Pub skill based matchmaking is garbage

i’m an average joe sitting in platinum and all i gotta say is that for me playing ranked is actually easier than pubs

@R3aper1212 

Yeah, I dont know how many times I dropped in Skulltown or Thunderdome just to fight, die and get better. And also, what people seem to forget is that IF the public games are 100% random, most games will have players from all skill levels; a few really bad, a few really good and most around average. Based on last seasons rank divisions (and I know this isnt a perfect approximation of skill), 76% of all players who played ranked for more than 5 hours were silver and gold! So perhaps about 45/60 players each match would be that "mid-tier" level.

So noobs wouldnt have to get "noob stomped" at all, especially not since they just can drop a little bit safer since we all know that most pros like to jump early and hot.

Man i sure do love going against players that are top 100 world wide in Apex or players that have over 40k kills. Makes the game fun 🙂

@Benchwarmerbrew If its one thing you need to take note of, AS long as respawn makes there money, to hell with everyone else.  180 ish dollars for a heriloom, less than 1 percent chance to get one, lets not even get into how invasive there cheat "program is". 

I'd love to say i was in predator lobbies. Im platinum IV and have seem very few of them sadly.

I've been playing apex for less than 2 weeks, I hit level 20 and I got my first two legends. I win 2 games in those two weeks I been playing, and I get matched up against people like dizzy, lulu and other sweaty streamers. Im not even good at the damn game but I get matched up with people who been playing since launch, and are extremely good. This is no fun for me at all. I honestly almost broke my whole setup because of how bad the game is with SBMM.

Well all you no life’s bitching from your moms basement have finally gotten what you wanted: lobbies of lower level players so you can pub stomp for your 4 viewers on Twitch. Meanwhile the bulk of the player base, the casual and average players are leaving in droves because getting run over by some loser who lives to play video games over and over gets old super quickly and takes every ounce of fun out of the game. The season 4 matchmaking changes will be the beginning of the end for this game bc it’s now only fun for about 5% or less of players. I used to love this game, and I have a life, job, and family, so I’m a casual/average player at best. Since season 4, I’ve played probably around 10% of what I did in all previous seasons, starting on day 1. Enjoy it while you can, bc soon there won’t be anyone left playing this game except the sweaty no lifers, and the game will be dead if things stay the way they currently are with matchmaking. 

I am not so concerned about pub games. Those I can tolerate to some extent but what I can't stand is absolutely trash matchmaking in ranked.

90% of the time I don't have a premade squad and I am often getting matched with people from gold and/or level <150 (I am plat 1, lvl500) who can't even use their ults.

I simply gave up on ranked and in fact playing the game much less now than ever before because of this.

Respawn claims SBMM is working well and help with player retention .... i call it complete bs and disconnect from the actual state of the game.

Perhaps they don't account for smurf accounts who make their statistics look good but as with statistics, you can show (or see) whatever you want, regardless of actual data.

I have never seen anyone asking for SBMM, yet Respawn won't take a step back and fix it or remove it. Developers not giving a rats * about community feedback about such a crucial feature of there game will eventually lose their player base to another studio/game that does ... and we have a pretty good contender coming up very soon so let's see how this plays out.