What made YOU quit apex?

Just came back after some time off from Apex. I played a couple of matches this season but realized I dont like the direction where Respawn is taking this game so I uninstalled but just 20 mins ago, I decided to give it another try and went straight into a ranked match.

First thing that happens when I enter the legend selection screen is two obvious premades chattering away in Spanish or Portuguese (playing on EU). I am OK with this since I presume they will switch to English as soon as we get into the match.

Anyhow; we get into the match and they give me jump master. I see that one of them (ofc) is on console and I know already he will suck. I pick a place, not a hot drop but with one other enemy team. When we are about 5 seconds from hitting the ground, they scream something in spanish and both of them deattaches from me and goes to a remote area outside the area I picked. I am left alone 1v1 with an enemy with the other two not too far away. I knock that guy but hear his friends closing in so I just run for my life. I say "Nice commitment....." and all I hear is Spanish.... The enemy team is now between me and my "teammates" and I have no safe way to get to them so I loot some random bins. Next time I open the map, both of them have started to run towards the circle and are now pretty much 2 full areas away  from me. No warnings or pings, just spanish.

AAAAAAAND I am now painfully reminded why I quit playing this game in the first place... I mute both their pings and voice and finish the match (actually randomly got 3rd place together). The console guy had like 300 dmg dealt.... As soon as the match is over, I alt+f4, uninstall and back to Diablo 4 I go.

With mixtape ltms always rotating now it has become so painfully obvious how many people are using strike packs, Cronus zen etc in console lobbies. It's becoming unbearable to play against them.

Super strafe speed and anti recoil mods are so common now that I find myself raging instead of enjoying the game. I would say 1 of 3 games has someone using one. Most of the time their level is less than 50 but there's quite a few seasoned players exploiting the modded controllers.

Please everyone learn to recognise the signs of people using them and report them accordingly, ea and respawn pls keep working on getting them out of the game and maybe consider a hardware warning like other multiplayer games have been doing.

I love this game so much but I'm reaching a tipping point, I just want good fair matches where I'm beaten by pure skill and not trash players using scripts 😭😭

@reconzero 

Ok I understand now how what I said can be seen as a little all over the place. The "direction" has nothing to do with the solo ranked experience, which ofc is my choice. If I dont wanna deal with premade duos who will make stupid in-game decisions that they never would have made with a team of randoms, like going for stupid resses on their premade friend instead of finishing the fight etc, then I would have just played premade as well. 

But the general direction I talked about is where Respawn is taking the game balance/design wise. For me, the USP of this game has always been the fighting/movement/gunplay core mechanics. I think the outcome of a fight should mainly be determined by which player has the best skills in shooting, movement and in-game wits, i.e the "core skills". The legend abilities should only be there to support those core skills. But IMO, Respawn seem to put more emphasis on abilities or even combination of abilities, rather than those core skills. What I literally hate is when they introduce abilities that make up for LACK of said core skills (scan-abilites that makes up for lack in spotting/awareness for instance) or TAKES AWAY enemy players ability to utilize said core skills (all forms of CC etc). I also hate that many new legends abilities are only positive for the team with no downsides. IMO, abilities should either be double-edge swords OR at least neutral, i.e that also enemies can utilize them. 

I guess this is the main reason why I left. Respawn doesnt share the same vision of this game as me =) The solo Q experience is an acceptable negative =)

@HappyHourSumwurI will say that Apex has made me learn to think of weapons, grenades, and abilities in a whole new way, to make them work seamlessly together, not just my abilities, but those of my teammates as well.

But I find myself increasingly interested in starting a match only to walk away from it feeling like, "why?"

Why did I bother? My teammates didn't do anything like they should have. No team work at all.

Why did I come to their rescue? They quit before I could get their banner and that left me vulnerable.

Why did I choose to play Apex and not Halo? Because its the new toy and it feels a bit more expansive emotionally than Halo. But more and more, Halo feels like a solid experience. I went back to Halo and my team sucked, but they tried. They honestly tried. That was so refreshing.

I am increasingly convinced that the lack of team work thinking randoms are the only thing that makes Apex feel like I waste my time.

@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

@reconzero

That is what is refreshing to me. I think you got what I was saying.

I think Halo as an arena may have something to do with it. There isn't much else, no exploration, no loot (at least not on the same scale), just team work.