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DefralT's avatar
2 years ago

Broken ranked matchmaking!

Can someone enlighten me what is the point of a ranked system? 

I solo que ranked, im plat 2, my teammates naturally are plat, suddenly half the lobby is diamond. Hm seems a bit weird but ok diamond is close to plat i suppose.

Im playing ranked today (and never again) and i get killed by A FULL MASTERS TEAM. I literally am teamed up with other plats and put into games with full masters teams. Make that make sense? Meaning they hit masters and get put into a game with other players TWO ranks below themselves? 

EA you greedy about skins but tbh id buy any type of skin OR even battle passes if the money went to fixing this issues. Ranked is simply unplayable and it was the only last fun aspect of the game.

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10 Replies

  • BPoff71's avatar
    BPoff71
    New Adventurer
    2 years ago
    @DefralT I am gold and just lost two matches in a row to Plat players. If they are going to mismatch ranked, at least give us RP for getting killed by a person of a higher rank.
  • Midnight9746's avatar
    Midnight9746
    Hero+
    2 years ago
    @BPoff71 As a gold player, you should see some plat players when you're gold 1 or 2, but not as much when you're gold 3 or gold 4. As for the diamond players, you're not suppose to see them.

    The matchmaking is indeed awful, and part of the problem is that there's cheaters and smurfs in every lobby, so its hard to balance it out. Also, not to mention that a lot of the players have stopped playing Apex due to many different reasons, and that leads there to being less players in general, leaving us mainly with the sweats who keep smurfing, and cheaters.
  • @DefralT I realized this in 2022 and stopped playing after relentless of feedback giving, they didnt listen and started banning me as soon I typed anything they thought remotely was negative. So I gave up, gave in to their power abuse and ignorance.

    I see that this game and company has become worse so from that moment I stopped playing this game I stopped playing ANY EA related game.... I am done with being treated as a garbage bin they can collect the last piece of valueable money out of.
  • BPoff71's avatar
    BPoff71
    New Adventurer
    11 months ago

    This is still an issue.  How do I have a full squad of silver players when another squad (the one who killed us) is all gold players?  You couldn't mix it up so at least one of the gold players was on our team and one of the silver players was on that team?  If it is a premade squad, don't que them with silver players.

  • Apex legend is well known for having the worst and most unfair matchmaking of any FPS , and the lobbies are so empty in high rank that platinium are dragged into pred lobbies.


    also respawn only cattering to 3stack and refusing to give solo/duo/trio Q is slowly killing the game.

  • reconzero's avatar
    reconzero
    Seasoned Ace
    11 months ago

    @BPoff71

    "If they are going to mismatch ranked, at least give us RP for getting killed by a person of a higher rank."

    The problem in a nutshell for ranked modes in any older game with a declining population. When the system doesn't have enough players to fill a lobby with similarly skilled teams then the entire purpose and function of the ranking system is compromised. The worse the imbalances then the worse the compromise. Other games in the past have attempted something like what you suggested - reducing the amount of RP lost by the losers, and also reducing the amount gained by the winners. In the end the "solution" becomes overly complicated, opaque, and in its own way introduces an element of unfairness. Not to mention how it can slow a rank grind to an absolute halt.

    The solution is to build a game with a much, much lower skill ceiling. But then "talented" players wouldn't stream it, and kids would just go play whatever other game their streamers were playing. And in that game all these same problems would play out over time. The wheels on the bus....

  • Palette24carats's avatar
    Palette24carats
    Seasoned Ace
    10 months ago
    @BPoff71 It is ridiculous! It feels like it is reverse sbmm, like it's the opposite of skill based matchmaking, tonight for hours on end I was matched with complete idiots that would do anything to screw our fight, or to die so we lose points , we were always Gold 2 players but went against a rookie 1 with a 4k badge and 20 bomb badge that easily destroyed us with his silver team.

    We went against bronze and silver players that were way above our skill level and got demolished everytime. All the while my teammates were complete idiots they were Gold 2 but they were playing like complete noobs worthy of a silver 4 rank. Like when I managed to kill 2 and get the 3rd to one bullet from death the lifeline instead of finishing the last of the team would come to rez me then let me all alone to be finished by that player while she would move away not even using the rez as a bait, she would come later when opponent had time to locate her and she died. This is the type of thing that happened all night for hours.

    This cannon fodder matchmaking is making me rage so much. It's what it should be called, it's not skill based it is cannon fodder based. You are the fodder and they get all the fun. Which is why they never leave the game while the fodder rages and quit.
  • Palette24carats's avatar
    Palette24carats
    Seasoned Ace
    10 months ago

    @BPoff71It is so broken that if you play with teammates and everything goes very well so much so you add them as friends when you will replay with them the cannon fodder matchmaking will put you against even better opponents so you will start losing points again making you rage again and hate the game again. The game is 5 years old we tried it all and still get 0.5 kdr no matter what, no matter the rank, no matter who I play with , cannon fodder matchmaking.

  • Palette24carats's avatar
    Palette24carats
    Seasoned Ace
    10 months ago

    @Palette24caratsIt is really sad because I looooove playing this game when it feels balanced, love all the guns except the charge rifle, love to play each and every one of them it feels fresh to be able to change every game, love every legend, love the movements, the speed, the style, the way you can have a 2nd chance, recharge, respawn, survive in the storm, move with mobile towers, etc

  • r1ggedgame's avatar
    r1ggedgame
    Seasoned Ace
    10 months ago

    why do you even complain ... we know all to well that Respawn is full aware that they run the game into the ground.
    Just a look at the trello board tells you ... only bandaids for stuff nobody really complains about. 
    But the tough topics like AA which has been swept under the rug for 5 Years  ...  they knew  the stuff was not balanced for the whole time, but still they had the audacity to talk "competitive integrity".
    Same applies to the matchmaking, they tell you a phony story but they wont change it , bcs they are too proud to admit those things are literally code garbage and heavily responsible for the player decline among other things like bad servers/netcode and ofc the cheater situation. 
    Sending out player surveys without even touching those major topics also hardens the suspicion they dont really care, despite saying "We hear you".
    If they would have listened, we wouldnt complain matchmaking and Aim Assist for 5 years and counting.