The official Matchmaking blog post
Here’s the most awaited blog post about matchmaking https://www.ea.com/games/apex-legends/news/matchmaking-2023
Forum Discussion
@r1ggedgame That's what it feels like. Blog post and then nothing for about 5 months.
I think players hoping for some big improvement or any sort of improvement to matchmaking in BR mode for that matter (& I speak as a solo queuer) then prepare to be massively disappointed but frankly not surprised.12 matches in so far in S17 & the MM feels just as awful & as bad as S16.Just like S16 it looks like being another season where Apex is going to have to rely on the Mix-Tape to keep players playing Apex.
- @Redmattgame No offense but what are you talking about?
I have played like 7-9 pubs games and literally everyone has been a Masters or Pred. If we’re all in lobbies ourselves that means we aren’t harassing you or average players.
@Axs5626Sxa5001 wrote:
@RedmattgameNo offense but what are you talking about?
I have played like 7-9 pubs games and literally everyone has been a Masters or Pred. If we’re all in lobbies ourselves that means we aren’t harassing you or average players.Just what are you talking about exactly ? I'm in what you may call the 'average or casual players category' & yet in all the 12 Pubs matches I played there were plenty of pred-trails in pretty much all of the matches.As I mentioned I'm a solo queuer (try it some time & you might have a different opinion) & no matter where our squad landed whether it is on the fringe areas or the more popular areas we were stomped every time by well co-ordinated pre-made squads it seems.And just because you get lumped in the lobbies full Masters or Pred (I'd assume you'd consider yourself one or the other) it doesn't mean us casuals are getting any easier lobbies.does it?anyway.
@RedmattgameWhen discussing a person’s matchmaking experience, I often like to ask people where they place themselves (which you have done, so thank you), and what their overall lobby composition is.
I’m not saying this is you, but I often find average players complaining because 1-6 diamond to preds are in their match.
As of right now, the “top bucket” pubs are 80-95% Diamond to Preds. Basically everyone has a 4k 20 bomb or they are a smurf. I ask you this HONESTLY— is 95% of your lobby this type of player?
I’m in those lobbies. Correction: I am LOCKED into those lobbies. I often go 100-200 games with no top 5 placement because I am not good enough to beat an entire lobby of Masters and Preds. At best, I am a lower level Masters player; better than 90% of the population but locked into a situation where I lose 99% of my matches (because the top lobbies are all high diamond to preds).
You know who’s not in these lobbies the high majority of the time? Average players. Because if they were I would see them (over the course of thousands of games). Yes of course— sometimes an average player will end up in a top bucket lobby, but every game? No. This isn’t happening.
So yes, the HIGH BULK of average players are being protected from the top players.
after placements I got rookie rank and was getting placed against plat and up people. When I hit bronze silver I was getting masters squads. I'm gold now and my team mates are bronze wtf is this garbage?
