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DoYaSeeMe
6 years ago

About Sweating

According to the dictionary, sweating means to exert a great deal of strenuous effort. In gaming, a sweaty or try hard is a player that gets involved deeply, playing with seriousness and intensity as if they're in a competition. Interesting, let's look at the definition of a hardcore player: an individual who spends a significant amount of time playing and learning about games, usually seeking out those that are complex, with depth. Hmm, there's similarity, right? Now, what's Apex ? A strategic Battle Royale, where you have to make strategic calls on the fly and use your team's strengths in vicious 60-player matches. Maybe it's just me, but this sounds like an ideal environment for hardcore sweating.

You may be in disagreement with my statement about Apex being a game designed for sweaties. Then, why was Shroud involved in the development of this game? Why does the ring close so fast? It looks like devs wanted their players to be competitive, sweating, not chilling. Also, why is there so much fuss about teammates not being involved enough, about toxicity, so much whining about every change in this game? The high volume of reaction for every little thing shows that many players are very involved, which makes me conclude that they're in Apex for sweating. Hell, I'm here for the same reason, sleeping at the bottom of the food chain and dreaming about becoming a pub stomping level predator one day 🙂.

SBMM is favourable to me. It makes me sweat a little more, knowing that I have better chances of killing those standing my way to the win. Even when I see a 20-30K player dropping in my match, a part of me believes that I'm about the same level skillwise and that I can put up a good, honorable fight, if not even beating that predator. The random teammates I get seem to be more involved lately, working with me instead of dragging me around or leaving me, there's less toxicity and more GGs at the end, whether it's a win or an elimination. I've been an advocate of pure randomness, but I'm fine with the current SBMM, my S3 stats are on an uptrend and I finally feel like I'm evolving.

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  • DarthValtrex's avatar
    DarthValtrex
    Hero (Retired)
    6 years ago
    @DoYaSeeMe The fast ring closure is something they are going to be dealing with. The devs/EA accounts were active in a discussion about the exact topic in another thread. It was not intentional, but happened because the map is larger and the ring speed was set for Kings Canyon. It’s also only bad if you’re far from the ring. For me that’s the only adjustment that’s needed with the ring. After the first ring it’s really on your squad and you to be aware of it and stay ahead of it.

    Yes the game is a faster pace then PUBG. But that’s part of what makes apex legends different than other BR games. It’s not meant to be a camping game. Faster pace does not mean it’s a sweat game IMO. Sure there are rounds in which it’s sweaty and one fight after another. But I have rounds that are slow and you don’t hear/see anyone until the end of the game.
  • hhnbbfggty66's avatar
    hhnbbfggty66
    6 years ago

    @DoYaSeeMe
    When your hands get sweaty and go numb, and the controller feel as if its floating in your hands, and you fear the controller falling out of your hands, while your heart pumps a millions times per second

  • GRiPSViGiL's avatar
    GRiPSViGiL
    Seasoned Ace
    6 years ago
    @DoYaSeeMe Naming people tryhards or sweaty are just how people try to appease themselves for not winning. I mean games with objectives that lead to a winner and a loser should be played to win or why are you hitting launch?

    First time I heard tryhard term was a lot of years ago playing battlefield. It was a way to try to diminish a successful squad putting in work. Made no sense to me.

    If you hit launch or join a game PTFO or get out. Play to win or get out. Skill level is irrelevant, just play to win.
  • DoYaSeeMe's avatar
    DoYaSeeMe
    6 years ago

    @DarthValtrexHmm, at some point I felt like the ring has generally started to move faster than at the beginning of Season 3. My feeling was that it's actually intentional, as it's pretty easy to adjust the closing speed / time formula. A very valid reason for making it so fast would be to add more pressure, to force players into better, faster decision making. It does work, many teams are looting faster and moving inside the next ring well before the next round, giving harder time to campers that wait for prey at choke points.

    @hhnbbfggty66 that's psychological or emotional sweating. Actually, one of the main things I "sweat" for in Apex is to reach a point where my quick decisions are much more logical than emotional. Although I'm a very calm and patient person, I'm too tensed in the game, which leads to many mistakes like fisting instead of drawing the gun, cancelling healing or reloading by rushing, using abilities, healing, reloading at the wrong time, pushing too early or too late, overshooting, etc.. I did clean out half of my desk a few times by agitating the mouse during Apex fight and it's probably due to sweat that my fingers often slip from movement keys to ability / use keys.

    @GRiPSViGiL yep. Sweaty sounds worse than hardcore, but it's kind of the same thing. And, regardless of how it sounds, it's not a bad thing. The harder you work, the tastier the reward. Just like in sports.

  • Auri_Felix's avatar
    Auri_Felix
    6 years ago

    "Also, why is there so much fuss about teammates not being involved enough, about toxicity, so much whining about every change in this game?"

    Toxicity is good now?

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