My PC lobbies have been nearly impossible this season as a solo queue player. Nonstop masters 3 stacks holding hands in pubs every single game.

Their version of SBMM is matching you with the worst two teammates vs. the best players possible.

They always say they will fix matchmaking but, they never really do. The main reason I quit the game a long time ago. Solo queue is a nightmare.

They will never fix it

I think what they should do for sbmm is if you are a solo, your skill level gets reduced. So if you are an average 5/10 skill level it will take you down to a weight of someone whose a 3 or 4. Or do it where pre mades get added skill to determine in balancing. So a 5/10 would become a 6 or 7 if they have a friend queueing with them, and a 7-8 if they have a full 3 man. I think it would help balance the experience for solo players.

I've been playing for less than 2 weeks. Today I played about a dozen games and in at least 3 of them there were players with 80,000 kills. Best way to kill a game is to have shit matchmaking for new players.

6:53 the fact that he took him this long to reload is hilarious. I imagine his silhouette was in the way. I hope anyway.

The thing is with matchmaking is, like you said, someone always gets the shit end of the stick. Either it’s lenient and lower skill players are allowed into higher level lobbies, or it’s aggressive and high skill players only match high skill players. So either the high skill players are not allowed to play casually in any game mode or low skill players get dogged on

I can understand every couple of games having preds or high kevel players in pubs. But every second game has a pred duo or trio. Something is up with their engagement optimisation, because nothing makes me hop odf apex quicker than either fighting sweats, or brand new players.

I made my friend play with me, the first like 5 matchs are against bot, but in the very first match we died to a 3 stack masters absolutely devastating the bots in that lobby! I was level 8 e he was 1. This game has the worst matchmaking in history! I can’t make any of my friends play with because they all get destroyed to pro players in their early levels. How they want new players if they can’t even play the game?

Why would you expect them to "fix matchmaking" when this is Working as intended. This is EOMM in a nutshell. After this game these guys you killed will most likely go into an actual bot lobby depending on the data signature of their account. The matchmaking system will never be fair, the main purpose of it is to farm engagement metrics to show off to share holders at meetings.

pubs will generally have a lot worse players but it usually means your teammates leave it up to you to try 1v3 most the time as they died trying to do just that

My matchmaking is so weird. I had a lifeline on my team level 6 and a level 400 loba with Apex Predator badge and 3k badge. I’m level 43 with maybe 300 account kills. Matchmaking is strange.

All about money friend. They match low levels with high levels to convince them to buy heirlooms or skins that high tier players have.

I was watching my son play on his new account, and during the orientation matches, there was a masters player in his lobby, in the ORIENTATION matches.

I stopped playing in S17 because they took the MM from bad to impossible. Every single game the champion was a badged up psychopath. Fortunately Straight Shot has been really fun and I can finally enjoy the game again. If they take away SS and the pub MM is as bad as it was in S17, I am gone again.

most times that i boot into a game, my team mates just rush in with barely any aim or self preservation . I feel bad cos theyre jus starting out and theyre probably kids, but they should be in a lobby with their level. Thing is i always have to kind of come in and res them and revive them and i end up dying or i risk it a ton

My friend and I have never played ranked, our best badges are 2k for me and 2.5 k for him and we always get matched with preds virtually every game. Its so incredibly frustrating, we have casually played since the game first came out and it feels like there hasn’t ever been a point where the match making was fair except in season 0-2 when no one knew what they were doing. Can it really be that hard to put people together that are within .2 KD of eachother?

You know straight away you got into a bot lobby when there’s 21 squads in a trio lobby.

Love the content Zeus! ❤

ur not wrong, all day yesterday that happened to me. my teammates and i were all on the same level (bronze 3) type of players, meanwhile the enemy team have over 100k damage or 5k kills per person (basically 3 stack predators). and wats even worse is im in australia so terrible internet plus i have to wait almost 15mins for a match to start, sometimes i have to go to Singapore or Tokyo servers just to find a match

That was such a well fought game! I felt the win with you bro. Lmaoo GG

The thing with your lobbies are it’s a lot of returning players that because the last time they played they probably had high MMR they’re going into your games rusty

I noticed today that what they said is BS to lure back players. i am in absolute SWEAT lobbies with Preds and Diamonds in Rookie 1. I have been Plat since season 1 to 12 as a casual player. It seems like they reset the stats, but it didn't take long for me to match and carry bots and get lobby rolled. Respawn offically sux.

