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4 years ago

Skill Based Matchmaking

Overview
I have been playing Apex Legends for about 2/3 years, mainly on PS4, but now on PC. I have only gotten to the rank of Platinum since I didn't like Ranked that much, and I have played enough to get at least 1 thousand kills in total on a character on PC. 

Review
I love Apex Legends. I love the graphics, the guns, the frameworks in general make me a happy person. I like Arenas and the normal public matches, especially with my brother and our friends when we play. I will play for hours on end because the game is captivating and very distracting. That is what we as gamers want: To be distracted from what we have or need to deal with. 

Downside
I wish that, in all honesty, that I could play the game casually. I don't like to do a bunch of unnecessary movement to distract my enemy, I don't t-bag players after I kill them for an ego boost, nor do I go onto people's Twitch streams and talk trash because they killed me or vice versa. I understand, however, why people do these things; I was like this with another game for a while when I was so competitive. What I hate most about this game with such little reason to hate is that I CANNOT play casually against people who want to do the same. 

I play time and time again against people who have achieved the highest ranks, hardest badges, and 20 fold my playtime in every single public match I go into. I have tried using bot lobbies, I have tried using a character I don't use in the lobby and then choosing a different one in the game, it doesn't matter. I can't have fun because I can't play against people who are slightly better or at the same level as me. I only watch people fly through the air with a drum mag shotgun, pumping me full with their ego and skill. They are so much better than I am, and I want to know why I have to play against them. 

Thanks for reading if anyone does, just a little rant pretty much. I hope maybe there can be an answer, though I know it won't change much for me. 

Thanks, D

8 Replies

  • @Azverz I agree with everything that you've said except for liking arenas. The thing is no one wants to lose and dying in a BR compared to an arena type mode like deathmatch is different. People are getting better at the game too since apex has been out for more than 3 years already. It's either you sweat, or you get ran over. This is the reason why we need an always rotating LTM like control so that we would have modes where we can just chill. And lastly, the matchmaking isn't perfect since its main priority is always short queue times and not a well balanced lobby.
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    Azverz
    4 years ago

    I agree with you Cheeseman, lol. 

    I do like the special game modes that come around, too. Those are fun ways to shoot a gun and complete and easy objective. Arenas for me is a way to * around and do it in a fast manner, haha. I don't care much for winning, which I forgot to mention. I care more about being able to * around without having some guy who thinks Apex is his career killing me, big mood ruiner. 

  • @Azverz I also agree with everything you said except liking Arenas, just find the mode boring and pointless and I accept that’s a personal opinion. Apex is a very love hate relationship, and just lately the SBMM seems worse than ever, and if it’s not super sweats with high badges, it’s super sweats pretending to be low lvls (smurfs). Thinking about it, they don’t even pretend anymore because there is no real punishment for it. I’ve been smashed lately by Smurf’s with names like “I am a pred” and “super Smurf” etc.
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    Azverz
    4 years ago

    Yeah, those get me really annoyed, too. Getting killed by a lvl 5 with 200 kills is essentially a punishment against me for not deleting the game before I q'd. lol

  • @Azverz The matchmaking is the single worst thing about Apex, bar none. Absolute trash. Squad mates much worse than you and/or opponents much better than you 90% of the time.
  • i think the saving grace of this game is dam good gameplay and season pass update outside of that the game is very lack of content lol even more than overwatch 1 when blizzard focusing developing overwatch 2

    im not even suprised some chinese game company using '' lack of content '' as their main strategy to lure PC/Console Apex players to play Apex mobile by adding more content 

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