Apex Legends will never get past this point
Here’s the thing I hate about Apex Legends, this amateur game with teenage developers who only responds to constructive criticism with memes: I like playing games where it’s obvious you’re the better player. You know you’re the better player because of stats, rank etc. When you’re playing you can feel it and it gives you that confidence.
In Apex Legends, however, how do I know if I’m the better player? Who knows if I’m better than my opponent or if my opponent is better than me?
There is no skill in this game. Game awareness? Yes. Aim? Yes, and that’s pretty much it, and no one has out-aimed me yet in this game if we’re having an equal fight. PERIOD!
If I’m max level, have thousands of kills and a 3.5 KD, and I die to someone who’s level 8 with 23 kills, does that make him the better player? He killed me after all.
Or if I get 10th place with 10 kills and someone else gets 2nd place with 0 kills, who’s the better player?
How do you prove who’s the better player? Hide harder? Dig a hole? Stay in one place for the rest of the game and ADS a doorway and take the shot when someone walks in unknowingly? Is that what separates us? We know stats don’t matter. Badges can give you a slight idea of how good a player is. Very slight. You may be able to tell what you can expect to achieve with that teammate.
But wouldn’t you think that someone with 10 000 kills would kill someone who’s level 5 every time? But that’s simply not the case. There are too many random elements that plays a role in winning a fight. It’s not just aim or movement or whatever.
I could take out someone who’s a Predator, who’s on paper is considered better than me (which they’re not, trust me) and later die to someone who just started playing the game.
I keep dying to the worst players. Every time. I never die to someone who’s actually better than me.
Think about it: I have over 10k kills, well above average KD, and let’s say I die to a level 10 bloodhound with default skin and default banner pose. He’s got 23 total kills on his account. But he kills me. Somehow. Then I decide to spectate him. Him and his teammate runs around for 10 minutes doing nothing, and in the next fight he gets into, he just flops over. Dead. Didn’t hit a single shot, couldn’t tell left from right if it would have saved his life.
Then the game automatically makes you spectate the team that just killed him. And what do you see? A team that’s even worse than him!
And then you ask yourself: How come he could kill me, who’s way better than him (or am I?), but he couldn’t kill them? How come he hit every shot when shooting at me, but he didn’t hit a single shot on someone who was practically standing still?
This game makes me want to gouge me eyes out. 90% of the time I play this game I can’t believe what is happening. If I’m dying to someone who’s actually better than me, that’s fine. But so far I’m dying to people who are absolutely clueless!
But you keep playing, because there’s no other shooter game like Apex. That’s just the truth. But there’s no good counter when you face a bad player. When you face a “good” player, you know their every move. You know how they’re gonna strafe, you know where they’re gonna hide, you know when they’re gonna push or retreat, what angle they’re coming from. You know it all. Against bad players, you sit there wondering what just hit you.
