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.
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?
Then tell me why no large scale "gaming" of the system happens eg. in Chess and other Sports ? Bcs its an open system for everybody to see and People trying to manipulate can be spotted from miles away.
There is no other reason to hide it other than internal manipulations.
And the massive amount of MM complaints over the years lead only to 2 speculations :
a) Its either not working as advertised and has major flaws which they could not fix after 6 Years (hardly believable)
or
b) its rigged
Especially the whole AimAssist Controversy told us that Respawn sat on the Data for years and did not act while still talking "competitive integrity" up until their hand got forced by R5Reloaded and all of a sudden changes were applied which they always told us couldnt be applied in the 1st place ...
Its because of that History Players dont trust the company anymore.
And you admitted yourself, you dont know how the MM feels in Ranked.
I can tell you when you get bad team mates for 30 games in a row while being right in the middle of the rank spectrum , that does i no way resemble a bell curve. i should have at least got 2-3 Matches with mates higher skilled than me, but thats not the case.
Occams Razor my friend : If it feels rigged, its most likely rigged.
Patents like EOMM. the nasty Activision Patent or alike show that Industry is more than willing to rigg the outcome for Revenue sake. And i dont think Respawn is the exception to the Rule.
"There is no reason to hide the MMR"
Hide it or else half the population is hard at work deliberately trying to lower theirs, and in the process probably learning far more than they should about how the system works. I know it's hard to have any faith in something you can't see, but there are good reasons for it to be hidden.
