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Re: Smurf accounts are now going into ranked and ruining that

@GucciiWalletHave anything constructive to add? You’re the one who desperately wants rounds loaded with lower skill players because playing vs your own skill level is to hard. you then make fun of the lower skill players.. yet are the one who can’t hang at your own skill level.. at least we don’t mind playing against players of our skill level.

You won’t have much of a game for long without SBMM. People will migrate to games that are competitive for them. A handful might put in hours of play trying to get good, but most will just move on at some point. Then where will you be?

I’m spending more time in COD and even went back to BFV a bit.

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  • jumanjaydazed's avatar
    jumanjaydazed
    6 years ago

    I'm gonna have to disagree ...I agree that smurf accounts suck to a certain extent cause of the "lower skilled stomp fests". But, just because someone opens up a new account to start playing the game again from scratch, their account should be deleted? Nah.... Pretty confident that the percentage of  low/mid level gamers compared to the hardcore "smurf" accounts are a hell of a lot more. So realistically, they will easily surpass the lower levels in no time. Then things will be back to normal other than running into one or two stragglers.

    ❤️

  • they pretty much made smurfing a bigger thing than it has to be.

    forcing SBMM in normals made sure of that

  • MandatoryIDtag's avatar
    MandatoryIDtag
    6 years ago

    Honestly, @jumanjaydazed  has hit the nail on the head.

    You can make smurf accounts endlessly,  but if you're fundamentally better than every opponent your smurf faces you'll just keep pushing past them back into the lobbies you should be in. 

    Smurfing is just short term gratificiation and a complete waste of time. 

  • gg123xyz's avatar
    gg123xyz
    6 years ago

    @MandatoryIDtag wrote:

    Honestly, @jumanjaydazed  has hit the nail on the head.

    You can make smurf accounts endlessly,  but if you're fundamentally better than every opponent your smurf faces you'll just keep pushing past them back into the lobbies you should be in. 

    Smurfing is just short term gratificiation and a complete waste of time. 


    why is it a waste of time. life is one day at a time, so one day as a smurf for free is one day well spent.

  • gg123xyz's avatar
    gg123xyz
    6 years ago

    @MandatoryIDtag wrote:

    @gg123xyz  Well it's a waste of time for anyone who isn't a scrub, better? 😛


    ya i like your use of the word scrub with a game filled with cheaters and traitors;

  • DarthValtrex's avatar
    DarthValtrex
    Hero (Retired)
    6 years ago

    @MandatoryIDtagSure I would agree t that. But, every round there are dozens of smurf accounts. 99% of non-ranked rounds I play have a smurf squad as champion or I get killed by one. They’ll play the smurf account until it’s not fun, then move to ranked do that until they peak and then create a new one.

    This game is simply proving that free FPS/BR does not work. Endless free accounts to cheat or smurf with and you have a disaster for honest players and lower skill players.

    SBMM is not the issue, the issue are players who don’t want to play against their own skill level and just want to slaughter lower skill players. These people are going to push lower skill players out of the game entirely. It’s not fun constantly being slaughtered by higher skill players.

    what’s ironic is the people doing this complaining SBMM is to sweaty, yet they have no issue making the game sweaty and impossible for everyone else.

    guess how many hours of Apex I’ve played today? 0, but I’ve played 3 of COD because of this garbage.

  • mastiffslinger's avatar
    mastiffslinger
    6 years ago

    IP address is useless we have 3 accounts in 1 house. The IP address is the same on the server side. I know this because it was a big issue with playing in the same lobbies early on with apex. 

    so if they did as suggested with up bans, people would be falsely banned. And honestly the devs haven’t addressed any glaring connection issues to date. I took a week off from apex and came back tonight first game out in premade  and code net error near end game shut me out of apex completely. Had to restart my ps4 to even log back in.

    as far as smurfs ruining ranked, they will either advance out quickly or get bored. Either way the end goal of apex will be achieved 90% of players will be at 1 k/d as planned. 

    I do have a smurf account as well to play with my nephew. He cannot play in my normal lobbies at all. Granted we don’t play ranked, but you should check the reddit feeds. This is becoming the norm. Boyfriends smurfing so they can play with their girlfriends it is creating problems for people and will Continue to do so. But if their matchmaking ( I refuse to call it sbmm anymore as it really isn’t) is going to stay smurf accounts will too. 

  • DarthValtrex's avatar
    DarthValtrex
    Hero (Retired)
    6 years ago

    @mastiffslingerIf they don’t get it sorted out I’ll be done playing. I’ve already quit in game purchases and I really want the pathfinder heirloom. But I’m not going to throw down $70 for in game purchases, in a game that is unenjoyable. I’m sick of getting 2 shot killed by pros with a wingman.

    The lag is another issue. The game has been unplayable since Thursday. The event kicked off the lag and it’s not improving.

    I’d rather not have these events if they are going to create lag issues. Right now my best server is Salt Lake and it’s 46 ping. But it’s playing like I have 100+ ping.

    I’m sure they could identify smurf accounts. Just start deleting the ones they know are smurfs and suspending the primary account for a week. Word will travel and most people will knock it off. I’m sure they’ll cry rivers like they do about SBMM. But they have to decide what they want, them or us.

    it appears they have turned SBMM off. I’m being matched with players who have 1+ Million damage and. 5k or more kills. I can assure you I’m not that good of a player. So I guess smurfing won’t matter anymore.

  • WickXI's avatar
    WickXI
    6 years ago
    @DarthValtrex No SBMM is not turned off. Average and average+ players like me stopped playing. So instead of feeding me to the pros, its feeding you to pros. I told ppl this will happen if you support SBMM, no one listened.. so now maybe you can relate, have fun in those lobbies.
  • DarthValtrex's avatar
    DarthValtrex
    Hero (Retired)
    6 years ago
    @jumanjaydazed Well lets look at tonight, I've had over a dozen rounds in which I went up against teams that looked like this.. 1 smurf account below level 50, 2 high skill accounts with 20 bombs and 3000+ Kills.

    Most of the games tonight has been some degree of that or another. Smurfing to circumvent SBMM will stand out like a sore thumb in numerous ways. I guess they could entirely avoid the banning by just fixing their queue system.. That would go a long ways towards dealing with it.
  • DavidW74's avatar
    DavidW74
    6 years ago
    @DarthValtrex I'm not so sure it's smurf accounts. I thought so before also, but I been noticing a lot of cheating recently. I have no doubt a lot of the cheaters are caught and spoof the hardware, then reroll. My gut tells me we are seeing a lot of low level reroll cheaters.
  • SkillAddonfaile's avatar
    SkillAddonfaile
    5 years ago

    I played with level 500 as newbie (level 10)  and the only thing u do is dying

    If I played alon after this my enemys were LEvel 200 an I was Level 20.

    I think Smurf accounts are okay If they don't kill everyone and let first the newbie try. :D

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