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Seasoned Novice

2 months ago

Unplayable

The game is unplayable. I didn’t play Apex for two seasons because it was unplayable back then, but I came back about three weeks before the new season. Everything was fine—I was in both weak and str...

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NickBeam27

Seasoned Ace

2 months ago

Agreed - there is many issues going on with Apex at the moment. But what has made the game "unplayable" for casuals is clearly without a doubt the matchmaking.

How can it be a skill issue when silver players are facing preds and master every single match without even a break for mental health. Even fortnite after you get destroyed by players clearly far above your skill bracket... will lower you down and put you against players of equal skill before throwing you back to the wolves.

The difference - Apex leaves you with the wolves permanently, and Respawn doesn't know what "players of equal skill" means. There is nothing anyone can say to debunk that one. : )

e1b2b41da38ee689

Seasoned Ace

2 months ago

Please keep in mind that if you are casual, I assume you are not playing ranked.

Second - even this crazy bad matchmaking rarely puts silver players into Diamond+ lobbies, I have seen a few games where Gold players get into same lobby as current Master / Preds but that's about it while being on board of opinion that Preds/Masters shouldn't face even low level Diamond or below even more so = skill gap is just too big.

Finally it is known that many people by boosts, profiles, exploit game to gain badges, many seasons (stopped counting at this point) had free to take Masters (you could rat to Pred even)...so I would say you are not facing actual Masters rather players that was free to take masters / rocking some badges people pay attention to but reality is you are like Silver or below and they are like low level Plat that still feels like mission impossible to you.

You can post some screenshots of those Masters you are dying to and I will gladly decode them so you don't panic too much.

All I can say I am hardstuck Diamond but I have seen close to 0 legit Masters that I can't compete vs. Legit Masters I can take 50/50 on any day of the week. Problem is most Masters hack and you can't beat software.