@SunlessMeridian
I mean, it does sort of make sense that the algorithm wants to keep matches as balanced as possible, but waiting that long for a casual match does not afford further incentive to continue playing Arenas. My time is becoming more and more limited these days and sometimes (not all the time) I want a casual experience and want it fairly quickly.
I think Apex needs some sort of non-SBMM fast paced mode for players to just drop into— perhaps as a warm up for the regular modes. Stats don’t even have to count in said mode.
I just want a mode that doesn’t make me feel like I’m in league tournament. Constantly playing your equal and stressing out every single moment you engage in an activity is just not sustainable for mental health.
Oh, and EA support on Twitter assured me that the Community team read and forward concerns to the Respawn dev team. If that's the case please can someone acknowledge the problem? And if that's not true I'm going to assume the continuing silence is a mark of this forum being ignored and EA reps on twitter deliberately mislead to placate angry voices.
Remarkable how totally ridiculous the matchmaking remains.
Obfuscating Ranks doesn't work when people stream - If i'm a plat player in Ranked Arena I don't think it's fair to punish me for losing to a Diamond player. Ranks should go against each other, with increased waiting to balance skills properly. The fact that there's no selectivity in matchmaking is really ruining things.
Losing to a Diamond Arena team then having to face a Pred three stack then another Diamond squad makes zero sense (The amount of people streaming makes this easy to verify) If I have a personal MMR why is it not being used for anything except to calculate my 12 point AP reward (or -19 loss) and not for determining the difficulty of my opponents.
