May 2021
Season nine or legacy. Needs to be changed because every time I play casual I seem to play against predators. They should be in their own lobby and playing against each other not playing against people that just want to enjoy the game. I do not play this game as a profession and if I was to play amateur football I wouldn’t play against a professional so to keep the balance of this game fair anyone that’s achieved predator status should not be allowed in Bronze Silver or gold lobbies. Usually I like to play casual before I play ranked but now I find I will literally only play ranked. I tried to play some casual to get used to Valkyrie but I was getting annihilated by predators and masters which is no longer fun this has been a common problem since season four of apex but has not been rectified or changed. I’m talking about Battle Royale mode as well.
What can be done? Before any smart arse replies get better at the game I am in fact a diamond player so in the top 4%
May 2021
I mean they won't be in your lobbies that long in ranked, and in pubs, I get preds in my game, so what?
Who are they supposed to play with if they are removed from all casual lobbies? So their game should be limited because you don't like to lose?
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@eltorro7Season 9 matchmaking is terrible... the game is practically unplayable I suspect its because of how many wins I have in arena... arena wins should NOT affect battle royale... I don’t want to play with these sweats and they don’t want to play with me either so put me back into my lobbies not on these teams with 200+ wins on a single legend lol
honestly Im just going to keep rage quitting when im knocked until the game is playable again ._. Why the hell am I seeing everyone with 1000s and 1000s of kills and hundreds of wins every single game... I have 43 wins in arena and see mostly my skill level players but then I go to battle royale and can’t even play the damn game... ive only had 3 battle royale wins this season and they all came from launch day other than that Ive just been playing arena and logging off so what the hell is wrong with the matchmaking I shouldn’t be in these lobbies if I wanted to play with sweats 24/7 I would play ranked which I havn’t done since season 4 because I DON’T WANT TO PLAY WITH SWEATS its fun one day every now and then to just not care about winning or losing and just mess around but 90% of the time I just want to simply play the game casually not crouch slide crouch spam whatever on every team
May 2021
Its called a balance. Simply put.
imagine doing anything amateur and then playing against professionals? Or for example your children etc.
its competitive bias for preds etc. And the fun really has been taken out the game. I can handle losing when the its an equal playing field. Not when servers favour american hosts/players. Being shot from impossible angles, impossible movement, behind cover and still die.
so yeh, i report everyone of them.
May 2021
Glad someone else is having the same issue and problems .
i last a while on BR, and have awful team mates, that would rather look at the graphical content then actually play 🤷🏻♂️
then boom, i get lasered by a pred who has 1132 kills with valkyrie and a pathfinder who has 2000+ wins and i am like WTF, what is the point?
i like to play casual with friends as it was fun. Now its a sweat as you say.
and weirdly I don’t play against sweats in ranked and peeps take the game slightly more seriously, instead of quitting after being downed
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@eltorro7
It sounds like you should exclusively be playing ranked. Yes you may occasionally run into someone more skilled than you but for the most part the majority of players will be at your skill level.
But I would like to add that— the majority of Masters and Preds are ALREADY mostly playing in their own lobbies (even in pubs). Yes, the SBMM algorithm occasionally allows a pred team into lower level lobbies, but the majority of the time high skilled players are thrust into their own matches.
This is EXACTLY why my pubs consist of about 60-70% Master/Preds (as evidenced by their dive trails). For the most part, you and people at your skill level are kept safe from people at my skill level.
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I agree with @Irres169. When I play pubs as a solo, I might have 1-5 current or ex preds/masters in my lobbies but that is totally acceptable. If i want a challenge, I drop hot with them but if I dont wanna sweat, I jump somewhere safer. Seems to me that too many people on this forum call everyone who is better than them for "sweats" who they dont want in their lobby but they have nothing against having player worse than them in their lobbies hrmm.
In my opinion, skill is gained by getting your butt kicked by those who are better than you and as you gradually become better yourself, you are also gradually becoming the one who is doing the butt kicking, i.e being rewarded for your skill progression. Imagine how unrewarding it would be if also pubs had a strict sbmm and all the players in the lobby would be exactly as good as you. Everyone K/D would progress towards 1 and every match would feel as ranked.
May 2021