Planning to make a YouTube video on the top tips that every beginner should learn to find success in Apex mainly tips that don’t apply to other and aren’t talked about much. 99% of the time, you MUST play with your team or you’ll get caught out Get used to fighting without having time to regain all health and shield and shield first due to it being quicker What good, not much talked about tips do you have for beginners https://vlc.onl/?

@clinton1131 General philosophy for new players:Dont be discourage by "losing", i.e not winning the match, i.e have realistic expectations. This is not a 1v1 or 5v5 game with one winner and one loser (or draw). Its a game with 3 winners and 57 losers =). I would set achievable goals and gradually increase them, like winning your first 1v1,then getting 3 kills in match, then getting 1000 dmg etc rather than thinking not winning a match is a failure. Also, I think you should fight as much as you can even if you lose alot, especially during your "new account" matchmaking period. Yes, there is skill that requires training to the macro part of the game, like how to rotate, avoid choke points, predict enemy movement but these things are more of an intellectual thing, i.e something you have to intellectually learn. But 90% of the game IS muscle memory so to speak, i.e fighting and movement. And the only way to become good at these things is to do it over and over and over.I think one major flaw with the current rank system AND pubs is that its so effective to just jump late and avoid fights if you wanna rank up/get high placement in pubs. It just teaches new player that this is how you should play the game. But the only thing it will result in is that that player will fall behind in the skill curve of fighting and then become hardstucks when they reach a certain rank where this isnt possible anymore.

@BigMacAttack8u That is actually kinda true, even in semi-high elo and definitely pubs. I guess our eyes and brains work like the T-rex in Jurassic park, i.e searching for movement/change in the landscape when we are scanning the FOV for enemies and therefore easily can miss totally stationary enemies. But that wont happen very much against high elo players. What many mid elo players, like hardstuck plats and below, think is 100% wall hack are more often than not just high elo players who are incredibly smart. Those top players have so much experience, skill and game knowledge that they will almost unconsciously use what he cant see or hear to determine exactly where the enemies are, based on the method of exclusion. For instance, if they hear your footstep from a certain direction, they will immediately know how far away you are. And since they know every possible way and place you can be positioned on the map, they will also know where its possible for that enemy to be. And if they dont see you "there", "there" or "there", they will know that the only possible place you can be is "there", even without even having a second of line of sight of you.But then there are the occasional wall hackers ofc 😉

@clinton1131 Get used to dying often in humiliating ways. Learn the Quit to Lobby series of key strokes and commit them to memory.

@HappyHourSumwur No, forget those keys, be so used to not using them that you have to re learn each time!For advice: duck behind cover if you lose over half your health, or lose too much health quickly.Also generally shoot from near cover to avoid taking damage all togetherLastly, you are invisible if you don’t move

@HappyHourSumwurDamn. That was funny, and it's funny because it's true.@BigMacAttack8u"you are invisible if you don’t move"Sometimes true. Often not. And I'm not just talking about Seer. There's also Vantage and Bloodhound. And wall hackers. And just plain knowing where people are likely to be and suddenly, Wallah! There they are.

What Are Your Top Tips for Beginners?

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Balladalidila
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
@clinton1131
General philosophy for new players:
Dont be discourage by "losing", i.e not winning the match, i.e have realistic expectations. This is not a 1v1 or 5v5 game with one winner and one loser (or draw). Its a game with 3 winners and 57 losers =). I would set achievable goals and gradually increase them, like winning your first 1v1,then getting 3 kills in match, then getting 1000 dmg etc rather than thinking not winning a match is a failure.

Also, I think you should fight as much as you can even if you lose alot, especially during your "new account" matchmaking period. Yes, there is skill that requires training to the macro part of the game, like how to rotate, avoid choke points, predict enemy movement but these things are more of an intellectual thing, i.e something you have to intellectually learn. But 90% of the game IS muscle memory so to speak, i.e fighting and movement. And the only way to become good at these things is to do it over and over and over.
I think one major flaw with the current rank system AND pubs is that its so effective to just jump late and avoid fights if you wanna rank up/get high placement in pubs. It just teaches new player that this is how you should play the game. But the only thing it will result in is that that player will fall behind in the skill curve of fighting and then become hardstucks when they reach a certain rank where this isnt possible anymore.
matzesingt
2 years ago
@clinton1131
1. Play with controller
2. If ranked avoid fighting till atleast only 10 squads are left when you wanna climb
reconzero
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
@clinton1131

Conventional wisdom: In order to be good at the game you must be able to "aim good," "stick with your squad," "aim good," "be good at aiming."

