Been playing this game since launch, with over 3,000 hours played. Skill capped at slightly above average, stuck around .7 kdr and 280 damage average. Play solo pubs and game has consistently been getting sweatier. Now, with whatever was done in Season 18 it is completely unplayable for me. Very sad that golden cohort and elder players are getting shafted. I really want to keep playing, but going against mutliple 20 bomb predator squads in nearly every match, while getting low level inexperienced teammates just ruins it for me. Hope EA / Respawn find whatever they're searching for, but it obviously has nothing to do with players like me. BTW... spent nearly $1,000 in the game over the years. So good job folks, that money train is switching tracks to some other game. Good luck with your super secret matchmaking algorithems, they sure are gud...

As a 20-bomb sweaty player myself, I have the same experience. There's no casual mode. Haven't played even half as much this season and for damn sure stopped spending money.

(Sorry this is a bit of a rage vent post but I am really disappointed with Respawns take on ranked)I just recently started to play this game again after a long break. After my placement matches, I ended up in Bronze 1 which is supposed to be a low elo rank. I have now played about 10 matches and all my matches has been approximately like "old rank system" high platinum in terms of skill level of teammates and opponents. Ive started to check EVERY players name of the enemy squad that killed me on Apex tracker and also my teammates if its possible and they are almost always gold to platinum.So based on this, and also based on Respawns own words about MM based on a hidden MMR and not your current rank, we can assume that my hidden MMR is somewhere between the average gold and platinum player. But now lets just stop and think what implications this have on the competitive integrity of this game. This means that my way through bronze will be objectively harder than for another given bronze1 player who is much worse than me and therefore has a hidden MMR around the average bronze players MMR. Or in other words; our two journeys through bronze will he OBJECTIVLY no the same but SUBJECTILY the same.... Am I the only one who is baffled how stupid and childish this system is? Its like some daycare center teacher designed it for children that cant handle fair competition. Imagine if this was real sports; its like designing a world cup like this: for Argentina, who is the reigning world champions in soccer, to advance through the group stage, they must beat every team with at least a 3 goals margin because they are good, whereas Lichtenstein that sucks will advance even if they draw all matches..... Come on Respawn.What they SHOULD have done if they weren't so childish game designers, they should match the ranked matches on a hidden MMR just like now, but compensate for the difference between your current rank and your actual MMR which you are being matched based on. So for instance, If I am bronze 1 but has a hidden MMR of average gold2 and therefore mostly play against players currently in Gold2 give or take, then I should get a huge LP reduction if I do badly and a huge LP bonus if I do good. If the rank/MMR difference is smaller, like a player who is Gold2 but plays on a platinum4 MMR, he might only get a small reduction and bonus. And the same way around; if you happen to be Gold1, but plays very badly and loses alot of hidden MMR, much faster than you lose rank and therefore start to play against much worse players, you should ofc get a huge LP loss if you keep losing and a smaller LP gain if you play good. The goal is to, AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE, match every players hidden MMR with their current rank. This is how all other serious games design their ranked, but Respawn must ofc be the special kid in the class.... Guess its back to Skyrim VR hrmmm

@MekaSquid The overall experience this season is a lot harder than previous seasons.It's weird that you're experiencing it as well : as the matchmaking buckets are tighter (from what respawn said in an article earlier this year), you should face opponents with a similar k/d, and less players with more than 1.My overall kd is 1.75, s17 was 2.8, my lobbies this season are a nightmare too.

They killed the game for me. I am stuck with predators and masters when I was barely able to get to the diamond the first seasons. Now its not even a game, its a job that I have to do because I cleared every battle pass since the start. Honestly, I hope they will fix it , if not I hope the game will die quickly to be freed from this.

@MekaSquid wrote:Been playing this game since launch, with over 3,000 hours played. Skill capped at slightly above average, stuck around .7 kdr and 280 damage average. Play solo pubs and game has consistently been getting sweatier. Now, with whatever was done in Season 18 it is completely unplayable for me. Very sad that golden cohort and elder players are getting shafted. I really want to keep playing, but going against mutliple 20 bomb predator squads in nearly every match, while getting low level inexperienced teammates just ruins it for me. Hope EA / Respawn find whatever they're searching for, but it obviously has nothing to do with players like me. BTW... spent nearly $1,000 in the game over the years. So good job folks, that money train is switching tracks to some other game. Good luck with your super secret matchmaking algorithems, they sure are gud...This game isnt for the casual audience. There used to be a time where it was, but that was long ago. Honestly, apex is meant for people who dont work and have lots of free time to practice and get better (so kids basically) the game just isnt for us anymore, man. Its the hard truth we have to swallow and either deal with it or just move on from it

Uninstalled. Matchmaking solo pubs went from bad to sadistic.

