Cheating is the Downfall of Apex Legends
Cheating in a video game is truly pathetic, EA and Respawn are equally complicit and pathetic in allowing this to persist in Apex Legends.
I played this game on PC about 5 years ago, and the learning curve is high, in part due to the truly realistic weapons ballistics and impressively accurate physics of gameplay. This makes the game enjoyably challenging, however I quit because as I got better, somehow lobby peers managed to jump the learning curve. Naturally I assumed I was just bad at the game.
So I started altering aim and look settings in the game’s controller settings. To try to achieve the same aim capabilities of those whom were massacring me in PVP. I tried just about every setting that the game has to offer, and eventually arrived at the conclusion that the vast majority of my kill cam footage was not simply limited to in game settings parameters. Rather the same physical attributes that make the game fun and challenging were simply bypassed through various cheating methods. Impossible aim, glitching, zero recoil, it was sad. Before I quit the first time, I had estimated a cheater presence of around 20 to 30 percent of all players utilising methods outside of game design.
Fast forward 5 years or so, I now have an Xbox, and just use my PC for work, I endeavoured to try Apex again as I enjoyed it prior to constantly watching kill cams all game long. I repeated the same experience, assuming that I was the problem and perhaps people were naturally this much better at the game. I couldn’t have been more incorrect, this game has rewarded cheaters and fair players like myself have absolutely no place in Apex Legends.
As of early 2026, I estimate that the game lobbies, ranked and unranked, are comprised of around 60 to 70 percent cheaters.
I will never play an EA or Respawn game again, and I urge all honest game players to do the same.
They may be launching lawsuits against cheat developers, but what good does that do for the honest player?
It does absolutely nothing for us.
