I am not talking about predators. I am talking about account level 3 with 100 kills, a 20 kill badge who hits consecutive head shots to knock me and my entire squad in less time than any of us have to shoot 1 shot. No signs of any purchased content. I often spectate after they roll over my squad. They take forever to loot. They pause with no cover and magically ping a player no one can see. They don't move like a pred would move. No sliding, no jumping, no side to side. I have literally been in multiple squads where a random I am paired with has asked if he should turn on his cheats.
Some cheaters are good at hiding it. They set their aim bot to hit the body maybe 2 out of 4 times. That is still better than an average player. A very small percentage of the FPS population has an average hit accuracy north of 60%. Maybe 5% of all players. Yet, mysteriously, season 6 has a massive influx of new accounts that base on my actual observations, they hit everything they aim at and magically pop off with a 7 kill game. Is it possible that they are a seasoned FPS player with a new account, of course. However, if you look at the sheer number of players that fall into a situation I describe......no way. Mathematically and logically impossible.
Returning to the original question of the post - "Why am I in APEX Predator lobbies?". The short answer is - if you aren't a diamond or predator yourself, you should almost never see a predator in your lobby.
As we all know, a predator is currently a top 500 player (in the entire game). In any given season, that means there are 500 possible predators active in the game at one time. If there are 2 million active accounts, that means you would have a 0.015% chance of having a predator in your pub lobby (assuming all 500 are actively playing the game and you yourself are not a master or predator). The chances that an average player should see a predator in a pub match under those assumptions is 1:15,000. The fact that average players are seeing them regularly means that there is either serious flaws in SBMM, or the player base has dwindled drastically.
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