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zwnc
3 years ago
I'm extremely disappointed with the state of ranked.
The amount of teammates that split off right away to go hide in a glitch spot or play hide and seek.
Its sad that a team based game is reduced to who can hide longer.
Most of my games theres 10 squads when final zone hits. This is just absurd.
Imo points for positioning shouldn't be more important than kills. 100 pointa for first but increase the points rewarded for kp. 25 points for kills if you finish first again. Having kills matter will make people more motivated to fight and produce higher quality gameplay.
Bring back the seasons where people actually fight eachother.
BallisticMVP
3 years ago
@ComicBookGuy2727 When you lose more than 50% of your fights you cannot be above avg…
EspadakillarTTV
Seasoned Veteran
3 years ago
The game is not for solo. Just embrace it. It is not a skill issue, it is your issue with the game. So just embrace it. Even the forum moderators over here enjoy the game because they know the game is unfixable.
what_did_u_do
3 years ago
Not only what you said but this is atrocious, I get no points for skill, no "bonus points" and no kill points and im killing people with master badges since silver4 - sometimes I get 1 or 2 points per kill, sometimes I get 1 point for 4 kills and no matter where I place in the end , completely random with the latter being more often, My last win in ranked (Im gold 4 now) team has 15 kills, I have 4 and 7 asissts and 4 of those "participations" I got 169 points for a win, and a lot of times i get 0 of anything, only placement points. And yes ranking up is hard very hard this season - Im playing for 3 and i was gold my first , plat my second and diamond 3rd, I have been locked in silver 2 for a week this season 18 gaining placement points then losing them all in next 3-4 games because my teammates have literal iq of an empty glass...
BallisticMVP
3 years ago
@kladdig Well I don’t know what to say really if you consider it hard to climb.
I have no issues climbing and no I don’t sit in zone spamming medkits…
My kdr is 1.71 and avg dmg is arround 600 per game so I would believe my lobbies are not that * when it comes to mmr.
I’m not playing much anymore but when I play I climb easily.
P3nc1Lv3st3r
Rising Newcomer
3 years ago
I can remember the chaos of the first 6 months of Apex Legends. When it was in its infancy, and not expected to become the phenomenon it has become today. But this season, it seems SBMM and Ranked have become more of an issue than I figured they would be. Last season, without ratting my way through, I made Diamond II. I'm not very good at this game, but its fast paced and fun and reminds me of other games like Unreal Tournament, Doom 2016 (Multiplayer) to name a few, which has kept me around to enjoy the new legends and changes to the game, as well as the lore and some super fun LTMs. But this season, Apex has gone from a fun game to sit and grind through to improve upon your skills, no matter your level, to a downright insane fight for my life. My PUBS matches are being treated like ALGS with people who FAR surpass my overall skill. Ranked is now seemingly full of pro players, even in BRONZE, with matches getting to round 2 with 16 squads alive. I'm not sure what happened, but this game used to be FUN. Now its just a grind and its become less than enjoyable to play. I've spent a good amount of money on this game, for myself and my kids and I don't regret it, its just sad to see this game still be plagued with the same issues since basically season 3. Im enjoying AC6 PVP way more than this silliness here. I may return, I may not, and losing one player doesnt hurt your playerbase so lost to the wind, like so many others.
alzidanabdlh7
3 years ago
SEASON 18 MATCHMAKING IS FREAKIN NONSENSE ITS FRUSTATING FOR SOLO PLAYER
hfel94yezmu1
3 years ago
Fix the ranked system and matchmaking .
The ranked system right now doesnt determine your skill , just the amount of time you can dedicate to camp in a corner .
The matchmaking is clearly not ok , and it gets you with teamates that arent your skill level and the same goes for the enemies .
Right now you could be master and still be so bad that my little 8 year old brother could clap you in 1v1
If you fix these 2 things it will automatically make the game 200% better and EA will gain more money
This game is good but any game with a bad matchmaking can become just unplayable 😢
Balladalidila
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
Ask yourself this: Why is Apex THE ONLY game out there where you cant find information about your opponents or teammates? Why do the Apex dev feel the need to hide the rank of your killers and teammates? The answer is simple; because then, people would see how badly they manage to correlate actual skill with current rank.
ComicBookGuy2727
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
with the crap servers, smurfs, cheaters and hackers, how does one even determine at this point what an average player KD?

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Uninstalled. Matchmaking solo pubs went from bad to sadistic.

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