Not sure why or what you've done to the matchmaking recently but its now awful, almost unplayable. Im a pub casual player and its been nice seeing my progression slowly grow this season. K/D ratio grew from .89 to 1.03 then the games got ridiculous, useless team mates and out manouvered and deleted by more advanced teams, I've now reverted down to .93 in a matter of days and its getting worse. Used to have at least one win a day but now ill be lucky to win at all. I know a K/D isn't something to go by but it i did feel like i was improving at a good rate now its just annoying and frustrating, no longer the fun and enjoyable experience it once was. Why did you change it? It was working fine before. Please change it, i love Apex but your making it very hard for me to enjoy it. I can manage useless team members but not when im up against the olympic gymnastics team armed to the teeth.

https://www.ea.com/games/apex-legends/news/matchmaking-2023 It's their new system. Don't feel too bad, it's not just you. I've been steadily progressing from a pub 3 K:D to a 4 K:D over the seasons, up until now. Now every game is a ranked-like struggle. Minimal damage, every end game is sweaty, and zero bot lobbies. My win rate is/was 30+%, but the past few days, its been more like 3%. They must be implementing the system linked above in my region now.Almost unplayable is exactly accurate.

Np, and yeah same here. I've had fun with this game since Season 1, but this is the worst it's ever been. I never enjoyed ranked because you have to play so carefully, and I get bored. But now, with pubs feeling exactly like that, I don't even feel like playing, which is a first for me lol.

They killed the game for me. I am stuck with predators and masters when I was barely able to get to diamond the first seasons. Now its not even a game, its a job that I have to do because I cleared every battle pass since the start. Honestly, I hope they will fix it , if not I hope the game will die quickly to be freed from this. :D

@AreYouShivering Yeah, and I just got a level 62 Octane and a level 442 Pathfinder.The Octane wasn't a smurf because they tried to 1v3 a whole squad with only one gun, they had no map awareness, let alone was able to even aim, while the Pathfinder looted up first, but then tried pushing the squad by themselves the moment Octane got knocked instead of making the fight be long range or escaping to later try to grab Octane's banner. I've tried to get both of their banners after escaping, but the enemy team that killed them literally pitched up tents and were making smores.So I was given a "noob" and a unskilled player in ranked and was pitted against box campers. They camp even when there's a support legend on the team. I was Valkyrie for this match, now I'm playing as Lifeline since I can't trust my teammates to not die and timeout.Edited: Just ran into a no badge, no tracker Fuse, I checked their stats using an Apex stats tracker website, and it says they're a level 64. They're also cheating up a storm. How I know they're cheating? Easy! They're snapping to targets, including ones behind walls, their health gets blocked from dropping too low, and they don't got any optics on their gun while shooting from any distance.

@Midnight9746 To be honest, "I don't know what I'm doing, but all I know is that I must shoot" is the correct way of thinking. Of course, new players (experienced players too, or just everybody I meet in this game...) can't do anything, but "I must shoot" is the only strategy for learning. Yes, it's frustrating for the team. But although you have a squad, this is not a team game.This is a disproportional game, a modern version of Hunger Games. Everything here is disproportional, you name it. Matchmaking - pairing complete newbies with pros and dropping 20 squads like this into the game. Does it sound like a team game? Matches require you to shred the whole lobby, or do absolutely nothing to win. Does it sound like a team game? Your skill, rank - doesn't matter. There is always that one teammate outperforming others by the mile. Does it sound like a team game?

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Midnight9746
Hero+
2 years ago
@AreYouShivering Octane landed without really looting, Pathfinder was like "I don't know what I'm doing, but all I know is that I must shoot".

They're no better than if they had AFKed or looted everything in sight.
AreYouShivering
New Ace
2 years ago
@Midnight9746 To be honest, "I don't know what I'm doing, but all I know is that I must shoot" is the correct way of thinking. Of course, new players (experienced players too, or just everybody I meet in this game...) can't do anything, but "I must shoot" is the only strategy for learning. Yes, it's frustrating for the team. But although you have a squad, this is not a team game.
This is a disproportional game, a modern version of Hunger Games. Everything here is disproportional, you name it. Matchmaking - pairing complete newbies with pros and dropping 20 squads like this into the game. Does it sound like a team game? Matches require you to shred the whole lobby, or do absolutely nothing to win. Does it sound like a team game? Your skill, rank - doesn't matter. There is always that one teammate outperforming others by the mile. Does it sound like a team game?
Midnight9746
Hero+
2 years ago
@AreYouShivering Fair point, my frustrations is that its ranked and I expect to have similar skilled teammates, going against similar skilled enemies. Clearly everyone who wants that too, is simply asking for too much. Then again, the same thing happened with Titan Fall, and we all know how that went.
HappyHourSumwur
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
@AreYouShivering It has been awful for solo queue players since I started towards the end of Season 8. Respawn has no clue.
AreYouShivering
New Ace
2 years ago
@HappyHourSumwur I think season 8 was the last I played ranked.
AnyBrains
2 years ago
Make sure those so called perpetual looters, you're calling out are noobs that don't know what they are doing, rather than a skilled player like myself that finds at times, you do have to run around sometimes a lot, just to get some decent loot.
I'm not running into fights in LVL1 armor with a low stats player on my team with only a P2020 in my pocket.
With the sad massive amounts of cheaters, I'm going to run around, until I have decent, fully kitted out weapson and bats and med kits and even some good armor.
Otherwise, yeah, you go shoot with 50 rounds, LVL 1 Armor, 2 shields, 2 bats and tell me how well that always works out LOL.
The problem with this game, besides the massive cheats, are the low level players would don't understand what amount of loot you do need to actually be effective at times.
Sure, everyone can get lucky, I'm not in it for luck, I'm in it to play as a Skilled well Looted player and if I have to run around for a while I do it.
I Loot then Shoot! 😉
I have 3400 hrs, just over Prestige 220, I know how to play. Remember, it's a Survival Game, last one standing, and sometimes you have to do, whatever it takes to make that happen!
I also only play as a Random player too, so that is where you really have to be smart and get good loot. To many clueless Randoms get you killed in this game, far to often, who are way under looted...

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