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6 years ago

SBMM - RIP Apex

I’m an average player who won now and then, for every bad game, I’d get a good one. Now every game is just really hard and not fun any more. I play ranked if I want a consistently challenging experie...

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Babbediboopi

6 years ago

@Flashshark1980

I would guess that they are continuously tweaking the SBMM to find a good balance. That seems to be their general method; i.e. to implement something new directly to the live servers with minimum prior testing and then just "see how it goes and adjust accordingly". Other example of this: Distributor rounds and the Charge rifle that both were incredibly broken when first released. But to my experience, it seems like the SBMM is based "fresh stats" i.e. it seems to go after your recent games and not your lifetime kills etc.

And Respawn and transparency?? Haha they dont know what PR is to be honest. Compare this to how Riot games and Bluehole work. Every patch they go through in detail exactly what and why they have done. Respawn just do stuff and hope it will work =)

honeymaster

6 years ago

Yes, you are probably right. It does seem slightly better since the Christmas update (or maybe this is my imagination!). I can see the logic in SBMM but think there should also be a random pubs option.