Unplayable
The game is unplayable. I didn’t play Apex for two seasons because it was unplayable back then, but I came back about three weeks before the new season. Everything was fine—I was in both weak and str...
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Sorry but skill issue.
Only thing true = loads of hackers.
Rest - very playable. I as all time "hardstuck Diamond" always had a field day in ranked games below Plat 4, most of time get at least 2-3 kills / 5-6 KP in pub games, in many cases even more than that.
Only thing that changed over past 20+ seasons:
1. more nubs got higher ranks diluting Plat+ lobbies with more inadequate level players than there already were
2. matchmaking system that feeds lower level players to Preds and Masters
3. hackers - total number of them
4. hackers appearing now already in high gold, for sure Plat lobbies. It still takes me just a few days or even just 1 day to go from Silver 2 to Plat 4 and then it took me 2-3 weeks to get out of Plat while soloqing in EMEA...now I can't get out of Plat because every game has hacker squad in them while I get bots 99% of a time on my team that don't even try to teamwork and ratting now is impossible as wallhacking / radar using teams just find you instantly unless in one of those 1 in 10 games where you happen to be on the other side of the map so they don't bother, they kill you in later rings where you still get negatives for ratting. And I can straight up tell when there is this 1 in now like maybe 30-50 games where there are no hackers = more often than not I either win that game or I am top 3 for sure with fighting chance for a win
That's about it.
Scoping in... players that can loot yet kill you... nah... you are probably then one of those casuals with very low skill set (that matches you input of trying to be better).
p.s. plus don't forget if you MnK - Apex since invention of cross-play has given advantage in close fights to controller players (there was even some research done regarding that which concluded something like MnK player on average getting 0.8 kills from each fight while controller 1.2 or there about) => if you take 1v1 and you lose but say enemy had left <50 health, that might be just that = your aim being not ideal / bad decision making vs controller player that is able to spray and pray and be saved by aim assist in such cases landing that extra 2-3 bullets.
If fights are lost like you do 50 and they do 200... your skill issue, that bad you can lose only to hackers.
Can you show a screenshot of your Season 27 (not Ranked) statistics?
I don't think / know such option, as far as I know Apex shows you "all games" under current season and only ranked under "ranked" section. I guess I will have to do manual work but here it goes :)
As you can see in ranked I manage to get top 5 26% of a time vs 31 % in pubs (without much effort vs really trying in ranked most of the time).
My KD more than doubles vs ranked = 0.61 vs 1,33.
My Win rate also is 25% higher from 4% in ranked vs 5,3% in pubs yet I am quite sure that this ranked win rate is boosted by Silver / Gold games I played and as said in many cases win vs close to 0% win rate starting from Plat 3+. Basically average is like 8% win rate in Gold or lower vs 0% in Plat3 or higher :)
You are welcome and thanks for asking, it was interesting to spend 5 min compiling this post and data :) realized that I did play quite a few pubs to grind out battle pass after all, felt much less than 131 games to be fair...on the other hand one ranked game usually takes at least 10 min vs pubs that might end after 1-2 min.
Thanks. I pretty much expected someone with NPD to pop in and start with "skill issue." Yes, I don’t play Ranked—I’m not interested. The last time I played was 15 seasons ago. So when I read Gold, Diamond, or similar ranks, they mean nothing to me. I won’t go into detail about why I don’t play, but it’s not just one or two reasons.
Here are my statistics: Season 26—after not playing for two seasons, I returned three weeks before the new season and enjoyed the game. My team varied between weak, average, and strong, regardless of the previous match (at least that’s how it seemed). I could use optics and zoom. All of my Season 26 statistics are based on the R301 combined with the M600 Spitfire.
Now, Season 27—my team is always weak, and I can’t zoom because I die while zooming. So all of my Season 27 statistics are based on the Wingman and Mozambique. I can’t play effectively with other weapons. And again, why is there such a big difference—three weeks before the new season compared to three weeks into the new season?
Also, let’s not forget the newly “improved” sound this season. It’s pretty much a paranoia-inducing experience—voices in your head. Now you just need to use your triple Diamond skills to guess where the enemy is…
:D thanks for unleashing personal insults Karen. I will again refrain from emotional part and just talk subjective facts.
Given your stats and not knowing much more than info in posts:
- I can't really get how you can achieve comparable stats while I am owning pubs unless I face hackers vs you having such a bad experience that you need to switch loadout WHILE having comparable stats?
- I can clearly see possibility that in close range you are losing much more as you don't play shotguns (good ones), especially combo 301 and Spitfire = time to kill with them close range are incomparable even with Devotion or PK / Mastiff... I would outfrag you just standing in the open with those two unless I have bad day of aiming, not to mention jiggle peaking from cover or headgliching.
- As for difference between people in lobbies... idk I played start of 26th and now start of 27th = both look to me equally bad as soon as I get into higher ranked lobbies and my stats are basically 1:1.
- E.g. today I played first 5 games, in 2 of them teammates were willing to teamwork = we won both games, I had like 10KP each and did 2.5k damage in one game, other games were as trash as per usual and in following like 5 I was killed by blunt aimbotters, twice in a 3 game span by the same 3 stack that is running blunt hacks... rest of the lobby seemed as bot as usual
To comment more probably I would need to see you gameplay, know you region and playing times.
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