Fans of the game Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout have had quite a bit to deal with over the past few weeks. Between bugs plaguing certain maps, the outright removal of entire games from the solo queue and skill-based matchmaking (known simply as SBMM by players) causing several issues with the queue process, a disdain has been slowly growing within the player base for some time. This finally came to a head when, after repeatedly being ignored by the developer Mediatronic, the fans took to Twitter to try and make others aware of these issues, with the trending hashtag #SaveFallGuys.

THE #savefallguys IS REAL pic.twitter.com/3RLg246ZHt

— DynamoDen (Open for ArtComms yey) 🍔 (@Dynamo_Den) October 11, 2022

It's a shame that FallGuysGame</a> / <a href="https://twitter.com/Mediatonic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">Mediatonic doesn't listen to their community or even take a good care to the game.
Please, don't handle the game in the worst way
as possible#SaveFallGuys #FallGuys #art #Illustration pic.twitter.com/tdmEn5GsWk

— Hzxceq_Gato ☆ (@Hzx_Gato) October 11, 2022

I remember making this a while back, it applies even more so today #fallguys #savefallguys pic.twitter.com/TOsUtEDfh3

— The Flume Unplugged (@The_FlumeAT) October 11, 2022

OMG GUYS WE DID IT!!!! #savefallguys is trending!!!! pic.twitter.com/fynUjroWDI

— The Flume Unplugged (@The_FlumeAT) October 11, 2022

The biggest gripes from the player base come from the skill-based matchmaking system, which is designed to make it so that each player has a hidden score associated with their skill level, and only people with similar skill levels should be matched together. In theory, it should make more close matches so players have tougher competition, but in practice it's led to a lot of broken queue's as the system tries to create a lobby of similarly skilled players, or games where some players vastly outskill their ranking number, crushing the competition in a way that's not fun or fair for others. The complaining over SBMM reached such a paramount that talking about getting rid of it was banned from the official Fall Guys twitch chat.

Fall Guys is currently in the worst state atm.
-roundpools suck
-sbmm is a mess
-lots of bugs
-kudos sucks
If you can please spam FallGuysGame</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Mediatonic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">Mediatonic #SaveFallGuys we can try and make a difference to this awesome game but please do not harass any mt employees

— Spooky King! Crown Rank 37 👑👑👑 (@DogeKingYTT) October 11, 2022

Decided to make this to clearly show the severe lack of variety in solo show at the moment
Please rt to spread the word #SaveFallGuys pic.twitter.com/WWnnqnqJFO

— Daemontail (@Daemontail1) October 11, 2022

Every issue with every map (that I know of) in Fall Guys right now
Please reply if you know any other issues so I can add them#savefallguys pic.twitter.com/g5qrfHG8c2

— RHVGamer (@RHVGamer) October 11, 2022

LMAO THEY BANNED THE "#RemoveSBMM" word

Actual proof that they don't give a single shit about the game#SaveFallGuys pic.twitter.com/1BdHW4grNF

— Taupe (@TaupeFG) October 11, 2022