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chiefthunderbal's avatar
3 years ago

Ranked is pointless with all the Smurfs

I have screenshot after screen shot of teams smurfing their way though ranked and ruining games playing way outside their level. I report them so many times and yet it seems to do nothing as I run into more and more every week. I can't submit my screenshots or I will get a ban and using the in game report doesn't do anything either so what's the point? We need somewhere we can submit gameplay and screen shots to for review. This is getting out of hand.

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  • Midnight9746's avatar
    Midnight9746
    Hero+
    3 years ago

    @Palette24carats Smurpex Legends



    Edited: I'm 1 tier away from plat IV, (I'm gold 1), meanwhile this aimbotting smurph pops into existance. Now smurphs are more likely using cheats in my current lobbies, ring 2 hasn't even closed yet, and there's been like 1 or 2 care packages, yet they have an Alternator:



    The following are from another match, which all occured within that same match. (which happened about 30 minutes later):



    Both Bloodhound and Pathfinder are in the same club with the tag "Smrf", I'm not trying to "name and shame" either, as there's multiple clubs with that tag, in which I don't know which one they're apart of, and I'm pointing out the fact that it literally is a smurph club.




    Next match:





    More smurphs!



    Edited again: I'm now 5 hours (according to Discord) into a single session, and there's still smurphs. I keep updating, because EA needs to understand this is a HUGE issue that needs to be addressed.

    This one had aimbot and wall hacks (they snapped to me long range, about 55 meters away, before they were even /suppose/ to know where I was. I was quiet, I was hidden, yet they still knew where I was)



    Here's their 3rd if anyone wondered, I don't know if this one is a smurph though:

    Get these smurphs OUT of our lobbies, its been non-stop smurph town.

    EA, this isn't any better:

  • Palette24carats's avatar
    Palette24carats
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago
    @Midnight9746 I like that double master smurf proves im not the only one facing them in game everyday of the rank split. They all get tired of playing their own main account and hop up on their many smurfs to help one of their 200 friend or just for fun. Even a streamer I watch everyday did hop up on his smurf account today... he is a master on his main account and gold on his smurf : he reached plat 4 today said he wants to help a friend reach diamond problem is he dont need to play to grind before his friend come by which is exactly what he was doing. If they have 10 friends they might need 10 smurfs account and grind 10 times during the split: disgusting
  • Midnight9746's avatar
    Midnight9746
    Hero+
    3 years ago
    @Palette24carats Yeah, also I don't think that Master Caustic was smurphing. They appear to have missed a few rank splits, and had gotten demoted below plat. Which is another issue as well.
  • Palette24carats's avatar
    Palette24carats
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago

    Seems like there is an ENDLESS amount of previously higher ranked players being bronze 4 in platinum lobbies (aka smurfing on their 4th smurf account), weird how they both are in the same team bronze 4 in platinum lobby

    Today again:

  • @chiefthunderball they are not smurfing, they are cheating, which is the worst problem this community has right now. CHEATING. WALLHACKING as the rule and not the exception.
  • Palette24carats's avatar
    Palette24carats
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago

    A bronze 4 killed me AGAIN in platinum lobby, bronze 4 are the STRONGEST players there is!!! It was a 1 vs 1 duel and he easily clapped me as a platinum 3. They kill me many times everyday!! And guess what; I couldnt spectate him.

  • Midnight9746's avatar
    Midnight9746
    Hero+
    3 years ago
    @Palette24carats Bronze in plat lobbies is a cheat. Only gold and diamonds can be matchmaked with plats. This is because once you reach plat, your squad can only be one rank different than you, which should be either gold or diamond teammates. This is designed to keep high ranking players, such as preds, playing with lower ranking players, and to "avoid" having players get stomped on by tougher teams. Although not only does matchmaking doesn't care, but the smurphing is a big problem, and cheaters keep finding ways to match into higher lobbies anyways.

    The bronze can only match with silver and gold, and they wouldn't be put into a lobby with plat or higher players. If they were gold, then yes, they would see plat players, and maybe even some diamonds. Thus, that's a cheat.
  • Solim66's avatar
    Solim66
    3 years ago

    News flash: the apex legends devs are probably very happy with all these smurf accounts because this shows that the game attracts a huge amount of "new" players constantly. It's all about the numbers. Meanwhile, the true new players or the less skilled players are getting screwed over.

  • Midnight9746's avatar
    Midnight9746
    Hero+
    3 years ago

    @Solim66Sadly that's pretty much true. It still annoys me though.

    I was in a duos match where I was kill leader with 8 kills, and then I get curb stompped by a strikepack console player (dude was even hitting through walls due to console issues and whatnot), and their teammate kinda looks like a smurph, but I am unsure if they are a smurph and they're a Steam player so no site trackers are tracking them. They seriously need to put smurphs in their own lobby and shove these console strikepack players with them.

    Oh, and sure me and Lifeline did 4 headshots in the fight, I at least had to aim, and didn't use strikepacks or whatever kind of cheat they're using to do it all in a row, through a wall.



    I like to share player ID's so if they are a cheater or whatnot, EA AHQ staff can pass it along, Ash for some reason had no ID whatsoever, which is odd. Everyone has an ID, even the servers have an ID.

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