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5 years ago
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AFK Player Boosting

Hello Apex Team

Should you read this I would like to make you aware that I have seen a sharp rise in arena AFK players joining from auto connect or third party application in order to gain XP at the expense of my and other customer's experience. I know you are aware of uneven rank matching in arena but I believe, should the matching be equal, the next biggest issue for balance will be players not in fact playing at all and being stuck in a game not able to leave due to penalty (penalty is good though). I assume this to be a (relatively) easy fix and have seen it implemented in other games I enjoy. It is my hope that I can play in the future without half of my games having one or more AFK boosters.

-Random-* dude

  • Hey @Moist_Dr_Shekel,

    While it's not the only method we use to address this kind of behavior, we have recently expanded the reporting options in-game as well.

    If you get a chance please be sure to report them as that'll help on an individual basis as well as letting us further refine other systems in place.

    This particular option would fall under the Gameplay Disruption > Inactive During Match section if you've not already been using it, thanks for the concern about this!

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  • EA_Mako's avatar
    EA_Mako
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    5 years ago

    Hey @Moist_Dr_Shekel,

    While it's not the only method we use to address this kind of behavior, we have recently expanded the reporting options in-game as well.

    If you get a chance please be sure to report them as that'll help on an individual basis as well as letting us further refine other systems in place.

    This particular option would fall under the Gameplay Disruption > Inactive During Match section if you've not already been using it, thanks for the concern about this!

  • I had several cases where playes went afk at landing or get into disconnection but the character stills playing a while after disconnection, but today i landed and 1 of my squadmates landed afk, no disconnected he or she was afk. At landing that bangalore player was afk standing while i was looking for guns and loot, the other player as a conduit was playing ok as well, looking for loot and guns and got into combat. When we managed to sruvive the combat with another squad the bangalore afk was killed and the loot box was still there, i though it will eventually be kicked but it didnt which is was kinda weird and unfair that the game doesnt have this mechanic with afk players. The counduit player went to revive the bangalore player but i told not to revive due to it was an afk player since start, this counduit player did not answered and revived bangalore and they proceed bot to stand still  while i was playing in another part and looking for loot, i was realizing they both were seriously about to stop playing when i got assaulted by a ballistic player but this one didnt came with another squad and went directly to me to hit me, like maybe he was knowing where i was but still i dont have proof of that just the feeling he knew my position all the time. when i got eventually killed by this player the counduit player already had left me alone with afk player bangalore and i stood on deadcam around 1 min and half when i decided to leave the game. After that game i had another one inmediatly after losing the match, the next match was the same, a player as unknow but i recall as a counduit, since i wasnt able to take the screenshot of the character, landed alongside of me but when i was looting i got into combat which i loosed, then i realized the other player as conduit not only left, it also turned into unknow, reason that i wasnt able to screenshot it, ive sent the reports at the moment as well but i wanted to provide more details here in this report. This has being happening since i started to play more often the game and i hadnt found any topic related to afk or cheating reports so i can leave the complains there so i left this screenshots i had taken, this happens often in all gamemodes and with all kinds of ranked players but more often with low ranked players

  • Asmodeus566's avatar
    Asmodeus566
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    2 years ago

    @Ner117 
    As this thread is a bit old at this point, we are going to lock this down so that we can prevent any necro-posting.

    If you run into any further issues please create a new thread so that we can begin tracking accordingly!

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