Lets Talk About 'Skill-Based Matchmaking'?
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@DoYaSeeMe well that is explains why i am playing with the same people every day.
@Flashshark1980 @DoYaSeeMe
I can't verify because it only relates to my personal experience but when matches dont fill quick enough it seems to throw the entire lobby onto a different, further away, server. Makes the game all sorts of laggy and gross.
Aside from that comment, I know you dont see the significance now but eventually these sweats will be your burden to fight, even at a low skill level. The highest tier players never retire, but the players in between you and them are hating this gaming experience. Be conscious of that when you assume all that is being done is complaining.
A lower player base is bad for a game in general. Longer que times are never fun to wait through.
After multiple weeks of waiting on respawn to get it together, I dont think they care if the game is fair. This is the kind of experience that prevents me from investing in future games from the company.
I can't verify because it only relates to my personal experience but when matches dont fill quick enough it seems to throw the entire lobby onto a different, further away, server. Makes the game all sorts of laggy and gross.
Aside from that comment, I know you dont see the significance now but eventually these sweats will be your burden to fight, even at a low skill level. The highest tier players never retire, but the players in between you and them are hating this gaming experience. Be conscious of that when you assume all that is being done is complaining.
A lower player base is bad for a game in general. Longer que times are never fun to wait through.
After multiple weeks of waiting on respawn to get it together, I dont think they care if the game is fair. This is the kind of experience that prevents me from investing in future games from the company.
- @RwFinfrock I may of already said this in this topic (theres too many SBMM topics so idk what ive said and where) but Im starting to get to the point of looking for a new game until this is sorted out wether thats Fortnite, Destiny 2, Buying that new Call of Duty Game shroud was doing idk just any game but apex I guess as you say the players in between low and high are hating the gaming experience and I believe im one if the ones caught in the middle When it matches me with lower levels I kill them, when it matches me with higher skill levels I can’t do anything and I can’t seem to find ‘’my skill level’’ in my games anymore its all too much skill now
Sidenote: Reply to me any games you guys know about that are great and free to play Apex is really the only battle royale ive played decides Fortnite, rules of survival, or PUBG so if anyone could head me into a good direction of a new game It would be helpful apex was my main game but its becoming a game that will sit on my hard drive and ‘’collect dust’’ more and more by the day the new game dosnt have to be a battle royale, it can be any great team by based FPS shooting game (by team based I mean it could be like a team death match, king of the hill types of games too) I mainly just want the FPS part and maybe a SOLO experience, while having that team aspect if I choose so far I only know of Fortnite with the different game modes but its not really FPS I ve tried the Cycle, too!
It has some PvE elements, but PvP is deffinitly strong in the game!
Maybe it's the game for you FallenAngel777.
AFAIK there is no MM just pure random!
@Flashshark1980dont forget that @fallenangel777 was just like you a few days ago, he loved the experience... i stopped playing , so another noob is being fed to preds..so you will see in time.
@RwFinfrock Sweats will never be a burden for me personally. Apex is a hardcore game, I adopted it because it delivers a lot of intensity over a short period of time. Also, when it will become unplayable or boring, I will move on, I'm not chained to the game forever. I spent over 800 hours playing Apex already, which is probably far greater than the average longevity they aimed for when making their plans.
For the game to survive longterm, Respawn needs to keep players in for a season or so, but more importantly, to hook as many new ones as possible in the first 2-10 hours. I think retention was heavily affected by the many highly skilled players bombing lobbies , so SBMM became mandatory.
SBMM also helps in circumventing the Dunning-Kruger Effect's "valley of despair", where most players feel like they're hitting a wall, losing confidence and then abandoning the game with frustration.
This "valley of despair" lies deep within what we consider the "average player" bracket in Apex. A lot of time is needed to level up your skills until you become confident again and only after getting there you can face the top tier of the game (the gurus). Also, after this point there's a much smaller chance of you leaving the game, as you've invested many hours of hard work to build skills that are great in Apex, but close to useless in many other games.
Respawn cares. They are trying hard to not split the playerbase even further with many different modes, maps or metas, so that your queue times are short and the pool for SBMM is as big as possible.
- @WickXI I said that in a post somewhere eventually maybe in the next few weeks he will be in my shoes lmfao I was in his not long ago while I was in his I loved it and everyone hated me for it, now im in everyone elses shoes so its natural that now Im mad at flash whos now in my old shoes then flash will be in our shoes and he will hate someone else that becomes in his new shoes
Hope that isn’t too confusing! It kinda is...
@WickXI wrote:@Flashshark1980dont forget that @fallenangel777 was just like you a few days ago, he loved the experience... i stopped playing , so another noob is being fed to preds..so you will see in time.
Why will anything change over time?
To me it seems like my rank in SBMM is reset or at least lowered every day!
When I start playing my session, I get my first #1 placement during the first 3 matches.
Then I feel there IS a little adjustment by SBMM and I get tougher oponents.
But thats no problem, for me.
My biggest problem are those over agressive teammates, going alone and running blindly into enmies.
Yes and the leavers of course...
I believe the rank in SBMM is calculated situational over the past 5/10 matches.
So if you have a bad evening, you get lowered and less hard oponents.
If you have a good day, you get tougher oponents...
That is why I wonder why some say they dont get out of that "hard enemy environment".
After some matches ther must be a reaction!
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