Why am I going against Apex Predators?
For the past 3-4 months I have been encountering Apex Predators and players far above my skill. It happens every day I play Apex, so often that I can't even keep count. It has started to take away fr...
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@skullcrusher907 Yeah my KD is 1.15 at the moment, I play exclusively with randoms. I bounce in and out of the top tier lobbies. I occasionally get Master and Pred players as teammates. When I'm having a good night I'll have 5-6 or more rounds getting 10 kills and posting 2k damage. Those nights SBMM bumps me up into lobbies with 3-4 pred trails coming out the drop ship and a few master players.
My big issue is consistency. I think they are simply more consistent with their numbers than I am. I'm sure you have killed preds and master players before, probably more than you realize.
The thing is we all have rounds in which we get destroyed. It's easy to look at their badges and say figures! I should not be playing in matches with them. But honestly, you probably kill them more frequently than you realize.
Take it as a compliment! You're legit good if you're in those lobbies. You might be on the lower end of those lobbies but still.. You'll also get better the more you play in those lobbies, I know I do. I had one night in which I was in those lobbies for a solid 4-5 hours, I finally had a streak of bad games and got put back into mid tier lobbies.. I went on a rampage posting nearly 2800 damage and 10 kills.
My big issue is consistency. I think they are simply more consistent with their numbers than I am. I'm sure you have killed preds and master players before, probably more than you realize.
The thing is we all have rounds in which we get destroyed. It's easy to look at their badges and say figures! I should not be playing in matches with them. But honestly, you probably kill them more frequently than you realize.
Take it as a compliment! You're legit good if you're in those lobbies. You might be on the lower end of those lobbies but still.. You'll also get better the more you play in those lobbies, I know I do. I had one night in which I was in those lobbies for a solid 4-5 hours, I finally had a streak of bad games and got put back into mid tier lobbies.. I went on a rampage posting nearly 2800 damage and 10 kills.
Forsure, Thank you for the insight. Definitely gives me more understanding as to how the matchmaking works, makes sense that after I get a win I’m in the lobbies with demons the next game
- @skullcrusher907 Yeah, and it's not necessarily a bad thing. It's a good way to really test your skill and push yourself to the next level. That's how I view it when I'm in those lobbies. If I get melted by preds I spectate the rest of the match to try and learn some tricks I might be missing.
Thank you
I got 2,999 damage :/ as my highest right now, honestly I just get on to have some fun after work and relax but getting destroyed fairly often gets annoying I have had to adapt though, I’m starting to become what I seem to destroy
@skullcrusher907 I get that, I play to relax and have fun as well. It's also my form of entertainment, I don't watch TV I'd rather game. But the nature of this game is going to include death, in order for someone to get a kill someone must die, so it's going to happen even to the very best players. Even the forum member who has a 9 KD admit he occasionally gets killed posting 0 damage and 0 kills. It just doesn't happen to him as often as it happens to us.
Players will land on better loot and kill you.
players will have favorable positioning and kill you.
Players will out play you and kill you.
How ever you will do the same to them. I'm sure you've had rounds in which you've landed on a moz and no armor, then proceed to kill someone who has a 99, 301 or flatline and blue armor. It happens...
@Vdstrk I read that article a while ago. I have a fairly good idea of how SBMM works in this game. They likely have a timer to put together a match, the longer you're in queue the looser the SBMM becomes. So if you're waiting for X amount of seconds and the game can't fill a lobby with similarly skilled players, it will expand the player base it pulls from to fill said lobby. So let's say they have a lobby that has standards of master-Predator players, if the queue is running for X amount of time and can't fill the lobby. It will then search for players Diamond-Predator ranks to fill lobby.. That's likely how the SBMM timer works but it's probably based on overall stats of the player (winning %, KD and average damage).
How ever this is not something you'll deal with frequently unless you're playing at really odd hours and during really slow times for the servers. Now if you play in regions such as Australia where the player population is already small, you might bump into it more frequently.
