Season 20 release is terrible!
Just freed up my whole summer. Can't even articulate how disappointing the changes to game play are.
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@E9ine_ACI'm just not feeling it so far with S20. Not S14 Hunted bad, but pretty bad.
The changes seem to benefit better players and premades over new players, lesser skilled players, & solo queue players. For me, it makes the issues with matchmaking and anti cheat even worse. These players need a shield advantage to level the playing field in most matches and now that element of RNG is gone. Couple that with a more complicated shield upgrade and perk system to learn and all these teams are at a further disadvantage.
My experience as a solidly average solo queue player so far this season has been pretty horrible. The game is skewing even more towards pros and sweats and away from the average player, IMO. I just can't imagine how or why a brand new Apex player would stick around at this point.
100% there with you. Been playing since launch, but solidly average and odd playing times mean I’m stuck playing solo. It’s been bad in the past, but this is a whole new level of impossible. Win rate had consistently been 5%-6% every season, now it’s barley over 1%!!! Forget about k/d/r. Honestly don’t know why I’m still playing. Don’t know if cheating is out of control or just a new sadistic matchmaking. Whatever it is, it’s like they are trying to force a particular cohort of players (average, solo) to quit.
This is me, Some combo of matchmaking, changes to the game and player mindset but season 20 has been a miserable experience. I don't mind the changes in a vacuum but they seem to make the other issues stand out even more.
This is coming from someone who's played since day 1 and for the most part thought matchmaking complaints were overblown until now. Apex has been my main game for 5 years and very often while solo queing. Lately I have next to no interest to log in and know it'll be the same BS in one form or another and maybe get 1 decent match out 10-15. And when I do squad up with even 1 other person suddenly every other squad is a master+ 3 stack. I don't know what they did to their matchmaking this season but I'll probably be done with this game if it doesnt sort itself out soon.
- @ExtentAK51 All the new devs do is make nice and shiny recolored crap. They have no interest in fixing the game, since last I understood several seasons ago they fired the original devs, quality and beta testers, and judging by how this season is going I think they fired their entire networking department. They just want to keep pumping out new flashy crap thinking that's what's going to get the money, rather than understanding the fact that those of us that have been in this game for the Long haul, would probably financially support it if they'd fix their issues. OverWatch and fortnite are starting to look a lot more appealing at this point
I don't think the shield and crafting changes are bad, but smurfing, cheaters, and matchmaking has all gotten much worse. The game is completely unplayable as a solo queue player anymore. You just drop in and get killed immediately over and over again. It is horrible.
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