SBMM and My Mental Health
This is an opinion piece, and I know that some people will not care. However, this is my story. Okay, So an issue that has been hitting me since my return to apex (around the end of season 5) is ...
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@NoCutePanda Do you have a source for SBMM not being in pubs?
@apostolateofDOOM fixed what I said.
I know there is SBMM in Pubs right now. It is just almost non existent.
@NoCutePanda Oh it's there, just not what we would want or expect.
@Triumphkutter I don't think anyone wants SBMM completely removed from the game and he has some reasonable points. Sure we need protections in place for new players and i doubt anyone is denying that but this is a team game and if you're in higher brackets then want to have friends come play that are new or just bad then you can't join them unless you're on a smurf.
The current version of SBMM we have promotes smurfing and exploits which negates the whole point of protecting new players and their retention any way. People can't play with IRL friends or family who are new, don't play as often or just not as skilled. The solo experience for vets is punishing having 2 low level or bad players for ''match balance'' meaning you have to carry them and they get deleted if not under the mains wing making the game unenjoyable for them too and frustrating for everyone.
@apostolateofDOOMWhich is, what I was trying to say ^^'
@Triumphkutter I agree 100% there.
@apostolateofDOOM i guess it comes down to how you play with your friends.
MAYBE dont play your W-key playstyle they cant keep up with?
what you say sounds alot like that.
the thing is: you say sbmm stops me from playing with my friends that are way worse than me.
but you do not bring a single idea of how this could be balanced out to protect new players from
simply uninstalling the game before they reach level 10, because its totally stupid to get * on every Fing single game.
if you open up the sbmm, the game is LITERALLY UNPLAYABE for 80-90%% of the players.
i also tried a smurf account.
once i reached level 20ish, the system matched me with the game guys my main is on.
so.... it actually works fine to protect newer players.
some anecdote:
there a some hardcore PvP MMORPGS out there. the playerbase wanted the game to be pvp with no restrictions whatsoever.
when they accepted the players wish, the games died shortly after.
all of them.
all. of. them.
because what seems fun for some people, kills the playerbase.
and without the n00bs, the top player always laugh upon, the game dies.
every game needs the casual players to stay healthy.
this is not a joke, even if it is a different genre, the situation stays the same.
there are plenty of games that provide evidence.
I feel like the title of the topic is highly accurate. Because lately the game has given me some strains in regards of match making.
More often than not I'm finding myself paired with people who possess skills and moves that I didn't know existed. Some people apparently possess the ability to wall-run and wall-jump, take sharp turns mid-air... Meanwhile I'm bound to basic movement. If the game really thinks I'm that good, I'm honestly not sure if I should feel honored or trolled. I'm not even sure how the SBMM works in that regard. Because even if it's based on some generic stats like level, K/DR and Win rate, it doesn't work. There are people who are undoubtedly several times better than I am from the get go.
Then again, what I hear from some sources, the average K/DR seems to range between 0.8 and 1.2 - I'm sitting at the lower half of that range. But that's exactly it. I'm average. Yet I'm paired with people who have no issues popping 6 kills in the first 2 minutes of the game. I find it hard to believe their K/DR sits around 1.0 as well. Same goes for level. I find it hard to believe that someone who is level 500 is as good as I am.
- @NoCutePanda Something has to be done. Im tired of playing with guys lvl 60 who get dropped in seconds
How could I even get a lvl 7 Lifeline on my team? I thought they'd be protected against all of us lvl 500's.
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