20 days have passed, did they fix SBMM?
Hi, first week player here, but due to plethora of bugs, problems and broken SBMM I have missed cca. 80% of seasons of Apex. Respawn announced SBMM overhaul 20 days ago so I wanted to ask if anythin...
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I only play the casual trios version but if they have changed matchmaking in this mode on the London server then it is a shambles.
My matches are utterly awful. My teammates are low level and play with the sole ambition of dying as quickly as possible, like lemmings. They always hot-drop, die like popped balloons and then leave. They also ping incessantly when downed yet rarely ping loot. There are also the ones who want to tear around the map as the party leader, quickly run into trouble, die and rage quit.
It used to be that I would get a day or two of fairly satisfying gaming with similarly skilled teammates amidst the dross of lemmings. But for the last couple of weeks it has been almost entirely lemmings. A disproportionate number of these players seem to be either Russian/Eastern European or Asian possibly Chinese. Which would also - to my mind at least - mean that matchmaking has failed.
I don't know what Respawn and EA are trying to achieve with all this but it makes them look bad in my eyes.
- @warslag Despite hating this games SBMM, it does work occasionally. As of the last week or so it’s been utterly bizarre, when I search solo in trio’s my teammates are genuinely terrible, the kind that wander off when your fighting or stand still looking into the sky for long periods of time. These players seem like they should be in the mythical protected bracket. It doesn’t seem to affect my super sweaty opponents though…. Go figure! Pretty much impossible for me to play like this, and as I can’t play stacked because the system says there’s 3 playing together, best put you with the masters and preds….. I’m honestly beginning to despair, I quit then return like a dog to its own puke, to take a little sniff and taste, then stop again. I’m clearly a fool to think it will improve.
@IdleHandsNo1A broken clock is right twice a day & so by definition it works occasionally.But as someone who plays on London servers the general MM now is as bad if not worse than I can ever remember.Being a solo queuer I just don't see despite the endless (& empty) promises by Respawn how any changes they eventually make (no timeline has been mentioned) will do anything other than mere tinkering around a few edges & certainly it won't be the magical Panacea that many are hoping for.It maybe relatively easier to match up a lobby of pre-made squad based on the averaging out of each squads ratings ie KR, damage,WR,ranking etc but how will it work out for us solos when you consider how many players are available & the limited timeframe for selection.The sceptical/cynical side of me believes whenever Respawn eventually reveals their implementation of their new MM system it will be more of a placebo effect than a panacea.
Always keep in mind they're trying to maximise daily login % and hours/day spent playing of people who spent money in apex.
Their matchmaking post explicitly had this as a goal.
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