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4 years ago

APEX match-making is so messed up!

Hello my fellow lengends! It is me again, here to complain haha! IMO and from my expereince so far of season 8, I feel like the matchmaking in apex is really off atm. It got better towards the en...

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NolanGraysonnn

4 years ago

@Henry_Chungster7 Thanks for clarification!

I started to play in the middle of season 1.
Since then play almost daily 2h on average (I think).
There is no stats from season 1 but I think my kdr was around 0.1 in the first season so as you can see, dying every other minute for 2 or 3 hours everyday was norm for me.

Now I am in a position where I expect to do better and when I encounter some crazy son of b** who kills me out of nowhere or his gameplay is so unusual I spectate to see if he is a cheater. This doesn't happen everyday, but sometimes.
Once in a while I have gaming sessions reminding me my season 1 lol

So what I am saying is that maybe because my gameplay became so good comparing to my starting point I might not be able to see what it's all about

Henry_Chungster

4 years ago

@NolanGraysonnn Totally hear you bro and appreciate the grind you put in for the game. You and me both love this game and played this game for 2 years now. My total play time for this year on PSN rewined was around 5 hours per day everyday for a year straight on apex ahaha I dont even know how, clearly no life haha. Now I can understand dieing at the start when you are not good is very common and you need to improve and get better then you see yourself getting more kills is fun. But I am the opposite. Before I was getting 10 kills per game in season 2, dropped a 20 bomb two times in season 3 and once in season 5. I consider myself as a good apex player. The past few days of season 8 running 10 games in a row or so with no kills its really odd and strange to me. It's not like I was playing bad or missing my shots I was getting absolutely out classed because I was playing against the top 500 players (last season preds). If it happened once or twice or 10 times in 30 games thats nothing to complain about but literally happened like 10 times in a row, these states were crazy, 40K kills each in total these teams had like 80k + kills man these guys were crazy good and we literally got like 100 or less damage each.
I just saying that the matchmaking or whatever it is, is very strange at times and should be reviewed but also I ready the comment of that guy you tagged and do see the point they put accross as well so thanks for that brother!

EffSBMM1
4 years ago
I think my brother talking about a MOBA called League of Legends put it best; You are going to end up with 48-52% win rate because that's what the algorithm is designed to do. And even the best players in the world only have a few percentage points higher of a win rate.
This same attitude seems inherent to SBMM in apex legends albeit not based on win rate but on the skill of players they put you up against. This stacked deck approach to match making is what I think and have been told anecdotally is what is so frustrating.
Give us a fair shot every game we boot up in. Don't stack the deck for us or against us. It's not rewarding to finally win a game and then know you're absolutely fhucked for the next 20-30 games because the algorithm just registered you as a high caliber player.
There were some nights back in season 4 and 5 where I would get a few wins in a few hours of play time, and I absolutely knew if I kept on playing I was going to hate the lobbies I was in. I'd frequently take the next night off out of superstition that the lobbies were going to be so fhucking jilted against me. If I'm not alone in that feeling then Respawn...you're doing it WRONG!