The Dead Bahrain Server: A Two-Hub Solution for Africa, South Asia, and South ME
Hi everyone and the EA/Respawn Team, With the recent physical infrastructure damage to the Bahrain AWS servers, a huge portion of the player base is effectively locked out of the game. Right now, if you're in Africa, the Middle East, India, or Pakistan, you're likely seeing -1 ping or 100% packet loss on the Bahrain server and are forced to connect to foreign servers with frustrating lag. We get the business side of this and completely understand that North America and Europe have clusters of servers because that’s where the biggest player bases are. It makes sense to invest where the most people are to prevent crashes and instability. But right now, the current setup is failing everyone outside those regions. The Bahrain server has proven to be a failure, both geographically and in terms of reliability. Instead of trying to revive the dead Bahrain node, this is an opportunity to rethink the approach entirely. A simple two-hub strategy could bring these fragmented player bases together into healthy matchmaking pools: The Nairobi Hub (Replacing Bahrain): Right now, the player base is split between a non-functional Middle East server and the absence of a proper African one. Shifting Bahrain’s role to Nairobi, using the existing AWS infrastructure there, would act as a regional bridge that serves the entirety of Sub-Saharan Africa and the Southern Middle East such as Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Oman. This would merge two struggling populations into a single, active matchmaking pool with far better connection quality for everyone involved. The Mumbai Hub: Players in South Asia, such as India and Pakistan, are currently stuck between a dead Bahrain server and a congested Singapore server. A dedicated hub here would remove the current bottleneck, giving players in the region a reliable alternative while at the same time capturing one of the biggest, fastest-growing gaming communities in the world. It’s also worth addressing the idea that Lag Compensation makes these distances manageable. In practice, it doesn’t. In fast-paced modes like Wildcard, high ping and constant stuttering make the game frustrating and, at times, unplayable. No amount of netcode smoothing can compensate for being shot behind cover or having inputs delayed or ignored. Players affected by this aren’t asking for perfection, just a fair and consistent connection. Maintaining a ghost server with empty queues isn’t just frustrating for players, it’s also inefficient. By replacing the failed Bahrain server with these two hubs, you'll likely fix the Matchmaking Loop where people don't queue because it's empty, and it's empty because no one queues. We’re not asking for the extensive server coverage that some regions enjoy. We’re simply asking for two functional hubs so we can actually play the game we love on a level playing field.Audio is a serious issue still
I’m sure this has been discussed many times. Nevertheless the audio update months back hasn’t fixed the main issue this game is having. Example is footsteps from behind. Mainly once the distance is within 10-5 meters (right behind you) it’s completely silent at times. Not always but enough. This is when players are sliding, running, unholstering and jumping into a 6 o’clock position that should be very present upon engagement. A real critical point of the audio and should be the loudest I would think. Please advise. Respectfully, x
Hemlock update is poorly thought out
Team… Respawn… come on guys. ONE, universally available, unlimited ammo, EMP grande launcher that automatically cancels out ALL defensive equipment for some petty ammo cost on a minor cool down is POOR judgment. You guys single handedly destroyed your somewhat stable balance in Apex. Please reconsider your metrics for this Hemlock rework. Make the grenade consume an entire clip, have a pro and con to tier of mags. That’s a a fair trade off—low tier mag won’t consume as much ammo, but if they want purple, using the grenade will bleed their ammo. Just need to do something about this really bad Hemlock rework…. It’s ruined the game so much I’m switching to BF6 till some updates fix the issue.Ash tactical sucks and valkyrie tactical should not exist.
Ash tactical sucks. It is so underpowered. It does barely any damage, only affect one player (if not upgraded), and barely limits movement (which is what it is supposed to do), can get out with other legends' abilities. Makes no sense that Valkyrie's tactical does so much damage and limits movement, when she has essentially a passive that is actually a tactical (espicially compare to octane: octane gets a speed boost and a health regen passive, valkyrie has a jetpacks, fuel regen, and a bang-arc star). At the very least nerf her tactical.
Every match theres a cheater
You need to permaban them, all those 70k are allowed to just make a new account and rejoin in 5 minutes. These lobbies are the worst I've ever seen in this game since I started in season 11. I'm about to quit this game, these lobbies aren't even close to fair when I have to actually use my mouse to aimWattson needs to be nerfed
Dear Apex Legends I would like to mention the fact that Watson has had a big buff for the past few seasons and I think she should be nerfed. The fact that she can electrocute doors is insane, it stuns and slows you down to the point where u can’t even move your screen. This is one of many reasons I think Watson should be nerfed. Please look into this and get other people’s opinions on it. Please fix this now! Thank youMissing Items
I bought a Lifeline edition code from a reseller, redeemed it on my account, and now have the addon in my installed game addons for Apex Legends. However, after reaching out to support for 3 hours, I've been told there is nothing they can do and to make a community post expressing my frustration and annoyance at this issue. I have redeemed the code in the EA app, launched the game, played a game, received nothing, I have cleared my cache, reinstalled the game, signed in and out, and still have received nothing. I don't understand how there can be a working redeemable code that grants me the addon, but not the items, I tried the AI support, that was useless, I reached out to 2 support members and got redirected to another higher ranking one, the first support member was of no use and closed my ticket without even letting me speak, the 2nd suport member got me in touch with another one and he told me how there was nothing he could do on his end. I am at a loss for words in this situation. I was going to buy more keys for other items, but this situation has made me sway away. I still don't understand how I can redeem a working code, get the addon, but still not get the items. I am now making a forum post, hoping others can help and/or share their opinions, and maybe a community manager might help me.Forced return to lobby when receiving an award
Why do we have to return to the lobby each and EVERY TIME we receive an award??? Please disable that sht its not cool just when i get to play 1 round of gun run the game kicks me out just to show i have a reward like in whyyyyy????????? thwn when i join another match its somehting else this is not cool:( [CM edit - descriptive title]Kicking out of matches.
