I'm very surprised about the poor decision to not include solo mode in this game. I understand that the developers and EA have a vision for this game but at the end of the day your player base is what drives the success of your game and it would be a shame to see all the momentum gained by the great work in season 7 go to waste.It's utterly sad that i consistently have to be queued with people who are not even close to my skill level in SBMM battle royale while i have to go against pre-made 3 mans communicating and working together and regardless of whether my teammates are decent or not these players instantly leave upon death or refuse to work together.It's utterly sad that you refuse to allow the casual gamer to log in and play a few games by themselves without being forced into a toxic squad.Do you need proof? i can show you over 15 games in a row where my teammates die on landing and leave within 1 second of being downed. The biggest player base in the world is the solo player base. Games survive based on catering to the solo experience.EA can you respond to why you want to kill your game and force your community into this toxic * pool of random squads?

I love helpful community on this forum. 😉 - "Random matchmaking is unplayable because of SBMM."- "So don't play with randoms."Ultimate problem solvers. 🙂

Clearly you didnt understand the point i was making, i dont care if they added clubs and i dont care if you can find squad mates to play with. If i want to play at peak time with my friends at 6:00pm i can, but if i want to play at 5:00 am and play 2 or 3 games i should be able to without stressing about the horrible squad experience.Who cares about balance its solos who cares if everyone plays wraith and gibby in solos. It doesnt matter if one legend is OP in solos, its solos everyone can use that legend if they want to keep up, Such a great game will never become the most popular game without catering to the biggest player base in the world which is SOLO PLAYERS.

Something that makes more sense, would be adding in a solo queue for players. The solo game mode would render certain characters useless in a 1v1v1v1v1v1 etc. I am all for a solo queue portion as an option, but a solo game mode just doesn't follow the 'team coerciveness' that is an option.

@Tuesday_713 I thought he was ranting about SBMM/bad random teammates and solos as a way of resolving this, but my answer was about that first part - bad randoms. I bet the vast majority of worldwide playerbase play with random squads, it's not really a helpful hint to say "find good premade squad". It goes like this:😛

@FortLlamaTV As frustrating as it is mate, they aren't gonna add solos. There's plenty of threads here discussing why Respawn won't add it, so I'd suggest looking them up on the formus. The problem isn't with the vision the devs have for Apex, it has to do with balancing and reworking every single legend so that they can fit solo gameplay, and there's a bunch more. Also, a tip in case you're getting ragequitters would be to join a club and try and find a regular friendbase to play with, that's kinda why they added them.

The solo queue experience is amazing

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Tuesday_713
5 years ago
@FortLlamaTV As frustrating as it is mate, they aren't gonna add solos. There's plenty of threads here discussing why Respawn won't add it, so I'd suggest looking them up on the formus. The problem isn't with the vision the devs have for Apex, it has to do with balancing and reworking every single legend so that they can fit solo gameplay, and there's a bunch more. Also, a tip in case you're getting ragequitters would be to join a club and try and find a regular friendbase to play with, that's kinda why they added them.
FortLlamaTV
5 years ago
Clearly you didnt understand the point i was making, i dont care if they added clubs and i dont care if you can find squad mates to play with. If i want to play at peak time with my friends at 6:00pm i can, but if i want to play at 5:00 am and play 2 or 3 games i should be able to without stressing about the horrible squad experience.
Who cares about balance its solos who cares if everyone plays wraith and gibby in solos. It doesnt matter if one legend is OP in solos, its solos everyone can use that legend if they want to keep up,
Such a great game will never become the most popular game without catering to the biggest player base in the world which is SOLO PLAYERS.
GrandDoodie
5 years ago
Something that makes more sense, would be adding in a solo queue for players. The solo game mode would render certain characters useless in a 1v1v1v1v1v1 etc.
I am all for a solo queue portion as an option, but a solo game mode just doesn't follow the 'team coerciveness' that is an option.
Tuesday_713
5 years ago
@FortLlamaTVYou "I don't care this, I don't care that" people are so cute - they gave YOU the compromise by implementing clubs. If YOU don't care about the obviously well justified reasons Respawn, as well as most of the people here are making (I repeat, balancing being just one of the many problems), I see no reason for you to even post here - since 1 - they're doing just fine without solos, 2 - they don't need to compete "to be the most popular game" since it's currently objectively the only BR game worth its salt, regardless of the many bugs it has, and 3 - Respawn just as well doesn't give a flying * that you think solos are the future or whatnot, because they have tested it during the IC event, and it didn't work out.
TakingYourShoes
5 years ago
@FortLlamaTV Sbmm is garbage especially if you’re a previous pred/master player you’re baby sitting noobs majority of the games. God forbid you get a k/d over 5.0 your teammates are all below lvl 200 with 0 gaming sense. Not even the 60% aim assist can save these noobs

I can understand everyone starts as a noob but for me i quickly adapted to apex, since i came from fps background playing games like COD, battlefield, Destiny made me understand the basic fundamental like playing a corner or mind gaming someone.
AreYouShivering
New Ace
5 years ago
I love helpful community on this forum. 😉
- "Random matchmaking is unplayable because of SBMM."
- "So don't play with randoms."
Ultimate problem solvers. 🙂
TinyTim6991
5 years ago
@TakingYourShoesthey really need to sep premades and solo que squads into diff lobbies. Seeing full pred premade in my ssbm lobbies is pretty disheartening and basically a guarenteed L for my random squad
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Tuesday_713
5 years ago
@AreYouShiveringWhat do you expect lol. They aren't fixing the way SBMM works anytime soon by the looks of it. Using clubs to find regular players is a compromise the devs gave us with the purpose to find people with similar playstyles instead of queuing with randoms. This isn't "So don't play with randoms", this is "Solos will never be added and whining about it will get you nowhere" - but wait, who would have guessed, there's actually another option which the people like the original poster 'don't care' about lol. He, just like many others, was given advice on what he can do, he just refused it by saying that he doesn't care and wants solos, which are never gonna be added, so I rest my case. " 🙂 "
Balladalidila
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
@TinyTim6991
Agreed but honestly, I think the matchmaking is doing that. I notice a clear difference on the overall skill level and how many who leaves when right when they get knocked, when I play solo/duo, compared to when I play with a full 3-man premade squad.... So I think many of those people see as so called "full Pred squads" are just a two premade Pred duo that just randomly happened to get a "good" third random that game. And luckily, at least my games on EU (I have 2.6 K/D, 4kdmg etc) usually have 1, max 2 such stacked squads per lobby.
AreYouShivering
New Ace
5 years ago
@Tuesday_713 I thought he was ranting about SBMM/bad random teammates and solos as a way of resolving this, but my answer was about that first part - bad randoms. I bet the vast majority of worldwide playerbase play with random squads, it's not really a helpful hint to say "find good premade squad". It goes like this:
😛