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MightyBigMeech's avatar
MightyBigMeech
2 years ago

Custom/Private match mode

Can you please take away the minimum player requirement for private lobbies? The majority of the player base don't have 30 friends to play with in private match. I have friends that won't play apex with me because we can't go into private lobby with just a few of us to learn maps, practice movement and rotations. If there wasn't a minimum player requirement, I think it'd greatly expand the player base even further. Also, it'd be awesome to get to go in and just have fun with just friends in general. Especially if for some reason servers are down or something. It'd be great to still get to play the game on the full maps with just 5 or 6 friends. The minimum player requirement is the only problem with private mode. One person should be able to go in and run around the maps working on things or just to explore, etc.

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  • E9ine_AC's avatar
    E9ine_AC
    Hero+
    2 years ago
    @MightyBigMeech Removing player requirements in the end would hurt the game I feel. You would have much longer queues due to people being in a private lobby with only 2-5 people in it for example. This would disrupt the flow of the game in terms of quickly getting into a match.

    I don't think they want to reduce the requirements I do not think they want that as a free-roam type of situation due to those reasons. Again it's my thoughts on it.

    As for a lot of the things you mentioned for practicing the firing range can provide nearly all the examples you have mentioned above other than ring rotations.
  • MightyBigMeech's avatar
    MightyBigMeech
    2 years ago

    I understand where you're coming from, but I disagree. For most of us experienced apex players, we'd much rather get into full games so I don't think queue times would suffer all that much. Also, I practice in the Firing Range for quite a bit of time before I jump into public matches and it does not have the necessary examples of buildings, ziplines, etc. That are in the actual maps. For example, there's nothing in the Firing Range that imitates streamer building, muesem or construction building from World's Edge. The most popular POI's from any map are not represented. So for a new player or just someone who doesn't play often, the actual POI's in game are foreign to them. Also, literally all other mainstream games like COD, Warzone, Fortnite, Halo, etc. Have no minimum player requirement for their private lobbies and their queue times are just fine. Plus, with everyone being able to get into private lobbies, the player base would only grow. As I'm sure that I'm not the only one with friends that would play apex if we could explore the maps in private lobbies. Which in the end, actually helps the queue times improve. Alot of people don't want to play apex because they feel it's too intimidating. I believe lifting the requirement could and would change that.

  • Yousef_lms's avatar
    Yousef_lms
    2 years ago

    I Agree, especially that the game features maximum of 4 players lobby ans this is just recenlty.

    we usually play the TDM and the run gun as 6 -8 players till we’re bored out of it.

    imagine even a smaller sized map were ur already at like zone  23 and u have 10 min max till smallest zone. Would be an awesome custom match experience.

    nd it definitely wont affect the main game mode as so many games have that nd its running normally, we play league for example all the times, nd we only use the custom matches when we exceed the max num of players. 

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