Apex ranked rework SUCKS
The new rework is insanely bad. I was gold last season and climbing, now I cant even gain 1 RP in bronze 4. The game now expects an unreasonable amount of teamwork from rando players, punishes going...
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The objective of this game is die later then the others... not only kill the others... if you and your team managed to go negative in Bronze IV with 6 kills.. you probably died in a 14+ position... it's natural you get negative.
I reached Master last season, and also with the old system the only way to get points at high levels were to get a good placement... kills weren't enough.
I think the new system is better because it show the real skill of a player... if you want to go back to Gold, you should learn how to rotate effectively. In the old system, anyone who played enough could reach Platinum IV... and with a little skill also Diamond was possible. Now those ranks are more worthy to reach.
Your post is solid and I like it. However you are both right and wrong here.
Yes players will have to use more skills to rank up, Gun skills and game sense skills, as it should be. However due to the rework on the RP thresholds and costs the time needed to reach those higher ranks has increased significantly and not everyone has the time to make that grind and Time does not equal skill. This will basically mean that those players that have the skill to make plat or diamond may just be stuck in gold because they do not have 4 hrs a day that they can spend playing games to make the grind.
So what you are left with are hard core addicts, streamers/content contributors (they make money doing this) and Pro's that will make the upper ranks. I myself can make plat but now do to the increased costs (increased time needed) I do not think I will make it past gold, how fair is that?
Got the skills but just do not have the time. You know I have a life outside of Apex and gaming, wife, kids, Job etc.
- @Asmodeus566 Yes entry cost is higher, but you get a ridiculous amount of 'participation' points if your team somewhat knows what they're doing.
Fair enough on what you say about participation points. I still stand by my previous statement: there is not enough time for most people and time does not = skill.
@Asmodeus566I agree, time might be an issue this rank season, but hopefully that's substituted by better players and a faster progression within ranks once everything is settled. To be fair, I went from bottom Silver 3, to midway Gold 4 in only a few days. It's definitely giving me a different perspective on Master players, had a few as teammates, and tbh, they were pretty damn bad! lol
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