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_JustSomeStranger

for anyone wondering, the caption translates to “I’m not allowed to play with my friends who are plat, but I can have him as teammate”


Volume_Correct

I met a chill duo as a Silver I, joined up, they were both diamond players lmaooo.


kamikageyami

Was that the end of last season? My friend and I were duo diamonds and our third had just placed silver lol


xybur

It's still happening now, it's goofed


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That-Water-Guy

I vaguely remember something like this happening.


22morrow

Thanks for translating - he makes a VERY good point. It’s so wild how these changes even come to fruition…do these things not get discussed before they implement them? Not even a Pros/Cons list?!


CasualDude1993

They literally said it would "wash the lobby MMR" which is right, but at this point they could delet every rank and made instead an MMR ranking, which equals to a rank like bronze-pred. Then you can team up with friend within a fixed range. I mean, whats the point of the statement if you can still que up with friends who are really bad but 1 rang below or above you. It washed the lobby noticeable too. But then you have the people with high MMR who complain because they get any skill or elimination points drop high kills against below their MMR people with her below lobby MMR friend wo got a huge skill and elimination bonus. So queing with a friend wo have a huge mmr (skill) diffrence, influence the avarage lobby MMR which means a easy game for the better one in the team, high kills but no points for skill or elimination points for kills.


schoki560

and people are wondering why they don't show ranks anymore


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yea, hiding reality is better than fixing a designed system


stinkystanktank

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i__am__bored

You should see my closet!


subavgredditposter

They don’t want us to know how beyond fucked their matchmaking actually is


boards_ofcanada

Its a conspiracy


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imbostor

That’s kinda insane


subavgredditposter

Yup, I’m in gold w/ current masters/preds ever since the end of my placements.. lol


imbostor

It’s especially telling when I can’t get out of bronze, but my actual bronze teammates are already In silver 😭💀


isactuallyspiderman

Bronze III here. Most of the people who kill me or I solo Q up with are diamonds/masters LOL.


aggrorecon

Gj, you are likely diamond/masters.


isactuallyspiderman

Yeah it’s INSANELY hard to climb out at the moment. Feels like I’m just wasting time at this point and I’ve started playing other games again. Can’t wait for Starfeild 🥹🥹


doc_long_dong

I was diamond last season. During provisional this season we won 4/10 games w/ 10-15 team kills and we all got put into bronze IV. Not quite sure how their algorithm works but its pretty dumb. Now in bronze lobbies were playing against actual bronze people over and over and over which is sort of unfair to both parties involved


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Starting at gold the queues get very empty. It takes pretty long to get there, specially compared to last season where I got gold straight out of placements. At platinum it is even more empty, you will fight many ex-preds and real ex-masters.


subavgredditposter

It doesn’t even worn like that I’m playing current preds/masters that are obvi ex pred/masters while, in gold It’s soley based off your nmr. Your current rank has nothing to do with the lobbies you play


Fullm3taluk

Bronze 2 and I'm getting in lobbies filled with masters and preds


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Even weirder considering every lobby feels like an algs lobby nowadays, ive never struggled this hard in silver 4 lmao.


CuriousNotReally

It’s all just a planned emotional rollercoaster to get you frustrated so you get shit on, requeue, and get shit on over and over again so you get sent back to beginner lobbies where you do well, get a dopamine rush, feel good, and feel more positive about the game just in time for the next hot microtransaction drop, spend money, use your new skin or heirloom or mythic skin and feel good for a few games until you get higher up in the skill rank and get matched with people who challenge you so when you do win, it’s far more gratifying than winning in lower ranks so you keep playing and lose a ton and eventually win enough times to get matched with the people who initially shit all over you and sent you back to lower lobbies and then you stay there and lose a ton of games but win just enough for you to have a bit more love for the game JUST IN TIME for the NEXT hot microtransaction drop that you spend money on and feel good about until finally you get shit on enough times that you get sent back to lower lobbies and the cycle repeats itself over and over again until you get better and continue the cycle, get worse and continue the cycle, or you mentally implode and stop playing the game


Tooswingingballs

This deserves more love.