Yesterday, I re downloaded apex after not playing for two years. I originally was a gold / plat player. An average gamer, I can admit I wasn't amazing but I was competent. I'm not trying to be the man at gaming, so no need to scream skill issue in the comments, I get it. I Played from season 2 to around catalyst....After downloading it again, I jump into the firing range to re learn everything and check out the new content. My game sense and reactions are certainly shit due to not playing for so long. I had a quick skirmish with a friend and its felt fun and exciting..... We jump into a match... The first game we play.... We make it to the final two squads as no one was around, found the last team, the champion squad, 3 stack (same names) all 4k badge, 20 bomb badge... we got instantly rolled.....that must be sbmm in action....We then Decided to play ranked to try and filter out the sweats as we would be bronze.. played another 4 games. Still died to 4k badges. No one in my squad got a single kill... Deleted the game. That is the state of apex. I don't think it will ever be fixed, the player base overall have just gotten better so there really are no true bronze and any casuals are just pushed away. So yes "I rage quitted", well actually, I was laughing at how fuckd the game is, I'm not interested in grinding just to be able to participate in playing the game, rather grind something new.

My experience with sbmm is awful. I have been playing br apex since Dec 2023 and have 700 career kills. However I am constantly getting shafted and out in lobbies with preds, masters, 20 bombers and people with upwards of 20k kills on one legend. It’s not fair and ruins the game for someone trying to get better at the game

Love your videos and streams btw

Even if they fix it, kill grinders will always find a way into bot lobbies

Every game i get teammates that doesn´t know how to play the game... thats exhausting and no fun to try to carry every time. Wish i could get a lobby like you got

For me, solo queuing ranked on console, I’ll be against Silver - Pred players, which is somewhat frustrating, because that can flip towards the higher ranked players very quickly and that’s more Plat - Pred players

Zues going insane with uploads💯

This upload schedule is amazing

I was away from the game for about a year and a half. I finally came back last season because I missed it. I'm the definition of an average player. I play after work and on the weekends so not a predator by any means. My first game back after being away for a year and a half, I had a 20 kill, 4k damage, master teammate, a level 17 teammate, and the champions were 3 stack predators. So I think that tells you all you need to know about the SBMM in this game.

That was the most casual 20 bomb I’ve ever seen.

The fact that you found 20 people to kill on sp blows my mind lol my lobbies die out in literally one minute

that was an awesome game. I feel like Halo is much harsher when it comes to the higher skilled players in pubs, they are expected to carry the team whilst making it more fun for lower ranked players. You do well you get punished for it by having terrible teammates

I watch Zeus how to play Mirage and improve my own. It's been fun bamboozling with the 30s ult and tac refresh, makes me laugh seeing enemies swishing their aim.

I feel like I'm playing solo by how much my teammates die and then I'm left trying to kill the enemy and the third partys

It has been way better so far this season, it's the first season I am at 1.0 k/d (1.04). Last season every lobby was absolutely brutal. I got a lot better, but you always had to be on 10.

Miss watching your content during the black ops 3 days

I've been enjoying it. Playing bloodhound like when my friends first introduced me to apex, besides no comm teammates or the first teammate goes down instantly quit. That's been my experience alot more people instantly backing out. Lower side of the k.d only at 1.3

zeus actually uploading is scaring me

You were COOKING with the volt, holy.....

love the consistency

it's definitely a problem but as you said hard fix for it, I'm not the greatest but i get lobbies where it is just pred 3 stack after another and i can't do anything, doesn't help i just started picking the game up again after years like a month ago

The amount of time it took for you reload your volt 😂

The problem is (I’m a typical silver/gold solo-player) that is didn’t change. I won 3 matches, BOOM, 3-stacks of masters. And… honestly, I have no idea how to farm these challenges for reactive flatline anymore. I wanted that skin so bad but right now I literally have no any idea. The only thing that came to my mind is just lose game one by one but idk if it helps😢

In plat, got a rookie as a champion one match and got a pred as the champion 2 matches later

that was a master class on mirage. youve defo changed my mind about him 😂

I got in a match with a 3 stack pred team, all 3 time preds, in the top 100 preds for every badge

I used to play apex back then. I used to get preds eveyr lobby. I downloaded apex yesterday and played 5 solo matches. Everytime i was killed by a player with thousands of kills on one legend. Players with pred rank wete sill on my lobby. I am literally a beginner how am I supposed to kill veteran streamers 🤡💀

Can you do a vid of you trying out console again now theres 120fps?

