Ran a fun test over the last week.Queued with my friend (we are both Masters players).The test involved exactly 100 matches. EVERY single one of those 100 games gave us a teammate under level 5. Brand new players. Our opponents were ALWAYS Diamond or above. I think that “hard patterns” like this are hard to come by. I’ve never actually seen a 100% stat on any of the various tests I have run. -Our average waiting time for a match was 6:34 minutes-Of the 100 games, we won 4Thoughts?

@MandatoryIDtagAs tiring as these tests are, I will continue to run them. Honestly, the results are disenchanting. Obviously the newer players are having a horrendous time and getting melted every match. And the skilled players are burdened with what is essentially a handicap match. Plus waiting more than 5 minutes for a NON-RANKED mode is just absolutely ridiculous.Just leaves me scratching my head— how could a dev think this is “what’s best”? What is the goal? “Fairness?” Yeah, no.

@Axs5626Sxa5001Arena matchmaking sucks. It's a babysitting simulator.

@scivirus No. They weren’t smurfs. These were new players who got constantly melted first.

@Axs5626Sxa5001 wait your getting teammates?yeah arenas matchmaking just sucks idk why? I might dare say it's rigged as well

@Axs5626Sxa5001 Yeah, Arenas matchmaking doesn't feel like it exists most of the time. I've never played ranked before, but I'm level 497 and I've been playing off and on since the day Apex was released.But I get paired with and against level 3's who are genuinely new to the game a lot. It's hard when you get paired with a genuinely new player who isn't great - and I feel awful when I'm put against a genuinely new player and I just absolutely melt them the instant they pop up, for the easiest wins of my life. It's not fun for anyone involved.There's always 300ish players in queue for Arenas, at least according to the counter they show, so I don't see why newer players couldn't be allowed to pair against each other so they get a more fair fight.

Literally 100% percent of my Arenas teammates are under level 5

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Axs5626Sxa5001
5 years ago
@D3loFF

Well this test surely impacted my win rate. Right now it’s 39%.

And you would think that with two Masters on a team, we would have won more. But when your opponent is close in skill it’s super hard to overcome 3v2 scenarios. 3 Diamond players > 2 Masters
pandareno1999
Hero+
5 years ago
@Foofer37 wrote:

Complain complain complain. Now you're precious Apex is dead due to even the servers being hacked. IT was already dead due to cheaters everywhere. This game got the instant death it had coming.

Hey, I think I detect some irony.
Axs5626Sxa5001
5 years ago
@pandareno1999

These people are to be ignored.
pandareno1999
Hero+
5 years ago
This guy feels your pain.
hayhor
Hero
5 years ago
@Axs5626Sxa5001 What I find weird is you have full teams on both sides for 100 games straight. 🤷‍♂️
Axs5626Sxa5001
5 years ago
@hayhor No. There were games that didn’t give us a teammate. These games were not counted in the 100.
E9ine_AC
Hero+
5 years ago
@Axs5626Sxa5001 I even duo in there and still dont see the lower levels you do. I did it quite a long time last night and not a single person was level 10 or below out of 30 games.
Axs5626Sxa5001
5 years ago
@E9ine_AC

I don’t know what to say man. Different things are happening for different people on different platforms. I’m on PSN. Are you on PC?

I know you’re currently a Pred so I would think that what you’re experiencing should be similar.
BaldWraithSimp
5 years ago
@Axs5626Sxa5001 I have played about 250+ solo games in Arena, and getting low level teammates(<lvl 50) is pretty common. I haven't done a survey, but it's frequent enough to cause frustration.
hayhor
Hero
5 years ago
@Axs5626Sxa5001 Ok thanks cause I was gonna call bs on all of your future data. I was sure I was wrong as I trust you and thanks for confirming.

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