Recon wisdom: the single most important quality a successful Apex player should seek to cultivate is patience. It's harder than it sounds, and it will put you at odds with almost every single teammate you will ever have, but in the end it will make you a better player than any of the hotdrop clowns, which make up about 75% of this game.

Use a mic. And not to be rude.

And, as said earlier, keep your expectations realistic. Yes, you should always be asking yourself if what you're doing is going to help get you closer to winning, but no, you shouldn't lose too much sleep over never winning in a game where a 5% win rate is pretty respectable.
HappyHourSumwur
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
@clinton1131 Get used to dying often in humiliating ways. Learn the Quit to Lobby series of key strokes and commit them to memory.
BigMacAttack8u
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
@HappyHourSumwur No, forget those keys, be so used to not using them that you have to re learn each time!

For advice: duck behind cover if you lose over half your health, or lose too much health quickly.

Also generally shoot from near cover to avoid taking damage all together

Lastly, you are invisible if you don’t move
reconzero
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
@HappyHourSumwur

Damn. That was funny, and it's funny because it's true.

@BigMacAttack8u

"you are invisible if you don’t move"

Sometimes true. Often not. And I'm not just talking about Seer. There's also Vantage and Bloodhound. And wall hackers. And just plain knowing where people are likely to be and suddenly, Wallah! There they are.
liber8mymadne55
2 years ago
@clinton1131 @A tip for beginners coming into Apex late, be patient and understand there will be players who do not belong in your beginner lobby 9/10.
Movement is key in Apex and not as simple as many other FPS. With that said, Apex is not optimized in your initial settings. Know how to slide to get speed and lower your weapon almost always when moving with a purpose.

Another big part is knowing that you’ll take way too long starring at loot boxes and items for dozens or hundreds of levels.

Lastly, know the meta in regards to squad makeup and weapons. You don’t have to use them but understand why others are using them. They normally do because they have a slight edge over the rest at that moment. Each Legend has its abilities and each one can be used in many different ways depending on the scenario.

Apex can be pretty amazing and I hope you enjoy. My personal views of the game are jaded at the moment but it has nothing to do with the gameplay.
HappyHourSumwur
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
@reconzero Yeah, the matchmaking in Apex really ticks me off. Can you tell?
Balladalidila
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
Forgot to mention the one thing that really helped from being a hardstuck d4 to eventually peak master: Every time you die, calm down for a couple of seconds and then try to really objectively and unbiased evaluate what you did badly (and well) in that situation and what you could/should have done differently. I can strongly recommend to play with some kind of recording software on and go back and look. You will learn so much when you actually can see what is going on during the situation that lead to your loss, or any other unfortunate events for that matter.
I think most of the people who come to this forum and blame their teammates for their failures would learn so much from this. Some things you will see in those replays is that very often, situation when you instinctively wanna blame your teammates, happen because of totally understandable and unfortunate events that happened around you but didn't directly affect you/you were unaware of, perhaps because you have bad game awareness. Its easy to think that YOU are the center of the universe and that everyone should adjust to you which ofc is a silly thing to think.
Just a concrete example, which actually is a bad habit that I pretty recently discovered in myself and work on to correct:
its easy to pay no attention to your teammates health meters before you call for a hardpush or just start playing aggressively. When you play as a full premade squad and really tryhard, your shotcaller may call for an all in where everyone just go in regardless of individual status, but among randoms or just together with low elo player with low knowledge of this game, you cant expect someone with 50 hp on a red shield is gonna abort his battery just to support your call to hardpush =)
liber8mymadne55
2 years ago
@BalladalidilaWell stated.