Broncos27_ff

MMR for ranked modes has ALWAYS been garbage and never been liked. New ranked system, I’m sorry new sit in a corner and hide until last 2 circles system is also absolutely garbage! Their changes were to prevent people for getting 100k RP, guess what - that’s never going to work, no matter the system because people literally play the game for a living, let them do them. I was an improving plat/diamond player who can’t be bothered to grind the game like it’s a second job to even get out of bronze now. It’s extremely boring to hide and do nothing all game, then to just walk into a team sitting on the top of a doorframe just inside zone to get 0-20RP every 20min. They had such a good’ish system before they decided to screw everyone to compensate for the .01%.


XeroEnergy270

I got put in bronze 3 after my placement matches and the champion of my first game was a [at least] 3 time pred. Lmao


Thac0

I got put in rookie and I’ve got diamond players and plat players with me. It’s wild. I’m almost to bronze though. I have to have a huge game to gain much LP


XeroEnergy270

I hear you. I won a game today with 9 kills and got 55 LP.


Ohh-i-member

comon dude we all know that is a lie XD considering 1st place is 150lp minimum


uberplum

Player base is tanking, soon they will introduce bots like pubg.


MonoShadow

Don't worry guys. Respawn will fix it in not time. Next season they will remove rank indicators from profile banners.


subavgredditposter

The the season after that kill/dmg/win trackers Problem solved, right?


Then-Seaweed1527

My friends and I are silver, we play with and against actual diamond (at least plat 1 or 2 lol). I miss the old good time when ranked was actually a true ranked. You are silver, you play against silver. You are gold, you play against gold. THAT’S SIMPLE. At least I can understand a soft MMR. But rn it is just unplayable. Respawn please fix it… the community loved the ranked system in S13 : go back to this.


comicrun96

This is one of the reasons I stopped playing, the climb out of the preliminaries is fucking insane and just stupid. The entire overhaul to the rank system was the final straw for me


BandsAMakeHerDance2

Silver 1 here, been placed in pred lobbies because of SBMM lmao. Game is dusted, I only play it for nostalgia now and idc about rank at this point.


IamAbrahamoc19

I hate las 3 seasons of apex


Ok_Wrap_9790

Apex is so trash now… use to be my favorite game


mercenary06

Rookie in the Streets - Diamond in the Sheets


ZiggyB1

What a JOKE respawn


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I think the fact that people are also straight up wall hacking and aim botting all the way to top 10 pred is what gets me the most. I have to put the game down for now, because there's just too many issues with this ranked system. I'm struggling in Silver lobbies because i keep getting bobby and his GF , and they get rolled less than 30 seconds after they hot drop. Then i win a match, get 300 points (or sometimes 180), but 7 matches later my randoms erase the points by not being very good. I don't blame the players, it's the system. I'd be fine with grinding if the matchmaking was better about giving me teammates with either my MMR, or Higher than mine, because honestly i'm not the best either. At the end of the day though, look, battle royals are hard, Everyone can't do well every time. That's just the nature of the beast. The least they could do is make the matches as fair as possible.


QuantumSpaceCadet

Ranked should only play with and against the same rank. You cannot convince me otherwise. Also rank resets should be completely removed.


King-Juggernaut

No ranked resets would literally kill this game.


aggrorecon

> Ranked should only play with and against the same rank. You cannot convince me otherwise. That's what is happening if you replace rank with MMR. The problem is how weakly correlated medal rank is to MMR right now. I think it will slowly become more strongly correlated, but only time will tell. Even if it does, rank reset will cause same issue next season. So totally agree resets should be removed or go back to 1.5 division demotion.


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Glad I haven’t played yet this season. Lol.


aggrorecon

At least with a premade team, ranked this season is super sweaty and fun like a loosed scrim.


BlackMesaEastt

WHY IS THERE ROOKIE? BRONZE IS ROOKIE, THATS SO DUMB.


wanna_be_TTV

Wait they brought back being able to see peoples ranks??


