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Khronikos
New Scout
6 years ago

Random Matchmaking is worse than it has ever been.

So I played up and through S1 having a lot of fun. I played quite a bit of premades. After ranked came out there was a gigantic drop in quality matches going solo in the trios mode. This has really gotten worse and worse as time goes on. Now with a new large map and a meta from hell, I feel this game is at the brink of simply not being competitive at all.

I get killed in more 1v3 scenarios than I ever have in the entire duration of this game's existence. People land, die, and get out of the server within record times each match.

And they know this is happening. So why do they force us to play this terrible mode outside of premades? Because they are ignorant and stubborn developers is all I can come up with. There is no way in heck they don't see how horrifying a random match is in this game. They know exactly how often people quit matches. It's so consistent I can predict within ten seconds if one or both of my teammates will die on landing. and 8/10 matches I have no one to play with after 3m. That is PATHETIC and the main reason I will never support this game as is.


I used to want to support this game. I don't even care about their overpriced skins. What I care about is fun, and this game is no longer any fun at all outside of premade squads.

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  • @KhronikosNo amount of coding, maps, or loot is gonna stop that 8 year old newb from dying within seconds and leaving the game. You can't control who plays Apex, and neither does Respawn.

    Edit; you mention being aggravated by people leaving games, yet all I see lately is complaints about the quitting penalty, it's like a viscous circle on these kinda forums, no one is ever happy lol. 

  • shooootagain's avatar
    shooootagain
    6 years ago

    THIS is THE CANCER OF THIS GAME

    matchmaking is the worst ever seen in gaming world ....  

    you must  match people with max lvl with people minimum the same lvl   ie max lvl   im also max season one and two  and im matched very often with lvl under 20 or above  in regular or ranked its the same and its a shame

    + im also regulary experience some solo squad and 2 man squad .....

    leaver is another part of the issue , penalty is not  well fit ,  you must take in consideration the toxic guy who dont want to revive you but you can already disable the possibitlity of leave right after choosing legend .....  why let people have the choice to leave right after choosing legend  , i cant understand you let them the choice to leave if after you give penalty

    so remove the choice of leaving a squad ....  if you have to quit the game for emergency reason ,  i dont think you take time to push esc then turn off your game and so on , if its a real emergency you go and let the game running its not a problem

    another issue i see is the icon that say to you some one you killed watching you ......   what is the purpose of this feature ?    big boy is happy to see that  some people watch him play or cheater know that he cant use is cheat until these guys gone ?  if i am a cheater dont you think this can be a * alarm for him  to stop obviously cheat   ?

    with all of that , i now know dev are not player of their game ...   if one dev play this game , i know he would think like me for all of these issue

  • I totally feel OP, especially with predicting how fast both of my squadmates are going to get killed and quit. It's just sad. And yeah, without exaggeration, I'd say over 70% of the matches feel like complete waste of time, and not as in my squad got killed and we weren't the champions, but as in both of my squadmates don't stick together and go 1vs3 and get killed almost right away, or we loot for 20 minutes just to get killed by the first squad we run into, with my teammates doing maybe 200 damage each. Rounds like that are not fun at all and feel like complete waste, but yet, they are the majority.

    And I also don't understand why devs don't want to implement solo permanently, it will solve quite few issues from the get go. We just really need it.

  • Fingrpistols's avatar
    Fingrpistols
    6 years ago

    I think everyone has this experience, So i dont think it boils down to MM but rather whats left of the community that solo ques as a whole.

  • Khronikos's avatar
    Khronikos
    New Scout
    6 years ago

    Then the obvious answer is to man up and put a solos mode in the game permanently. It's not that hard, and to me anyway they would do better with revenue. People would be happier to play the game. Sorry, but I don't even want to boot this game up anymore. I don't play it much, but I do have 300+ wins. That has steadily been going down down down each and every season to the point I can't see myself care when S4 hits.

    Their meta is always busted on release. They have no sense to satisfy player needs at all. Premades were 100000% easier to organize in S1. Once ranked hit the whole thing became incredibly hard to get people in squads without waiting 10m at a time. People do not have this time! And when I add up all these busted matches I have played for an hour without any fun at all. This means your game goes into the drawer man. I can't continue to play something that is so broken. TRIOS is for premades. It's not for randoms. It's as simple as that.

    THIS MODE DOES NOT WORK WITH RANDOMS.

  • @Khronikos
    Cant blame respawn for idiot team mates.

    Yeah, i get idiot duo squads all the time.

    Every game goes the same.

    We land I start looting for a descent loadout.
    My idiot team mates grab the first mozambique or p2020 they find then instantly run into a fight and are dead within seconds.
    Then these idiots start screaming and cursing "where is our third!"
    Before quiting.

    While I continue to loot. By the time I gotten a half-decent loadout (alternator, havoc, lvl 1 bodyshield) these idiots are dead and have quitted, or have begun banner pinging.
    I dont know why these tiny brained players cant loot to get a good loadout before picking fights.
    I hate having to baby sit these trash players, and hold their hands when they bite off more than they can chew.

  • Alex-2012-TM's avatar
    Alex-2012-TM
    6 years ago

    This is by far the worst season in terms of ranked matchmaking. Almost everyone that i played with since i hit platinum is vegetable. No brain, no skills.

    Theres absolutely no "matching your skills" matchmaking. This people should not pass bronze. Something in respawns code that choose your squad mates is terribly wrong. 

    Of course if you somehow manage to survive first 3 minutes of platinum landing you meet map hacks, aim bots and pre made squads of predators. Pre made squads should not play against random squads. Zero balance, zero competitive gameplay.

    Lets not forget the server errors, lag etc, they also contribute to the amazing experience called Apex ranked.

    To not be so negative i very much like the new battle pass rewards and the map.

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