Sort out matchmaking

leofrostjc212​ welcome to Apex.

Unfortunately I can't share links but there are e.g. hiswattson video where he explains (read: cries) about how hard for him (being Pred level ex-pro competitive player) is to enjoy the game where he has to sweat (try his best) every game over and over again, because game pairs him up vs similarly skilled players. Basically ex-pro player demands easier lobbies to run and gun and enjoy having games like most of his content = crazy 20+ kills games, 8k damage per game and what not.

Some time ago - season ~10 - you could see that matchmaking was more balanced via Preds going against much more Pred squads. But that lead to very sweaty, low KP games + very long queue times = 10+ min because most Preds were not playing the same region, times etc. leading to situation where only <100 were online at the time which in turn means that if you get 20th place you have to wait for the current game you just "lost" to end or significantly progress for people to return to lobby and re-queue.

At what point Respawn made adjustment "faster queue time for all" leading to current craziness where current split Preds aka top750 players in the world are facing casuals as low as Platinum rank and there is still hug wall skill gap wise and more so game experience wise as soon as you now reach D3/D2 level and start regularly facing hackers, 3stacks of current Masters/Preds where your win percentage and in many cases even TOP5 percentage goes basically to 0%. E.g. me as D4+ solid player who grind ranked a lot having 4+% in some cases 5%+ win rate in reality consists of ~10% win rate in lobbies below D4 and 0% win rate in lobbies above D3.