November 2020
November 2020
The matchmaking in this game has been disgustingly bad since forever. It will NEVER change. I am constantly playing predators and masters... yet I am NOWHERE near their skill level. I get absolutely wrecked by these guys... yet.. who do I play against next match? Yup... more preds and masters... I lose a bunch to them... get a game without them where it IS people my skill.. if I get say 300-500 damage and manage a kill or two.. BAM right back to masters and predators. I’m on the brink of uninstalling the game now actually because of this.. I feel in my heart EA/respawn honestly doesn’t give a single f*#@ about matchmaking. The game isn’t fun when at the start it shows a couple of guys with 40 thousand kills and up... 4 thousand damage badge and 20 kill badge...yet I drop in with 6500 kills overall on all my legends. Yea.. you know you’re gonna lose. How is the game fun at that point? Just roam around and then come across the champ squad and they wreck you with the most precise aim ever and drop you.. the fight lasted about 14 seconds. Oh yea soooo much fun...
November 2020
No, level is not important at all. You say you got 13-14 kill games, there are people who are level 500 that have never had that many kills. It's based off your skill, not time played, not level, not how much you're "learning", your skill, which puts you at the top tier getting 13-14 kills per game.
November 2020
I understand your point but in terms of reflexes etc unless you're 50 reflexes won't be a factor as that is not how talent works. I'm 37 and can still aim better and faster than most people at the hardest ranks in most games. It's probably cause you're married etc or just don't have what is called the "ignition" anymore that you had when you were a kid playing games.
November 2020
This original post is almost 2 years old, and nothing has been done about the SBMM in Apex Legends. Get it together Respawn Entertainment. You have all the tools and stats at your disposal to do this. Simply setup players / squads by the following statistics (that you already collect):
* K/D Ratio
* Average Champ wins
* Average Kills per match
For example: If I played 1,500 matches and only had 300 kills, How do you think a fight would go against someone that's played 500 matches and has 10,000 kills???
"But won't that just increase wait time in the lobby?!?"...Yea. from 15 seconds to maybe 30 seconds. Wow.
If the above doesn't work for you RESPAWN, there is plenty of other options too:
* Reduce the damage increments of armor from 25 to 15, or even 20.
* Balance out gun damage or at least base them on mobility. (e.g. SMG's make you move faster, etc.)
* Match-make pre-made squads with other pre-made squads, and squads of randoms with other squads of randoms.
* Disable cross-play.
Speaking of gun damage, it is frustrating how guns get nerfed and buffed all the time, because the "try-hards" will simply research what is the latest buffed gun and use it to their advantage.
I have friends who have stopped playing Apex and have seen a lot of comments from people online saying they stopped playing because of the awful matchmaking.
Expand your "Horizon" RESPAWN and compromise (not cater) to more players!!!
January 2021
Thread falls on deaf ears. Not a single developer take the time to come to the forum and answer our feedback.
January 2021
January 2021
January 2021 - last edited January 2021
Maybe they could implement a sort of "handicap" for top pre-made squads who play pubs? In Facebook groups, sweats are frequently looking for other 20bomb, 4k damage 10k/d sweats to play with in what they lovingly call "pubstomping." If you're teaming with others who are top players with high k/ds, you should only be able to be a duo. By making it more difficult for top players who frequent pubs by making them limited to duos, maybe it'll give the other average players that get stuck in the same lobbies a fighting chance.
My k/d is abysmal and I can assure you that my accuracy is subpar. I'm a level 500 with maybe 2400 kills across all of my legends. I shouldn't be playing against stacked platinum players when I'm solo and not that great of a player. I can play with my friend, but his skill level is way above mine and his lobbies are too hard for me and I know it's frustrating for him to carry me. Since SBMM is sooooo inaccurate and caters to streamers... would be nice if Apex implemented some sort of handicap in pubs to discourage sweats from mowing through lobbies that are way below their skill level. Let the top players be angry about it, that's fine. If they want to triple stack top players, they should be forced to play against the same. Triple stacked pubstomping shouldn't be a thing.
January 2021