Is Apex Legends making the biggest overhaul of a matchmaking system ever?

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Is Apex Legends making the biggest overhaul of a matchmaking system ever?
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There's a surprising number of buckets involved.

As with every single competitive game out there, the developers of Apex Legends have to deal with player perception of what's wrong alongside the realities they see behind the scenes. A persistent thread in the Apex community's grousing has been about the game's matchmaking system, and specifically how it measures skill and forms squads and matches around it.

We are working toward creating fairer matches compared to today as you play with friends of different skill levels. The skill rating is a simple numerical value, hidden from the player, that represents their skill based on"a number of factors". We then get a chart showing one way of viewing skill level distribution, the main takeaway from which is that the vast majority of players are grouped in the middle, with very few at either extreme.

There's more on how the game computes a team rating, but the above outcome is what matters: and no doubt some players will feel that this acknowledgement shows they were right all along. Respawn further says that mixing premade squad sizes and the squads the game forms from randoms is"inevitable" simply because you're never going to get 60 players of equal skill in the same size of squad looking for a match.

And remember the skill buckets? They're not gone: We're just gonna have a lot more buckets."The new system is more granular, and has many more buckets. This allows our matching algorithm to make better decisions when placing players into matches". Big news for the Apex Legends lovers, but as well as detailing the new system Respawn addresses some of the more regular community questions. On the topic of why higher-skilled players end up in some of your matches, it says this is down to dynamic adjustments in skill rating. This works both ways, so if you're on a losing streak your matches should gradually get"easier".

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