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PeterN_UK
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago

Ask yourself if you enjoy the game

Stopped playing Apex Legends months ago.

But understand the nature it brings out in people. Why do team mates get upset and abusive over losing a BR game. When you're up against a whole lobby chances are you'll lose most games. Can't win most of them and you've probably had nasty comments from fellow team mates. Not sharing loot, playing solo away from other team mates, getting upset expecting you to be their personal revive hive. Chat/VoIP unpleasant remarks all round. Feels good to win I know, feels good to beat other real players. Down, quit x20 times over a period of an evening but at the end you feel the hours gone by and not satisfied. If you took away all the down, quit games you've probably only really played 3-4 real games in an evening.

Apex puts you in a constant state of anxiety and pressure "sweat" for extended period and mentally that's not healthy. You're angry and aggressive to the point even I found myself being toxic and even sabotage toxic team mates. That's not the way to play the game. I became a real bad person.

People bash PvE Coop because you're not playing against real players. But these kind of games builds health endorphins because you have a casual shared goal and death is more forgiving. You get that feel good endorphins because you're reviving, healing, supporting and generally helping people who are not toxic due to it's casual nature. Apex is competitive in any mode and any rank. It is the nature of BR games because death is unforgiving to the degree you'd rather just join another lobby in 10 secs instead of waiting 5 mins for a respawn, I get that as no one wants to wait around while others continue to have fun.

You know it's bad when people are smurfing because for the first few ranks, i.e. Your MMR is purposely kept low for easier lobbies. Then the EOMM basically means people are selecting no fill to suicide 5 times to lower their MMR. There is no SBMM. The monetisation is at highest level than ever. It is predatory. Yes, OK I get comments you want to support the game and developers by buying cosmetics because you like the skins as well. But at least you would expect some sort of return in content, fair match making, more casual modes PvE. But reality is that you're getting new maps with reused graphical assets.

It wasn't all bad playing with Apex Legends forum club members was actually really fun. 

Take a step back and try some other games. It does feel good when you play with pleasant randoms towards a shared goal and casual experience. Maybe I am getting old and have less time. I used to play Quake 1 PvP over a 56K US Robotics dial up modem with pings of 300ms. But young or old choose your time wisely of what you really enjoy and how it makes you feel afterwards.

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  • Vdstrk's avatar
    Vdstrk
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago
    @hayhor I think it simply shows a lot of a person the way they express themselves, in both words and actions. Don't you agree?
  • reconzero's avatar
    reconzero
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago
    @MrGreenWithAGun

    "I just don't get why someone will join a team in trios just to run off ahead... so far ahead that it isn't worth trying to keep up..."

    Well, first: it's not a team game by MY choice. It's a team game says Respawn. I would prefer a solo mode. Until it comes I play trios and I don't no-fill because then I would be denying my squadmates the learning experience. Mostly learning how to survive in trios on a two man squad, but if I can do it solo then they can do it in pairs. Or not mostly, as it turns out.

    The reason I abandon them on the drop is because they are mostly looking for a quick gun fight. The reason I don't seek them out after the drop, assuming they survive, is because I'm playing position. The reason it's so hard to keep up with me, on one of the rare times they even try, is because my rotations are long, convoluted, and timed to the last possible second to get me 3/5ths of the way around the outside edge of the map while providing the best and safest possible looting routes. It's a ballet. Most people just want to drop hot, and if they win the first fight then they move on the shortest possible line to the circle no matter what hot spot that dumps them in. I just don't have the stomach for that kind of play.

    One thing I seldom do though is run into an ambush. Almost never. And Valk has a built in got-out-of-jail-free card. And I am NOT too proud to use it.

    I know I'm not really the player you were talking about, but I sure do look a lot like him so I thought an explanation might be in order.
  • reconzero's avatar
    reconzero
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago

    @Kyldenar
    @Vdstrk

    This is why I'm not generally a big fan of cancel culture. I don't want idiots to be silenced. I want them to speak their mind freely so that everyone who's looking can plainly see them for exactly what they are. Even when, every once in a while, I make the shortlist myself.