Match Making

@HappyHourSumwur Streamers dont play on same lobbies as I do (Gold Ranked). 😃
Just played another set of games where I lost about 200 RP without a single kill. 

I am 100% sure the EOMM tries go give me this "good game" every now and then but what the algorithm doesnt understand is that my playtime is very limited. 
I might get 30min now, 1h later in the evening or 2h on a weekends etc. So if I join back later and play single Mixtape match as warmup that will most likely be my EOMM golden ticket and we can start the cycle from the start again.

Am I going to invest my precious relax gaming time by playing Apex with the very high risk of getting absolutely manured on for the first 5 games and then when EOMM decides to throw me a possibly correct (we will never know) lobby I get "different playstyle" jumpmaster dropping us to same spot with 4-5 other teams to fight over single floor Mozambique.

Answer is probably not very long.

(Off topic: Also this was not an issue before when placement ruled over kills in ranked. Now its YOLO jumpmaster every other ranked match and GG -40 back to the lobby.) 

@Airish85That's been my experience running solo queue in pubs for the last few seasons. I do well in 1 in 20 matches or so but the rest is just trash. Of those 5% I do well in I maybe contribute to the success about half the time. I have to play for hours to get good games that make me feel good about the experience.

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@HappyHourSumwur wrote:
@Airish85I can't shake the feeling that I'm just cannon fodder for streamer content.

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It's easy to see this.  I wouldn't put it past any game company for doing this as it'd be in their interest.  Being a free game and streamers providing free marketing, it would be a perpetual close loop.  I don't understand how they can provide a free game by selling skins alone.

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@Airish85 wrote:

So if I join back later and play single Mixtape match as warmup that will most likely be my EOMM golden ticket and we can start the cycle from the start again.

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Today I logged back in Apex for a few matches after not playing at all this week. 
Wow guess what. Rusty me went on to drop 15 kills in a 50-15 TDM win with a Devo & Longbow and then get carried in two ranked matches for Top 3.

This game is rigged beyond my expectations. 

I guess I am online again next weekend for a couple of matches LOL

Yeah, just had a quick session with the wife on Apex.  Single Horzion destroys our entire squad.  Same question.  "Why are they in our lobby?".  No idea.  Quit.

Yeah, just tried my first game of mixtape.  So fair.  So balanced.  So much fun.

It's great just being a stat boost for others.

I put the controller down a few minutes into this.  I mean, I get penalised if I leave because I'm toxic.  Apparantly.  I guess getting smashed over and over is what I'm supposed to enjoy.  Thanks EA.  Makes total sense.

I don't play anywhere as much as I used to, however I played for almost an hour yesterday morning. Decimated over and over. 6 straight matches of being destroyed in under one minute of game play. Like you said, they look in your direction for a millisecond and your boxed. 

Now you would think after 6 straight matches of being knocked out in under a minute of gameplay that eventually they would throw me into a proper lobby matching my skill level at some point, right? Noooooo, then met a champion squad with all 20 bomb and 4K badges, and one with almost 85,000 kills. 

My highest KD was back in the day before covid was just over 1. 

Its sits now at about 0.6 and continues to plummet the more I try to play. So why with a KD of 0.6 am I playing against 20 bomb, 4K, 85,0000 kill players? Never with them, only against. 

After doing the math for kicks.... I realized that in about an hour of playing Apex yesterday, just under 20 minutes of that hour was spend on actual game time, the rest was lobby simulation time. 

First 4 matches was 15 minutes of time and just under 4 minutes of that 15 was spent playing LOL. Yet Respawn prioritizes fast match making over fair matches. Fast! really? What's the point of fast matches when at the end of the session, you've spent more time in the lobby and Queuing for matches than actually playing the game? 

Urrrghh

@ComicBookGuy2727What you describe is what I experienced about 6 weeks ago. It even stopped giving me the token 1 in 20 match to do well in so my morphine drip of success was shut off. Add to that the latest wave of cheaters and smurfs and BR modes become completely unplayable. I quit playing as a result. I drop in for a Mixtape match every once in a while and will check out each new season but as soon as I see the MM hasn't changed, I'll stop playing again. I sure as sh!t won't be spending any money on Apex so long as this goes on.

The MM can't see what any normal person can. If you are getting destroyed in milliseconds in embarrassing fashion more than 2 or 3 times in a row, you are obviously in the wrong lobby. Apex matchmaking, however, continues to team you up with players worse than you and up against 3 stacks much better than you for some reason.  My only explanation is the Respawn isn't interested in doing anything about it and/or they just aren't able to figure it out.