COMPLETLELY DONE with APEX S25
Every season u have high hopes it's getting better, but oddly every season seems to be worse than previous one... Matchmaking has never ever been so bad, SoloQ is completly ruined, TTK is such horror...
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I can honestly say at this point that my expectations of new seasons are always tempered by previous experience, mostly bad. I didn't expect Sparrow to be anything interesting or anything dangerous, and unless you're a hyper competitive rank grinder then he really isn't.
Ash is still a joke but I guess I've made my peace with that.
The new servers, so far, seem to be working okay for me.
One thing I have definitely noticed lately, since the beginning of this season, is much MUCH tighter matchmaking. My gray bars are so narrow that the red line almost fills it up every time. That is something I never thought I'd see. There are, of course, still many players in any given match who are running a secondary and don't belong where the matchmaker is putting them. So it's not all sunshine and roses. But it's still a huge improvement over... pretty much ever. And I'm not waiting appreciably longer for matches. So I don't understand why it took so long for this to happen. But I'm glad it did.
Honestly, nothing has changed ...
AWS Servers are more of a "touch up", Matchmaking will still send you to Servers where the routing is crap. Without any significant changes to the netcode and enforced regional locks, the no-regs, audio issues and general weirdness wont vanish.
But hey they now mix high ping with lowping players on purpose, to try to adjust the matchmaking, such a brainiac idea ... will only lead to more "wtf" complaints ... bcs even AWS Servers cant do miracles if the netcode is still garbage.
I always get a huge laugh when i read the Patch Notes, just phony crap as usual.
Likely lucky timing and enough people back to try new season that they can properly matchmake. Wait for the Churn to start in a few weeks.
When I am on, it's the usual bad matchmaking.After so many Iterations of Apex Matchmaking it should be obvious to everyone that this is all on purpose.
There is no reason to hide the MMR, otherwise they would do that in Chess too.
If somebody tries to cheat an open ELO System it will be obvious to everyone , the only reason to hide a Matchmaking Rating is to rigg it to your liking so nobody ever knows its been manipulated.
They will also remove RP out of thin air, similar to last season where they gave you only a fraction of the RP you earned, happend to me 4 times now. I was at 720 RP Plat 3, lost a game and ended up having 540 ... 180 RP down the drain instead of 45.r1ggedgame Match Making is still somewhat secret as they can't really share that with us. If we knew exactly how it worked then people would just game the system; they do already to the best of their ability. The worst problem with multiplayer online games is the people; people are happy to screw over everyone else to make it easy for them (that's why you have cheaters or people who try to game the match making engine). Sad but true.
My experience has been mixed. Overall the matchmaking (I feel) is better; but I don't touch ranked, zero interest. I love the fact they at least show the layout of the lobby before you start; that's huge for me. Unfortunately I find I am usually rock bottom about 30-40% of the time which mystifies me (I usually get totally green team mates, not their fault and I try to help but there is only so much you can do when Loba has not figured out how to open her shop, etc). Frustrating but what can you do?
