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Cheese9Man

3 years ago

The official Matchmaking blog post

Here’s the most awaited blog post about matchmaking https://www.ea.com/games/apex-legends/news/matchmaking-2023

discussion

Bulte002

1 year ago

Why do I run into a squad of 4K/20 drops almost every game even though I am solo queuing and I have never gotten a 4K badge even once? It's been like this for years. It's not fun to just get dunked on without even shooting your opponent once. Why even bother with SBMM? It happens almost every game this season and the solo mode is just those players mowing through lobbies.

EA, I mentioned this three years ago and the post never even got a response from a developer, even though players commented on it. Fix your *.

Bulte002
1 year ago
I quit this *. Fix SBMM. I want to play players of similar skills.
Axs5626Sxa5001
1 year ago
@Bulte002Matchmaking exists on a ladder.

It’s entirely possible that the higher skilled players you run into have lost A LOT in the high MMR lobbies (which exist whether you believe so or not. The MAJORITY of players you hate— the higher skilled ones, are indeed playing each other the majority of the time).

My advice is that you exclusively play ranked. But even then you have to come to grips with the idea that better players exist and that you will play them. Your outcomes represent where you are in the skill bell curve.
- r1ggedgame
  Seasoned Ace
  1 year ago
  @Axs5626Sxa5001 so how can it be possible that players without any form of gamesense nor aim have a high rank at this stage. dropping hot, dying under 100 dmg but are nearly diamond at this point ? If they play with me they die like flies, not like that higher rank suggest. It seems they normally get way easier lobbies to reach those high ranks in comparison. thats why they even try to hotdrop. The MM is rigged , plain and simple
- meece
  1 year ago
  ...Your outcome doesn't represent where you are in the skill bell curve though?
  For example:
  - when returning from hiatus you'll have ~two "easy" matches, and then it goes "OK BACK TO NORMAL"
  - when starting out you get protection lobbies
  - ranked is setup to encourage grind in 80% of the playerbase, not to measure skill
  - "normal" matchmaking would expose you to the entire playerbase equally (including the really * people)
  The fact is nobody would play or watch football if matchmaking put Champions League teams vs your local school.