Why do we have to be stomped by every cheater and smurfer in this game? Why can't respawn finally do something about it? Are they even working? What are they doing? Every goddamn ranked game we have smurfers and premade squads... In the last year respawn became fairly incompetent at doing their jobs regarding the player experience.. How aren't they fired yet...?

@Palette24carats Idk if you’re dumb or you’re being sarcastic since when in the world has a level 20 reached gold apart from being a Smurf, bro it’s obvious when you see a Smurf idk how apex can just sit there and watch literal preds just on smallest accounts ruining plat people

@Palette24carats No really but alr

It's really easy to recognize Smurf when you are experienced player. They way they move, strafing, loot, change weapons, kill and run around that kills. Yesterday I played against level 4 or 8 player that was clearly smurfing.

@ctyf6rri93dm @AreYouShivering @Midnight9746 @Palette24carats @lops3004 There have been many posts/threads about Smurfing. Is it bannable, yes. Is it hard to detect/identify, yes.From what others have said in the past and it is my understanding Smurfs are those that create another account and intentionally tank games in order to play and feed off of lower skilled/ranked players.With that in mind how can you tell the difference from a ToS allowed alternate account? Alternate accounts are allowed. Lets say that an X-box player, master/pred skill player on that platform decides to buy a PC and decides to make an account with that PC is that account a smurf account? No it is not. And yes that player is now low level and the change from console to PC or vice versa is not such a skill set change that that player will not be good. So yes they will be low level and ranking up or killing the lobby until SBMM catches up with them and starts putting them in harder lobbies.What you have all been talking about might in fact be Smurfs but it could also be new accounts, alternate accounts etc.

The level cap of 500 with nothing to gain other than legend tokens encourages making alt accounts. Another reason is that there is currently no cross platform progression. With that in mind a player that has maxed level 500 on one platform and has access to another platform may decide to make a new alt account on the other platform in order to level up gain cosmetics on the new account that they do not yet have on the old account in the hopes that they can merge the accounts and have more stuff since cross progression is supposed to happen this year according to EA.

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18 Replies

Midnight9746
Hero+
4 years ago
@ctyf6rri93dmI'm getting sick and tired of smurphs, and smurphs running non stop Rampage - that gun needs to get DELETED from the game.
Palette24carats
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@Midnight9746 I see a 301, a havoc and a pk, what s the problem?
Midnight9746
Hero+
4 years ago
@Palette24caratsThey're smurphs in gold lobbies. That's the problem. I did say there were smurphs AND smurphs with Rampages, two different types of smurphs, ones who use Rampages, and those who don't. Both make the climb back to plat difficult.

This is a FULL team of smurphs. Smurphing is considered cheating.
Palette24carats
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@Midnight9746 Probably but there is no way to tell for sure, could be new players.
They are gold 4 and one silver.
lops3004
4 years ago
@Palette24carats Idk if you’re dumb or you’re being sarcastic since when in the world has a level 20 reached gold apart from being a Smurf, bro it’s obvious when you see a Smurf idk how apex can just sit there and watch literal preds just on smallest accounts ruining plat people
Midnight9746
Hero+
4 years ago
@Palette24carats First of all, I can handle new players just fine. Second of all they played like a bunch of preds. It's not hard to grasp the concept of the game, yeah, but this was more than "grasping the concept", they were beyond outplaying everyone else in the lobby. I wouldn't even be surprised if they had cheats too.

Keep in mind that you can start playing rank at level 10, they're two level 23's and a level 28. Also remember you start at Bronze 4. That's a bit of a climb to sliver and gold. Rank is a different play style, although matchmaking doesn't help, however it's unlikely a team of new players are going to be dominating a gold lobby that has plat and up players in it. (Badges and skydives suggested there's higher ranked players).

When I started playing Apex back in the first week, it took a while (even though I had a bad PC) to even reach Gold 4. Then when I got a better PC, it STILL took about a season or so to finally reach plat, where I've been hard stuck due to matchmaking issues. Most say that's diamond lobbies, but I guess I don't have what it takes to solo out of plat. Or maybe I don't care enough. We'll never know.
Palette24carats
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@lops3004 any good COD player can hop up on Apex and be gold 4 in a day. Can be a good player coming from fortnite, cod, rainbow 6, pubg, etc
lops3004
4 years ago
@Palette24carats No really but alr
Palette24carats
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@Midnight9746 I can't judge if they played like preds since you shared a picture not a video.
Midnight9746
Hero+
4 years ago
@Palette24carats Sharing a video would be "naming and shaming" because I don't have the tools to edit their names out of every frame it shows up in. But it doesn't matter if you think they're smurphs or not. The point is they're low level and clearly not "new" players. That's considered cheating in any compacity.