The SBMM complainers
How can playing lobbies knowing the instant you go in the odds give 40 guys you kill easy 10 you will have a fair fight with and 10 you already know beat you be a good thing? SBMM gives you a chance...
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"The system is fair, deal with it."
A direct quote from the OP. My question is how is it fair? I have been in random ques now for 2-3 weeks because all of my friends have left Apex yet again. Now I don't have a problem playing with randoms and have had some decent games, most of them however start the same way, legend select, then we get to the loadout screen and 1 teammate is level 20 and another is level 50. This is common almost every game i play. Go to champion screen and there is a full squad of 4k kill badge and 20 kills in a game. We land and my teammates are down within seconds of landing. Or we gear up and first enemy group we run into they charge into and die quickly. Thus leaving me to 1 v 3, this is the normal scenario I see.
What I see as broken is being put into lobbies where from the get go I am going to be 1 v 3 on teams at my skill level or better and having to sweat every game. Casual used to be casual now it is every game played in casual is a tense situation from landing, btw I solo launch every game now due to JM putting teams into the mountain side. And seriously if you are below level 50 your only reason to land trainyard is to give xp and kills to some other noob.
The net effect of this shift in how the skill based matchmaking whether it is working or not is my KD has dropped significantly, by an average of 1 in the past few weeks going into random games only. I was expecting it to drop of course, but when game after game you are facing down equally skilled or better players and are lugging along with people who just started playing the game that is frustrating.
Let me be clear I am no Apex god, I play to have fun and get some kills and some wins. So far this season I am siting at 200 wins and I would like to see more, but they are becoming harder and harder to come by, since i am usually solo after the first 5 minutes of every game anyways.
My rant is over if SBMM is going to stay then solos should as well, at least level the playing field for those of us who have to solo cue anyways, 1 v 3 is getting really old.
- @mastiffslinger When you play with randoms you have to adjust your play to them unless they let you lead. If they play aggressive you have too, if they camp you have too..
@mastiffslinger When you play with randoms you have to adjust your play to them unless they let you lead. If they play aggressive you have too, if they camp you have too..
?Huh? If my teammates are dead within seconds of landing I should just die too? If my teammates decide to jump into the side of a mountain I should follow?
I understand this is a "team" based game, but it goes both ways. You have to have a team in the first place. Decision making is a big part of this game, bad landing, bad position, bad rotation. Those things crush teams on the regular. How many games have you seen jump masters fail at landing? Since the start of season 3 I have seen more of my fair share of people landing short and running into looted ares just to get blasted in the face by the squad(s) that already landed there.
@DarthValtrex I appreciate your position that you should play as a team regardless of the circumstances, I have given up that ghost this season, I could post screenshot after screenshot of the end game results from matches where I had teammates who lived for less than a minute. But what would be the point? Some of those games I go on and get a few kills maybe make it into top five. A couple of them I won by having better position for final circles and cover from which to fight. Other games I get blasted by the first squad I ran into, but i at least damaged them before dying.
I am going to clarify this again since it seems to get lost in every one of these topics, if you are going to put me in a lobby of people at my skill level or above , give me teammates that are there as well.
Obviously there is no perfect balance to any of this, but this has been happening for months now, I am not saying in the past couple of weeks. I noticed this late season 2 when my friends stopped playing Apex altogether. Carried on into season 3.
- @mastiffslinger Look bad drops happen and you’ll die in the first minutes..
Maybe you end up with a P2020 and white armor and they end up with a PK, R-99 or something decent. Lots of reasons for things to go wrong.
That does not mean SBMM is broken.
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