Why is the matchmaking so messed up?

@ejholiday97 Two or so seasons ago I got really excited when they said they were going to improve the matchmaking, then got disappointed when the "improvements" was the same matchmaking, except with a "hidden MMR". As we all know, the hidden MMR doesn't work at all.

@saurerDropsXXL Despite how much Respawn had said that ranked did have a SBMM, it never had it, it had the EOMM the whole time. If you look at all the data on who were in what match, its quite clear that there's no defined baseline for skill, so the system would often put low skilled players in with the high skilled players. In fact at one point in the rank system, players in higher ranks weren't able to get into a match, so Respawn actually made it to where gold players could que up with the higher ranked players, since they saw that a lot of previous masters players were still in the gold rank. This ended up turning into kill farming for the preds. This was back in S12 or so.

@drevinum9 S17 ranked was a participation season for sure and I'm still grinding out rank in S18 in the bronze division, but it feels like I'm in a harder lobby than a plat match. The highest rank I got before they gave out free masters was plat, and those matches got very sweaty due to being mixed in with diamond players. While instead of fixing the rank system when they saw players like Sweets hit pred with zero damage, they released cosmetic items, such as a holospray that were rat related. One was called "ratted", which you got if you watched the ALGs, and another one was called "I smell a rat", which you got from the "Threat Level" event. I don't want to hate on the devs as they do a lot of things that are great, such as the improved firing range, but things like this shows players that they know of the issues but won't fix them. Then again you got EA as the publisher, so chances are Respawn can't do what they would like to. I remember hearing about how devs wish they could make important changes, but couldn't.

@DeepBeats They need to pull a Fortnite and copy the system for dealing with users who use things like strikepacks and other controller mods, which is having no tolerance for them and actually banning players who use them. However, I do agree that even if they fix the matchmaking, its not going to get better until they solve the overall cheating and smurfing problem as well as better handle players when they go and rat.