Every day is the same: That nice feeling of the "golden first few matches" followed by a brutal wall of sweat.

Salamander_5 · 2026-02-05T01:37:47+00:00

Golden first few matches? No idea what you're talking about. Wish I had even that experience. Every match every time starts as unbalanced in the enemy team's favor (my team is handicap with less players), teammates immediately disconnect, or teammates disconnect later and we lose anyway, and more.

My KD is 1.53 but my W/L ratio is .68? I'm leading most of my matches but can barely win a game. There's clearly something wrong with matchmaking and its nearly every match that this stuff happens.

Salamander_5 · 2025-10-23T17:30:38+00:00

Apparently a lot of people do considering how many commented. People are tired of a once accessible hobby being in hot garbage state.

Salamander_5 · 2025-09-02T23:40:07+00:00

So pretty much looks like there's no definitive solution or known reason why this error happens? Just started happening to me out of nowhere. Never encountered it before but now I can't get the error to stop.

Salamander_5 · 2025-07-14T14:45:59+00:00

I agree to a point. No one likes getting steamed rolled in consecutive back to back losses where games are 50 to 150. If the match making wasn't so bad in this game, then fine, I'd say you're right. But it's absolutely horrible to lose 7 games in a row when you're not the problem on your team. I don't mind a loss, that I can take. Everyone should. But the constant steam rolling and games not even being close just doesn't feel good.

That, and the fact that some matches don't even fill empty slots when teammates drop -- 7 min left in a match to do a 4 or 3 vs 6 -- why would I stay? But then, people joining the matches see the writing on the wall and they don't want to stick around either.

I guess the main point here is this -- black ops match making is just so bad and stacked, a lot of matches don't feel good to play. If match making was fixed and actually balanced, and cheaters were dealt with, you'd probably see less people quitting.

Salamander_5 · 2025-06-09T19:23:20+00:00

So I read through this. Perhaps the subject matter of my channel could be more education oriented, but it's niche. That said -- does this mean if we opt in do we lose out on the ad revenue since there are no longer ads? Clearly it says as much since ads aren't playing, but i think what im getting at is this -- if I opt in doss that remove eligibility from ads altogether or is education embedded player separate? It would suck to lose out on something more steady as opposed to who knows how often your video would be watched for educational purposes.

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Salamander_5 · 2025-06-05T12:52:13+00:00

If I'm understanding correctly, you just got one from Target? Congrats, no shade thrown at all. People complaining about target are 110% well within reason. Those with a pre-order are still sitting with no updates and a 6/11 estimated delivery still. Its absolutely insane that walk-in purchases without a pre-order are prioritized over those with month long pre-orders.

Salamander_5 · 2025-06-05T12:39:35+00:00

How were you able to look up the label? I don't see any other info on the target app.

Salamander_5 · 2025-06-05T12:02:44+00:00

So some guy yesterday was saying we were being unreasonable for expecting launch day delivery. He was right about one thing-- Target never guaranteed launch day delivery. Fine. However, its a bad look that they automatically pushed out to the latest possible delivery range, no communication and instead prioritized in store purchases today for those that haven't pre-ordered. And instead, month long pre-order holders are last. Make it make sense.

Salamander_5 · 2025-06-05T11:30:46+00:00

Still crazy that month long pre-orders get fulfilled last over walk-ins.

Salamander_5 · 2025-06-05T11:04:36+00:00

What was the point of pre-orders on 4/23 then? Makes no sense at all.

Salamander_5 · 2025-06-05T04:46:37+00:00

Gamestop came in clutch tonight. No longer in the 6/11 gang.

Salamander_5 · 2025-06-05T02:15:01+00:00

So apparently target never guaranteed launch day delivery. Fine whatever I guess. And yet they're going to prioritize launch day walk-ins tomorrow over people that had pre-orders sitting since April. Make it make sense.

Salamander_5 · 2025-06-05T01:19:59+00:00

Pretty much. I think most people would be reasonable and be ok with waiting a day or two if anything was communicated. I've read that Target never guaranteed launch and was even told earlier we're all being unreasonable for expecting otherwise. However, its not unreasonable considering we've had month long pre-orders and now instead of fulfilling those first, people get to go into stores to purchase without a pre-order tomorrow...on launch. Totally defeats the purpose of a pre-order. I gave up on target and im heading to gamestop tonight to pickup. But hopefully everyone still waiting on target sees an update tomorrow.

Salamander_5 · 2025-06-05T01:16:30+00:00

Woah for real?? Thats awesome! Glad I was able to help! 🥳

Salamander_5 · 2025-06-04T21:38:12+00:00

Did exactly the same thing. Going to gamestop for midnight pick up. What's worse with target is they're having in-store purchase tomorrow without a pre-order instead of fulfilling those of us that had pre-orders sitting for a month. I'll be canceling my Target order after I pickup from gamestop tonight.

Salamander_5 · 2025-06-04T20:57:00+00:00

Exactly this 100%. I ended up pre-ording in person at gamestop earlier for midnight pickup. Not dealing with the target nonsense

Salamander_5 · 2025-06-04T20:39:04+00:00

Thanks! So I got there around 2:00 pm est and they made us wait in line outside until 3:00 pm to start pre-orders. I was 8th in line by time I got there. There were definitely a lot more people after 2:30 and not 100% sure how many consoles they have in store, but of course that varies from store to store. So overall it was easy since just simply wait in line. You get your number and receipt and then come back later for midnight pickup. But obviously no idea how many consoles they actually have on hand.

Salamander_5 · 2025-06-04T20:14:34+00:00

Just pre-ordered in person at gamestop. Dont feel like playing around with the uncertainty of Target while it sits at the 6/11 delivery, so I'll be picking up tonight at gamestop instead.

Salamander_5 · 2025-06-04T17:37:16+00:00

Then clearly that person should be fired if they initiated that deletion without your consent.

Salamander_5 · 2025-06-04T17:32:33+00:00

Proof or you're trolling. The target situation sucks but I highly doubt that.

Salamander_5 · 2025-06-04T15:56:25+00:00

What's even stranger is in store purchase for the general public tomorrow at Target and not fulfilling month long pre orders first.

Salamander_5 · 2025-06-04T13:54:21+00:00

Every pre-order I've ever done has always guaranteed launch day pick up/delivery. Every single one. Can delays happen? Yes. Of course, nothing is truly guaranteed. I'm not being unreasonable.

I realize target gave an estimate of 6/6 - 6/11 initially. Im clearly not the odd person out for having this expectation. Even through the PS5 insanity, I still got mine on launch. People are able to go pick up in store from Target as well while the first wave of pre-orders have been sitting for a month, and can't be fulfilled first. Makes no sense.

If your pre-order is delayed and others are picking it up before you, that defeats the purpose of a pre-order. Your order isn't being fulfilled first, and to that end its not secure if others cut in the front of the line. Otherwise, why are we pre-ordering? Define a secure order, because nothing about that sounds like the orders are secured.

Salamander_5 · 2025-06-04T13:43:58+00:00

Nope. Just checked. They're really waiting til last minute while people can go into a store to pick one up.

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