Matchmaking at its all time worst

I’m pretty done with this game. Tired of their “skill based” match making being so broken. It’s honestly embarrassing that they can’t get such a critical algorithm in their game figured out.

They completely broke ranked last season too so  even in a mode that should be entirely based on skill you get iron walled by Masters… IN GOLD! 

Oh, wow. So you are getting three players in trios? It never happen to me this season. And game hangs for half a minute with the screen displaying numbers of players, for example 57/60, all the time. I don't know what is going on, but I have premonition: there will be enormous server meltdown soon.

Hello, 

i got the same problem. i switched from xbox to PC. And my lobbys are unplayable.

and of course i dont have my level, skins and heirlooms on my Account (and its the same EA Account which is connected).

Please do something.

thanks.

best regards

Steven

@HappyHourSumwur 

Just a comment on what you said about getting worse teammates vs better enemies. Just want to point out that its kinda hard to really make a fair assessment of that. I have a 4k banner on pretty much all legends that I play and peaked master and I have terrible games, quite alot actually, where I mess up terribly and miss 3-4 PK shots or entire mags of Wingman shots, dying first with 50 dmg dealt. And after such match, I bet my teammates, who might have much less avr dmg dealt or KD than me, think to themselves "what a noob; why am I being teamed with much worse teammates vs much better enemies", just like you.  All I am saying is that its easy to forget all games that you are the worst player in the team, and just remember the ones that you hard carry.

The only thing that could actually could proof such thing is if you play many consecutive matches and look at the stats. I did such thing a while ago and my conclusion was that yes, I get teamed with worse teammates most of my games but I also get faced vs worse enemies too most of my games...

You can read the experiment here if you want:

Solved: Statistical proof of rigged matchmaking over 30 consecutive matches with Randoms - Answer HQ (ea.com)

@BalladalidilaI basically tracked my games for a week this season and it confirmed my thoughts on the SBMM. I stopped at something like 80 games without a win and a large number of games where 1 or more of us died instantly and/or my teammates were toxic or just dumb. Huge number of games where a random pushed a 1v3 immediately off drop and died before I even had a gun. Tons of games where I was swarmed by a 3 stack who never missed shots. Not once did I feel like I was playing the game against anybody close to my skill level, which is very average. It was infuriating.

@HappyHourSumwur 

Yeah most of those things you mention happen for sure in the vast majority of matches with randoms, I have no arguments there hehe =)

All I am saying, if we take me for example, that sometimes, its ME who is the "stupid and toxic" random from my randoms pov. Just an example; lets say I down one enemy and crack a second and therefore spams enemy here and hard pushes in to finish the squad, but I just randomly happen to be teamed with someone who is afraid of fighting and want to "hold position" and they also interpret my enemy here spam as "enemy here, run away" =). lets say I die in the 1v2 after rushing in alone and then I maybe get a bit tilted when I see that my teammate didnt follow me and I ask "wtf are you doing? and my teammate then thinks to himself "what a dumb and toxic noob who pushes solo. Why am I always teamed with dumb and toxic noobs??"

So what I am trying to say is that many situations when you think that your randoms are "stupid or bad" happens more because you just have bad synergi of playing style. 

I never play with randoms, expecting that we will have great understanding and teamplay and I always assume they suck. Sometimes I am proven wrong which is a nice surprise but in most games not. And as long as I mind my own business and always do whats best for me in every situation, I still can have an average 2-3 KD, 10% winrate in pubs and ranked below Platinum. But I would never play Platinum+ ranked with randoms. 

But yeah, it seems to me that players that are very average give or take will have a quite hard time in pubs. I just landed a 4800 dmg game and my random premade duo literally had 49 + 1000 dmg and both of them was in the game to the last circles.. So that 49 dmg guy had NO business being in my lobby if there was a strict SBMM. But there obviously isnt. If it was, no one would ever be able to get close to 5000 dmg in one game.

I've got almost 2k hours into this game and I would have to agree. I've stopped playing because of the fact that Matchmaking is so broken in terms of matching like skilled players. 

If you dont have a squad to go in with kiss your rank goodbye. Nothing like consistently getting teamed up with people 2-3 tiers below you and them throwing the match because they

dont understand the simple mechanics of the game. 

ranked is like all over the place, i know they want diamond play with preds but solo i have just no chance when 3 people running straight at me

i wish they had their own lobby like before, and if they complain there's not enough players then why not make more than 750 preds ? more people will play for it

platinum games are pretty easy and then there's not much to play for other than dissapointment

The match make rating for this season is definitely the worst it has ever been. Season 7 and season 11 were honestly the best for matchmakerating. This season is absolutely terrible. I could be platinum 2 and lose all my points over and over again because of the matchmakrating and be all the way back down to plat 4. Which has happend to me twice this season already. And what really kills it for me is the fact that there can be people who have hit predator and they can make a new  Account  and mess up the rating for everybody. 

 Personally I really enjoyed the rank system platform from season 7.  I was able to hit diamond then and I was able to hit diamond all the way through season 11. Just the way the game was set up was more fun especially when you had a good group of friends tagging along. People were playing more strategically instead of bombarding everybody in the damn lobby to get kills so they can get their points. And the loss for points for each rank as you go up within that rank is poorly designed for this season as well. Cool you have a huge amount of points when you win IF YOU GET KILLS AND YOUR SQUAD MAKES IT THAT FAR!? 

 I get it you can sit there and be an awesome person that streams all day and plays this game all day. Heck you can be just naturally good at 1st person shooters that's great  but on the same token that's what's really killing the game. There's just people that want to have fun playing the game and still wanna be able to hit the rank that they're trying to shoot for. 

Don't make it a job playing this game just to hit a rank. Obviously trios and duos aren't a thing anymore? 

I Really think there should be rank spilts added to the the game. 

If your gold 4 then you play with gold 4s and 3s 

If your gold 3 and almost ready to hit gold 2 you still play with gold 3s and 4s till you hit gold 2. Then when you hit gold 2 then you can play with gold 2s and gold 1s. It Should be like this for every rank all the way to pred.

I really think that would be awesome. One being that fact it will keep alot of the 3 stacking groups out of the ranked games until that person(s) have finally got ahold of how the rank they are in is working. This will give everyone the chance to build their skill level up to hit the rank they are shooting for. Also it will keep lower ranks out of higher ranked lobbies. 

Not only that it will definitely help Alleviate the Smurf accounts being made and maybe then that will help take care of the biggest problem with the matchmakerating system within the game. 

Hell it might even help balance out the ranking issues and concerns everyone including myself is having with the game. Plat 4 in a diamond lobby really!? Htf if that good matchmakerating??? Sure that person could be grouped with their friends again, it throws the balance of the rating system off. 

And put unlimited fall back protection on again for ranked BR. That * is dumb and again your making it a job to play video game. 

Give people the chance to get their skill up within the certain rank. It's hard enough for others to get where they want to be. If the highest they get is plat4, don't let people take 3 losses and fall back down half way through gold 1 or any rank for that matter. It was hard enough for those people just to hit the rank they are shooting for in the first place. 

Again that will definitely help them build their skill level and would help mellow or the matchmakrating within the game.