The official Matchmaking blog post

The ranked point system never made sense especially with regular resets - except to give top players a few weeks of chill as they farm lobby's, but using a skill based matching system within their 'ranked' points system just makes the joke of it even more obvious.

"Mr Respawn, I'm gold but I'm being put in lobby's with preds!! ☹️"

"Well, we calculated you're ok to fight preds"

"But Mr Respawn, I'm only gold?"

"YOU ARE GOOD ENOUGH TO FIGHT PREDS"

"But Mr Respawn, if I'm good enough to fight preds, why am I gold, not pred?"

"Because our calculation is more accurate than our tank points? I guess? Maybe?!?"

"So... are ranked points  worth anything?

"...to give you a sense of progression and achievement?"

For what it’s worth, i’m Gold 2 at the moment, played for 3 hrs since the rank split, and have won a few games in said 3 hrs. Matched with very similar teammates, and on par enemy squads.

It would be helpful if you guys shared which server you’re playing on. I’m in Canada, play on the NY server, and occasionally on the Dallas server.

I honestly can’t complain about the MM, it’s been good to me so far. 

I put it another post yesterday about the fact that I am in silver 2/1 and died to a team that had a diamond and 27th ranked pred who went on to win. Literally just happened to me again. Me and my fellow silver, random team mates got rolled by a 655 Pred and diamond 1. They also had a gold 4 but that is reasonable. Only one rank difference so that’s not an issue. However, why have I not once had a team mate that was higher than me yet several games I’ve been killed by plats and diamonds in the last 2 days? Also I’m in England so playing on London/EU servers.

It does make you wonder why they are willing to sacrifice people’s enjoyment of a game when that is supposed to be what it’s all about.

@hayhorIm in UK so nearest server to me. Its beyond a joke now, the preds must be laughing their * off, 3 of the top ten players in the entire world beaming on bronze and silver........ my "skill" level does NOTHING to suggest i should be playing anyone higher than plat or diamond respawn have absolutely tanked match making, its like a sick joke.
I literally cannot express my disbelief at how bad it is.

Oh if anyone thinks im not at all being truthful please feel free to look up my games (same in game nick).

*edit* I really do think respawn need to open a dialogue here and actually admit what a catastrophic mistake they have made, EU ranked is trash, they have borked it worse than anything they have ever messed up before. I will NOT be there guinea pig and bleed ranks, its not a slight mistake, its not a small error, its a stinker.

Respawn made some bad choices over the time. But this one takes the cake!

Have they changed squad matchmaking again?

I played about 15 rounds last night and in 8 of them, my two squadmates were downed in less than 1 second of gunfire and did close to 0 damage. All 16 of them would have had a combined damage of under 100. The worst squadmates I have ever had. It wasn't like this last week or the week before.

@aisthebestletterNot from what I've seen, especially for premade parties of 2 playing Trios.

Taking the highest skill rated player in that duo, matching them with a random (often lower skilled for some reason), and feeding them to premade Diamond/Masters trios is absolutely horrific. Even if your random is higher skilled, I have almost never seen them be able to carry that duo against premade trios.

My brother and I do the duo in trios thing and it is a horrible experience. Totaly ruins our attempts to play this game together and often gets us ticked off at the game &/or ticked off at each other. We'll disband and play solo and instantly have better matches, too.

I had a win rate of 8.5% this season until last week. Now I am on about a 100 game losing streak. Wtf is going on. 

Nowhere I have found a slightest information about that they will take the team composition into the consideration for matchmaking.

This means that I (a support legend) Loba will be matched with other support legends to artificially prolong the game.

I am seeing this currently so I guess it will the same or worse.

@PsyhiX69 

That's funny  "This means that I (a support legend) Loba will be matched with other support legends to artificially prolong the game."

Where does it state this? Will? Maybe that should have been could. How would 2 support legends on a team "artificially" prolong a game? 

Lets see what happens when S16 hits, me myself I am honestly looking forward to all the changes. Lets give it a try before we start knocking it. 

@hayhor 

30 mats for the crafting the banner. 

No idea if it is limited or not.

