Matchmaking sbmm hasn’t changed in season 20
You said you’d change the ranked matchmaking this season. Played 10 games, zero kills. Killed every time by a 4k master diamond badge guy. I’m in the lowest rank and I can’t get a kill?? What? Playe...
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@Benjamin8894For the "SBMM", (if we can even call it that), everyone got reset to rookie, and so we're in the same lobbies as preds. Its best to wait a week or two before getting into ranked.
As for the crafters, that was changed to prevent zone healing, which they also changed zone to now go, "hey... you're camping", before it kills you.
What I would of done if I was able to, was make the crafters turn off when out of the ring, making them fully unuseable, even when its in a heat shield. It won't stop crafting if it was activated before being engolfed by the ring, but it will stop any future crafting while its outside the ring. Disabling the crafter outside the ring was even suggested by several players and pros, as disabling it solves the out of ring camping.
The problem they created is that not only would you get squad wiped by a fast closing ring, but you can't craft anything useful to survive while in the ring, and any weapons locked in Rampart's town takeover on World's Edge is fully up for grabs by anyone. I heard its limited to one per player, however imagine full sweat teams landing there, but still. Part of the charm was earning the crafting materials.
Other changes they could of done are:
- Disabling the heat shields in ranked
- Make healing items less and less effective, the more its used outside of the ring, until the player moves back into the ring
- Make the ring damage slowly increase for those camping outside of it
- Certain crafting options becomes disabled while the crafter is out of the ring, or is crafted by the team too many times; aka med kits
Instead we got:
- Make team survival, (in a game where players mainly play as a solo anyways), more impossible. I thought we'd all have one use at the crafter, but if its going to be one use for the whole team, that's not it chief. However, even one use per player would be too limiting as well.
- @Midnight9746 predators are a very very tiny minority so it doesnt matter we supposedly are in their lobbies because there are way more rookies, silvers, gold than predators.
Secondly I don't think they completely removed sbmm no game ever did preds still fight against high elo players.
But I can attest this matchmaking is a solo q killer again... played like 20 games and my team never ever won a single fight against opposing team. It is so bad I just play a couple of games and then go watch videos it is more fun.
Something is very very wrong.- @Palette24carats Just played a few ranked matches, its a bit bad. Not S17-S19 bad, but S13 bad. Teammates are useless about 80% of the time, and it seems like one of them is a bot, instead of both of them.
I had a match where a Bloodhound was just running around being a loot goblin, hiding in buildings often and when a fight broke out, they were the first knocked, and they had the golden knockdown while I was Lifeline.
In other words, the matchmaking now is a step in the right direction, but not big enough to make much of a difference.- @Midnight9746 how can it be a step in the right direction when my kdr is one third of what it used to be? Something is wrong I dont know do they group solo q players against premades more than before?
@Palette24carats wrote:
@Midnight9746predators are a very very tiny minority so it doesnt matter we supposedly are in their lobbies because there are way more rookies, silvers, gold than predators.Wanted to respond to this with some good ol' math 🙂
Suppose we consider "high skilled players" to be the top 5% of all of Apex (diamonds, masters and preds) and the "top players" to be the top 1% (preds and masters).Then the chance (under complete random matchmaking, aka rookie) that a player is not a "high skilled player" is 95% (remember we defined a "high skilled player" to be in the top 5% of Apex). And the chance that there are NO high skilled players in your lobby at all is (95%)^57 (that is 95% multiplied for each enemy in the lobby). This is roughly 5.4%.
This means there is a 94.6% chance of at least one player being in the top 5% of your server.For the top 1% this changes to (99%)^57 = 56.4% chance that there are no top 1% players in your lobby and thus a 43.6% chance that there is at least one top 1% player in your lobby.
This does not take into account that the highest skill player play this game more (which makes them more likely to encounter), that active high skilled players quickly move out of the lower ranks (which makes them less likely to encounter), that active high skilled players are more likely to smurf (making them more likely to encounter), and that the winner of a fight is often the higher skilled player (which means that they survive longer and thus makes them more likely to encounter)
Due to the large number of players in a lobby, it is actually rather likely that a low skilled player encounters (and perishes at the hands of) a significantly higher skilled player.
I really want a "whoops, you died to somebody way outside of your skill. Have 100 free Apex coins." penalty to EA. Just to watch them bleed money for 5 minutes (after which they miraculously solved it).- @Anjunakrokus Okay, by this point, a lot of players should be in higher lobbies. I'm still in silver, as I'm taking it slow, but the matchmaking clearly doesn't seemed to have been changed. Its still unbalanced and thus unplayable.
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