwYKtvw
– XSET JaredFPS (@JaredFPS) January 3, 2021
“So if I’m in a tournament, I would say ‘let’s go back and try a different lobby’ until you get a KD average of 0.8 or 0.9,” said Jared, adding that this app is the reason some players have been cut in stream and ruined games.
Given that it is a third-party application and is not explicitly cheating, it would be difficult for Warzone developers to make it useless as they did with certain hacks and it may be the responsibility of players to simply not use it.