Re: Apex is just broken

I fail to believe you have never had any of those issues. We have all had matches where you land every bullet. We have all also had matches where you can't land any or only land a few. Is that servers? - possibly. Is it servers every time - doubt that very much. Too many ppl with the very same experiences. Balance of probability at that point. 

Have you ever shot at a revenant, pathy or ash (I use them as examples because its much easier to notice) - upon hitting them you always see medal shards or sparks indicating that you have landed hits?  I can't count how many times I blast into one of them, see the medal sparks but not a single damage point is given. I do not die, I duck down behind cover and reload and never do generate those damage points. 

Now usually if it is a server issue or lag, you will still receive those damage points but after a delay. Is that always a server issue? - possibly....every time it happens when their is no other type of lag issues what so ever in that match, and my fps and ping are exactly where they are supposed to be? - also, doubt that very much. 

Here's a good example from my many many experiences - lets take the wingman. I do not know how to use a wingman, only used it maybe 3 or 4 times since game launch. Can't hit the broad side of a barn if my life depended on it, I know cause 2 out of the 4 times I've used it was in firing range. Realized really quickly it just wasn't for me, can't use it - stink with it completely. However there are times in a match where it is my time to have fun - and I have picked it up because it was the only gun available and I started getting shot from behind. I panicked and did a 180, I didn't find the guy in my sights and fire. I didn't track him. I just turned out of sheer panic and took a wild guess roughly where he was firing from and downed him in 2 head shots! I know my skill level - I know when I am being helped and when I am being takin away from. I am not that good. I went on that match and again in two shots from over 300 meters away killed another guy with the wingman in 3 head shots. I am sure I was reported for cheating that day....even I would have reported me. 

I went on that match and couple following to not miss a shot. Even when I could visibly see that my cursor was just beside the enemy and not right on him as my aim at that particular moment wasn't great but still I generated hits I could clearly see that I shouldn't have. Got 14 kills that match and 2900 damage. Again - I am not that good, that is above my average skill level. I couldn't do anything wrong. 

Another example - I am in duos as a solo -I have blue shield, being shot at by a duo team, one my east side 20 feet away roughly, and his partner on my west side about the same distant away. This is a game over situation. Again, I panicked and did a 180 and started firing out of desperation, ducking, jumping, spinning 180 again firing at his partner going back and fourth. I know they are landing hits. They are too close to miss. Some how I came out of that battle knocked and eliminated that duo. Here is where it got weird. When I finally looked down to see my health. I only had one blue cell out of my shield that was depleted WTF!  I though what the hell, I have matches where I'm red evo and take a few bullets and get knocked. I just had two guys spraying me on both sides at close range and that is the only damage I took. Again - where those two terrible shots - possibly, but I fail to believe those guys at that distant missed every shot in a battle that felt like 45 seconds long. Cause I know there are too many matches where my bullets seem to go right through or don't register at all despite seeing the medal sparks from indicated hits landing. 

So with just those two simple above examples just 2 out of many, I ask, is that just the server working like its supposed to? Why am I landing hits when my reticle is still half a foot off the person's hit marker? 

Again, I know my skill level. I can tell the difference from an off day. I can also tell the difference from when the system is helping me to play above my skill level and when it forces me to play below it. I've been playing this game since day one. After awhile it is pretty easy to tell. 

Hence EOMM. But this is just my opinion. 

Well, I can say for sure in Apex all guns are not equal.  And that is even considering their roles.  An R-99 is better in any firefight to a Prowler, no mater what the range.  A Sentinel is still a bad gun.  This isn't to say they aren't fun to use, but we're talking winning fights.

I know that isn't what you are posting about necessarily, OP, but it's part of the problem. 

The one question I would love to have the answer for, is - if EOMM is based on equaling the wins, draws and loses....what does the system do to guarantee these 3 stay equal? 

Not even sure I want to know the answer to that.  🤔

Because in my opinion, putting someone with lower or higher KD, or kills or even level, can not guarantee those results. example - I am a level 500, yet I get owed by lower level players all the time and vice versa. Just cause someone's KD is higher than another doesn't mean this person will come out on top. Same with someone with 10,000 kills over someone with say, 200 kills - again, there is no way to guarantee the person with 10,000 kills loses or wins depending which the system deems is next or who is next up for a good time and who is at the expense of someone who is needed to be "retained." 

Seeing as how regularly the examples I have mentioned up above happen on a regular basis, I worry that when I have matches where even if my reticle isn't on the enemies hit box, I still register hits, or times when I put a whole clip into someone and can clearly see I am hitting the person or in the case of a pathy, rev, ash - can see the medal sparks yet don't generate any damage points - or the matches where I can tell my aim is auto locking onto my target and I can track them with ease even if they are moving, ducking, strafing etc.... That scares me. 

I played yesterday duos, 7 straight matches and go owned destroyed by the first person I came across all seven matches, mostly lower level players. Couldn't aim, couldn't track, couldn't hit a single target. On my 8th match with 2 Re45's, I hit everyone no matter what they were doing, the distance - beamed everyone with ease, didn't even seem like I had to aim, and won the match. Nobody goes from hitting nothing at all, I mean nothing to hitting everything without missing a bullet in the same gaming session within a small time frame. 

Hence the more I play the worse and worse I get and watch my KD plummet faster in one week than the 3 years it took to get it to where it was. Again, lately I have been playing a short session every 2 to 3 weeks, rinse and repeat and my KD is going back up and feels like it did in Season 3. If I get hooked and keep playing long sessions day after day - the above stated kicks in like clock work. 

I wish I could understand what's happening but I can't and can only guess and speculate.  All I can say is what I said above - I know my skill level, I am not delusional or think I am better than what I am. I can tell when I am being assisted above my skill level and when I am being forced to play below it. Its really really simple to see. 

So I have taken buddies advice and Apex now is a game I play for about 2 hrs every 2 or 2 and a half weeks and seems to feel like it used to back in the good ole Apex days. 

I wonder if the cheating, smurfing etc isn't really being dealt with like Titanfall because if my theory is correct, then wouldn't all the cheating, smurfing, mods etc mask an EOMM system quite well? 

food for thought.  : )

EOMM is complete garbage & I hate Respawn for using it.  This game is so freaking fantastic when you feel like you have a chance and have some success, but when you get melted in milliseconds repeatedly it is the single most infuriating game of all time.

@reconzeroI've suspected DDA for years, imo it compliments what EOMM is trying to accomplish so why not use it then? Main reason I say this is things don't seem constant. A strafing opponent is seemingly moving so fast that I can't score a single hit while other times I empty whole mags into them and it just feels easier. Same with things like movement, ads speed, reload speed and weapon swaps; it sometimes feels slower than normal in the heat of a fight and often get's me killed. Could it be intentional so that I lose?

Slightly off topic but one thing that always fascinated me when watching live streams is that all the big names never ever even once encounter these problems. In fact, for such high level players their lobbies often seem quite easy too. One big name streamer comes to mind that always played with random little kids and he would end up winning the fight for them when they go down. He was legit Predator level, which means his lobbies should reflect that - except they don't by the way he seemingly melted everyone. I can't stress enough how hard it is to win solo in a Pred lobby like that. I honestly don't know what to make of it all but it's interesting none the less.

I never felt being cheated by the system while playing quake3, unreal tournaments and others.. Just never. If someone owe me (without cheats) it was due to being better.

So you would be the only one in the world NOT having these problems you goofball

@jimmydog_23 

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