i dont even play ranked anymore. I wish this game just had a leaderboard and removed rank. It means nothing in a BR game.
Agree.
Ranked imo mattered when I started as only tool to separate players with skill gaps = when 1.5 tier difference was in place ensuring that e.g. me like Diamond+ never players gold players who are basically bots to me given the skill difference and effort they play vs how I play.
These days / after cancelling 1.5 tier protection, making major changes to matchmaking and even more so hacking issue - it does not mean anything besides:
Leader board that this point would make sense yet there is a big drawback for Respawn = leaderboard has limited opportunities to have any sort of badges :) and people here like badges. A LOT. Look at this BS with whever that glowing thing on legends backs are now these days...I saw it and my first thought legit was "if I can't turn it off, I will not play this game".
"Look at this BS with whever that glowing thing on legends backs are now these days...I saw it and my first thought legit was "if I can't turn it off, I will not play this game"."
LMAO. My thought exactly.
Yeah the AURA was insanely stupid addition I thought it was so hilarious when they remove ranked divetrails cuz you were able to turn it off just because people were hunting some high rank players like what in a game that has so many cheaters who cares bout someone's trail and if it bothers u just turn it off. Recent changes are so bad like the game itself doesn't even feel like apex no longer... I went solo master s17 (not campin) s18 s19. And I can tell this season example ranked is unplayable so many cheaters even in low rank lobbies. Some seasons ranked has been okay but some yeah I know exactly what u mean cheaters in higher ranks that's a fact. Pred rank like almost everyone is wallin especially on PC I have tons of clips how they instantly find u miles away no matter where u are, maybe they just have better gamingchairs LOL. matchmakin is also absolute horror useless fills match after match soloQ has never been as painful as it is now, when u forced to play against cheaters pretty much every single match. nro 1 console pred just got banned yesterday it tells a lot if u able to play for nro 1 pred that long before banhammer.
Meanwhile, on Reddit they continue to celebrate everything, and if you write anything bad about the game, you are immediately crushed by that community.
That is the worst part of Reddit.
At first I thought Reddit is this cool place you can find loads of answers to especially in IT field. Now I understand that it is basically = Riot ban system = as soon as you **bleep** off some kids you get mass reported and removed.
Reddit is very one sided most of the time, so if you lucky to look for that one side, cool, but if you need clashing opinions, alternative looks on situation = Reddit is just not it.
Makes me wonder how it managed to grow this big to be fair given above said. There are a lot of fanboys / fangirls :) that's for sure, keeping that beast alive.
For me game still feels great if I look at it as a game - legends, mechanics (especially after super-glide was "fixed" which I suggested as per this season like 10 seasons ago), goal of the game etc.
The problem with gaming experience increase because of the community. Look at this #1 Pred (video on Zeus YT) - dude flexes playing with hackers, thinks it is normal, threatens in X Zeus for banning him...AND many people actually stand up to defend the little upset boy there.
Apex community has grown into this weird thing where everyone wants to be #1 Pred by all means and basically what was D4 hardstuck insult now almost has morphed into "oh you can't reach Pred" insult.
Also out of boredom I decided to update my knowledge on how many noteworthy streamers are there right now in Apex -> looked up in google -> found a new name I did not see before (starting with E, not to name and shame ppl) -> checked his recent Twitch stream....guess what:
And that's a top 20 current Apex legends streamer...showing to me clearly that what was fanboy/girl army that supported Hal back in the days where he made community use phrases like "s@#%$ on kids" and did basically the same as every pro/streamer now is still there just diluted to other copies of the same crap.
If I would classify current streamers and their content I could come up with the list:
There is NO content that actually adds value, explains the game, mechanics, tactics, thought process. Why? Because you can't explain wallhacks and aimbots nor there is a demand for such content where you need to "think", use your brain.
It is just sad to see that community for some reason(s) thinks it is ok to cheat even if the ultimate goal is not money and fame and continue doing so just to make legit player lives miserable. But it is true on other games e.g. was playing Valorant last night, after like 3 am had 2 games in a row in <Silver (basically nothing worthy in Valorant) lobbies where two blunt aimbotters were farming and boosting "their friends". And I called them out, asked why they do it in Silver lobbies...all I heard were some fragile egos and defensive "kids" in grown up bodies. Yet they clearly thought it was fun.
