So I’ve been playing apex since it launched. I’m not the best player in the world, but I’ve gotten to Diamond a few times and certainly enjoy the sweaty gameplay. BUT, there was recently a change to the matchmaking system that has completely ruined both casual and ranked play. I am now getting master and predator players in my lobbies (even in gold ranked lobbies). EVEN STILL, I am good enough to get some wins here and there with my premade squad in these insane lobbies. HOWEVER I am now trying to get my step brother into apex. He does not live with me, so when he told me that he went 7 straight matches without ANY DAMAGE, I thought he was insane. I told him that he must just be really bad as he is playing against other noobs. He insisted he was “getting lasered.” Finally I had him send me his login info and I logged into his account from my console to see what was going on. Here is the kill info from the VERY FIRST MATCH I PLAYED ON HIS ACCOUNT! WHY is a level 21 player who has never played the game being matched against a master badge player????? This new matchmaking has shown some weird quirks already, but this is ridiculous. Respawn better do something about this ASAP, or the player base will absolutely begins to shrink. Just revert to the old matchmaking system… that would be a quick and easy fix. AND I BLOCKED OUT ALL NAMES SO DO NOT REMOVE THIS PHOTO!!!

Don’t worry you’re not the only one experiencing this garbage matchmaking! We had predators matching up in our Bronze ranked matches at the start of the season and continuously are matched up with 2 stack 20 bomb 30k kill masters to preds in pubs! I have a 0.6 k/d lifetime and a 0.68 this season ffs! I should not be matched against the top 10% of the player base at all! Respawn just continues to drop the ball again and again!

Game is dead. I come back here to verify if it has been resurrected, but it hasn’t. C’mon, it has been a problem for 3 seasons now. 🙁

dudes, if one thing should be evident after 23 seasons, matchmaking is rigged and that wont change.

@GoSoxAV8 Think part of the reason is that people smurph and cheat on new accounts, while the current matchmaking system sees that and thinks "oh... these low levels are masters/pred level in terms of skill? cool!" and then pits new players against people who been sweating at the game.

@GoSoxAV8You aren't alone and they haven't changed anything yet as far as I can tell. I'm an average, solo queue player and get matched with players worse than me and against players better than me all the time. It is horrible, especially when it does it 10 games in a row which it does fairly regularly.Your example of trying to get your step brother into Apex is exactly what Snip3down complained about a few months ago when trying to play Apex with his wife who is not as good as he is. She was getting destroyed and they both had a horrible time.

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reconzero
Seasoned Ace
2 months ago
"Snip3down complained..."
To be fair, this is an impossible situation. If a very good, top-tier player is going to queue with a novice then there can only be two outcomes. Match to the novice's skill (where the good player will dominate the lobby, probably single-handedly) or match to the good player's skill (where the novice will get rolled every single engagement). It's a no win situation for the players AND for the matchmaker, but I have to say that in this rare instance I side with the dev and the way they currently handle these situations. Top-tier players should NEVER get a free ride. Obviously they DO get them every single day in early-season ranked play, on their multiple secondaries, etc. etc. etc. But in principle these players should never be handed an easy match because it cannot but come at the expense of some other hapless averagely-skilled player. And there's no excuse for that. Not "I'm skilled so the matchmaker should give me random matching." Not "I'm skilled so I shouldn't be forced to wait for the matchmaker to find similarly skilled players." None of that b.s. Sorry you're so good at the game, Mr. Predator. Now get in line and shut up like the rest of us.
And here's a quick after thought. Snip3down is old enough to know that the way you handle that situation is to start a secondary. I would personally call that a slimy move, but that stops no one from doing it. And his easy matches wouldn't have lasted for long, but it would have been better than what actually happened. At least better for his wife. Not better for the poor schlubs he would have been destroying....
r1ggedgame
Seasoned Ace
2 months ago
dudes, if one thing should be evident after 23 seasons, matchmaking is rigged and that wont change.
Blekerodo
Seasoned Veteran
2 months ago
This will never change, 3stacks and streamers need easy kills to feed themselves in this game.

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