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Skaro07
4 years ago
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Solo Q experience - Respawn is biggest cause of death

Seriously, it's been so many seasons, when are they going to think about the solo experience and stop doing match fixing by having solos go against full parties? That's like having an NBA all-star te...
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    Balladalidila
    4 years ago

    @Skaro07 

    I agree that 3-man premade squads have NO place in lobbies vs random from a competitive fairness POV, just like 5-man premades in games like LoL cant play against a team of 5 randoms. 

    I think there should be three types of lobbies; one for 3-man full premades, one for solo queuers only and ofc the already exisiting for duos, which I guess has to include both premade duos and randoms.

    If a duo premade chooses plays in squad mode, they will always be a 2-man squad. Why? Because a high elo premade duo + one random of random skill level is still such a competitive advantage in a lobby of mostly randoms that it breaks a game. Also, a premade duo will usually destroy the fun for their random teammate, who they will treat like crap. So many times a premade duo uses me (and my death) as a distraction to either run away or revive one another etc.

    This will lead to natural incentives for premade duos to either accept the rules and play as a 2-man squad in trios, accepting the advantage of being a premade duo for the cost of being outnumbered. OR  they can play in the lobbies designated for them, namely DUOS = fair for everyone OR get a third premade player and play in the 3-man premade lobbies = fair for everyone OR dont play as a premade duo and play as solos in the solo queue = fair for everyone.

    But even if they implemented something like this, people would still cry and moan over having to play vs better players than them but I guess thats another issue. 

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xpl0its
4 years ago

@r1ggedgame

I know the Stats, but a lot of these are also newer players to the game. If you play Apex every day as a Random player you will see a higher percentage of lower level newer players.

This is what I am talking about.

I've been playing 95% of Apex as a Random since Season 1.

80% of the players I am matched against are very low level players, around LVL 30-150....

LVL 150-200 I play against maybe 10% of the time...

LVL 200+ I play against maybe the other 10% of the time...

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r1ggedgame
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago

so if you know the numbers, it doesnt strike you that your numbers might not add up with the rank distribution of the game ?
New players wouldnt be Plat 4 or higher, but that is round about 20% of the players. And if i count Gold into that, which are also players that actually should know how to use a characters ultimate and have at least some aim expereience,  we have at least 40% of the Playerbase. 
But thats not mirrored in either your nor my lobby experience ... we can be happy when our mates manage not to die at drop and do above 200dmg in total
And also the fact that skilled Players are more likely to play longer sessions and more often  than the majority of  new unskilled players should reflect itself in the lobby behavior but it doesnt.
https://apexlegendsstatus.com/game-stats/ranked-distribution

Also the Octane general distribution is odd on my end, officially round about 15% but i get Octanes nearly every 3rd game ?!?
And we all know that 95% (some might even say 99%) of the Octanes are "the best mates you can wish for" ... not !