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Marge010
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago

Is it just me or has matchmaking got even worse?

I swear that since the event came out 2 weeks ago matchmaking has got even worse than it was before!  It's even more rare now that I get teammates that are either similar skill level or better. And ...
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Axs5626Sxa5001
5 years ago

@Redmattgame

Yup, I hear you. I’m just providing you my perspective. I’m above average and typically float between Diamond and Masters. I have never achieved Pred. I’m ranked in top 30 in various categories for Pathfinder on console.

My wait times for games are long— the algorithm is CLEARLY trying to pit me against my equals. When I queue with similarly skilled friends, our lobbies are typically 80%plus master/pred (IN PUBS!! This is ridiculous).

When I queue solo, it’s about 50-60% Diamond/Master teams, but my teammates are frequently lower skilled.

This MM structure plus all the issues you mentioned (audio, hit regs, etc) leave me losing A LOT. Overall, I win about 2% of my matches (ranked plus pubs). LMAOOO. I know average players who win more than me.

MM is just so damn disenchanting.

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Redmattgame
5 years ago
@Axs5626Sxa5001 I completely agree with you & persistent server issues largely in season 9 & 10 made up my mind for me to stop playing ranked until problems have been smoothed out.But even playing pubs as you mentioned is a disenchanting experience with very little incentive to persevere.So far in season 10 alone my K/DR is 1.34 654 kills & 487 deaths which isn't very good I know but around 100 or so of those deaths came when I was in cannon fodder mode running around like a headless chicken upon landing unable to find a single weapon in busy areas just to be melted barely moments into a match often by an enemy wearing a purple shield conveniently armed with probably their favourite weapon as some sort of sacrificial lamb.

Many youtubers have claimed that the algorithm around Apex is to offer a relatively easy first match to boost your kill rate & then dump you in much harder matches straight after that can see you in squash matches merely lasting seconds.
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    Marge010
    Seasoned Ace
    5 years ago
    @Redmattgame I doubt that algorithm applies to me lol. I rarely have a decent game until at least 4 or 5 games in most of the time