Re: What is this?

@PsyhiX69 I'm assuming the "SBMM" takes the data of every player and then determines who should fight who. This is an issue as it would see all the low level accounts with cheats enabled and then consider them to be just as good, if not better than preds.

Assuming this is correct, its why we see preds and low level accounts in our matches, (including in ranked). The system thinks we're all the same skill level due to the hacking and smurf accounts making the lower levels seem like preds. Chances are as well is that the low level "new players" you get as teammates were just in a match where they were cheating and they're acting like they cannot hit anything to throw off the anti-cheat and to evade a ban.

I get randoms who act like they never played Apex before, and then when they're on the enemy team, they act like they have aimbot, wall hacks, and anti-recoil scripts enabled, yet the next time I see them, they can't hit anything but still are able to track players through walls.

In other words, it seems like the system sees a low level getting a bunch of kills and damage and then it assumes that low levels are at the same skill level as pred players. Which would cause it to assume that other low levels, (the legit ones) are just as good as preds as well, and then we end up in matches with new players, bots, and preds running around, oftentimes dealing with smurfs and cheaters as well.

If the game "fast pace" players through rank like Respawn had said it would, we would see a ton of low levels in the higher ranks rather then in rookie-gold ranks.

Also if the game cared about skills, it wouldn't put bots in matches with the casual players, as well as keeping the smurfs, cheaters, and preds in their own matches. The moment a new account gets created, it makes sense to put them in a lower lobby, but if they then sweat in their first 50 or so matches, they need to either get banned or placed into higher lobbies, not put into matches with casuals.

Another thing is that on certain servers, there's a ton of bot accounts that are online basically 24/7, and all they do is land at the end of the dropship launch, and then punch/jump in place. You would see 20-30 of them doing this, and a few players farming them for kills and damage.

The game would also need to detect repeated actions like this and start banning the low accounts and those who keep kill grinding them. While if a player is on 24/7 and they're always in a match doing something, that should be an obvious red flag that its a bot because at some point a real player would either need to eat, go to work/school, sleep, etc. The fact that this isn't detected is disappointing.