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pandareno1999

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3 years ago

Anyone else just find solo q vibe not worth?

None of my buds could play today but I wanted to make some battle pass progress. I played two games, got six knocks and four kills. Not a bad result from from how I measure it, but I logged off any...

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IdleHandsNo1

3 years ago

@pandareno1999 I play mostly solo q because my friends are super frustrated with game, getting smashed because of bad SBMM and Smurfs. I find it to be the best way for me to play because the SBMM is insanely heavy handed when I play stacked but generally better on my own. The downside is random team mates though, every flavour from terrible to terrific. I do ge5 a bit of a buzz when I get good team mates though, not just talking skill lvl, but general friendly teamwork.

KelRiever

3 years ago

Solo q is what I do all the time in ranked, and mostly what I do in pubs. Now, lately, I've left the mic on and not auto muted...but I can safely say that is hat not led to more success. Mics are overrated.

The problem, for me, is this game is advertised as a team game, but the rules and the way the game plays encourage solo operations if you want to, say, advance in ranked. I have to actually play games solo in ranked and ignore my team completely to regain points I lose when I actually play with my team. Mind you this is basically because I'm just slumming in silver. But I don't really recall it getting any better in gold and certainly not in platinum. Diamond was the first rank that people tried to work as a team more in pubs, but it had its own fair level of salt and it also didn't help anyone get past Diamond IV. It just made some games more fun to play.

If you are feeling stressed from solo q, I would say I'm not surprised compared to when you have pre-made one or two. Anonymity on the internet and a lack of any real enforcement means you're going to run into bad people and bad players, rather a lot in fact. But don't let that get you down. Mute and the ping system aren't as good but they're better than putting up with bad coms.

Redmattgame
3 years ago
Various friends I used to team with all quit Apex during S6 when cross-play was introduced & so I've been a solo queuer ever since & for me the game can feel like an absolute grind to play more than fun at times.Squash matches have become more prominent over the past few seasons merely struggling to find loot or an adequate weapon when numerous squads are around the corner.But Pre-made squads & solo-queuing is most of the time just unbalances the matchmaking where half the time random teammates are more than happy to take items & loot you have clearly pinged for yourself or clear out the loot chest you've just opened.In an ideal Apex game I'd like a separate solo-queing mode were every team is filled with randoms but that will require additional servers (existing ones are already a problem).
But since SP & Worlds Edge have come back on map rotation (both maps I hate) I've been playing Arenas more & despite scumbag teammates who'll randomly quit during a tie-break scenario & match fill problems (one of the most shambolic aspects of Arenas mode playing 2 vs 3 at the start of a match).And Arenas is just a quicker mode to play to complete Battle Pass challenges.
- pandareno1999
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  3 years ago
  Thanks you guys for all of your thoughtful replies so far. I'm going to try to think a bit more and see if I can explain how it feels to me. In seasons past I hated to solo queue because I was objectively terrible at the game. Now I'm only just moderately bad at the game - I'm no longer a dead weight to my team mates. But I still don't like it. I actually get better stats solo q, due to both the game's pre-made matchmaking, and that my main buddy I most commonly queue with has a major skill gap to me so I am playing in what people like to call "pred lobbies." From S10-13 I played only a handful of games in each season solo queue. I've committed to doing it a bit more regularly starting towards the end of last season and this season. But it just doesn't feel fun the majority of the time. I came out a win with two randoms the other day thinking "meh."
  
  I'm not even sure quite why I started this thread, I guess i just wanted to hear what others might have to say about my take on it.