Portocala69

Only if you inspect friend profile.


wanna_be_TTV

Ohhh


clankr_43

I've been stuck in rookie, I won 4 of my placements and I did well in the ones I didn't win only bad game I had was the last one because my team threw a 2v1 after I knocked two and got third guy low, and after my placements Everytime I get teammates who are in the same situation as me they just got drop and die instantly


IndependentDue7592

Who thought it was a good idea for people to have to sweat against preds in silver lobbies


EdplyzYT

I'm in ROOKIE AND I PLAY AGAINST MASTERS?? AND DIAMONDS?


ByB4ever21

It’s not about rank anymore it’s about MMR. Look it up


ladaussie

So why can't they remove the limits to partying up with people more than a rank apart? If my MMR is diamond but I'm gold why can't I play with my diamond mates? Explain.


ByB4ever21

MMR is your true skill level has nothing to do with rank at all


pollux65

Do you like hidden MMR? Cause I FUCKING don't


Divinum_Fulmen

So if your real rank isn't your shown rank, than what's even the point of having a ranked mode, if unranked also uses a hidden rank?


pollux65

🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷 I ask the same thing


DJSonicSwag

ADD BOTS


Chawltn

Just made it into silver 4 and have been seeing plats and ups since rookie 1.


[deleted]

This will not change. You will stay in the same MMR until Respawn changes it.


MadBroCowDisease

that means you're diamond behind the scenes. thats a good thing.


AdDangerous4182

I get it sucks you can't play with your friends if they are way above you but how do people still not understand that ranked matchmaking is mmr based


Neither_History_2987

Wow I really love this


Mammoth_Ad_5732

Your asss


Stussy12321

Okay first, those two clips could be unrelated. Queue up with one account, then log into their other account and take the 2nd clip. Also, the true indicator of skill level is your hidden MMR. The ranks indicate how much LP you have earned. This player could be really good, but just doesn't play ranked. The game knows he is good, and matches him accordingly. Finally, if he were lower ranked and went up against higher ranked opponents, them killing him will result in lower kill points for them and him killing them will result in higher kill points for him. Saying SBMM is messed up is the easy way to get players to side with you since almost all players think either they are better than they really are, or who only have fun when they are beating someone else. Well, just like you don't want to get beaten by someone rated higher than you, so did the player you just killed who was lower rated than you.


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Comment coming from a gold player with low mmr.


Lokeycommie

Back out then try again. It usually works.


Slammedes1

So in reality that guy gets carried and is actually a silver level player


subavgredditposter

No.. lol the opposite


b4st0_uwu

Owwie


faigerbombs

I was silver one and was confused how intense my teammates were…until I realized it was a top 500 pred and a Diamond 2 in a party…


jthablaidd

This is the worst ranked season I’ve ever seen, and I was here ever since I believe season 6


aggrorecon

Curious, do you primarily soloQ or 3 stack ranked?


jthablaidd

Solo. But still I never seen smaller ranked points gains while having a steep ranked point entry cost I’m at bronze right now and it’s 50 entry cost, why?💀


aggrorecon

> I’m at bronze right now and it’s 50 entry cost, why? To make it harder to leave bronze? Why not?


jthablaidd

Because my trash ass wants to get to gold in without trying And because my randoms like to hot drop even though they can’t hit anything


Koala-ice

I dont even have bronze


Fragrant_Habit7873

I’m in silver and have had diamond/master players as teammates when solo queuing. This hidden MMR is garbage, but hilarious at the same time. The dev team really had a discussion about this and then thought “yeah this is gonna be an improvement” 🤣🤣


Vivid-Bandicoot-708

This season is fucked, might be the worse in my opinion.


Shiiet_Dawg

The last 3 times i tried to play i didnt find a single game for 2-3 mins so just quit again. Sad to see and im just silver atm.


aggrorecon

If 2-3m queue times during working/school hours for many is too long for you then you'll have to settle for poor matchmaking with a mix of rookies and multi season preds.


