Solos and Duos must become a permanent thing.
I don't get why solo/duo queue isn't a permanent thing in Apex Legends yet. I'm often only playing with my duo partner and honestly, there are about a million reasons as to why solo/duo queue should be a permanent thing in both casual and ranked.
First of all, most players don't have two other people to play with all the time and playing with a "random" can be quite infuriating.
Most people either don't have a mic or don't want to use it. (I would say about 90% or more in casual games)
But even when people do use voice the voicechat in Apex is so bad I can't even hear them half of the time,
the volume is super low so even though i've set mine to max I can't hear most people in voice, the quality is also pretty bad compared to other competitive games.
Second, when most players try to do their daily/weekly challenges it can ruin the entire game. Let's say they pick Crypto or some legend they're not playing normally ONLY because of the challenge and then they drop in a specific spot only because of that challenge and pick up certain weapons etc. JUST because of the challenge. Then the team is split between trying to win and trying to do some challenges. This ruins the experience for anyone just trying to play the game normally.
Thirdly, it's no secret that most "random" players are super egoistic when it comes to loot and don't care if some loot, let's say a golden backpack, would be better on Lifeline than on their own legend. This also cripples the team as a whole and always makes it harder to win and will most likely lose the game.
TL;DR
1. Communications with randoms is more or less non-existent other than a few spam pings when people get downed
2. You never know if random people is trying to do some challenges and therefore can't play around it and will most likely lose because of it.
3. Most random players are egoistic and will nab all the good loot no matter if it would be better on someone else in the squad.
I could go on and on but really this is an obvious thing that Respawn should have already implemented in season one. It would make the game much more competitive and fix a lot of problems currently in the game. It would also make ranked much better for reasons already mentioned.
When you're solo with two premades 🙂
Just. Do. It.
