Sbmm rant
Why do I only get master/predators lobbies in public matches? Sbmm is a big problem for fragile casual like me and no, I don't want bot lobbies either, I want lobbies that match my skill, I have pl...
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I see your point, but if you get the same lobbies, don't you find that a little annoying always having to try your best...in pubs? It's called public for a reason, everyone can join regardless of their ranking or skill level.
My point is:
Ranked - hard Sbmm
Public - no Sbmm or genuine Sbmm that makes your teammates and enemies as skilled as the person playing?
And I know that most of the players are .8 to 1.2 kd so you would match with them very often, but it's not like one pred is going to destroy everyone.
@mikkeltorne1
"don't you find that a little annoying always having to try your best...in pubs? It's called public for a reason, everyone can join regardless of their ranking or skill level."
Of course anyone can join. Just like in ranked, anyone can join. And just like in ranked, the game tries to group players of similar skill within a match, though not necessarily within a squad. There will always be variations.
That said, no, my friend, you will never get a match in this game without sbmm, no matter which playlist you join. And this season's sbmm is supposedly the newer, better, more accurate sbmm we've been hearing so much about. Personally I haven't played enough matches to know for sure, but my lobbies seem pretty soft - perhaps because I "present" as a soft player. But with a 2.5 k/d you present as pretty serious.
I know that how the game "feels" is highly subjective, so I can see how a player can have a high k/d and still feel subjectively bad about the experience. But trust us when we tell you: 2.5 is well past respectable. So stop watching streamers. Wink emoji here.
"don't you find that a little annoying always having to try your best...in pubs? It's called public for a reason, everyone can join regardless of their ranking or skill level."
Of course anyone can join. Just like in ranked, anyone can join. And just like in ranked, the game tries to group players of similar skill within a match, though not necessarily within a squad. There will always be variations.
That said, no, my friend, you will never get a match in this game without sbmm, no matter which playlist you join. And this season's sbmm is supposedly the newer, better, more accurate sbmm we've been hearing so much about. Personally I haven't played enough matches to know for sure, but my lobbies seem pretty soft - perhaps because I "present" as a soft player. But with a 2.5 k/d you present as pretty serious.
I know that how the game "feels" is highly subjective, so I can see how a player can have a high k/d and still feel subjectively bad about the experience. But trust us when we tell you: 2.5 is well past respectable. So stop watching streamers. Wink emoji here.
- @reconzero "And just like in ranked, the game tries to group players of similar skill within a match, though not necessarily within a squad. There will always be variations."
when the match is filled with similar skill, how can there be such huge skillgaps within a team ... makes no sense at all ... dont drink the respawn Cool-Aid 😉@r1ggedgame
"when the match is filled with similar skill, how can there be such huge skillgaps within a team ... makes no sense at all"
Here's the official koolaid:
https://www.ea.com/games/apex-legends/news/matchmaking-2023
It makes sense that the odds of having 60 identically skilled players on in the same region in the same playlist at the same time... is pretty low. Hence there will always be variations. And again, the original poster is no kind of soft player. He might like an easy match once in a while, especially in pubs, but that's not what sbmm games do for anyone except maybe the top few percent of players - the players least likely to have equal matches available at any time. For the rest of us we have to accept that with the availability of sunshine we may also have the availability of rain.
Now if a player is saying they get rain 99% of the time then that's a different story. But I've seen many such complaint posts here and read through them only to find that they end much the same way this one does. "SBMM is screwing me over... just pay no attention to my 10% win rate or high k/d or the master dive trail I got in seasons 12 through 14" or some other such scenario where expectations and reality don't align.
No, it isn't a perfect system. There is no perfect system. All I can say is that what they talk about in their description of the old system described my experience fairly accurately. The new system, while it's a little too early to say for sure, seems to also describe my experience accurately.@reconzerospare me that phony blogpost ... its simply not the truth for quite some of us. and its written so vague and leaves out crucial information eg. what those other variables are or how that hidden skillvalue is even remotely calculated. imho that post was just to calm the horses for a brief amount of time and make people hyped on stuff that never came to light. Things might work out in the math they invented ... but as so often ... real life doesnt care about well crafted statistics