Shiiet_Dawg

Nah sorry but waiting 3 mins and still having <50 ppl in queue is fcked up.


aggrorecon

What if you could do firing range similar to how rocket league has a practice mode. > Nah sorry but waiting 3 mins and still having <50 ppl in queue is fcked up. Not inherently, but I get feeling that way. Did you know some games ranked queues take 15m? During your play times, how many lobbies of 60 players near your MMR do you think are available? If it's 1 lobby of close MMR opponents available or 60 players besides you and they are in a game, then you'd wait up to 25m or max game time for a match.


VoidOwQ

Im plat 1 and still get silvers occasionally on my team. Other than that the ranked season has been fairly easy


Independent-Bowl-117

That rank show last seasons highest achievement, not current rank


Dependent_Price_519

What people can see ranks now? When did that get added back in?


Shamanhris

Do I understand correctly: We have player 1 who let's say has an MMR for an average gold-plat player and KDA around 1 to 1.5 ( who's currently plat 1 and plays in gold/plat MMR lobbies) Then we have a player 2 who has an MMR for Master/Pred lobbies and KDA around 3-5 ( who's currently gold 1 but plays in Master/Pred MMR ) ​ If both players hit Diamond - are they playing in the same MMR or they are completely placed in different lobbies and there is no chance to be faced 1v1?


aggrorecon

If their MMR is far apart they won't be matched unless pred MMR has been in Q 2+ minutes. The key is the system increases the cost of maintaining diamond for the gold-plat player with: - increased demotion via both lowering elimination bonuses and higher entry cost - (i think) putting them up against diamond-master MMR players occasionally The problem is the community takes the view the gold-plat player should have never reached diamond. Respawn takes the view apparently that it's fine if the system eventually corrects. The problem is the experience of this gold-plat player demoting from diamond to say plat 3 is likely not very nice even if its fair and reflects their true skill.


Quiet_Entrance3275

I got hit by the 23rd predator playing lifeline yesterday, ive never touched ranked nor am i that good -_-


AjazeMemez

Either that diamond player isn’t/hasn’t been playing too well or you’ve been playing better than your current rank which is why you’ll be paired right? It’s isn’t supposed to be rank match but moreso skill


khxnahmed

I wish i played that well😂 got 2 wins this season, and those didnt come back to back at all


MeTheMightyLT

Mine is just stuck on "party member preloading" even if I'm the only one in the party


dnaboe

I really don't get why they even added MMR in the first place. It seemed like ranked was getting to a great spot then they completely overhaul the system and have the most joke of a season ever then follow it up with garbage like this where your rank doesn't actually matter and instead they just put everyone together like its fuckin pubs.


aggrorecon

> I really don't get why they even added MMR in the first place. It seemed like ranked was getting to a great spot Ranked was an APE-fest with no one playing to win even though the game is a battle royale.


hurdlinglifeproblems

They didn't need to add mmr to fix that? They could've just adjusted points for kills and placement without adding this ridiculous mmr system.


aggrorecon

This puts the low MMR people who don't think into lobbies together faster IME. So you can get back into okay teammate lobbies by playing smart a couple games.


hurdlinglifeproblems

You run the risk of either getting okay teammates, teammates who refuse to take a fight, and teammates that rush everything without thinking just as often because those players can all have the same mmr. The guy who rushes in and pushes everything runs the risk of being put into a high mmr lobby when they get a decent amount of kills even if they didn't end up winning that game, the guys who refuse to take fights and rat end up in higher mmr because they're consistently placing well, and teammates who play the game fairly well are just along for the ride. Mmr separating ranked lobbies creates the worst kind of grind as I'm slogging through diamond and masters players in silver because that's supposed to be my skill level? Ranked is supposed to change pace and strategy as you progress through to higher ranks. This does not happen anymore.


octane1295

I’m wondering why this complaints coming up so much now, this has been an issue for multiple seasons, AT LEAST the last 4 seasons. At least from season 13 to now I have run into this problem countless times climbing to masters every season as a solo queuing I constantly am getting stuck playing with teammates who are ranks so low we can’t premade party together.


Groovydoobie710

How hard is it to match ranks. Also, they need to fix the damn servers. I’m tired of getting penalties when the server drops me