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Omega_Nes's avatar
4 years ago

There’s no game mode for a casual player in this game

Pubs is loaded with 20k kill and 4K Badge 3 stacks and if you make it to just Silver /Gold it’s the same exact thing? 

what happened to the SBMM in this game or is there just not enough players to fulfill that? Serious question 

im a casual player who’s not terrible but not great. I’d like to get on the game after work and have a good time playing with my friends( who are also not terrible but not great). But we get absolutely aped on in pubs or just get third and fourth partied in every single fight in ranked due to the rats exploiting the new ranked system. 

i don’t know but this game seems to have lost its way in my opinion. 

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  • The Control mode was the best, but it cant be a permanent thing for some reason...

    Which reason ? I dont have a clue...

  • Omega_Nes's avatar
    Omega_Nes
    4 years ago

    Yea this game likes to shoot themselves in the foot for some reason 🤷🏻‍♂️

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    4 years ago

    @Omega_Nes 

    I totally agree, Respawn should listen to the casuals. The game was 100% more enjoyable on launch then now, even with the cheaters and constant disconnects.

    Respawn uses the influenerors from the EA game changer program, where they get to send feedback that does change the game. So if an influencer doesn't like X, they just report it back and say the majority don't like it. What Respawn doesn't understand is the majority is just influencers, not the entire community of Apex Legends.

    That's why Apex Legends changed so drastically from launch. Respawn noticed that to get good and free marketing from streamers was to cater to them. You give them a little access to change the game how the streamers want it, you get free marketing by them playing it.

    That's why Apex Legends started as a super casual, free-movement title and became a competitive mess. Streamers are not good game developers, they just have mass followers, and in doing so, they get power hungry. If they don't like something, they wish it away.

    Most of the streamers nowadays just 3 stack camp in a building to pass time, Valkyrae ultimate to the next location and do it all over.

    I honestly hope someone purchases EA just to revert Apex Legends back to the classic mode, it's what some people want. I just want to play. I don't have interest in ranked, nor have I ever.

    Ranked in a RNG game doesn't make sense. If someone is good at RNG, it means you're just good at looting, not a skill when it's based on randomness.

    Respawn will be forced to listen once COD Warzone 2 gets released. It will cut the population down in Apex legends up to 40% or higher and EA investors will want to know why.

  • reconzero's avatar
    reconzero
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago
    @Popa2caps

    I agree that the relationship to streamers is warped and ultimately not benefiting the game or the player base as a whole.

    Apparently EA is looking for buyers, but it's wishful thinking to imagine an Apex-loving white knight with deep pockets riding into the fray and returning anything to the way it was.

    I respectfully disagree that ranks and rng are in some way fundamentally incompatible. What ranks are incompatible with is players' egos.

    I'll be curious to see how this game reacts (players and devs) to WZ2. But honestly, if it's held its own against so many other competitors for this long then will it really be as bad as all that? And if it is, well, every game winds down eventually.
  • @Omega_NesYou are soooo right there is no life skills here, I can't chop wood or fish like I did in New World. 😠

    But in all reality, I don't think casual play is what Respawn or EA planned with this game. It is a action game, with a 3 month battle pass. I think you could call me a "casual player", I get up early before 6 am do a 20 minute warmup in the rifle range, get my dailies and finish up about 7am.

    Later that evening, I will return for BR to pick up the treasure chest. If my friends are online, I might play as much as 90 minutes. Three hours per day at most? I just got paid 100 coins on my BP at 22 going to 23. My personal goal is only to get to 77 but I think at this rate I will get much higher.

    I am not a young man either, been on retirement for sometime now, but I remain active in the business world. I don't have a lot of time for frivolous activities. I am guessing your current issue is, treating this game as a business, and not just something you enjoy playing win or lose. On the weekends, I have friends over for cards. They just left for home, they said it was getting late. We all played UNO and I lost several times. We had lots of fun.

  • @Omega_NesYou're absolutely right; which is why I actively tell people not to play this game.
    There's no room for lower-skilled players. There's no room for anyone worse than Diamond. It will become a game with a very, very exclusive community.
    Don't forget, the only reason it's beating Warzone is because Warzone became INFESTED with cheaters. The next decent FPS that comes out will attract a huge number of Apex's playerbase.

  • Xubunnytwo's avatar
    Xubunnytwo
    4 years ago
    @StelioRokos the truth is, today's avid gamers flock to the new shiny game. That won't make it better. The cheaters will follow you. For example; Back 8 months ago, when Amazon released New World, we saw all the other game populations drop by the same percentiles. When New World was barely 2 to 3 months old the popularity decreased and players returned to the games they enjoyed the most. When the next bright and shiny FPS comes along, I might be here taking advantage of all the elites being gone to increase my wins on here. Not that having wins matters much to me, my only goal is to continue having fun.
  • @Omega_Nes while it wasn't very casual to begin with, after the nerf to the ranked system I feel that it very much has gotten worse.
    After tonight, I feel like there is absolutely no reason for a casual player like me to keep playing this game. Apex is straight up ruined.
  • @Omega_Nes The only time I have actually enjoyed this game lately was during control mode but even then I occasionally had matches with masters/preds spawn camping you the second that you spawned in lol there was this Wraith predator beaming from on top of the roof at C on barometer and then they had a mirage masters friend that was running around beaming us I ended up just taking a penalty and leaving
  • @Omega_Nes It's strange how it seems very "all or nothing" this season. So many players are having your experience, while I'm in noob lobby after noob lobby with a higher win rate than I have ever had. I wish I could tell you why this is happening, but "SBMM is weird" blah blah blah "old, established game filled with smurfs and cheaters" blah blah blah "people don't want new ranking system" blah blah blah. You know the deal.

    Side note: "rats exploiting the new ranked system" is what you said, but what you meant to say was "players adapting more successfully to the new environment."