I was going to suggest using a joystick for movement rather than a console controller, but I don't think you can map a joystick in Apex Legends. If you do have a joystick lying around you could try it.
I use a Razer Orbweaver Chroma which has a thumb pad on the side you can use for movement. It's tricky though. Personally, I don't use it for movement. I'm sure plenty of other people do. Perhaps something similar could be an option for you?
Thanks for the suggestion warslag. I'm actually fine with the joypad and much much better than any keyboard or keypad in the movement department. My complaint is that I'm still a newbie regardless and find this game unplayable at my level. There should be a way to keep newbie players instead of losing them. Maybe even adding a better training ground with bots etc.
@Levityen wrote:Thanks for the suggestion warslag. I'm actually fine with the joypad and much much better than any keyboard or keypad in the movement department. My complaint is that I'm still a newbie regardless and find this game unplayable at my level. There should be a way to keep newbie players instead of losing them. Maybe even adding a better training ground with bots etc.
Better training section with bots is a must imo. There's to much to wrap your head around in a public match.
I was lucky I started early in the games life cycle. For new players now, with the amount of players who know what they are doing must be rough.
I'm on console though, so the cheaters don't apply to me.
Don't give up. There is tons of fun to be had win/lose, kill or die.
FPS games tend to attract egotistical elitists who look down on new players. It comes with the territory. Ignore them. I guarantee they were a bad player learning the mechanics at some point. Don't let them bother you 🙂
@Silz616 wrote:FPS games tend to attract egotistical elitists who look down on new players. It comes with the territory. Ignore them. I guarantee they were a bad player learning the mechanics at some point. Don't let them bother you 🙂
Even good players still have bad games and bad luck in Apex. I quickly lost interest in watching Apex streams because so much of what you see is them disconnecting games instantly when things don't work out. Disconnecting games when they run through 3 buildings and don't find a gun yet. Maybe they know they're screwed that quickly and don't even want to try, but I see this a lot. You could say it's the nature of BR games, but it's seriously not fun to watch a streamer disconnect 4 games in a row because of bad luck at Skull Town.
Really, just play and try to have fun. If you stop having fun then take a break and go back to whatever game you were playing last. This game is going for casual mass appeal, I highly doubt we'll ever get a ranked matchmaking system or an esports scene.
Lately all new games start without skill based matchmaking. It seems to be the trend. PubG still hasn't got one after almost 2 years.
Hopefully we'll get a ranked mode here faster. Matching players by skill does require a much much larger playerbase. I'm sure they didn't expect to get 25 million players on first week.
But unless u have a crazy mouse you will be lacking for buttons if you dont at least use a gaming keypad.
I use the movement stick on the razer tartarus to crouch, jump, toggle shield and something else.
(can map 8 to it but its extremely hard to hit those angles)
its got a special button near the stick and thats my ping.
also do reload, map, inventory, sprint, slide, alternate interact, with keypad.
Mouse handles aim, shoot, dpi, ultimate, tactical ability, melee, swap weapons.
if u have an mmo mouse u could prob get away with using a controller for movement.
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