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5 years ago

How does EA think it's going to retain new players?

How does EA think it's going to retain new players when you get put into matches like this? With cross-play having arrived, it now gives me the opportunity to play with a couple of my mates who are ...

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PeterN_UK

Seasoned Ace

5 years ago

@dougieee

From my previous post there is definitely an element of SBMM. But from EA's patent there is more focus on historical performance of matches regardless of rank/KD/Wins etc. i.e. a Plat player is not constantly stuck with other Plat players if they have 5 bad games in a row.

I would love to know what factors they consider "skill rating" as its definitely not by rank alone.

People get put off when loading into lobby and see last champion with 20 bomb badge. But doesn't mean majority of players in lobby are.

Look trust me if you're having few bad games. Stop playing for few hours then come back to it then first couple of games you will be in easy lobby. Set you in right mood (Then probably end up in more difficult lobbies again lol :D)

Reloading lobbies and landing hot loot areas again and again with randoms will frustrate you. Take breaks after every 2-3 hrs

dougieee

New Veteran

5 years ago

@PeterN_UK Thats the other thing..... randoms.
Plat is like a quigmire for getting stuck in random sqauds, its the rank that even low skill can grind to but never get beyond so everyone is base 4 and just dropndies...... SO frustrating!

If anyone is ever short a squad member feel free to add me, would be nice to play without the toxicity.

PeterN_UK
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
@dougieee

I just hope they do not include suicides/landing off the map as part of match making criteria to get into easy lobbies.

I've frequently been playing with COD players on my team doing 50x C4 suicides just to get into easy lobbies. Not really the way the game is meant to be played. So they now put a 5 sec timer on spawn where you are invulnerable to your own C4 in new COD game. That was their solution to stop players trying to get around SBMM lol.

I would hate to see players mass landing off the map to reverse boost in Apex as its too quick and easy to reload into another lobby.
- dougieee
  New Veteran
  5 years ago
  @PeterN_UK They need to add a de-rank after x amount of losses or point losss in ranked, too many people just sit on base platinum and dropndie constantly, which is fine if thats the rank your happy with but if you are grinding toward diamond it boils your p*** when team mates can cost you 300 bp inb minutes because they just dont care