Getting kicked out of a match 6 times in a row in one match then I get penalized for it!!!???!?!?!?!?!? This is happens randomly through the while life of apex and has never been fixed and they might give you some bs pack to open. Im still sitting here waiting to play and I spent money in this game for what seems to be worse bs than ever.Third party devices
How come there’s more cheaters on console than pc, feels like nothing has changed especially the amount of people playing on alt accounts that are lower than level 80. I’ve came across titans/cronus and xims on my team or just going against them. I solo queue in platinum 1 and diamond lobbies and can’t climb the ranks because of the amount of people cheating just to get predator. Console ranked on any game in mid-high tier lobbies are a joke due to cheaters.
Improve aiming on PC
PC players are at a disadvantage compared to console players; learning this game becomes so difficult that you get tired of it quickly. In Season 27, they added the “mantle boost” mechanic, which made it easier for most players who weren’t very familiar with movement to learn it. So: it’s difficult to learn how to control recoil and each weapon’s pattern in Apex, since every gun has a different pattern. It would be great to have an on-screen mechanic showing how to do recoil strafing by pressing A and D—something interactive that shows whether you’re inputting the sequence correctly, at least in the firing range to learn it, and if it’s well received, bring it into multiplayer. Something like this:Matchmaking
Honestly Apex matchmaking feels kinda off right now because as a casual player it keeps putting me against people who barely miss shots and play like they’re in a tournament or something. I get that skill-based matchmaking is supposed to make things fair but it doesn’t really feel fair when I’m just trying to chill and improve and I’m getting lasered every fight before I can even react. Apex is pretty much the only game I take somewhat serious, but I’m not grinding 24/7 like those players, so the system should do a better job separating high-level sweats from regular players like me. It just makes the game frustrating instead of fun and thats probably pushing a lot of casual players away, which isnt good for the game long term either. The thing is, this is literally the only game I play. I dont jump between different shooters or grind multiple titles, Apex is it for me. And I actually love this game fr, like I enjoy the movement, the gunplay, the whole vibe of it (missed the lores of characters tho). That’s why it sucks even more when the matchmaking makes it feel like I don’t belong in my own lobbies. I’m trying to get better over time, not get deleted in 2 seconds every fight. I’m not saying remove skill-based matchmaking completely, but it needs to be adjusted so casual players who actually love the game can enjoy it without constantly going up against players that play like pros. If the experience keeps feeling like this, its gonna push away people like me who genuinely want to keep playing and supporting the game, but just cant keep up with that level every single match.Apex is un-playable and i tell why.
First. I love Apex, IMO it's the best BR/shooting game. I don't play any other game in those categories. But. After 1000 games this season i'm not playing anymore. Why? There's nothing to play for me. Ranked: I reached Diamond IV only solo-Q quite fast. After a lot of hours I've come to conclusion i can't get any further. I have tryed and tryed, this is the limit. Usually people say to this - "keep on training and get better." I'm 37 years old 17k games played since season 0. I'm not getting any better. Quite opposite, i am getting slow. Why this is a problem? Ranked is only game-mode what means to people and there's a point playing it. Now when i'm Diamond IV player it define my matchmaking. My K/D in this season is 0.87. Still in Pubs or event game modes i am in pred/master/diamond lobbies. So you can imagine i'm easy kill to most who comes across me. I'm playing 10-15 games in evening getting 4-8 kills total in those games. No thank you. I don't know if my lifetime K/D 1.27 is affecting my matchmaking. That K/D has come stadily down from season 1 and as i said, i'm not getting any better anymore. There's a bunch people like me in Apex and in other games too. Is there solution? Maybe. Seasons are long and i don't think game makers like the situation where 1/3 of the season is worth of using time. IMO best season was season 19. I reached Master that season. That's not the season when everyone else reached Master too. Season 19 matchmaking was different in ranked. I faced only "same" level players what i am. Do i think i'm worth Master badge as a player, no. But there was something to grind whole season. There's couple options on my mind how to make seasons worth playing longer. First is making Platinum rank harder. Reduce points from kills and placements to make getting Diamond actually effort. I think too many player is reaching Diamond too soon. Second one is increase kill points in Diamond. People are playing super safe in Diamond just to get placement. Many cases there's been 15-17 teams in play after first 3 rings. That means survival is just pure luck, decision making even if making right ones won't bring success. This would allow better players to rise in Diamond faster. I know i'm making things hard to myself only solo-Q but i got no friends anymore at the Apex. All have move on to other games. Sorry for long post!
Missing Apex Coins after redeeming Xbox code
**“Hello, I am playing Apex Legends on PC, but I redeemed an Apex Coins code on Xbox. At the time I redeemed the code, my Xbox account was not linked to my EA account yet. Now I have already linked my accounts, but I still cannot see the Apex Coins in my account. I have already tried logging into the game again and waiting, but the coins still do not appear. I can confirm that the code was successfully redeemed on my end. Here are my details: Order number: 5324342578 Date: April 11, 2026 In-game name: zooaunzoo1 Could you please help me check if the coins are tied to my Xbox account and transfer or restore them to my EA account? Thank you.”**
Toggle Sprint Option Suggestion
Hello Respawn team, I would like to suggest adding an option for toggle sprint in Apex Legends, where sprint is activated by a single L3 press instead of holding input or requiring continuous forward movement. I think this would improve movement consistency and comfort during fast fights, and give players more control over how they handle sprinting in high-pressure situations. Thank you for your time.
