Apex Legends Skill Based Matchmaking News00:00

I don't understand??This game was my first game on PC and i have never played on PC before,when i was playing in season 1 it wasn't so hard for me and honestly the why respawn is adding SBMM to this game surprised me.Because I'm now a casual player and 1.34 KD and I'm platinum 3.It was not even so hard and i can't understand,just grind the game and you'd get good eventually ,fighting better players can improve the new players didn't they even think about that???Why are they trying to suit this game for the new players,because if you're a OG player and still play this game i have all the respect for you.They put in SBMM and they take away fun movement,like the zip line jumping to avoid getting shot at.They have never been loyal to their season 0 players and totally shit on their faces.I can't see how this matchmaking system is trending the base of the game,because I'm very close to leaving this game because of this.

Level 1-20 only in a queue w each other.. 3 stacks vs 3 stacks SBM.. everything else no SMB. Simple as that.

I dont mind it at all cause I'm a 16k octane however, they do need it from levels 1-20 in my opinion also solo que lobbies put me with the lowest level people almost all of the time. this season has been only 2 players that were considerably on my skill level or greater than that solo que lobbies need to exist and shouldn't pair me up with two preds and trios all the same

You should have the option to turn sbmm on and off

SBMM can use a tweak but what needs a work is Team balancing say your level 340 you should not be teamed up with level 40 or 120 player and go up against 500 preds your not having fun because you have to carry and the teammates aren’t having fun either there getting shit on by preds

I just got used to the sbmm being janky and it actually got me better but i get it sometimes these pred diamond players are using mods or just cheatin

Ok I had a friend that tried Apex for the first time not too long ago. He won his first few games. He stopped playing because the game was too easy and was boring because there was really a challenge. And now whenever I tell him that I play Apex he says that I only play it because its easy. What would respawn say about this?

As long as there is sbmm there will be smurfs, boosters and 3 stack pred teams in pubs.
Its up to Respawn to decide but I think their pub matching is the worst ive ever seen in a game especially when there is a ranked mode.
I don't have more than a couple friends at my skill level so for everyone else it's a miserable experience for them when they que into a lobby while playing with me.

Hopefully cross play can populate the game more overall that way you have more players to match your skill cuz I have a 1.15 KDR and the other day I had a mirage in my lobby with 80,000+ kills… A MIRAGE FOR FUCKS SAKE haha I'm still shook till this day. I don't mind tho occasionally I beat a pred by playing smart and you better believe I tbag the ever living shit outta their body

It’s honestly been much better lately in trios, but much worse in duos.

My kill record is 19 and it was in ranked. My kill record in pubs maybe 14. It doesnt make sense. My KD last season was 2.3 now its 1.7. How does that make sense. SBMM is trash. Make it lvl based instead. People between lvl 1-25 in one group, lvl 25-50 in one group and the just random people over lvl 50.

I always used to think I could come home from a 40 hour work week and enjoy my weekend playing some casual games of Apex. I've never been more wrong in my life. I can't play a single game casually without having to sweat my balls off every .3 seconds because crouch spamming wraith preds don't stop 3rd partying.

The problem I have with skill based matchmaking is that I am going up against more predators, masters, and diamonds in pubs then what I have in ranked

I hope they do something. My friends and I play against the same champion predator squad at least twice a night in pubs, sometimes three times.

When SBMM was in the game I get so many rage quitters it ask me why did they add a penalty system to casual games yet it's all ready in rank games

I think a good solution would be to make players below level 100 play with each other and then no SBMM afterward. Levels 101-500 get to play with each other at random. 100 levels are more than enough time to figure out the game.

Doesn’t counter for people who play for FUN. Not all of us are sweaty and want to be the next aceu we play it to unwind and have fun then to be up against preds with a 10 k/d 20bomb badge and 4K dmg every game. Land on no gun to get melted by sweaty who lands on purple armour and r99

I’ve recently quit apex because of SBMM. Sometimes I just wanna hop on pubs and vibe and end up getting sweat on by 3 TTVs. After level 25 or so SBMM should be lightened or nonexistent. It’s turning away the players who actually play consistently and support respawn.

I honestly think sbmm should only be in place for level 50 accounts and below. Once you hit level 51, you can go against any skill set.

In my opinion if it was possible they should make it where only new players get skill based with other lower players but every higher level players let's say atleast players who are level 100 should not have skill based match making bc for some reason when I'm playing duos I get put with idiots who have no thought or anything and I never undertsand that bc I'm always the one clutching big situations and the times that I get one guy down and then the 2nd guy gets me down well half the time my teammates cant kill the last guy even tho I beamed both of them like idk if that tells you something or what but something is weird

Idk why but I like this season sbmm a lot, in diamond and plat you get with preds and idk it's been easier because you get a mix of casuals and preds and not all sweats. Could be just me but I'm almost master and solo queue a lot

i wanted to see how much damage u did in the background gameplay

SBMM is in a weird spot right now. Today I got killed by a 50K kill mirage twice in a row. After that a 50K kill Pathfinder and a 20K kill lifeline both killed me and they were on the same team. I feel like sometimes SBMM is absolutely terrible and there are such insanely competitive players absolutely stomping us mortals in public matches. Sometimes there just isn't a place to escape those kinds of players no matter what mode you play.