Respawn beacon is still needed. 

As time goes on both become limited resources either way even if you have and or can craft a mobile respawn beacon. 

I still do not see how this will prolong the game either way, since well, there is the ring and all. 

I know exactly what you are saying i started play Apex season 13 and it was fun to play had a few wins mm was pretty decent but now its went downhill. Now i dont enjoy playing anymore my K/D is a .38 and im always going up against Pred/Diamond players WHY? They should not even be in my lobby plus im a bronze player. Match making is a joke and i only play on weekends.

@HappyHourSumwurWith this matchmaking is imposible to enjoy the game right now, specially in ranked. Just now i got a premade of Predators in silver level ranked and i usually dont complain bout it but this is getting out of hands. Having 1 solo predator is 1 thing but a premade should never be mix with solos, even more if they are highly skill.

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@USAno54 Not cool man. How does harassing some engineer help with the matchmaking?

Stop for a second and think.
You are proposing to group harass on some 9-5 game company employee trying to feed their family because you are not having fun on the free to play game their employer has made. 
I strongly urge you to go outside and touch grass. 

We keep blaming Respawn / EA about the MM but do we have any clue how much of the crap in it is there because of other players?
Streamer Noko said couple of days ago that ranked up to gold level is riddled with sweat smurfs. Above plat ranked is riddled with cheaters. 

So is this EA / Respawn fault or is it the playerbase again that is causing these kind of issues?

Is EA / Respawn doing DDOS attacks to crash servers? YT search "how to get Apex easier/bot lobbies" and you will find so many videos about how to exploit the system.

IMO If EA would remove the free to play from Apex and charge lets say $10 for account most of the issues would go away. 
Risk of getting caught would actually mean something. Not "oh no I lost my special pixel suit". 

@MindTrick85  Not sure what message are you referring to but I assume its the latest where I replied to a now deleted post about some creepo encouraging people to go group harass some poor EA engineers? Is that something you are after with the phrase "its EAs fault"? Dude you still remember when Hiswattson got banned from ALGS due dev harassment? Surelysurely he is getting the best possible help for his current streamsniper problem from the devs in comparison to likes of ImperialHal... 

Fortnite comparisons arent valid as player numbers are totally different. In the previous 24h period Fortnite peak player count was almost 3 million simultaneous players. Apex ALL TIME highest player count is around 600K... On average Fortnite has 10 times more concurrent players than Apex. Of course you are not going to run into cheaters that much.

Also Apex has generated about 4 billion USD since its lauch in 2019. Fortnite makes about 5-6 B USD in a YEAR. And yes, their skins & events & innovativeness is on another level. In one of the previous posts I already said that they have totally different strategies. Apex has low risk-low reward strategy with small investments of recolors & made up events vs Fortnite has high risk-high reward strategy with licensed skins & massive brand events. So far the latter seems to be working better. 

And yes there are cheaters in Fortnite https://www.reddit.com/r/FortniteCompetitive/comments/1bhcr88/what_is_with_so_many_cheaters_in_ranked_recently/ 

Has to be said though, innovativeness makes Fortnite playable for casuals without cheats.
There are so many other game modes you can play without having to sweat. In short you can have fun. 

Apex is trying its best to be a serious competitive shooter. With limited options of Pubs, ranked & mixtape in the game many people trying to have "just fun" resort to cheating to not feel miserable after playing. Should Apex bring in custom PvE bot lobbies for the fun of it,  IMO it would reduce cheating a lot. Like imagine BR match where you could set your own rules for a custom lobby against bots and/or friends. Take out Path Q timers and spiderman across the map. Or simple as not having to play your meta weapons & legends to get a kill every three games. Forget the EOMM/SBMM to make profits. Optimize FUN. 

Yes, there is a chance the Apex will be shutdown by EA and we will most likely be sad about it.
If you are not sad about it why are you "hate gaming" it now? I think thats what they call addiction brother. 
Me, Ive had almost 3000h of COMPLETELY FREE entertainment from Apex which I am very thankful to anyone who paid for anything in the game to keep it alive for so long.