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AREYOUSITHREOUS's avatar
3 years ago

Not a new Topic. FIX YOUR SBMM PLEASE

How many times does a topic need to be revived because of how lackluster your SBMM is, Respawn? Can you please fix this.

Don't incorporate the length of time or account level to SBMM. Please take this consideration as I speak on behalf of the rest of the players who are above the casual mindset mentality. We are the 98% who will not be the pro players but you're giving all the credit and validity to the 2% who "professionally" play Apex and is basically a Job to them thus designing the game around their opinions.

I want to have fun while keeping and feeling the rush of the competitive nature but not being sniped by some smurf or "Master/Pred" player who kills me with a wingman over 250 meters.

I'm tired of seeing level 51 Gold III+ players in Ranked who just destroys people. Last I checked, I COULDN'T get NEAR GOLD when I was level 51...

Check out how annoying is to see a no info Lvl 51 banner attached here while knocking someone through some trees with a Bocek...THROUGH SOME TREES. We know how hard ranked is this season...so how degrading it is to see some guy just sweep at "Lvl 51" It makes my mental shoot through the roof. The lack of attention to this bothers me because I know at the end of the day, the smurf account is a number and number is Respawn's strategical acquisition to money. Over 100 million registered players...sure...and 50 percent of that is guaranteed to be smurf accounts. Do the research and consolidate low level accounts with high K/D ratios. Please make it a project because I know it will take time. 

These "Smurfs" know what their capabilities and limitations are and they are ready to boost or farm with their friends because they know how the environment is within each rank.

PLEASE for christ's sake, no one cares about your exclusivity with your SBMM formula. Because it sucks.

Explain to me how SBMM works, Respawn. Explain to me and why you all think it works.

Can you please just strictly make it K/D based so that they can queue in where they belong. This way, it wouldn't matter if you're a lvl 15 20 bomber because now you'll be with everyone else who 20 bombs everyone else immediately. So if they boost homies within their 3-stack it would be much harder for their 2 homies to survive. They shouldn't boost because it's a TEAM BASED GAME. 

I will admit that I suck and I am hard stuck Plat this season and even in the previous season. So I know to "Get Gud"/"Get Better". I know I'll get traction and to most of you, you will just tell me exactly that. "Get better, bro"

Everyone's learning capabilities are different. Some may be lvl 500+ with 3000+ hours but still won't be good. Some may have only a few 100 hours and be real decent...But one can sniff out the obvious and there's no way low level accounts can yield high damage, high kill count so early. 

To me, I can safely observe that K/D is what generates the balance between the good and bad players regardless of how low or high of an account level, or length of time each player has. If there was truly 100 million players, there should be MORE than enough peoples to be where they belong and not farm low K/D, low level players. To give you some perspective of your own game, there's only 60 players in a standard BR match. Why is it every time, I see a banner with no info, low level accounts with high KP high Dmg. Put them where they belong.

I've done over 2000 hours and I'm only a .9 K/D Player. Yes, I know I'm "Trash". I get it. So keep me within my people who is also trash.

I can only imagine how many others like me are so frustrated by this. Pretty soon respawn, you'll lose 1/4 of your player base who found the game fun at one point but now it's just a sweat show for people who are extremely try hard because your focus is to those who make the game look so good.

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  • AREYOUSITHREOUS's avatar
    AREYOUSITHREOUS
    New Scout
    3 years ago

    Haha. Yea I'm new here and lately I've been rambling about the state of this game. I appreciate how people will still give feedback to topics that aren't really new and for the most part, are very respectful. Some forums are extremely strict when the same topic appear over and over. Most community members and mods would refer them to existing topics that share the same interest. So I apologize to anyone if I bring up something that has been argued one too many times.  Thanks for your response!

  • swift07's avatar
    swift07
    3 years ago

    lol I don't even play ranked anymore.  Last season was my first full season, got to plat 1, tried playing this season and realized I wasn't having any fun.  The MM is really bad on this game, ranked and pubs.  

  • @AREYOUSITHREOUS Just a quick update on my SBMM journey, made the mistake of playing with my 2 brothers last night so as you can imagine the terrible matchmaking said “hey your a full squad, you must be amazing” and put us up against loads of sweats. We had some terrible games and some average games and eventually a single hard fought victory (what a mistake). the rest of the night was even worse than when we started, just destroyed by diamond, masters and preds. The highlight was after we’d lost badly around 6-7 times we had a fight off the drop against a full stacked mega awesome predator squad with multiple animated pred badges………why? How does SBMM think they should be in my lobby? They pretty much wiped our squad by looking at us 👀
  • Yep, this * MM need changes.

    I'm fed up of this "one good for 2 bad" * when you're solo + being matched against full premade teams SHOULD NEVER HAPPEN when you're solo. I remember that the first year they talked about doing something for solo players ... and then 3 years later, nothing, no more words about it.

    In fact it's even worse than ever as I'm 90% of my time with lvl 20 less ranked than me.

  • @AREYOUSITHREOUSI got into gold 2 my first season (3 weeks) solo q'ing. I play a lot of FPS games so my aim and positioning are good. But...I do agree with you on changing the MM. I do think there could be a better system to filter people's skills with the tiers they're in.

  • This game is ridiculous for skill based matchmaking I've never even made it to platinum yet not one quick play goes buy without a master or pred as the champion and then running into masters and press in the lobby who instantly destroy me. How are you supposed to get better like this? You have to ba able to play people similar skill to try improve I have no chance to improve when all I'm playing against is masters and preds. That would be like an someone picking up boxing and just fighting tyson fury everyday to improve you won't improve you will get brain damage. Which is what apex is giving me.

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