I understand this. I know it is not simple but I should not be playing one of the top 500 players playing the game. Playing someone better than me, fine. But playing someone that much better than me is not okay. Yes there should be mixed skill gap in lobbies. Under no circumstances should I play a top 500 player, as I am not top 500. Playing people better than me is expected but not THAT much better. It's not fun. I am so outmatched by these players in a casual match that I don't stand a chance. I am not a math wiz or a software designer, but I do know I am not enjoying getting destroyed almost on a game to game basis by someone with 200 times the play time of me. I am okay with a challenge, but playing a borderline professional player is not a challenge that is enjoyed.
I personally would rather wait a long time for a balanced fair match than loads of unbalanced matches. I am okay with long queue times.
I don't know what a fair system would look like, But respawn doesn't seem to be trying. They are silent and don't update the players on anything. This is why I respect Ubisoft as a developer, they are constantly talking to the community and updating them on what they are working on. Other games have working casual matchmaking systems, Overwatch, Siege and others I have played where I do not play the top 500 best players. They are different types of games yes, but surely something in those games could be used to make apex a fairer matchmaking system.
I don't want to feel "good" or "better" at apex I just want to have a game in which I could play, someone of my skill level, someone slightly better than me and someone slightly worse. Not the same game but Scump was talking about COD matchmaking and saying he doesn't want to play the best players all the time in casual or the worst players all the time in casual. Why is this so hard for apex?
So am I getting this right, since people who are upset with the supposed "sbmm" in apex cannot figure out a viable alternative. Our concerns just don't matter? There is nothing wrong with the system because there is nothing that can be done to make it better? Is that the conclusion here?
Sure playing a top 500 sweat once in a while, okay fine. But in my experience almost every time I get killed, it is by a predator. I am not exaggerating. I have put hundreds of hours into Overwatch and during it's hay day, I never once played a master, grandmaster or top 500 player. I ask, do you enjoy playing games in which every single match you get destroyed, absolutely demolished by someone who is way better than you? Because everyone I have ever met who plays games would say no.
@Kateh8sapexOne thing that has to be taken into account is the fact there are at all times 1m + online at a time with a mixture of about 25-30 different region servers. Some on East Coast have duplicate servers example carolina-1-2-3.
So with this comes the split of the players across regions and repeated servers. This then will create a problem to correctly place people without having long que times. This will then cause them to place at times players not in the skill gap as others to force matches to be made and played. Blame having soo many duplicate state servers for East Coast. (If you are on the East Coast that is)
@E9ine_AC Ok that is interesting. This is an explanation that makes sense. I am on the West coast, there are four Oregon servers I think. Oregon 1 and 2, Oregon GCE 1 and 2. I don't know what the difference is but what you said might explain some of the things I have experienced.
However, I do ask, why do I have 90 ping in game when all the Oregon servers have about 20 ping, at least according to apex itself. I have a friend on the east coast I sometimes play R6 Siege with and when I host he always has 90-100 ping. Am I actually getting pulled to an east coast server? or is something else happening.
I would love to understand this phenomenon.
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