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LilOak07's avatar
4 days ago

SBMM is worse than before

Me and my friend just came back after 1 n half to two years. Then my other friend decided to join us as well he has barely played and i level 20 (Im level 75, friend is level 87). And we are being put in with high level plat players and people with 4k and 20 bomb badges with over 500k in damage and over 10k kills. Is there anyway to fix this and get into lobbies that are our skill based and not lobbies that we die within a minute of landing to a team that has over 4k hours and no life?

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  • Not trying to defend the matchmaking in this game. It's pretty bad. But...

    "we die within a minute of landing to a team that has over 4k hours and no life"

    ...tells me that matchmaking is only part of the problem. Your choice of drops is another part. Sometimes when you smash your face against a brick wall repeatedly, the brick wall crumbles. But mostly it doesn't. It just stays there until you're so bruised and bloody that you quit the game and go back to Fortnite. But there are other options apart from the hot drop. Yes, you have a right to drop as hot as you like. And matchmaking has a right to punish you for it. Stop letting the game punish you. Play smarter. Drop cool and engage later in the match when luck is less of a factor and you've had time to gear up and position yourself for success. It won't work every time, but hot dropping, in my experience, doesn't ever work any time. It will also have the effect of lowering the metrics that the matchmaker is currently using as a rationale for pitting you against 4k no lifers. So your matches just might, over time, get a little less aggressive.

    Food for thought.

  • This has been going on for years.  Respawn can't and won't do anything about it.   Now that the player base is so low and the TTK is closer to COD, this is going to feel increasingly bad.  This season's changes very well could be the nail in the coffin for Apex.

  • PsyhiX69's avatar
    PsyhiX69
    Seasoned Ace
    4 days ago

    We are only in the game to satifsy the whales (the people that spend the most money and basically fund the entire game) - that's how I see the sbmm.

  • Everyone knows this and there are tons of topics like this, but EA will never answer these questions.

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