@blackeyeriver"This does not have to read that way, it's the way you choose to read it and tends to say a lot about your general outlook."
My general outlook is, I'm pretty sure, the same as any day one player who solo queues. To call Apex matchmaking a mixed bag is being incredibly generous. But if your experience has been better, or if you are more tolerant of other players' quirks, or are so good at the game that you can afford to be so tolerant, then my hat is off to you. My solo queue experience is such that if I try to be a "good teammate" I end up in Fragment 95% of the time and dead in 18th place. If you can have match after match after match end that way and still feel good that you gave it the ol' college try, then my hat is off to you again.
""Experience tells me that one method leads to success more often than the other" ---That depends on who you ask." Sorry, I should have been clearer and said, "MY experience." ImperialHal's experience is irrelevant to me. We are not playing the same game. So please let's not try to tell rank-and-file players that they should be judging their game experience by anything they see on a stream. Completely unrealistic. And no, that doesn't mean I look down on their accomplishments or abilities. It means they have no bearing on how I approach the game.
"And I thought the point was to play as a team?" The point is to win. If you choose a path that is less likely to lead to a win then that's perfectly okay because "success can mean different things to different people." I certainly don't expect to win every match, but I go into every match trying to avoid situations, such as hot drops, where luck is the decider. I know, "Bad player with no aim who camps on cliffs with charge riffle and ruins game for real players." Heard it a million times. I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.
