Half my team left as soon as we were down and we got absolutely steamrolled after that. I left after the end of the first round in my first 3 matches because we were down or lost by double digits and at least 2 people had already left.
Winning team usually has somebody with 20 kills and 1 death so the matchmaking is non existent. Basically that felt just like Arenas but 6v6.
Either servers are awful or the client is unstable, resulting in these disconnections.
No form of backfill would also pretty much result in this as one leaver causes a domino effect of others leaving.
Hopefully some improvements will be made overtime.
@HappyHourSumwur Even in other games this wasn't unusual. Some players quit when they feel like they can't win and some just quit when they feel they can't fight back. Even when we had Control players would back out when they're team started losing. This was a predictable result but hopefully this further pushes the devs to find a solution to quitting.
Punishing quitters too much can hurt player retention so I wish em luck. Getting rid of quitters won't be easy.
@BigMacAttack8uI don't know, we'll see. Felt very much the same to me, TBH.
As I was saying before S16, none of this matters if they don't fix matchmaking and deal with cheaters better.
Ahh I see the unbalance now....Premades.
A single premade is more impact in team deathmatch than having few premades in BR.
@PeterN_UKWhat if it allowed premades of up to 6? More people would squad up since people usually have more than 2 friends, and then we can have more accurate pairings.
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@HappyHourSumwurSeems like arenas was better 😉
They really need to bring that mode back, I already miss it 😞
I completely agree & I just cannot believe both devs or playtesters (pro players,devs whoever etc) have tested this mode & have come to the conclusion that this is in anyway better than Arenas.This TDM mode is effectively just like Control Mode without the stupid point-scoring system where enemies (& teammates)are content on camping throughout the entirity & those that can endlessly spam the tracking button.I played about 5 matches earlier this evening & both teammates & enemies were just quitting en masse long before the matches had finished & the reason why? it's a mode that drags out for way too long.At least Arenas had the element of tactics & limited supplies both health/shields,ability usage & ammo without the endless respawning of shield supplies merely seconds after cracking an enemies shield & where the circle closes in on you drawing negating the camping element.Even Gun Run monsters this mode on every level.I just cynically assume that Arenas was dropped to free up server capacity for this mode & Respawn/EA don't much like the idea offering players much shorter modes (like Arenas) & are in favour of these overly long dragged out modes (that people will just quit halfway through anyway) in the expectation that players may just play Apex for that bit longer.Not for me unfortunately.
@HappyHourSumwurif deathmatch is a new gamemode, it obviously... has no real measure of how to rank you with other players, since Apex probably uses different MMR for each gamemode, never playing gamemode and being Pred would be same as never playing gamemode and being Bronze
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