"And how are they going to prevent that better players will start new accounts to go into noob lobbies to slay out?"
They will not, but it will at least reduce the stomping. Since the veteran play will skyrocket through the ranks.
And while i don't think a ladder clearly splitting players in various ranks is bad. Stopping streamers that play 12 hours a day being matched against noobs lvl 1, like happened in that pathetic "rivals" event, would be a great start.
I would consider myself above average, but i have friends that are just starting to play on PC and seeing them get stomped by players with rank 60 with over 1k of kills isn't fun. They complain and they have the right to complain. Because at this point they aren't even playing the game, they are just moving targets so other people look good.
That story of "how they will learn then?" is said by people that either don't know * about the game and want easy kills or people that doesn't understand skill progression.
You learn something from people that are slightly above you. Not from people are so high that you don't even understand what they are doing or talking about.
In a more real world situation; saying they will learn something from getting stomped by these players is the same as giving a trigonometric exercise to a kid that just learned addition and expect the kid to learn something from it. That's not going to happen.
PS: it's the third time that i'm posting this and the forum isn't showing my message. If for some reason i got triple post; you know why.
The way it works in apex though doesn’t give you a better player experience the only way to do well now is to play with two friends at the same skill level if you play with two friends that are worse than you you still get screwed playing with one or two random people get screwed. And i do not have any friends at the same skill level as me also if at once i was able to compete at a certain skill level doesnt mean i can play at that same skill level it i havent played the game in weeks it takes a couple days to get back into it with apex and getting killed instantly off spawn every game doesnt allow you to get back to that level sbmm needs to account for time you havent played the game and if you’re queuing with random people you shouldnt be playing against a premade team of 3 tryhards
I really realy like SBMM !
From my point of view they can replace ranked play with SBMM, because it calculates the level more accurate!
In ranked you get points for nothing, even if u just did 3 damage but killed an enemy you can level up.
At some point ranked just looses his attraction because you are stuck on a too high level.
SBMM on the other hand always brings you into the right match with even squadmembers and enemies.
I think real "hardcore" players are not looking for easy targets!
They want to have a challenging and exciting matches against equal oponents and with equal teammates.
SBMM can deliver this the same way as ranked does.
Low players are kept together by SBMM and encourages them to play on.
At the moment SBMM has problems pairing the avarage to advanced skilled players.
They seem to get too difficult matches.
I guess the waiting times for high skilled players increased to much.
They had to mix high skilled and advanced skilled players.
I am sure they will improve SBMM in the next months...
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