At this point, bad SBMM has to be on purpose right??
You cannot convince me that this is anywhere close to a balanced lobby.... I don't know what Respawn has been doing, but it aint working.
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@AnjunakrokusPeople already "did the math", pubs is EOMM, and ranked is a flawed SBMM system that pretty much thinks you're a pred just for queing into the match.
I finally hit Silver 1, and was given a Rookie 3 console player and another Silver 1 PC player, (they were a duo pre-made team, as they were in the same club), and both pushed two teams that were fighting each other and got in the middle of all 6 players at once. Both randoms only had one gun and barely any ammo, and to no one's surprise, they were both instantly knocked down. Then they both spammed "enemy here" a million times like that was going to matter.
The players they died to was a bunch of diamond and cheating players.
There's zero point in playing the game anymore, I won't lie about that. You'll get awful teammates in competitive modes where you gotta babysit them and clutch EVERY fight, or you get bots in pubs and mixtape.
Its not fun.
I'm at the point where if you play badly in ranked, it should ban you from playing ranked, at least for some time, (and by "badly", I mean playing like a bot or just ratting the whole time). Its suppose to be for the competitive players, not the players who failed to que into pubs. Let's be honest with ourselves, a lot of these "randoms" should stay in pubs.
@Midnight9746 Respawn as publically stated that they use SBMM and explicitly mentioned that they don't use EOMM. Until any actual proof is released (and no, people did not actually "do the math") I'd rather assume incompetence over malice.
What I've meant is that players have been having a lot of similar experiences and some pro players have even gave their thoughts about it. That's why it was in quotations.
I'm also surprised you're in a match in about 15 seconds. It takes a few minutes for me to get into a match, (even in pubs), sometimes I'm sitting there for 15+ minutes, right before seeing high ranked champion squads, as my teammates speed run dying.
- Pubs lately have been playable, with more games being casual, and about the same amount being sweaty
- Ranked has been extremely unplayable as it feels like I'm permanently stuck in pred lobbies
- Mixtape isn't quite enjoyable as its either a bot match, or being destroyed by diamond and up players.
S17 wasn't fun for me either, even though the ranked system was a ratting meta. That is because while I was still climbing through silver, I saw ItsTimmy, HisWattson, and players like WeThePeople in my matches.
The problem was they were all already in the higher ranks, with WeThePeople being the #1 pred in a lobby with rookie to gold players. He was placed into my matches about 4 times and was prestacking with two preds who were in the top 100's and 200's. Each time, my randoms were rookie or bronze, little to no stats, and low account level.
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