Why am I getting paired with Preds?
I have been playing apex legends on and off since season 3 started off on PlayStation now Xbox( I had to start over new on Xbox due to no cross progression) and I have never been more disappointed in...
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This is the Apex experience! You're either a player that is much better than your teammates or you're the other players getting punished. With each passing week the mechanisms that creates this gets worse and worse. I attempted playing last night with a friend and this was our experience. I've never been above gold in the last 10 seasons and never owned a dive trail. My teammate is a complete noob just now getting to where he's not burying his head in a loot boxes.
game 1 - made it to 2nd place only to be smoked by the the other squad. Wasn't really a fight at all. We ran into a few players who ran directly at us and put up hardly a fight.
games 2-4 - dive trails everywhere and not one fight felt like we had a chance.
game 5 - we made it to 6th place and sadly only found one fight. Landed close but by the time we got a weapon and engaged most the squads were gone.
games 6-8 - murdered by players with 20 skull badges.
game 9 - had two fights that seemed balanced only to run into a team that hit every head shot on us with about 4 squads left. I get lucky and get some good shots off sometimes but I can't headshot someone at full health running full speed 3 times in a row. My friend went down quickly because he's not as good at cover. I always take cover, heal, and move.
That was it. He's falling in love with Apex but I told him I can no longer take having 1 decent match, only to run around finding other players loot for the next 2 1/2 hours. This is a ranked experience. regular pubs is about 10 times worse. He states he doesn't see these players when he's not with me and I think that's because he's fighting bots?
As long as this game is free to manipulate, I think we'll keep seeing this, no matter what system is put up. If you had to put up some collateral like a phone number attached to your account, players might self monitor more on how they act and play?
I'll also add that the community is at an all time high for toxicity. I try to stay positive and NEVER yell at a player for being bad at a video game. I'm here to have fun. Too often now players are calling others trash for not putting up damage.
@liber8mymadne55 Yeah, Apex is a team based game but I never talk to my teammates and would even keep them muted unless they seem to be trying to work as a team.
By "trying to work as a team", I mean they're:
- Providing cover and assistance not only to the other player, but to me as well, even when they didn't need to
- Putting themselves out there to secure the safety of the squad, including distracting and performing tactical revives
- Sharing loot, pinging loot with the hand icon, respecting "dibs"
- Using the ping wheel to indicate most of their actions, and not spamming any one ping
- Trying to stick with me and the 3rd, or just me if they're a duo team, it's hard to believe but some duos will try to stick with the random, even when they go solo, and I can respect that. Even more respect when they treat the random 3rd as if they're a teammate.
I don't see this kind of play style very often, so I rarely unmute anyone.
By "trying to work as a team", I mean they're:
- Providing cover and assistance not only to the other player, but to me as well, even when they didn't need to
- Putting themselves out there to secure the safety of the squad, including distracting and performing tactical revives
- Sharing loot, pinging loot with the hand icon, respecting "dibs"
- Using the ping wheel to indicate most of their actions, and not spamming any one ping
- Trying to stick with me and the 3rd, or just me if they're a duo team, it's hard to believe but some duos will try to stick with the random, even when they go solo, and I can respect that. Even more respect when they treat the random 3rd as if they're a teammate.
I don't see this kind of play style very often, so I rarely unmute anyone.
- @Midnight9746 It's fun when it clicks. Someone say's one positive thing at the beginning of the match, then all of a sudden you're communicating like you've known each other for a while. Bummer we can't get more matchups like this. I know people say run with a squad but we're all on different schedules in the real world. You just got me amped up to play right now but I can't do it because I already know the outcome of the game.
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