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BLOODGRAVY's avatar
5 years ago

This game is unplayable solo

I play this game a lot by myself in trios and I swear to god most days its 10 out of 10 games people just go hot (or not) and as soon as they go down they insta quit meanwhile I'll play 'smart' and take down the whole squad by myself leaving me and the team mate or most of the time they both insta quit and its just me for the rest of the game trying to hide because its next to impossible to continuously wipe 3 man squads the entire game unless you really have the upper hand. 


I am SO sick and tired of being the only one left trying to fend the rest of the game solo. Something needs to be introduced to prevent this from happening over and over again. All these people just drop hot with a thousand people around and expect to get 100 kills?? Use your brain and realize that a lot of luck is needed and skill. 

End of rant. 

EA Games fix this PLEASE

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  • @BLOODGRAVY Something WAS introduced. Its called "Ranked".

    Even if you are not trying to or care rank up, these lobbies have penalties for players who quit and people to play better as teams.

    ....unless of course they're Plat IV
  • BLOODGRAVY's avatar
    BLOODGRAVY
    5 years ago

    @CocoaHyena Thanks for the post. I realize this mode exists and choose not to play it because of how the gameplay is. Too many people just hide til the end and then you're left with a tiny circle of luck. Not for me! Also the 'non-ranked' mode DOES exist and that's what I play. Just because it's not ranked shouldn't mean it should be totally allowed to quit whenever you want.

    Although when you first start as a low rank it is fun til you get to the 'try hard' level lol

  • @BLOODGRAVY game is dog crap if you play by yourself. If you're good at the game, you're straddled with garbage teammates vs. good players. If you're bad, you're tacked onto someone who's good at the game, or worse, thrust into a game vs. good players while having equally garbage teammates. I played for 3 hours today, it took 2 hours before I got actual "similarly skilled teammates" and 1 win with a different team. About 35 minutes of 3 hours was actually enjoyable. 

    This game would've been so much better had they addressed people's wishes for solos, and kept them in permanently. Imagine thinking that forcing players to play in squads is more important than your actual community asking for a solo mode. 

    Pros of Solos:

    -Skip garbage teammates. Who wants to get chained to people who have no clue what's going on 24/7?

    -Skip toxic teammates. Who wants to sit around with some rude dude?

    -Actual skill required, let's face it, sometimes you win a fight because the enemy is exhausted, not necessarily cause you out shot them.

    -Leavers would have a mode specifically for them. Can't get revived, you move to next, easy peasy. 

    -Working class adults can more freely play the game at their own pace. People's schedules don't line up, you can't ALWAYS be playing with friends. 

    -Can enforce a penalty for queuing for squads and leaving early when solos is an option. (Which people are asking for now)

    Negative Effects of Solos: (for some reason c o n is not an allowed word.)

    -SoMe CharACtErS aRenT UsefuL In SoLOs. Which the devs can fix. 

  • CocoaHyena's avatar
    CocoaHyena
    5 years ago
    @BLOODGRAVY I agree that at least you shouldn't be able to quit before you're crated.

    On the other hand, how many people just drop solo or do whatever they want or don't help you fight or any number of things where when you get knocked, your teammate(s) are nowhere in sight, and so you mind as well be able to just quit instead of having to watch your teammates go do whatever except help you or recover your banner. And these are the reasons you're allowed to quit in Pubs.

    Really the best solution is obviously to squad up. If you don't have friends online, its really easy to get one together. Yes, there's LFG stuff. But the BEST way I've found is really simple and no one does it.

    First off, DON'T be in a private chat party instead of in the game chat.

    And two, USE YOUR MIC. So often, the whole quad will have mics in random ques but no one talks. But every time I get into a lobby and theres someone cool who uses their mic, we end up running it back and collecting a 3rd along the way.

    Be in the game chat. Be the first one to talk. Communicate before the drop what you are going to do, want to do, your playstyle, whatever info that is important to you. Drop hot, drop away, whatever. It'll only take a couple games to find others who will Communicate with you and merge playstyles and make the game more fun. Not to mention win WAY more pubs games, cuz like you said, everyone quits. There are usually very few full squads in the endgame, usually just a bunch single man squads.

    And if you don't do the things I mentioned above, if you don't communicate, mic up, or chat, how will you ever expect teammates to care enough not to quit out?

    Would you rather play with teammates who WANT to stick around, or play with ones who are FORCED to stick around to avoid penalties?

    ...thats my 2cents
  • BLOODGRAVY's avatar
    BLOODGRAVY
    5 years ago

    @CocoaHyena Thanks for the reply. 


    I have to admit that it's pretty rare nowadays that I see someone just go off by themselves. I think because duo's was introduced that has helped a lot with that. I do recall in the past that being a more frequent occurrence. I kid you not every instance where it happens to me the team is like a grenade throw away from me every time. I get your reasoning with being allowed to quit but again it's just literally every game gets tilting as hell.

    I totally agree with your squad up recommendation but at times I just wanna hop on, not use a mic and just play the game. A huge part I enjoy this game is because you can literally ping everything you intend to do without using a mic. 

    About not following your guidelines so team mates won't quit I think is a bit ridiculous but I get it, it's a game and most people just wanna play so as soon as they go down they don't wanna wait for ever. But at the same time there has to be some sort of fluency. 

    If I have to have a mic for someone to play a game I think it's a bit silly but I totally understand what you're trying to say.

  • how to send them a clip? that will be my new thing because i experience the same

  • EA_Barry's avatar
    EA_Barry
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    2 years ago

    @Kersyitalianpkr 

    This is an old thread, I will close it now but feel free to create a new thread if you like, thanks.

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