Solo Player in ranked
What the hell did you do? Playing solo in ranked is not possible, always 3 stack master / preds in Gold? Jesus Christ fix your game
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@Balladalidila Literally this.
When they came out with the hidden MMR system, they had pretty much said, "if you go up against higher MMR players, and you win despite the odds, you'll get more points to rank up quicker".
What this meant was that if you're in the rookie rank, and you squad wipe a full gold squad, you'll get points to rank up to at least silver, if not gold a lot sooner. What ends up happening is that you got little to no points if you didn't place top 10, let alone 5. (I'm talking about in S17 here). Then in S18 and S19, they seemed to have done away with any bonuses you get from the matches all together.
If the "hidden MMR" matches us up in "lobbies with players of similar MMR", that means that most of us should be pred players, if not masters or diamonds. I cannot tell you how many times I've loaded into a bronze and silver ranked match, and the champion team is a full pre-stack diamond, masters, and/or pred team, with countless of smurfs running around the matches, and players using obvious cheats.
If the game thinks one can 1v3 a cheating, smurfing, or diamond/masters/pred squad, it should at least fast track that player to a higher rank instead of bullying them by going, "hahahah you lose points cuz you died!"
Not to mention the fact that none of the randoms seem to be useful 99.9% of the time. Like, why have a "MMR" system, if the game is just going to give you two teammates that play as if they just downloaded the game?
When they came out with the hidden MMR system, they had pretty much said, "if you go up against higher MMR players, and you win despite the odds, you'll get more points to rank up quicker".
What this meant was that if you're in the rookie rank, and you squad wipe a full gold squad, you'll get points to rank up to at least silver, if not gold a lot sooner. What ends up happening is that you got little to no points if you didn't place top 10, let alone 5. (I'm talking about in S17 here). Then in S18 and S19, they seemed to have done away with any bonuses you get from the matches all together.
If the "hidden MMR" matches us up in "lobbies with players of similar MMR", that means that most of us should be pred players, if not masters or diamonds. I cannot tell you how many times I've loaded into a bronze and silver ranked match, and the champion team is a full pre-stack diamond, masters, and/or pred team, with countless of smurfs running around the matches, and players using obvious cheats.
If the game thinks one can 1v3 a cheating, smurfing, or diamond/masters/pred squad, it should at least fast track that player to a higher rank instead of bullying them by going, "hahahah you lose points cuz you died!"
Not to mention the fact that none of the randoms seem to be useful 99.9% of the time. Like, why have a "MMR" system, if the game is just going to give you two teammates that play as if they just downloaded the game?
Its oddly satisfying after not playing for several weeks that the devs still refuse to fix SBMM still (or even mentioning any plans on fixing it). Means i made the right choice of stepping away from apex.
Just way too stressful, not worth my time or money for a game struggling to keep its community happy. And for what?... So the devs can get a perfect bell-curve rank distribution? At what cost though?... Your losing hundreds and thousands of players because you want a more perfect distribution. You keep players in gold/ plat. by placing them against masters/ preds. RIP.
I know this forum is meant for feedback.. so heres my 2-cents...
QUICK TIP for solo's struggling in rank trials... around 5 or 6 games prior to reaching trials, DO NOT shoot your gun. Try and rat to final ring and play for placement. As long as you have 0-damage and lose.. the game will reward you with strong MMR players. GL HF
Haha what a stupid system it is if thats actually how the MMR works. I would hope that the hidden MMR is calculated on more variables than gunfire, like placement i relation to the MMR of your lobby etc etc. There was such MMR dumping exploit in Arenas where you could intentionally lose one match hard, like afking the entire match, and then get 2-3 easier matches after than, thus "taking one step back and two steps forward" so to speak. If Respawn aren totally incompetent, one would think they had erased this kind of exploit from ranked hrmmm
Anyhow; I am not the first one to jump to such conclusion that easy since Ive spent my entire life in the world of research/science etc but hrmm I gonna admit that Ive had some very fishy matchmakings during my promotion trials haha.Both my Gold and Platinum promos, I lost my first matches hard, like got two teammates that died with 0 to 100 dmg dealt. But in both promos, when I just had one or two tries left and almost had given up, I was randomly (or not??) matched WITH two good players in a lobby which, from our POV, seemed to be very easy and we managed to stomp the match with 15-20 squad kills and 2-3000 dmg dealt each..
So am I well aware that two promo runs are not enough data to draw any real conclusions. It could just have been statistics tbh; you are quite likely to actually randomly get matched with two good players 20% of your matches etc. But yeah... seems a bit fishy this MM =)
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