Match Making
Do you know what happens when after 45 mins I don't get a single kill and eveyrone never misses and I'm just smoked game after game after game.... I play something else. Please fix your match making...
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@RockDokRockCan't agree with you more. Took a break last week and am not jumping back in anytime soon for this specific reason. Getting melted for hours by enemies that never miss and know exacrly where you are at all times is not fun. Matchmaking doesn't seem to make any adjuatments and keeps throwing you into the meat grinder over and over again. It is one of the worst gaming experiences of all time in a game that gives you the best gaming experience of all time way too infrequently.
@HappyHourSumwurIt's just so inconsistent. You can log on and have a great 2 hour session. You feel like you are in most conflicts, sometimes you get wiped due to bad decision making and sometimes you have a bit of luck your way and win the scrap. You'll have another one the next day and it's totally different where if anyone sees you you are instantly dead. Over and over. I just don't get the inconsistency. That's what does my head in.
We tried again last night, I don't think we made it past 25 mins and we just had enough. I'm just tired of being a free K/D pill for others. I've always suspected the people who flex their amazing K/D's is largely because they are going up against inferior players. Not really the flex they think it is.
I do empathise with EA. Match making is an incredibly difficult and complex task with different types of people on at different times of the day, wanting to ensure it's fast enough so you dont't sit at the match making screen and constantly trying to outwit the toxic part of the community that will do everything they can to rig the system in their favour (so they cant' release a granular level of detail as to what is going on as that would aid them). It's a very hard problem to fix, I get that.
Ranked s20. I noticed a huge difference between lobbies inside same rank.
It seems like they have 2 modes inside ranked games also unranked duos and trios, which are switching based on how well you do. If you are kicking it, it will not be long before you will be moved to sweaty lobbies. There, it is a struggle to get even a kill, because opponents are insanely skilled, possibly cheaters. Based on what i've seen, atm in these lobbies, everyone feels levels above me, Gold now is more difficult than your average Pred. stream opponents on twitch/yt. Streamer pred games look like an easy joke.
How is this even possible?
I'm beginning to think well known pred streamers have some hidden easy mode, where majority of opponens are clueless, so landing 20kills and 4k dmg is a piece of cake for them, which would also be good for viewers not leaving their streams.
I always ranted about how clueless opponents are in those pred lobbies, while your average gold servers here in EU, has so many movement gods, it just looks same or more difficult than pro matches or tournaments with the best teams.
Care to elaborate why this happens, and why such a difference between these ''normal' and 'superskill/cheater' lobbies inside LOW Level ranks? This should not happen.Just tried again this evening with my wife. I think we playd 7 or 8 games... had one reasonable one. The last one the champion had 50,000 kills, 20 kill bomb badge... just quit before we landed. I'm done for today. I honestly have no idea how they could be in my lobby. That should be a hard limit. Ridiculous. Zero reason to play that one.
I'd rather just not have a match or a game start than have to put up with that. End result (today), 2 fewer people playing.
I am so tired of this sort of thing happening. It should *never* happen, not a mis-match like that.
I firmly believe that objective matchmaking is possible, as long as it is truly and only based on the statistics of each individual player. Even with cheaters, good rounds should be possible for everyone.
But since the cheaters and pro players don't just seem to play among themselves, but also poach at lower skill levels, something must be interfering with "objective" matchmaking.
However, I am also firmly convinced that after 20 seasons (!) the algorithm for matchmaking should actually be perfect IF all disruptive factors were removed. And here is the problem. I think the disruptive factors are there for a reason. And suddenly it's no longer possible for the developers to ensure proper matchmaking? Despite or because of the disruptive factors?
!!!Attention, pure speculation from here on!!!
There is supposed to be a patent on the fact that buyers of skins get an easier lobby to give them a better buying experience.
Since I have no proof of this, I will not claim that this "disruptive factor" is active in Apex. But, if such patents already exist, one can imagine that various curious mechanisms can prevent objective matchmaking.
!!!End of speculation!!!
- @Nolege_is_power The issue with pred/streamer 20 kill high damage games you see on YouTube is that it is misleading. You don't see the 6 to 8 hours of game time it took for them to get that one game. You don't see all the drop and die or drop, win the first couple fights and then die. The reality is that 20 bomb high damage game on YouTube usually comes after some really bad games when the MM puts them in a slightly lower lobby and circumstances play out just right(good drop loot, no 3rd party death, people spread out just enough to keep killing).
Constantly matched with level 9 and under players.
No one on my team can kill anyone. Its pointless playing. The game is now essentially 1 v 3 every fight. This is really tiresome.
