The official Matchmaking blog post
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Had nice evenly balanced games yesterday. Now its payback time. Lube not included.
Maybe I am just too old but I dont really understand the mentality with the current matchmaking.
I get the dopamine rewarding trick but I mean how juvenile / low self esteem do you have to be to actually see this kind of lopsided match as a great win for the other team?
"GET WRECKED!" BOOYAH!"
By creating this kind of matches you are superboosting the ingame toxicity & giving players mixed signals about their own MMR.
This in return results massive egoboosts and posts on social media & forums how everyone that kills me is a cheater.
"I just dropped 10 kills in TDM. I am the best there ever will be in Apex. This next guy simply cant be better as I have the results from my last match to show. So he was definitely cheating and also my braindead teammates who didnt help me"Just in case, the problem might not be about matchmaking as much it might be about cheating. That case about hackers messing with Apex Legends' tournament might have given a slight taste of it. But as long as I'm not able to tell how many people is cheating in this game, I'll just add that I have met one sure case of cheating in game and a lot more suspicious ones.
PS. For hitting people with your gun, you might wan't to try shooting in burst rather than full auto. That helped me a lot. Very few guns in the game can be shot full auto without problems. (At least without upgrades). Second one is that in very close encounter situations don't use sights. (Some weapons excluded). You need that larger view of not using sight in close up encounters. And if the opponent is too close, just hit them with melee to get some more space. In some cases that might even kill them.
full on 3 stack preds in plat/diamond lobbies all over again. garbage
- @HappyHourSumwur I understand you so much, I feel your pain as if it were my own. I've been playing since release, but I don't have good enough reflexes to quickly target the enemy and control recoil well. Previously, I could reach the gold rank in a ranked match, I always took this place for many seasons, in some seasons when the matchmaking became truly terrible, adding players to my squad who played much worse than me, but all opponent's players were as if they had just come from the final round of the tournament. Some seasons were silver, some were even bronze, when I lost hope. And despite this whole journey... the game continues to send me into matches where Predators, Masters and Diamonds are running among the enemies. Considering my depressing skill, every time I ask myself the question: “What have I done to deserve this suffering? Why does the game consider me worthy of playing against such terrible opponents who don’t even give me the slightest chance to develop, they just destroy me in a microsecond in every match.” I used to spend my time playing the game to get rid of depression, but now I feel like this game is dragging me further into the abyss of depression. I increasingly feel that in this game I was assigned the role of “Mob” so that various PRO players, streamers and cheaters could have fun at my expense. In the last two years, I don't remember ever being actually put into a fair, balanced match where my opponents and my allies were equal in skill to me.
And the terrible thing is that I still haven't found another game with similar gameplay as an alternative. And EA, along with Respawn, are well aware that there are no other alternatives for players to go to. Other BR games have a significantly different pace of play and the dynamics of the battles themselves are different, which is why Apex Legends is so loved by many who do not like the gameplay of PUBG/WZ/Fortnite. And realizing this, they are in no hurry to correct the bad situation with matchmaking and cheaters. This makes it even sadder... we have become hostages to the incompetence of other persons. MM got so bad that I've quit for the season. Will check out S21 but as soon as I see that MM and anti-cheat are still trash I'll be out again. After having played a ton since S8 I think I'm that guy now...the one who hops on for the first day or two of each new season but doesn't play any more than that.
In a way I get that BR is hard to be really balanced since you don't want people waiting for a long period of time, then died quickly and have to wait again. However for LTM there is no excuse. Sadly, the person I used to play almost everyday decided to quit, game is no longer fun for her.
News flash . . . MM is still complete garbage and Respawn has said almost nothing about it. TBH, I think the matchmaking is the worst it has ever been if you can believe it.
Why is it so difficult for MM to notice when I'm getting obliterated multiple games in a row? It is plain as day to me and yet my enemies continue to know exactly where I am at all times and never miss any shots on me. Hmm . . . . WTAF, Respawn!
- @Khronikos The game is not fun your right
- @Khronikos You can skip the looting with the ltm. Unfortunately it is only here for another week tho.
I have no real idea why people still play this game. People are legit addicted like a hard drug, but it's not clear even why anymore. Numbers were dropping hard, but now you get all these muppets saying BEST SEASON EVER GUYS. It's just the drugs talking. For every ten minutes I have fun in this game, I count 1-2 hours of just running around looting mindlessly and watching teammates make the most stupid decisions ever.
Every major change they have made has made it impossible to solo player. Having ropes for everyone just made the game way too easy for stacks to decimate the entire server. Valk was a mistake, and they doubled down on it and made everyone Valk. Just ridiculous. That along with ring changes and the overall matchmaking is just unbearable. I play events and nothing more. This game is legit just a very poor, laggy shooter at this point.
The lag in this game is LOL at this point. The servers are worse than a true comp game from ten years ago.
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