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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

Airish85

1 year ago

S22 ranked has been a tough one.
16-20 seasons my KD was on an incline for up to 0.89 or something.
S21 was 0.65
S22 I am at 0.3 and dont see no end to the decline on how the games are going.

Smurfs exploiting for kills and apparently I fell off the wagon on the skills department?
Or maybe the bot royale is also calculated to my MMR (that would be nasty trick now would it to justify that small PvE dopamine with instadeaths on PvP...)?
Yes, I keep ranking up in my bronze lobby regardless of the above but I dont like how the games make me feel.

I wish the ranked would have more direct feedback to the matchmaking.
If you drop 10 bomb in bronze lobby, you should be sent directly two ranks above.
Now the grindish nature keeps the exploiters in lower lobbies so long that its killing the interest in playing the game.

I would really like to just have even matches. I dont mind playing bronze forever. For me its all about the game experience.
Couldnt care less about BP or cosmetics.

MekaSquid

1 year ago

@Airish85 Very similar k/dr across those seasons too and exactly linked to why I uninstalled last week. It really feels like slightly above average players are just getting the worst of matchmaking. Too good for newbies, not good enough for sweats… but sacrificed to the sweats in the name of comforting newbies in the hopes they stick around.

Airish85
1 year ago
My gut tells me that never was any sort of SBMM in Apex because of the fact that I get better lobbies when there are less players online on my regional servers.

And as opposite to for example now when its the prime time, the EOMM is really trying its best to push me by giving me worse and worse game experiences (and then possibly the dopamine reward hook at somepoint). What makes this sickening is I only play ranked where I would expect to play people against my own skill. Situation should be reversed by any logic. I shouldn't have to grind 4 hour game sessions to get the single "good game experience". My time is too valuable for that.

Lot of talk about integrity and not much to show for it.
Airish85
1 year ago
"I get better lobbies when there are less players online"

Thank you for fixing this. Now I get bad lobbies on both.
Gotta stay consistent.