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Seasoned Ace

1 year ago

Same old matchmaking problem

I didnt play Apex in 3 months I get in tonight try the new rank mode, I am a beginner on mnk on pc 114 level account I start as bronze and the first 3 games I play is with new accounts bronze players...

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Midnight9746

Hero+

1 year ago

@Palette24carats Yeah, matchmaking has been a bit of a challenge. Although, Respawn had said they're going to change it in S22 to make it better. I'm not sure how much better it would get and the devs will have to sort out the cheating and smurfing problem as well. There's also the fact that some players either don't play rank, or they derank themselves to play in lower lobbies, so that would need to be looked into as well. Eitherway, I hope S22's change to the matchmaking works out.

Also, just so you know, (its easy to miss it), Wraith's username is still visible above their head, which can be seen where the Alter portal is. Meanwhile the usernames at the top left of the Horizon's banner card should be okay, (although I personally prefer to hide the player's tags as well). There is also player's usernames on the Apex banners in the background, (and while its hard to see in the screenshot, I hide those too).

To help make it easier for you, here's your screenshot with the usernames removed from all instances they appear in, (either readable or not), as well as an update to the yellow edits:

Palette24carats

Seasoned Ace

1 year ago

@Midnight9746 Thanks. Is it shaming anyway if the player is not related to the post and his banner is not shown ? I dont think so any twitch stream feature player names this is getting non sensical.

Yeah but they said they would solve this problem in thenpast and we were supposed to get closer to 1 kd with changes in matchmaking.... that never happened to me I think my kd even got below 0.3 for the first time ever.
So I expect the same, empty promises, playing with bad players against masters and 4k badge owners while not even having a 2k badge and my kd below 0.4.

It disgusts me.

Midnight9746
Hero+
1 year ago
@Palette24carats "Is it shaming anyway if the player is not related to the post and his banner is not shown?"

It could be seen as that, yeah.
OnclePicsmurf
1 year ago
@Palette24caratsthat was in s17-19 when they added sbmm in ranked and it was the worst season ever.

sbmm should never exist in fps since the anti cheat never work.
just wait one week and bronze will be full of bots again don't worry.
- Palette24carats
  Seasoned Ace
  1 year ago
  @OnclePicsmurfI don't think sbmm can be bad... unless you have a kd way over 1 you would be a minority and would have your kd go down. But still you would be doing better than others.
  
  I just looked at my historic Kdr and it seems to explain how I have less fun over time. When I started playing Apex I was really bad at aiming and didnt understand my environment much, I worked very hard to improve and I did improve a LOT!!!
  
  Yet my kdr says 0.76 in season 3... where I was a really bad player!
  Then it went stable at around 0.5 from season 4 to season 19. Which is ok because I am not a fragger
  but a support who gets way more assists and revive my teammates and respawn them often.
  
  Then it dropped towards 0.35 from season 20 to season 22. Even dropping at 0.28 at some point last season.
  
  So they promised we would get closer to 1 Kd a few season ago but hey surprise it did the exact opposite for me, I went close to 0. Which surely explains why I don't have fun anymore, who would have fun with a 0.35 Kd after improving himself a lot and putting thousands of hours in the game. My teammates are 95% just really bad or so cocky they die alone somewhere. How is balanced ? Tell me. I can't play this season again.
  - OnclePicsmurf
    1 year ago
    sbmm isn't bad in other game type like moba/rts etc , in fps it never worked and it will never work.
    especially in a game like apex where the code source leaked and hackers can do do what they want with it.
    as for your kda , even with 0.3 global kda you'd probably be in the top 10% of the player base with the billions of bot account with 0.0 kda