The Apex Legends "Experience"
Hi. Firstly hi people of the Apex forum. I have been playing this game since somewhere season 16, I have around 370 hours in the game, I play ranked 95% of time. My Apex "lifetime" KP is 0.7 somthin...
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There a couple of things going on here. First, no one will argue with you over the changes to ranked. Whatever it is the dev was trying to do with these changes, all they've succeeded in doing is frustrating people. This is one of many, many reasons why I have almost never played ranked, and will certainly not start now. Pubs may be a sewer, but I guess I'm just used to the smell.
The other thing going on here - the quality of your squadmates - is a result of two things. First, you're solo queueing and ALL team-based games hate solo queue players. Fact of life. You (and I) are basically offering ourselves up as squadmates to every random newb and bad attitude player in the game. The other related issue is that over the course of a few seasons you have improved enough at the game that your mediocre and inexperienced teammates stand out all the more as completely useless. Anyone who can solo to, what was it? Diamond? ...is doing pretty good. Especially when you didn't start four and half years ago as many of us did. I hate to say, "just find a squad," but that's the nature of every single team-based game I've ever played.
All that said, it may be time to take a break before you've invested any more time in something that may or may not come around to what you'd like it to be. And take pity on day one players who are 24,000 matches into the game with no very clear exit strategy!
There a couple of things going on here. First, no one will argue with you over the changes to ranked. Whatever it is the dev was trying to do with these changes, all they've succeeded in doing is frustrating people. This is one of many, many reasons why I have almost never played ranked, and will certainly not start now. Pubs may be a sewer, but I guess I'm just used to the smell.
The other thing going on here - the quality of your squadmates - is a result of two things. First, you're solo queueing and ALL team-based games hate solo queue players. Fact of life. You (and I) are basically offering ourselves up as squadmates to every random newb and bad attitude player in the game. The other related issue is that over the course of a few seasons you have improved enough at the game that your mediocre and inexperienced teammates stand out all the more as completely useless. Anyone who can solo to, what was it? Diamond? ...is doing pretty good. Especially when you didn't start four and half years ago as many of us did. I hate to say, "just find a squad," but that's the nature of every single team-based game I've ever played.
All that said, it may be time to take a break before you've invested any more time in something that may or may not come around to what you'd like it to be. And take pity on day one players who are 24,000 matches into the game with no very clear exit strategy!
@reconzero Here's the thing, the game hates you if you're solo, duos, or trios.
Solos - Both teammates are awful 99.9% of the time until that "one game", where they're actually good, all enemy players are diamonds-pred players until that "one game" where they act like they're bots.
TLDR Solos: Your teammates are basically bots and the enemy teams are the top 15-30% or so of the players until the game decides to let you win.Duos - The game will give you a 3rd that's either a bot, AFK, etc. more often than not, and the chances of that "one good game" is more slim. Enemy teams are often masters-pred players until that "one good game", where they play like bots or a mix of real bronze-gold players.
TLDR Duos: Your 3rd teammate is so bad, it makes the two randoms from solos look like a joke, enemy teams are more often the top 10-15% of players until the game decides to let you win.Trios - Might as well sacrifice yourself to Fade now, because you're going to be constantly pitted against pred level players, and from my experience, that includes the pros and the ALGs pros
TLDR Trios: Hope you like the ALGs, (even though S18's matchmaking is now the ALGs for all players across all matches)
The game uses EOMM, (Engagement Optimized Matchmaking) not SBMM, (Skill Based Matchmaking). From how things played out, and continues to be playing out, its clear that its designed to drag your face in the dirt, making you feel like you "gotta do better", using that "one good game" as a carrot on a stick, which fun fact, most people get off after their first win of the day because if they keep playing, the game will punish them with harsher games since they got their win high, and that's to make them think they're in harder lobbies and they got to do better.
This is toxic for the game's health.- @Midnight9746 MM in Apex is the morphine drip model for solo queue players. ~10 to 20 matches with less than good teammates getting obliterated by murder bot 3 stacks follows by a game that feels 'normal'. Give you just enough success to keep you chasing that high.
Smurfs are rampant and cheaters probably are, too. Cheaters are harder to say for sure, but I've seen a few 100% cheaters over the seasons. Neither of these issues seem to be on Respawn's radar.
Respawn's community relations is also complete trash so what they really do care about and what they are actually working on is mostly a mystery. Given the state of the game immediately after several patches in the last year and the changes to Ranked, I'm actually convinced they don't even play their own game.
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