October 2020 - last edited October 2020
Hello once again from your Apex Legends Ranked designers. Today we’ll take a look at our goals, talk about some results, and detail a few things for Ranked Leagues when Season 7 - Ascension launches on November 4th.
Here’s a quick recap of our goals for Ranked and a look at some of the Season 6 results. The distribution continues to look good, and the ranked resets are creating motion and competition at the top end of the ladder.
This shows that Diamond and higher ranks have returned to the same distribution as Season 4, after seeing a slight inflation during Season 5. Overall we continue to monitor the distribution of players but feel this distribution is working. Additionally, the popularity of ranked continues to grow. We’re seeing ranked matches taking between 25% and 45% of all games played depending on time of day, region, limited time mode availability, and time since the last reset.
Here’s a preview of the Season 6 ranked rewards you’ll be earning when the Season changes.
Since this season brings a new map to the games, we’ll be starting with Olympus, then moving to World’s Edge in the second split, with the planned split reset on December 15, 2020. King’s Canyon will sit this season out for ranked play but will return in a later season!
Now that crossplay is launched, console players that are opted in to crossplay will matchmake against all other console players. Everyone in the pool is still sorted by total RP count as usual. This increased player population should help keep matchmaking times short.
For Master and Apex Predator players, playing Ranked matches will earn you RP for your current platform, e.g. if you are a PS4 Apex Predator playing with PC friends, the RP you score count toward your rank only on PS4, even though there are PC players in the matches with you.
We’ll continue to look at the impact crossplay has on ranked progression, and will revisit tuning RP and matchmaking systems in coming seasons. Thanks for playing!
Check out the Discussion Thread here.