Feels like this game is finally dying
The matchmaking, cheating, smurfing, & server issues have finally started to nail the coffin shut on Apex. Player counts on Steam haven't been this low since the 3rd month after release in January o...
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@HappyHourSumwurRanked must have a population problem right now. I'm seeing players ranging from Silver to Diamond in the same lobby. That is not healthy for player retention in a ranked environment.
I smurf a bit, it's a free to play game, and it's the only thing that keeps me playing. I don't think solo queuing smurfs are the issue, it's the sweaty 3-stacks that usually end up in Diamond or higher is the real issue when we're talking about smurfing to be clear. My point is that I see what it's like to climb through different parts of the season. Plus, after a certain hour, it takes forever to find a game, and when I do, it's infested with cheaters with horrible networking. I see an enemy, that means my shield is already broken before I can react. If they added a solo queue ranked, I think that could possibly solve that issue.
I've been noticing that my teammates are getting quite tilted as well. They're complaining about their prior match, and then not performing in the current match because they're making weird adjustments.
Steam charts have been weird lately as well. The player counts seem to fluctuate more than usual. Even with higher player counts, in game, it feels like the MM is still all over the place. There SHOULD be enough players to fill a lobby with all Silver, Gold, or Plat. So maybe it's dying in my region, I'm in the midwest of the US.
@WhoopFighterAll of those things fell like the beginning of the end to me. I personally think that all game modes are suffering from lower player counts. That's always fluctuated with time of day as well as time in Season, but now when it's low it is too low for MM and you get even more wild lobbied thrown together when thr MM timer hits zero.
None of thisnia good and all tie back to Respawn's neglect. They are unwilling &/or unable to fix the core issues of matchmaking, cheaters, smurfs, server performance, and audio, instead cranking out increasingly irritating collection events.PS - Fun little tidbit . . . just went 5 games in a row with my teammates getting immediately deleted. Honestly, within seconds of landing they were dead. 4 out of 5 of those games I barely had a chance to get a single gun and barely got off shots. Not like we were late to the party either, we dropped at just about the same time as the other team(s) at our POI. Multiple teammates with 0/0/0, 0 damage games and I just had a Valk with 0/0/0 and 1 damage. This is why Apex is dying . . . that is absolutely infuriating.
- @HappyHourSumwur While I agree the MM is awful in this game, using a hot or contested drop series of 5 games doesn't really show anything. You can just get simply unlucky with no guns or bad guns while enemies get good ones. Now if you said we landed, looted a couple minutes and then pushed a team and got annihilated each time, that points more to a skill discrepancy.
@hayhorWe didn't really hot drop but the POI's weren't completely uncontested either. My teammates just literally died instantly almost every time. Not a single 1v1 was won by any of them. I got a few knocks but I'm definitely not good enough to win 1v3's in this game, especially with the types of enemies the matchmaking regularly puts me up against. It's just ridiculous and worse than it has ever been . . . and that is saying something when Apex has the worst matchmaking of any game on the market.
