Matchmaking is still trash . . .
Respawn's blog post was an outright lie.
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@dSKyNafinchinMy lobbies have changed drastically. The new changes I'm sure were sent in with s16. My games have been dreadful I'm being paired against 3 stack players with 50k + kills as a solo player. It use to be rough but nothing like I'm seeing this season. Enough so to where I'm hardly even playing the game anymore. It has become not as fun with the changes I'm seeing. Friends hardly even play anymore. I do not mind playing against preds or masters but to have half a lobby filled with them is beyond annoying. I can solo 1-2 people but 3? Just not doable by me with my skill level. No reason when going in solo I should be faced against teams who devote all their time playing together and being strong together when I'm solo. Needless to say these match-making changes are taking a tole on me.
Also it feels like they are tossing us all over different regions. Some games I'm at 20 ping other servers I'm at 120 ping or more. I tested out of science every single region in NA to see my highest ping when playing was a 50 ping. I then went to UK where I average about 120 give or take. So if I'm not seeing 120 ping on any NA server that I'm on and I am randomly this is meaning I'm being pushed to other regions. Typically id chalk it up as server issues but upon testing it was a clear sign something is going on behind the scenes. (Mind you just an assumption on my end) but upon testing I'm seeing a big difference.
And you see here we are full circle...I've read some of your posted regarding this where people have been complaining about this very issue for years, yet it was swept under the rug. Just play to have fun people said, who never had this problem and thought it was myth. Another popular poster who posts about this regularly was laughed at @Axs5626Sxa5001 for years for brining this issue to light, so much so, that he recently left because he was being shunted by this very community, shameful btw. NOW we all can agree, when it happens to us, that skill means almost nothing when the developer/game can just decide your experience. I've been saying this exact thing for years - when you reach a certain threshold the game stops being fun unless you are top 1%. SBMM is 100% to blame for this, and every person will reach this eventually according to their own skill. SBMM is straight up poison.
