Matchmaking is broken!

@Sand_spitterI am new to Apex, but I am not new at all to FPS games.

That argument that someone is hit harder is purely subjective and not worth discussing. If you want to measure how good or bad something is performing you need data and objective criteria for measuring e.g. win percentage, number of higher/lower/same rank people in the lobby, number of lobbies with higher-ranked players vs total lobbies you entered, etc.

Unfortunately, I don't see people gathering that data, they rather complain that SBMM is not fair, and Respawn in turn does not comment at all... So we need to make our own surveys like one player here in forums did by playing 30 games and posting outcomes or just stop talking about who feels what and why.

As for the kills - in my opinion, that is the biggest f up thing with this community = people think that kills equals skill, yet if we look at it a bit more and ask ourselves the following questions:

• how are kills awarded in Apex? does the fact that I did 1 damage and knocked the enemy who got then killed be someone else make me more skilled because I will get the kill in such case, been there done that, so far my most efficient game was <800 damage with 6 kills. in my opinion, no, it is more luck than skill or I did benefit the team's progress towards the win but the fact that I got the kill means nothing, teammates/other enemy team could have done the majority of the work for me
  
• are support players rewarded in this game - no not really, you can push enemy into bad position, shoot at them for multiple minutes, do all the works so that someone can just laser them from the back or just tap the last shot, and unless that happens within 5 seconds? time interval you get NOTHING for it. Here I would say a system like in hockey where all people on the ice get +1 or -1 when goal is scored/lost would be more fitting. E.g. yesterday I had a game where I had 600 damage and 0 KP, other teammate had ~300-400 damage and I guess 1 assist, finally the 3rd member of our team had 6 kills, was the kill leader and mainly because of the help from our side and other 3rd party teams = was lucky (most of the success here) and skilled enough to collect not only kills from our fights while enemies were healing but also steal them from other team's effort. Soon enough he messed up major from a tactical perspective and when I pointed it out to him, he immediately pulled out the argument "hey dude how many kills you have?!" like it would make my obviously correct feedback about his tactical mistake any less correct.
• do kills help in this game to win - yes. can you win without kills - yes. So are kills = high win rate? Not necessarily. E.g. I had a game where we were in ~15th place and a Predator guy was in my team. He had 7 kills by that time and kept pushing everyone. It was a Public game. Eventually, he rushed into 1 vs multiple, got killed, we could not take his banner and because we did follow him (hoping for the best, supporting the team) we were surrounded and aped by two teams 2 vs at least 4 people, lost it. So I beg to question that this Predator guy did any good to us with all his kills?! Most in this community would say seeing stats "damn you s#@%, you are bots, you did nothing", and we finished in 10th place. 7 kills and 10th place - hurray, congrats!

How I approach ranked in this game:

1. I go into the game with the goal in mind to not mess up tactically (coms, rotations, decisions when to push or run away from the fight, take the hight before fighting, agree on whom we focus fire as a team, what is our escape route etc.) and do my best mechanically (aiming)
2. My goal after point 1 is the win - I want to be the best in the lobby even if I have 0 kills and enemies fail to rotate and escape the ring / prowlers, it still makes me the winner and winners get praised not judged as they say. Plus I get 100 RP basically for free
3. I am ready to get punished for my mistakes, thus I record all my games and review them given during the battle it always feels like you did all correct and team f-up, enemies hacked. It is true sometimes, but sometimes it is a valuable lesson that well no I f-up
4. My expectations of winning the game are set according to the level I am playing - if I go into public game, I e.g. expect to have a good chance like 5+% maybe even 10%+ of winning, dealing 1000+ damage, have at least 3 KP. If I go into Gold lobbies, my expectations are lower yet I still think that I can do it. When I get into lobbies where I see recent Master and Predator trails - I don't set myself for failure at the same time I do not expect to win that game, I am not pushing most of the fights, mainly focusing on 3rd partying and am not very sad if I do my best and get shot - it is like competing vs much better athlete = even if you set your PR you still might/will lose because your PR result will be sub average for the athlete and until you reach that level you will lose 100% or close to that of the cases

Feel free to send me the link to the material you mentioned about exposing SBMM I will gladly look into it. Use private messaging I guess EA can't ban you for that 🙂