Matches are rigged, you can’t change my mind.

To start, I LOVE this game. This is a bit of rant, so if that’s not your thing......this isn’t what you wanna read. 

I have over 3500 hours in Apex. I’m level 500(1167) and sit usually around 2.25-2.5 k/d with about a 20% win rate depending on how I’m playing - solo queue, ranked, pubs etc.....I’m also 31 years old and an engineer by day. I literally automate scientific instrumentation. Methodical is how I do, and I just want to lend what little credibility I have to the statements I’m about to make. 

we’ve had the sbmm conversation, and honestly, sbmm is extremely poorly implemented, although could be great if they ever figured it out. There has to be an underlying matchmaking optimization system in play here to have the games and performance change with such volatility day to day in apex.

I play about an hour of aimlab almost every day before I hop on. I love this because it tracks metrics. I can get a number that shows I am performing at the expected level before I hop into apex. No it’s not the end all be all, but it’s a fantastic point of reference when looking at what could be wrong when you log into apex, after a day filled with 12-15 wins and a few hundred kills, and literally get * on the instant you see anyone. Those days when not one part of your gameplay has changed, but every opponent you encounter is just a laser beam, even when they’re low level or new. (Console players straight up have aimbot, but if you keep your distance it’s usually an easy kill) 

so for the past few months I’ve been suspecting we have “engagement optimized matchmaking” and the trend I’m now seeing only helps support that claim. I’ve been playing only when I have “good days” on apex. I’ll know within 2-3 matches what kind of day it’s going to be. That being said, when a bad day comes, I simply log off and come back about a week later. 

Every. Single. Time. Every time I do that, I have a great day in Apex. Until the next day. The next day, it’s like I’m the worst player Apex has ever seen. In slow motion, half of my shots are blatantly not registering, there are no indicators audibly or visually that I’m getting shot,, my positioning stays pretty solid for the most part, but that death recap says I’ve been getting beamed for the past 15 minutes, just not to my knowledge lol.

I don’t hesitate to call myself out when I get myself clapped or someone is just simply better than me, there are a lot of you out there..... but this has been fishy from the day everyone found out about sbmm back in like season 3. 
the last fishy event that happened.....I wound up teamed up with a streamer late the other night in pubs. We were both solo queueing. Partnered streamer, not giving a name, we won once, lost the next. Two games we got together, then the next 2-3 games I saw him again in game. Every single game he was on the champion squad, with teammates all level 500, mastered and diamonded up like bosses. While I’m over here with two sub level 50 newbies that can’t tell a shield cell from a stack of light ammo......tell me what’s going on there? How does someone get such “lucky” yet favorable matchmaking playing solo? 5 times in a row? Mans has every pred badge that’s been out.....I’ve been diamond 2 - 3 times lol. 

Of my recent experiences, I’m convinced the matchmaking is 100% rigged. They give you success and then either rig your connection or weigh you down with * randoms. If you got team mates? Expect other problems, which usually appear as “server related” 

we know they do things like this, because this maximizes their profits. It keeps people “engaged” 

hopefully not for long because I figured it out 🙂 

it just makes me sad, because there’s 1 solution. 

after you have a good day playing Apex Legends, you need to log off, and not play it for 2 weeks. When you hop back on, you’ll have a blast.....for one day. Rinse and repeat. 

- this is based on my personal experience, and the rant is out of frustration for a game I actually love to play, but won’t be playing for another few weeks, because it’s not worth not having fun until they decide I’m allowed to again and flip whatever switch it is they flip on us. 

good luck out there fellow legends.