Apex Ideas and why the game might be slowly dying again......
Hi I'm a die hard apex player I started playing since season 7 and I've loved apex since the beginning and even now still love to play it and havent left it even in its rough spots in time but now I feel to me as a die hard player or an OG casual that I'm not having fun anymore and I feel like the game is slowly dying again for me or could be in general.
I'm from the UK and I first want to talk about server changes when I'm from the south of England and my nearest server is EU central and this isn't just me I'm talking any of the northern countries in Europe I'm getting 50ms ping most the time and for people even further away I feel bad for people Sweden Finland and any of those countries who have to play apex on 50 to 70+ ping which is an un fair advantage since they are delayed to the server so there going to get more missed shots and no reg and its going to feel like the enemies hit every bullet 100% even behind walls or doors or even head peaking which lets be real thats unfair and makes you not want to play which is what I feel like now my closest server is EU central and an idea to fix this is making more servers for the EU just having 1 is unacceptable so I'm suggesting you make and EU north, west and east server to help balance the load to servers and make the game more fun for people who are not central to Europe.
Secondly I want to complain about the switching over to Dx12 its a Api that is still in its testing stage for Apex also it was not created on Dx12 Apex was on Dx9 and Dx11 and Dx12 probably wasnt made for the Source engine maybe Source engine 2 has more compatibility and fixes a lot of the bugs with it and I know you can't just update to Source 2 since you would have to re-write the entire game to run it but getting rid of Dx11 was just a stupid thing to do if you weren't going to update it then dont but just leave it in the game also me playing on a low level Api which is Dx12 makes me not able to optimise the game myself to the best that I want it to be so my performance is suffering because of it and because its automatically set the settings with Dx11 which is a high level Api it runs better for me as I optimise it myself with NVidia control panel giving me more fps I also want to note Dx12 half's my GPU utilisation which is bad and feels like it stutters more because of this so I would rather it be running 70 to 99% any day than around 50% which also tells me my hardware is not being fully utilised and thats also why my game has worse performance now I also want to put that the servers have more input lag from Dx12 than Dx11 when I tested it when the feature was still around I get Dx12 has more performance but because its a low Api its only helping people with older CPUs and GPUs since its automatically setting the settings to run better for them older pc's with older hardware but since ive got more modern and recently released hardware the performance is bad since it has no issue running the game so please I would love an option to change back to Dx11 and so would many others.
Thirdly there are issues with aiming on MNK the aim feels very off with the servers and just in generally the performance is smooth but then it feels like the bullets are not lining up properly this could be a distance from the server problem like ive said previously or Dx12 has got bugs for mouses in this game but it needs to be looked into thats a reason I dont want to play this game and a reason maybe people are using controller more and also dont want to play this game this is from Dx12.
lastly I also want to complain about the constant cheating, matchmaking issues and how trash the anti cheat is and how disconnected you are from banning cheaters lets say from the other side of the world Europe is massively under attack by cheaters and its probably not just Europe its probably Asia as well and in every game it feels like one quarter or higher of the lobby is cheating there are also issues with matchmaking putting me with people higher than my kdr and my skill like Preds or multi season Master players I also want to put there are a lot of weird players with master badges and pred badges that are stuck in Diamond lobbies in the middle of the season which is just weird when they play everyday but can't get out of diamond when they are multi season preds or master players I also want to suggest changing the matchmaking instead of pc lobbies and console lobbies the lobbies should be determined on the input you are using like in Cod and if people change mid game it should stop them this would help separate on what the real issue of cheaters are and would actually make the game more fun it would help me as an MNK player not be against aim demons and its would help controller players not be against movement demons but also the lobbies would be harder again for controller players making the game more fun and a challenging and would actually help MNK players get better and be against there own skill level in players with movement and aim and would maybe get more people to play on MNK which would maybe break the never ending cycle of people always going for controller as their main input for playing on this game.
I could be wrong but these are ideas that would maybe help the game and players out.
Please tell me your opinions on this and if you agree or disagree below.