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Wdbranden110
Rising Newcomer
13 hours ago

The Issue with Match Making as an African player

Hi. I am an African apex legends player who's fairly average at best and I have been getting overwhelmed with the very bad match making of the game as of late. I usually die off drop with 0 kills and almost no damage and get steamrolled by preds, master , 20bomb/4ks , you name it. My issue is every match gets harder and I am a very casual player who just wants to enjoy the game within my own skill level but the match making system doesn't see how often I die and does some uno revese where dying embarrassingly gets me out in harder lobbies for some strange reason instead of matching me with my skill bracket. I was advised by support to play at a different time or try a different server. But coming from africa (Zambia) I only have 1 server i can access without lagging and that is EU Central since there are no African servers for apex legends and I usually on good days get 230ms ping. Every other server is about 300ms or more. And I only get off work at 7pm so I dont really have much choice on time to play. I hope a community manager sees this and helps with my issue. I love the game and alot of people in africa love this game as well. I just wish it wouldn't punish me for trying to enjoy the game and just fight people within my skill level. 

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  • RuanPrinsloo41's avatar
    RuanPrinsloo41
    Seasoned Traveler
    3 hours ago

    Just wanted to drop a post to ask for African servers again

    I'm losing so many fights because of this

    I'm from South Africa, EU Central server is best and I'm stuck with ping ranging from 184 to 230

    Please can we get African servers 

  • Hi Wdbranden110​ 

    I play from Ireland on the EU server on a mobile wifi and a ping of about 90 and I am also  mostly dead off drop too, unless I go solo and go for a wander. We are playing against players on a wired connection with a ping of less than 30. Unfortunatly there is no beating that. I have in the past played on a 30 ping and there is a world of difference. So its not just the match making that is the issue imo.

    For now I just play mix tape, and enjoy what I can of that. You might enjoy that better too. But a 230+ ping is unfortunatly always going to be very hard to play off. 

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