December 2019
I was playing Plat IV ranked games and that was easier than pubs. Now that I'm in Diamond III and the pub lobbies are the same skill level as with my ranked games. Doesnt make sense to have two high skilled lobbies when I want to relax and play a BR game. I understand the low level players not wanting to match with higher tiered players, it can make the game very frustrating for someone first starting out. At the same time though how else will they get better if they dont face higher leveled players. Pubs are meant for a non-sweaty game, not all this camping. Im not asking for a level 1 to face an Apex Pred, just add some better logic to the queuing system and tune down the SBMM. Im sure SBMM wont be removed but its going to drive a lot of players away.
December 2019
January 2020
Mid Tier player here dont even have a dive trail... just played a game against the #49 ranked player on PC.... yup this game now sucks.
January 2020
I really don't understand how the SBMM works but I've been finding Diamond lobbies more forgiving than vanilla Apex. There are always a handful of predators in my regular games and I have no idea why, what have I done to deserve these guys?
I'm not that skilled, I have about 7000 kills and 2mil damage since the game launched. My K/D is at 1.3 this season and my average damage is about 530. Am I top tier or am I just unlucky?
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January 2020
January 2020 - last edited January 2020
Everything is ok with new amazing, awesome, best SBMM. I don't have words to describe how good this system is. If you play with full random squad, you play against 2-3 premades, if all randoms in all squads. you play solo :D What can be better?
January 2020 - last edited January 2020
Haha I love how my main account (5000+ matches), which I havent played on since November, has a lifetime K/D of 2.7 whereas my alt account with 800 games has gone from 3.4 lifetime K/D before the SBMM, to 1.9 after =) But the alts K/D in ranked (diamond) is 2.6-2.7... Ranked games in diamond is now easier than my casual hahaah
January 2020
It’s sad I come to these forums to find out whats going on with unranked just to see these threads have existed for months, blown up and not a single response from the dev team about it. There really is no hope for this game. I’m about to buy blackops. These terrible design choices are not * worth it.
January 2020
Exactly. I also keep having a little spark of revival of this game. But yet no updates. Only finding enemies that have 10 times the kills than I have and dying in the first minute. Fun is over. Period.
January 2020
Bro 20 kills badges, 4k dmg badge, 5k+ kills, doesnt matter bro, if they play the game since the launch they will have alot of kills.
Sometimes i met with 2k+ players and they have no game sense and no aim at all.
SBMM isnt calculated by amount of kills u have but the K/D or DMG.
I see people talking about meeting with diamond and predator, i think they talking about casual matches, dont think there is a SBMM on casual, when i first started playing the game (2 months ago) i did met predators and diamonds.
SBMM on ranked is working pretty good, (pre-mades matching with highest rank in the team) u only match with your rank or lower(if premades), so whats wrong in here?