Match making!

[𝔾ℕ𝕆𝕄𝔼ℕ]

How can it be that as a new player i am being put up against players that been playing for a year or more? There is no chance of killing anybody or even stay alive more than 1 - 2 min if lucky. Fix your match making so players actually can learn the game instead of just being killed. Its stupid and not the way to get new players to start playing.

[DavidSOONobiwan]

Welcome to the Apex :). Its very beginner unfriendly game :). If you dont have teammate and playing with randoms agains premades squads, predators and tons of badges players with thousands hours in game and 10-20k kills or more, 500lvl players). Its absolutly frustrating. 99% fight you lose, because they have moving in this game, good spots, better aim because hours in game :). Maybe if you lucky you get assist :D its normal for newbie after hit 15lvl you can have many games in row without single kill.. MM in this game is asbsolutly retarted. Thats true.

[𝔾ℕ𝕆𝕄𝔼ℕ]

And i am sure alot of new players think that bying packages will help them, its basicly a scam from the developers, buy this and you are on your way to better matches. money money money :) hahaha. maybe thats the reason they dont give a s*** about MM :D rofl. second match, 3 lvl "zero" (my team) enemy team lvl 142, 164, 235. Thats just pissing on people in public hehe.

[Pootje]

first time I played arena i was lvl 3 against dudes lvl 500 with 11000 kills , i mean, i wanted to cry XD But I died with dignity

[𝔾ℕ𝕆𝕄𝔼ℕ]

yeah, i died so many times now i cant keep count :). but all it does is making me never wanna spend a single cent in the game. if it aint user friendly it aint getting my money :). its just a litle anoying it takes for ever to get to know the different charectars and weps because of the MM but i gues we all live until were 1000 years old hahahaha

[η3χ]

Originally posted by Asus Rog Strix 17,3" 300 hz:

yeah, i died so many times now i cant keep count :). but all it does is making me never wanna spend a single cent in the game. if it aint user friendly it aint getting my money :). its just a litle anoying it takes for ever to get to know the different charectars and weps because of the MM but i gues we all live until were 1000 years old hahahaha

Never give up. You will Improve with the time. I started in season 2 with a KD from 0.23 and just by playing the game i improved to around 1.10 as Casual player. You will get better with the time. It dont really take so long to learn the Maps. I think the most Problems new player have, is the Recoil control and tracking. But even this will get better with the time if you just keep playing. Dont take the Game serious. Just play for fun. Arena is also a good place to train your Movement and Gunplay.

[𝔾ℕ𝕆𝕄𝔼ℕ]

Arena is the worst place to train, cause you have no chance as a new player against lvl 200+ wich is all i play against in there. i know it takes time, but i hate that you cant really learn when its 3 shots dead, 3 shots dead, 3 shots dead. if you played against same lvl at least you have a chance to shoot more than 3 times.

[Memag]

Level doesn't reflect the player's skill.

[𝔾ℕ𝕆𝕄𝔼ℕ]

lvl means you know the wep and how they react so yes lvl do reflect skills. the longer you played the higher your lvl, the longer you played the better you know the weps. so if lvl dosent reflect skill then you must be pro in all games 1 time you try them out :)

[Sh4dow]

The matchmaking can certainly be improved thats for sure. I'm around level 220 now. i have 1688 kills on my account total and a K/D ratio of 0.92 and 85 wins out of 2110 games ... Im just a casual player and i always play this game with randoms. If i get 1 good game with over a 1000 damage, the next matches will be against diamond masters and predators in public matches with over 3000 kills in season 9 alone... Very fair i must say :)
Let's just say i will auto lose the next 10-20 matches

[PotatoScav]

Originally posted by RTX 3070 Ryzen 9 5000 S:

How can it be that as a new player i am being put up against players that been playing for a year or more? There is no chance of killing anybody or even stay alive more than 1 - 2 min if lucky. Fix your match making so players actually can learn the game instead of just being killed. Its stupid and not the way to get new players to start playing.

This situation improve after gold , and then plat and so on.

[Leinad]

Match making is trash

[trending-tyreek]

keep playing and understanding the movement and controls . once yo get comfortable you can adjust the controls and it will be much easier . dont play trying to kill everyone you see. get a feel for the game

[Something]

Don't listen to what the streamers and youtubers tell you to do to get better. They all think hot dropping into the most contested area on the map is the best way to learn the game. It really isn't, since most of the time the people that make it into the top 3 squads are people who ran away from gunfights, or hid inside one building that was in the center of the circle the entire match and just shottied anyone that came in.

Pick a beginner-friendly champion like Bangalore to learn the core game mechanics. She's rather simple. Smoke grenades and area bombardments, both are fire and forget. If you're a solo player, don't ever go into a match assuming the randos on your team are going to help you. More times than not they will be in discord with each other and you'll be the odd man/woman out, and they'll ditch you every opportunity they get. Be nice to people in the event you do come across that one group of randos that all wanna work together, but don't ever expect it in this game. Only 48% of the steam community has the "Team Player" or whatever it's called achievement. That percentage goes down drastically when you factor in how many people also play on console and those who never made the jump from Origin to Steam. Unless you were having fun with the randos in your group, once you die just leave the game, because odds are NOBODY is going to go for your badge to respawn you, and you're just wasting time at that point.

Once you've gotten the basics of the core gameplay itself down enough to know roughly what it is you're doing(things like wall climbing, jumping, sliding, etc..), find two champions, or Legends, you wanna play. 3 preferably, but at least 2. One you think looks or sounds cool and wanna play, and another you feel more confident in playing, so that if your first choice is picked by someone else, you have a fallback. Bloodhound is a good beginner pick that's deadly in the hands of an expert. Wall hacks are baked into his kit.

Don't be that guy/girl that has no idea how to play the game so you think you'll try to learn in ranked mode. Nobody likes those people, and getting the ire of a community that already kind of hates you for just existing by tanking their ranked games is just gonna increase your frustration levels when you have to listen to people whine.

Sometimes you just gotta realize RNGesus is gonna ♥♥♥♥ you. One game I got into I got the perfect drop, T3 body armor, auto shotty and LSAT right on the drop and wasted 12 people in 6 minutes, only losing because my teammates literally got mad I was "hogging all the kills" and so they left me to die in a firefight. The next two games after that I ran around with just pistols for 15 minutes because my two rando teammates were hoarders and I couldn't find a gun to save my life, so obviously when the dude in full legendary gear rushed me, there wasn't anything I could do really.

The best way to passively learn how to play is just watch videos of people you like. I personally think if the person is funny, it's easier to learn but that's just me. Rag Tagg on YouTube is the self-proclaimed "Worlds Best Gutter-Tier Gamer", and I find his stuff pretty funny. His skill level is only slightly above average, at least in the videos, so it feels when you watch it like you're not trying to imitate the gods or anything, ya'know?

[KarvaRausku]

Also the matchmaking is screwed since these "pro" players play tournaments, and tournaments server basically resets your MMR. So instead of them playing against other master+ players they are usually playing against people who have just started the game or are somewhere near silver rank.

[VerrucktMedic]

Slippery slope problem here. A lot of vocal people hate casual level SBMM. Personally I like it because I think the alternative of letting a level 500 curbstomp a level 0 is absurd.