new skill distribution curve
Does EA even know what it means? Who does?
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Haha thanks. My main question is, how do they measure skill?🤔
I mean, is it how many kills I get in a **bleep**ty team, or how many I get in a good team? Or how many kills I get full stop? Not factoring in EA's matchmaking "skill".
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Or wait, if I cheat, am i more or less "skilful"?
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Respawn has said in the past that they will not disclose how they measure skill because it could then be exploited.
However they do it is complete garbage though. Based on the skill curve in my matches, I'm apparently a very good player which I know is not true. I have a KDR <0.8 (and going down the last 4 seasons!) and get repeatedly melted match after match after match. Somehow I get put in the same lobbies towards the top of the skill curve over and over again, too.
My conclusion is that the skill curve, MMR, and matchmaking are all complete BS in Apex.
It's interesting. I've been watching that player skill range thing like a hawk since they introduced it. And one thing I've noticed is that it seems to react much more quickly to my intolerance than I would have expected. If I quit the match, early or late, I can almost be guaranteed that the next match will see the grey area on the curve move significantly to the left. The funny part though is that the actual difficulty of the match remains exactly the same. Which I'm assuming is down to two things: Thing one, the game is full of people on secondaries who are not yet recognized as anything other than new. And thing two, there are always many individual players in a match whose skill is outside the grey area on the curve. And being a player who only gets involved in the match when it's down to three squads, I tend to find those players. And the result is that even a match with a curve far to the left of the center... feels more or less unplayable. Or at the very least it feels un-fun enough that I won't bother to hang around just to give a free kill to some **bleep** diamond tier player who's on the second day of his 54th account. No thanks, Respawn.
