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JustDumbHigh's avatar
5 years ago

Fix Smurfing and SBMM

     So to start this off I want to talk about SBMM in casual. It's a necessary component for apex without a doubt, although since the launch of this season 8 I have been running into a different skill gap to the point where I can't even fight 2 teams in a match and win. Now in season 7, I was almost able to pull off a 20 bomb (16 kills) whiffed the last few. Now I struggle to get more than 3 kills even with a premade squad. Now I'm not the best player but I've made it to diamond 4 before and consider myself good. The trouble really came though is where every day I try to play it's almost unbearable. Soloing is chaotic since apex will pair you with teammates of a lower skill gap, yet you can still run into premade squads of tryhards. It's come to the point where I really don't want to try anymore.

      So in turn I made a smurf account widely frowned upon for a good reason, it ruins other player's experiences. Although what I encountered in the first 2 matches was a plethora of noobs (to be expected). Although after just 2 matches it widely switched up to where I was easily finding other smurf accounts every match who were just trying to dominate the noobs now I don't mean just a few smurfs I mean at least a 1/6 of the lobby were smurfs for a handful of matches. These lobbies still had a bunch of low-level noobs who are trying to figure out the game. It's degrading the experience for a wide range of players and is causing the low-level matchmaking pool to become filled with high-end players. 

     So the solution is to lower the severity of SBMM. Before you say well that just hurts another pool of players. Think about it if you're a high-level player you should get paired with medium to a high level, not just a f*ck ton of sweaty Bois, even the playing field I don't mind running into a sweaty team here and there it makes it all the better, but when it's every team I run into and barely making it out, only to get 3rd or 4th partied every time. It becomes exhausting. To where I want to make smurfs just to have fun which isn't ok. I shouldn't have to try so hard in a casual mode just to get demolished by masters and preds every damn time. revert the SBMM back to season 7 or maybe slightly higher than season 7 but where it is right now you're going to be losing players in high-level pools and low-level pools no noob wants to be demolished every round and no high-level player wants to perform insanely competitively every match are you kidding. All of my friends I play with agree and I've been seeing them play less and less as the season started.

     I realize this is ea I'm preaching to who doesn't care about anything other than the money we all know that, but I imagine the developers care, So fix the game before it starts to die. Ive played 2 weeks after it came out and havent stopped but this season has been the worst. Share your thoughts or don't I really don't care.

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