First Ring Daily 943: The SBMM

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• Usman

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  23 November, 2020 - 11:29 am

  <p>Welcome to the competitive CoD world. Skill based matchmaking has made pubs (public matches) unbearable, we're constantly being matched against actual Pros and Amateurs (I've freelanced for major CoD tournament organisers so familiar with the players in the scene).</p><p><br></p><p>On the topic of cross-play, there are a few different things to consider:</p><ol><li>PC players have to use controllers, crossplay is matched according to input</li><li>Bumpers / L1 R1 are much faster than triggers, even with an elite v2, I still notice that little delay before a shot registers because there's a little deadzone. I've been using flipped with an elite controller and it made killing significantly more successful.</li><li>Playstation players are likely to flip to L1/R1 because it's just better and faster input.</li></ol>

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• rmac

  23 November, 2020 - 12:40 pm

  <p>Regarding today's closing comments about where things are going with W10 and WinUI, with web (which would include Blazor) and MAUI being thrown into the mix, it's difficult to believe MS has a cohesive strategy when it comes to defining a software-hardware UIX 'model'. Android running on Duo, Surface hardware, Windows desktop with a WSL, it's all a bit of a strange mish-mash. </p><p><br></p><p>Perhaps the key would be to fathom what the 3rd party developer and hardware vendor ecosystems actually mean to Microsoft these days in terms of revenue given its core offering seems essentially to be a services platform + Office model. Logic would suggest that 3rd party devs 'adorn' that core offering with their own apps and hardware vendors render that platform atop, but it's way muddier than that, and surely that leaves 3rd party devs with the awful dilemma that it's time to jump camp.</p><p><br></p><p>I think I read one recent comment on this site which was how Apple just silently got on and did things, making announcements when they were ready. Paul's mentioned MAUI has been put back to 2022, though it was mentioned at Build when Blazor wasn't done speed wise – all (in appearance at least) in stark contrast to Google's and Apple's announcements. Pandemic to one side, WinUI sounds like a stop-gap.</p>

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• Paul Thurrott

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  24 November, 2020 - 8:38 am

  It’s impossible to argue with any of that. Hopefully MS gets its act together. But there’s no sign this will happen.

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• erichk

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  23 November, 2020 - 3:36 pm

  <p>lol, at first I thought it said "Win 3's UI is talked about" in the title.</p>

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• Paul Thurrott

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  24 November, 2020 - 8:34 am

  I mean, someone has to talk about it.

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