I'm obsessive so I tracked my teammates' performance compared to mine during a 2 hour session and it's ridiculous. Out damaged, out killed, stayed alive longer than them all the while in trying to keep them alive and make callouts. And i consider myself average at this game lmao. I'm going to post a video about it in a day or two

Sbmm still being an issue is insane i hope it changes one day not playing until then.

Every single game I've played in this new season has been me getting killed by a player with a 20 kill badge and a minimum of a 3k badge. I literally have screenshots of five games in a row where I've gotten shit on by these players and I'm sick of it. I get an average of about 8 or so kills per game and I have 2k badges on like 6 charecters so I am not horrible but it makes the game not fun when the people I'm fighting are 500 levels higher than me and have 15 kills when I spectate. I see why my friends quit playing 2 seasons ago

In these past months I noticed matches have gotten extremely unfair. I get matched with PLAYERS that have 10,000+ kills, preds, masters, i mean what the f&$% this has gotten insane and I play on xbox

The game either puts me against new players or masters 3 stacks, often it's masters 3 stacks then when the game sees that I don't have a victory for a while it puts me against new players, there is no in between anymore where chances of winning are 50/50 and for what I see there is no more average players in Apex, there is only masters and people who started playing the game, I mean most of the players...

My problem is that i get teammates with 138 lifetime kills and level 400 and my enemies are level 1000 with 38,138 kills

Nice to see Zeus having some genuine fun. Balanced season.

Apex matchmaking is horrid, not saying I’m good at this game but consistently I get teamed with level 7s that drop in a foreign country, don’t help with fights, run away while I. A fight when all of us are alive and more this really needs to be fixed.

Masters can que with rookies. I use the overwolf plugin so you can see all players ranks. So most lobbies are quite different

what server you play brother???

noodle with 0 kills is the wildest stat of all.

i've never seen a lobby this special..

Weren't NO 'matchmaking' back in the good ol' days. *sips* Quake was a good game.

i feel like the “reset” for ranked kinda fucked up the matchmaking across the board. i’m maybe an above average casual at best and i’ve gotten nothing but 20 bomb 4k preds and masters players. i’ve only been playing since June of 2023 so facing these day 1 sweats is very disheartening and makes me wanna just quit trying while im ahead. i’ve felt like “good” games are hard to come by.

My Pc lobbys are ok, the only problem i have is im playing on a shity laptop with 30fps and 250ping. I also feel like i get the worst teammates cause when i do duos they hot drop die instantly and leave then i get like a 9 kill games and come second.

I’ve played this game since it came out and was in love with everything about it… now I don’t even look forward to playing, it’s sad

If only my lobbies were like this. Probably in season 10 but never again.

I deleted apex because of this. I just recently got a ps5 and am a complete beginner at console games (always been a mobile gamer) and was so excited to play apex ESPECIALLY after they removed it from mobile last year, only to immediately find out how unfair matchmaking is.

🤣 i thought it was because im still in gols that im fighting so many last season’s masters

GGs Zeus

I freaking knew it.... Competent teammates that can hold their own for 10 or so matches then when you win too many or perform at a decent level, Apex mm is like "alright lets give you teammates that can't find their ass with both hands for the next 30 matches". Man this feels so bad. I heard they had fixed it and came back but realized quickly from experience that its the same or worse than it was before. I love this game and want to play it. I just want to feel like im playing matches with similarly skill teammates.