I don’t mind going against people around my k/d but why am I going against 3 stacks with 6+ k/ds? I’m also a solo player how am I suppose to have a chance against them with 2 other players nowhere near my k/d?

You guys are going to cry about sbmm if they take it out. I promise you. They've taken it out of D2 and PVP is completely enraging now.

When dummies big day was the LTM during the grand soiree, all known good players and streamers flocked to this mode. Guess why? Because it had no sbmm and they wanted to farm free kills for their kd until it became known that KD was disabled in the game mode.

People who want sbmm gone are the people that want high kill games and high damage games, like how are new players gonna stick with apex if their playing against freakin sweaty neckbeards with 10,000+ in the game, sbmm isnt going anywhere, quit crying

SBMM prob brings the game up because it makes content creators and the community talk more about the game as a whole. Free advertising

@Dirt168 that's a bruh moment 0_0

I don’t even play ranked that much the highest I have gotten is to gold 4 but I still play against diamonds and plats and sometimes preds in casual

Sbmm seems like a lie to me. I’m usually playing pubs and I am level 250. I almost never get a teammate that is over level 50. And I always drop like 5-8 kills a match with easily over 1000 damage. The team I play with are terrible and idk how I could even remotely be paired with such low experienced players. And I look to the left or right and see 2 squads of predators. I always find myself being disappointed and disinterested in the game because it feels like a 1v3 every fight in the game. I could just be very oblivious to the system or just straight up ignorant, but am I the only person that feels like this? This is why I want respawn to add solos so bad, so I don’t have to rely on a teammate that could be good or bad and therefore just have to rely on my skill versus that of my opponent.

Sbmm should be applied to players lvl 200 and below after that pubs should be totally random, since you've probably gained enough experience and not a noob anymore.

They should just do level matchmaking instead of skill

For the past week I have been fighting preds in pubs. Keynote IM NOT A PRED. They need to fix it

I won like 5 matches 2 days ago with my friends, since then I literally get pred lobbies every. Single. Time. Haven't been able to enjoy the game since because I keep getting put in lobbies where the skill difference is disgustingly obvious. I'm decent at the game but there's no way. I have no problem taking L's either, its just getting pred lobbies literally every single match is annoying as fuck. There's absolutely no way my skill wavers and wanes that much withing literally just a couple hours.

get ri of it by the time they figure tat out apex will be dead 5 years old there will other games to play

I really like sbmm, people who are mad about sbmm are literal shit babies who don't know how to play the game, I also prefer having good teammates on my team rather than a level 40 guy tat started playing a week ago.

How about they just pair three ppl up with a lobby full of bots for level 10a and shit lol

SBMM in Pubs should only apply to level 1-20 players. Any level past it should be removed.

SBMM is a good system to help the casual players and most of them dont even realize that. Like what do average players think is gonna happen when SBMM is removed? most likely they get even more often fucked by preds and whine even more since everybody wants to stomp worse players, but that obvsly doesn't work.

I think they messed up and did it backwards, I'm diamond getting gold teammates lately

Every single game I play either PUBS or low level rank you see a quarter of the lobby with *****SMURF***** accounts, and this is as a result of SBMM… I'm not saying it should be removed completely, but many many many players run 2 to 5 smurf accounts because of how SWEATY PUBS have became, and then rank is also SWEATY, no way in hell everyone that hop on on Apex wants to SUPER SWEAT every match.
SBMM must be turned down a bit.

What sux is if you’ve got a friend who’s a lot better than you- when they’re in ur squad it seems to matchmake off them, so you get melted.

I just want it to be sort of skill based so let’s say your level 100 you can play to up to level 300 so you don’t get destroyed but you can feel good when you kill someone higher level

What's they doing for account booster guys who dominating the ranked like 30 lvl and 400 kills?

I keep running into Maxx chaos FB and pathfier and various pred squads constantly. I'm only at a 1kd I've ran into Maxx chaos FB back to back at one point. They gotta make it kd or average DMG based or something other than what it is currently. Tired of running into 4k 20 bomb people constantly or the lv 10 wraith with 100 kills already. At lv 10 I didn't even know how to match ammo with guns let alone aim properly. Don't even get me started on ranked. Lobbies are plat to pred. They need a way to not penalize people at least the entry fee for the lack of people in the higher ranks. Maybe a "This lobby is higher than your skill level so the entry fee is waived due to top 500s masters in the lobby." Ranked should be one up or one down like gold's get plat silver lobbies ,plat gets diamond gold etc. master and top should only play against each other and in the case of not enough players the entry fee is waived

I really wish they could add african servers

The only people who complain about SBMM are bored pros who want to wipe the floor with players not as good as them. You know it and I know it. It’s the same god damned story

I've gotten used to SBMM I just wish Diamond 3 lobbies only consisted of Diamonds and Masters (No Preds or Platinum's)

It’s crap. Champion squads are consistently 20 bomb badges, 4 k damage and so on. It’s a joke.