Re: Lets Talk About 'Skill-Based Matchmaking'?

I ve tried the Cycle, too!

It has some PvE elements, but PvP is deffinitly strong in the game!

Maybe it's the game for you FallenAngel777.

AFAIK there is no MM just pure random!

@Flashshark1980dont forget that @fallenangel777 was just like you a few days ago, he loved the experience... i stopped playing , so another noob is being fed to preds..so you will see in time.

@RwFinfrock Sweats will never be a burden for me personally. Apex is a hardcore game, I adopted it because it delivers a lot of intensity over a short period of time. Also, when it will become unplayable or boring, I will move on, I'm not chained to the game forever. I spent over 800 hours playing Apex already, which is probably far greater than the average longevity they aimed for when making their plans.

For the game to survive longterm, Respawn needs to keep players in for a season or so, but more importantly, to hook as many new ones as possible in the first 2-10 hours. I think retention was heavily affected by the many highly skilled players bombing lobbies , so SBMM became mandatory.

SBMM also helps in circumventing the Dunning-Kruger Effect's "valley of despair", where most players feel like they're hitting a wall, losing confidence and then abandoning the game with frustration.

This "valley of despair" lies deep within what we consider the "average player" bracket in Apex. A lot of time is needed to level up your skills until you become confident again and only after getting there you can face the top tier of the game (the gurus). Also, after this point there's a much smaller chance of you leaving the game, as you've invested many hours of hard work to build skills that are great in Apex, but close to useless in many other games.

Respawn cares. They are trying hard to not split the playerbase even further with many different modes, maps or metas, so that your queue times are short and the pool for SBMM is as big as possible. 

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@WickXI wrote:

@Flashshark1980dont forget that @fallenangel777 was just like you a few days ago, he loved the experience... i stopped playing , so another noob is being fed to preds..so you will see in time.

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Why will anything change over time?

To me it seems like my rank in SBMM is reset or at least lowered every day!

When I start playing my session, I get my first #1 placement during the first 3 matches.

Then I feel there IS a little adjustment by SBMM and I get tougher oponents.

But thats no problem, for me.

My biggest problem are those over agressive teammates, going alone and running blindly into enmies.

Yes and the leavers of course...

I believe the rank in SBMM is calculated situational over the past 5/10 matches.

So if you have a bad evening, you get lowered and less hard oponents.

If you have a good day, you get tougher oponents...

That is why I wonder why some say they dont get out of that "hard enemy environment".

After some matches ther must be a reaction!