Smurf Accounts

Same here. It's either dealing with diamonds and predators in pubs or dealing with smurfs in ranked. Whatever I choose, finding a lobby with people of similar skill is very difficult right now.

I'm not sure what to think of this game anymore. It feels like getting better is no longer an option because almost everyone I face is 10 times better than me. I'm not able to close that skill gap by myself, that's the harsh truth.

Smurfs suck 2 steps need added and linked via IP HWID. I get beyond annoyed seeing my team of 3 stack preds get demolished by some level 50 either a apex god and or cheater. I lean either way i know both exist. But I would feel much better about a death to see it was done by a high level main account. I dont get salty when they kill me or anything but i do question if they are legit or not. Cause 2 pred friends and myself are no walks in the park to kill. So when we can be demolished with out that person for what it seems even trying we start to question... Is this a apex god??? Or is this a cheater? Game is soo full of both there is no telling. I personally am sick of it. 

2 factor authentication would solve this, meaning if Respawn requires all players to link a valid phone number to their account this would help reduce the amount of people smurfing and as an added bonus this would reduce the number of recurrent cheaters as well

COD Warzone implemented this and it worked very well the only reason it stopped working is that a lot of recurrent cheaters keep buying the game on battle net sales and when purchased COD (for whatever reason) doesn't require 2 factor authentication. Most cheaters have a lot of money (have you ever seen the prices of cheats on online games - crazy expensive).

Apex luckily is only free-to-play, thus 2 factor would be extremely effective in this game as there would be no way around it unlike in COD where players can buy the game to get around it.

No idea if devs actually read this forum but 2 factor is urgently needed in the game to reduce smurfing and cheaters both in one big sweep.

Respawn themselves even said; Chad Grenier (Game Director at Respawn):

• Keeps new players, right, when we turn skill-based matchmaking off, we see new players come into the game and they turn away much sooner, because they’re getting matched with high-tier players and they’re getting stomped. So we have concrete evidence that skill-based matchmaking is good for the overall health of the game. That’s why we haven’t addressed it. It’s clearly good for the game. I know that we get backlash from certain key players who want to go pubstomp people, but for every person pubstomping, there’s many victims that have the opposite experience, where they’re getting smacked. We need skill-based matchmaking. I think every game out there has some version of skill-based matchmaking. Obviously, not every game handles it the same way. But we feel like it’s really healthy for our game.

Thus by having people pubstomp through smurfing they are actually killing this game by reducing the number of new players and existing players keep playing this game in the long run.

2 factor authentication would solve this, meaning if Respawn requires all players to link a valid phone number to their account this would help reduce the amount of people smurfing and as an added bonus this would reduce the number of recurrent cheaters as well

COD Warzone implemented this and it worked very well the only reason it stopped working is that a lot of recurrent cheaters keep buying the game on battle net sales and when purchased COD (for whatever reason) doesn't require 2 factor authentication. Most cheaters have a lot of money (have you ever seen the prices of cheats on online games - crazy expensive).

Apex luckily is only free-to-play, thus 2 factor would be extremely effective in this game as there would be no way around it unlike in COD where players can buy the game to get around it.

No idea if devs actually read this forum but 2 factor is urgently needed in the game to reduce smurfing and cheaters both in one big sweep.

Respawn themselves even said; Chad Grenier (Game Director at Respawn):

Keeps new players, right, when we turn skill-based matchmaking off, we see new players come into the game and they turn away much sooner, because they’re getting matched with high-tier players and they’re getting stomped. So we have concrete evidence that skill-based matchmaking is good for the overall health of the game. That’s why we haven’t addressed it. It’s clearly good for the game. I know that we get backlash from certain key players who want to go pubstomp people, but for every person pubstomping, there’s many victims that have the opposite experience, where they’re getting smacked. We need skill-based matchmaking. I think every game out there has some version of skill-based matchmaking. Obviously, not every game handles it the same way. But we feel like it’s really healthy for our game.

Thus by having people pubstomp through smurfing they are actually killing this game by reducing the number of new players and existing players keep playing this game in the long run.

yeah we dont need 2 step auth.   that is some basic thinking.  fix the reason why people need to make new accounts just to enjoy the game.  

or is your enjoyment more important than other peoples enjoyment?? 

i know those hamster wheels probably arent spinning so i'll help you out..   it's the matchmaking.

Bro if we go by their own stats, the diamonds and predators are under 5% of the gamers right? so by that logic if there is absolutely no sbmm involved how many preds will you see statistically in games honestly? you would have to be 95% UNLUCKY to get 1 pred or diamond in every lobby... I still will never understand why this sbmm shenanigan exist in pubs honestly... in s3 when i started before the first duos event was done it wasn't this bad , i really enjoyed my game, sometimes i would get killed in 1 second sometimes i could hold my own and do something (i was extremely less skilled at the game now i am over 11k games in back then i was maybe 200games in) .

But nowdays my pubs are just disgusting , I see the purple / red trails in about 20-50% of the lobby in almost every lobby, well after starting my game like that i get demoralized because i get matched with people that have less kills than i have wins in a season and that run in the open vs 5-10 people shooting at them and I am not able to carry these people, I never got predator or masters , best i did was d3 ... so why do i keep getting placed in pubs with people that have the # sign in their rank is out of my mind.....

Smurfs are mostly plat-d4 players that think the game is bad and they are the best and they start going into lower ranks to try to stomp , i played with a few friends in those lowrank lobbies and honestly I can't be serious at it... when i see a guy that is looking around at 70fov i just can't say OMG LET ME GET 30 kills.. i just ape and probably die into a crossfire by 4-5 people .