Bro I’m on really early around 6:30am pacific because I work graveyard and I’m just tryna catch a few games before bed and I’m just getting shat on. What is everybody just waking up at the ass crack of dawn to start sweating on apex?

weird how my sbmm functions the other way around than this the highest ive been in ranked was gold 3never went past it and im pretty dog at the game however ive been killed by the 23 pred of the season and every match i die to either a master/pred, 4k or 20 kils i do not find normal players its just sweats another thing i find hillaious is that ive been killed b 60k kills pathfinders while in my career kills are less than 5k its beeen like this since i came bak to the game 3 years ago they chanced nothing about the sbmm

I just realized zeus looks like the the girl from the song titanium ft david guetta and sia.

They should make it like tabs. Like how cod does it where, where you have ranked and normal and plunder under different tabs. But to get into these apex ones, you have to b a certain skill level otherwise it wont let you join. You can only join the tabs with your skill level

Hi Zeus 1st time commenting in your videos, here's a question from a player that plays ranked seasonally i vary between diamond and masters, but masters doesnt mean crap anymore Anyway i solo que if my son cant play cause we play as a duo, im on console he is on pc so when we que i end up pc lobbies which i dont mind makes it alot more fun. But when solo queuing i am queed up with guys that have a lifetime kill count of below 350 kills ( which u can now see if someone equips those new banners) Dont u think to stop cheating or halt it a bit especially now that there is no level cap they should put a kill cap on it for example if u have less than 1500 lifetime kills u cannot play ranked, so even if these cheaters wanna get into ranked on new accounts it would take them 75 games if they drop 20 kills per game

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"Up the queue times" Aussie Apex player 2024

I play in ranked with friends who are worse than me so i have to really try... Why do i have to try just as hard in pubs? makes absolutely zero sense. If not for mixtape I'd play this game a lot less

PS5 here. my random teammates are like level 7 and 30 while we go against 20 kill badges, preds and full stacked teams. That happens quiet a lot. I get 2 downed get downed by their third and end up with 500 dmg and 2 knocks while my teammates have 40 and 90 dmg . Story of my Apex solo with randoms. I dont bitch about the game but i feel like it would be fair to have some people wait a little longer instead this insanity. Its not just about me but i feel sorry for my teammates too, its just not balanced.

i can relate so much, i made an account after like 3 years of not playing and i got into a game with the number 488 pred as champion and my teammates both had over 600k damage and over 1000 kills. i was lvl 5 btw......

Only played straight shot and mixtape this season but my KD for a solo Q mirage/valk main has ranged from 0.80-1.0...so i guess it's normal apex...better than last season

Finally someone said it! Ranked is where you do the SBMM and pubs will always be a mix!!

all my lobbies have people with 30 - 100k lifetime kills and sometimes straight up 3 stack preds -_-

does Zeus have twitch , where does he stream

The reason I stopped playing this game, it's like win one and get placed with total useless team so you die. Rinse and repeat, none of my friends are into this game so I am stuck randoms and at the mercy of SBMM. Put the game down for 3 years now.

I'm on Xbox and my apex level is 700 something and I have level 300 that have no team skill or communication. I'm still wiping squads or I die first then we lose sometimes

Ly zeus but you made me laugh saying your a better player (which you defo are) and you haven’t reloaded your gun haha love your videos keep it up x

It’s like you used to get one level 20 on your team and like a platinum player, now you just get two blind puppies who literally have like a 0.4kd, they didn’t tweak shit for matchmaking from last season, it’s exactly the same.

Yeah, i gave it 2 days and turned it back off. Feels worse off than last ranked

The first few days of ranked was the worst ever for me, totally pointless even trying. I usually hit Plat 4, struggle to get out of Gold 1. Usually 1KD the last few seasons, 8K kills on my account. Still constantly versing players with 10K+ kills on one legend. It's getting a bit better as the ranks level out, but still super hard.

What's going on you search and destroy savages - Zeus

Ngl my ranked lobbies have actually been really good matchmaking, rank wise at least

Don’t you dare fart on me 😂

Naw, we’re not gonna talk about my k/d, ‘cause I f**k around too much 😂. I get a mixture in my lobbies, though. I get teams where I can solo the whole team, or there could be 4 of me against 1 of them and I still would lose. 😅.

This has been the hardest season for ranked ever imo

I’m facing predators and masters and I haven’t even played this game in 1.5years so wild though I’m better than diamonds idk about masters yet gotta get used to the game again

We need more rat hunter vids plz 😂