Just played a "Silver 2" game and the champion squad had 20-kill and 3k/4k damage badges.
I just don't get this split stuff. Why can't ranked be like other games where you you play to reach your natural rank and then grind to try and climb?
It works just fine this way in other games.
This split stuff in Apex is a major negative in my opinion, it just throws high-level players in with new and lower skill players.
It makes ranked feel meaningless to me. OK, I get that eventually, the good players will have moved on, but it's hardly fair on new ranked players or genuinely lower skill players that their matches get invaded by sweaty aim-gods that wreck everything around them every time a split happens.
What are peoples opinions on this? I'm sure some people think it's a positive thing and to be honest I'm open to hearing why, I just find it incredibly frustrating personally.
I love Apex. Genuinely. I just think they have some really weird decisions when it comes to matchmaking in this game, in both public and ranked.