Apex Legends Dev Tracker

Originally posted by AddisonNM

Maybe cap it to Diamond 1. Once a person gets positive RP over D1...go sign into Apex Legends 2.0...Masters and Preds only.

If you and your friends go golfing on Saturday, should you be going up against PGA Masters? No. They have their own leagues to play in.

Originally posted by HamiltonDial

Why are masters and preds being reset to plat and plat is also reset to plat. Having such a wide band of players of varying skill levels absolutely reduces match quality.

And a semi-related question, why are current preds able to be lobbies with players who are in plat and even gold?

Originally posted by AveN7er

Can you do something about mixtape matchmaking as well? In lobbies with 14 players it'll be 9v5 instead of 7v7 like so . Additionally it feels like all the good players are always on the same team. Some form of team balancing would greatly improve the experience. It doesn't have to be a complex algorithm. XDefiant used a snake draft to balance the teams

Originally posted by Little_Annual1336

Seems like everyone else has already covered what's been on my mind but I'll ask anyway.

Why are pred players more common than masters players in diamond lobbies?

I usually stop grinding ranked at diamond because it just becomes a cycle of getting ran through by the handful of pred teams for a few games before I get a pity lobby full of diamond and plat players. I can count on one hand the number of times I've seen any masters players in my lobbies- I don't understand how there are only 750 preds but I somehow manage to get more of them in my games than the other 10,000 or so masters players.

Originally posted by Think-Date2307

what specific changes are you planning to prevent low ranks from being matched with higher ranked players like Masters and Preds, especially since this has been a problem since at least 2023?

Originally posted by Apexlegends

From JP Community

Currently, the ranked point loss seems to be the same regardless of party size, which can feel unfair. Has the team considered adjusting RP loss based on party size?

Originally posted by N2thedarkness

To the developers,

How tricky has it been for you guys to find a balance between making solo queue an enjoyable experience versus not making it too hard on three friends who want to party together but not get brutalized by a lobby full of sweaty three stacks? Apex has always been hard to get casual friends involved where I’m pretty good and they’re not, and with me being good they were always forced to endure my high skill lobbies. Apex’s high skill ceiling makes matchmaking a tightrope I’m sure.

I want solo queue to be more enjoyable(which it hasn’t been too bad this season) but I also don’t want it to be terrible when me and my friends play as a party(if you guys decide to ever match pre-made vs pre-made). It’s a super fine-line to walk because you don’t want to make matchmaking too hard but you also don’t want to make it a walk in the park every game for good three stacks.

Also, a small second question: If I duo queue with my brother in Trios, do we get...

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Originally posted by kvndakin

Any chance masters+ can be solo queue only. Yes Apex is a team game and that's where it's msot fun, but masters+ teams just ruin the lobby if you let them team up AND put in lobbies with lower ranks. At least make them split up.

This encourages a real pred race instead of who can play Apex the longest with the best team.

EDIT: Maybe even Diamond would have to be soloqueue, the trip to masters should be proof you're able to get to masters on your own.

Originally posted by PerfectAssistance212

• Is there any plans to perhaps add better experience to solo queue and perhaps differentiate solo queue from pre-made team? 

• Is there any plans of introducing solo/duo ranked mode?

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Originally posted by Irishbros1991

We need to solve solo Q out make it so your not against partys it's a terrible experience if you are a high skilled player matched with team mates not close to your level then go against some of the best players to touch the game don't make it feel like you are forced to play in a team at all times

Originally posted by concretecowboi_

Also why does the pub matchmaking system feel tighter than ranked my experience in pubs as of the last 3 seasons have been bad as a solo queue and duo queue. I don’t think I should be matching with preds in diamond, Masters is fine but I feel if you’re a pred you’re the best of the best and should only play against the best of the best. Preds should have only be able to matchmake with only preds even if it means longer matchmaking time

Originally posted by PoliteChatter0

The biggest ranked complaint I hear from people is how miserable the soloq experience is, nobody wants to be fodder to a sweaty triple stack who are running circles around the lobby

I know you guys said that something like Mercenary mode in Call of Duty (only soloqers playlist) is not viable to do in Apex but is there anything you guys can do to help soloqers out?

Originally posted by Firm-Constant8560

Why is there such resistance to create masters/pred only lobbies?

If it's queue times, maybe create master/pred lobbies only for duo/3 stack, and if they want to solo-queue then they get the shorter queue times while being dispersed among the diamond/plat teams?

Supplemental: After queueing through diamond and watching numerous streams of masters and pred players, I've realized that masters lobbies don't exist. It's always 3-18 masters/pred players being put into diamond/plat lobbies, and just farming kills. I get that you're trying to keep queue times low for everyone, but when the top ~1% of your playerbase is only farming lobbies filled with people that are of markedly lower skill, it's not fun for anyone. There's minimal challenge for the masters/preds (who are 3 stacks 99% of the time) and everyone else is just sweating while hoping they're the last to get jumped on by these professional players.

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Originally posted by Matyeev

Playing rank, plat 1 rn, peak d2.
Why am i in the same lobby of #30 Pred? why is more than 3 pred teams in my game?
I understand that if i am diamond i can play against masters and preds but right now im not diamond, also why my teammates on the exact same match are gold?

Originally posted by I-AM-NOT-THAT-DUCK

Why do we not have a SoloQ or ranked Solos gamemode when we see how successful it is in other games, i.e. Fortnite, League of Legends etc.

Originally posted by Naive-House-7456

In ranked, are there any ideas or plans to either:

1) reduce/separate masters and pred players from high plat and lower diamond ranked lobbies?

2) Offer RP loss offsets for diamonds and plats killed by preds/masters (in exchange for being fodder for their faster queue times) ?

3) Or something else? Thanks

Originally posted by FamilyGB

Same here. 4080/14900hx. DX11 was buttery smooth. DX12 feels like I'm playing 60fps even when I'm getting 240. I've tried using only one monitor as I've experienced the weird windows monitor issues as well but the game still feels horrible and I never had issues on DX11 even with multiple monitors.