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AJYSuperfly
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2 hours ago

Ranked Lobbies

I just need to know, there are 70,000 people playing right now... so why IN THE HELL is it putting me, solo queuing in plat 1, in a lobby with both teammates also in plat one, then 14 diamond teams, 4 masters teams, and a freaking pred team?!?! Like, is this some kind of sick joke? Actually WTF. Additionally, has anyone else noticed the massive loot discrepancy between plat and diamond? I thought it was a coincidence at first but after over 50 games and it being extremely consistent I am certain. When lobbies are all plat, and I can drop from the drop ship, it's not necessarily hard to find a blue backpack for everyone in the team in the first five or so minutes, but it's not guaranteed, however when there are 5+ diamond teams in the lobby and we drop from the predetermined designated drop zones, my full squad has purple backpacks within a minute every single game, and find dozens of blue backpacks on the floor. Twice is a coincidence, but to be that consistent over dozens of games, that can't just be luck. It's pretty much a completely different game between the shift in the drop ship and the loot density and while I don't personally mind either of those changes I just want it to be consistent across ranks so I don't play a completely different game every other round.

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  • Logic about number of players playing and horrendous matchmaking has been unanswered for year.

    Closest info I got is that e.g. those steam numbers actually contain players that have Apex in their game list on steam and online (aka playing) or offline (total). And what is worse - online = running steam not running actual game. So many of those numbers are just bloated.

    From my experience especially in past 5 seasons when they started feeding Plats to Preds I see at most 3 servers running at the same time in EU, that is same 100-150 names recycling over and over again.

    As for the backpacks - they tuned it a while ago alongside healing queue option. I bet it is because of casuals especially on controllers to dumb the game down (again). Honestly I don't even pay attention to backpacks anymore as I know I have blue by default but probably purple especially if someone plays support and opens support bin(s). I hate it honestly, I still vote for no backpacks and white ones as ground loot so people think about loot management vs just running with 300 ammo 10+ bats, 5 nades and 2 Ult accels.

    Overall logic is crazy - Respawn first gives Platinum for free, in some regions even Diamond4+, percentage of Diamond players in ranked skyrockets from 3-8% before season 12? to like 30%+ for the past seasons -> and then Respawn feed those basically gold/low plat brain, skill players to Preds and Masters who are allegedly best players in the world... yup... hope people happy now :D

    But overall Apex community in that sense was weird since day 1 (or there about):

    - too many want to cheat and do cheat to gain "respect", reach Masters easily and then quit (because they don't want to grind, invest time and most importantly play vs similar cheaters)
    - too many hunt badges, like before demotion protection was a thing most ranked players reached D4 and stopped playing / smurfed because lobbies became significantly harder and they did not really care about D4 or D1, all they cared about was diamond badge and dive trail
    - overall people are very "soft" and not competitive why highest ranks always had sort of limited number of players (which actually would make sense)

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