anyone else actually enjoying the game?

As a Silver Player I die very early during a match. 

The most frustrating is the time NOT actually playing the game.

30 secs Mainmenu waiting to start.

15-45 secs Serverscreen waiting for 59 others to join

30 secs Legend selection

90 seconds ingame till i die

20 secs back to mainmenu

15 secs points summary 

90 secs playing

110-140 secs waiting to get murdered again.

But this game has some moments. 

I'm really not enjoying season 10 & aside from the ramshackle of season 9 season 10 for me probably ranks as one of the worst seasons.But going forward Apex really needs a brand new map (a new Tropical one is rumoured) in season 11 as merely just changing a few fringe areas on old maps whilst not dramatically altering hot-spots will just make for another boring season.But in truth though without genuine server fixes & improvements to match-making as well as cheating then season 10 is the end of the road for me. Weapon,body-shield & loot layout across the maps really needs improving to at least make the game seem a bit fairer at least where many times I can pretty much go most of a match without finding a single weapon scope (plenty of sniper ones though) & I absolutely hate playing most of a match with iron sights only.Match fill is still a big problem for me where 2 out of 5 matches I'm a teammate short but I'm also experiencing plenty of matches where a non-cooperative teammate (quite often a Jumpmaster) who fails to jump from the plane & just crashes out at the end of the map & dies.

Little things I'd like to see in the game is scrapping of Purple/Gold body-shields for pick up at the start of the game & just allow the progressive body-shield system where the more damage you inflict on the enemy the better you're body-shield gets.Fit all weapons with level 1-2 scopes instead of having to rely on ironsights.Limit the amount of grenades a player can carry at one time as I've encountered matches where I am trapped in a room with only one entrance/escape where an an enemy team has lobbed about a dozen grenades at me in succession.

@Swarth2300Apex as a system outside of matchmaking has drastically improved. Many of the pain points in the bad map design are smoothed over too. However, the matchmaking algorithm and prejudiced loot system prevents any and all enjoyment in this game. Games where I get a full kit I go far, only to be killed by preds or cheaters. When I have competent teammates and not stupid bot behaving noobs (or just bots, but I'll never be able to prove it) I either match their kills and damage or far outshine them. Even a player who can only crack a shield on my team allows me to clean out enemy teams, but most of the time I have teammates who engage when they shouldn't, don't respond to pings, and can't aim or refuse to. I'm convinced this is on purpose.

Games where I land with 298341297482975429785928549275927845 P2020s 4 games in a row aren't fun. I'm convinced that the entire mission of Apex Legends is to feed average players to the highly skilled for youtube and twitch hype and literally nothing more. The entire business model revolves around exploiting players for whales.

Overwatch admitted that they would match one player with 5 underskilled players to even out the skill level in order to match with an enemy team of much higher skill than the 5. This is partly why the game died so fast. Call of Duty World War 2 also has a system where people who bought DLC are given easier lobbies. Now that everything is a 'games as a service' model, there's no telling what level of player exploitation is going on or how unfair the matchmaking really is, and because the game doesn't really display skill level numbers, there won't be a way to know unless its leaked.

I'm not giving EA any money, that's for sure. I hope Respawn rots. Too many stupid people buying their products though.

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@PraetorOfOlea wrote:

@Swarth2300Apex as a system outside of matchmaking has drastically improved. Many of the pain points in the bad map design are smoothed over too. However, the matchmaking algorithm and prejudiced loot system prevents any and all enjoyment in this game. Games where I get a full kit I go far, only to be killed by preds or cheaters. When I have competent teammates and not stupid bot behaving noobs (or just bots, but I'll never be able to prove it) I either match their kills and damage or far outshine them. Even a player who can only crack a shield on my team allows me to clean out enemy teams, but most of the time I have teammates who engage when they shouldn't, don't respond to pings, and can't aim or refuse to. I'm convinced this is on purpose.

Games where I land with 298341297482975429785928549275927845 P2020s 4 games in a row aren't fun. I'm convinced that the entire mission of Apex Legends is to feed average players to the highly skilled for youtube and twitch hype and literally nothing more. The entire business model revolves around exploiting players for whales.

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I completely agree & I've been saying it for a while now that in many matches now some of us mere mortal players are merely there as cannon fodder & nothing more for the players with 10k plus kills under their belt.Merely struggling to find a weapon particularly in hotspots & if I do find a weapon it tends to be either a P2020 or Mozambique, that combined with bad matchmaking & a poor weapon & loot layout system across the maps in general doesn't make for an enjoyable or a remotely fun game to play.It's no wonder players are quitting the game in droves when Respawn are completely tinned eared regarding issues in the game.I have no issue taking on a Pred teams or even players a lot better than me but when they can somehow pick up a purple/gold body-shield & loaded up with decent weapons pretty much straight away when landing in a hotspot whilst I'm there with my white body-shield scrambling around for a weapon when it's pretty much a certainty they'll track you down within seconds & put you out of your unarmed misery.It's like being challenged to take part in a professional boxing match on the condition you have both arms tied behind your back.Hit box detection is terrible at the moment too.

Stop landing with half the lobby if you want good gear before fighting? There are enough POI's (with loot in them) for every team. If you contest or get contested on landing you're in the hands of the rng Gods. The game becomes more and more random the more teams landing on each other.

thank you for all the replies its honestly interesting to hear i only have 3 issues with the game(to expand on my first post)

1 the servers are still dodgy, but not always sometimes they are great its just not very consistent

2 lack of progress, since i am a level 500 character apex packs are rare unless i want to buy them, would have preferred something like overwatch where you buy the game and get lootboxes/apex packs every level, even every 5 level's gave me something to look forward to and gave me something to earn now i dont have that, still obviously play and love the game but it feels better to get stuff while playing

3 my heirloom, got a bloodhound heirloom before heirloom shards were a thing, i really love the look of rampart's heirloom and really want fuse's heirloom when it comes out, i cant get either because i already got an heirloom and i had zero choice and its for a character i do not play, i mean yes i could spend money to get heirlooms but its a lot of money for an heirloom

my issues with the game are things that could be fixed, i am still hoping they give every account 1 free(even if it was $20 to be able to get heirloom shards in replacement for actually being able to choose my heirloom is a deal i would take)

still having fun but that unwanted heirloom is still sitting there mocking me :P would feel much better to have an heirloom i actually want

here's hoping i can get a fuse get's a replica of his golden grenade and i can actually have it instead of that bloodhound heirloom i dont want