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2 years ago

What made YOU quit apex?

For the people that quit or barely play anymore but still visit this sub what was the reason you dropped off from the game? CM - this post was created by another account

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HappyHourSumwur

Seasoned Ace

2 years ago

@Balladalidila If you don't like how important abilities are in Apex relative to other things like gunplay or movement mechanics, that's totally fair IMO. When & how to use my abilities in Apex was something that took me a while to realize how much of a different it makes. Other things like player behavior & decision making is just inherent to a multiplayer game. Strategic skills like positioning, aggressiveness, engage/retreat, healing/shields, crafting etc. all play a role in this game, too and honestly I feel it makes it the most complex FPS game I've ever played. There are just so many things that can make the difference between living & dying in Apex it can be pretty overwhelming. In that huge mix, what you like or don't like and what you think should be important is a very personal thing.

Balladalidila

Seasoned Ace

2 years ago

@HappyHourSumwur

Yupp, its ofc all about my personal preference, i.e what I look for in a competitive FPS. I have never liked games like Overwatch for that same reason. I came from Quake3 (yes I am old) and the game I mained before Apex was PUBG. Both of those games are very straight forward games. Ofc a lot of skills but its all about aim, movement (not so much in PUBG) and game sense/wits. As a matter of fact, the only reason I left PUBG and went over to Apex was because a friend mained Overwatch and I Pubg and we wanted to find a middle ground game to play together.

Thats why you dont see me on this forum for instance, bitching about the state of Apex etc etc. Hehe I think I am one of the few on this forum who actually defended their matchmaking =) I just accepted that Respawn sees the game differently than me and instead of complaining, I thank for them for the good times and move on and from time to time, I will come back to see whats going on in Apex, just like I did today =)

Just wanna point out that I never was "bad" at using the abilities or understanding the game etc. Many complain about stuff they arent good at etc. I am a OG from day 1 of this games release and have reached Master several times (before this joke of a season haha) and got 4ks on pretty much all legends that I play and also a couple of 20 kills. I just dont prefer the direction which mainly the ability design is taking.

Edit

Also noticed that Respawn havent fixed the micro-stutterings due to prediction error i.e that the game struggles to keep track of your position when you interact with enemies. This is actually one big reason, apart from the legend design thing, that made me quit. So many times you get shot and you get terrible prediction error and mini-freezes. During my game, I got scanned by an enemy Seer and immediately started to micro-stutter, like my FPS dropped to 10 even though it was 144 at all times. Actually game breaking and totally unacceptable in a serious competitive shooter. Respawn must sort this out ASAP