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7 years ago

From Joy to sorrow. My Apex Legends experience.

I've played a fair share of Fps campaign's since ps2 era but never online shooters. The idea behind Battle royal's have greatly excited me and I've never had the courage to try them out because I know I would not be anywhere near the level of competing against other players.
Therefore, I skipped pubg, fortnite and anything else until I decided to try Apex Legends on my daughter's ps4. The gameplay blew me away and I was literally hooked.
I was generally outplayed by a huge margin but landed in nearly 13 kills in about 60-70 gaming sessions which is terrible.
But since I was hooked, I downloaded it on my pc. Installed my xbox360 controller and started playing with great excitement. Only to understand that in this process I was playing against keyboard/mouse setups and very experienced players. My kill ratio swooped down to 13 kills in like 130 gaming sessions.
I did not lose hope and continued with a different setup using controller/mouse setup. As I cannot use the keyboard for good movement, I use the controller to move and the mouse for better precision aiming. It took some time to get used to but I was getting better and better. But in the end I was always overpowered by the veteran players.

The player interface has a chat to text feature in which I decided to toggle off but it didn't work and I have been seeing alot of players cursing the hell out of me for my inexperience compared to them.
I finally gave up with shame and sorrow and uninstalled the game.

In the end. I'm sure that this game has given other new players the same excitement and sorrow. I would of loved to play this game further but it doesn't seem like I will because of the system. I hope I'm understood and something can be done about giving new players a chance here. Possibly giving different playing levels depending on the strength of the players.
Peace.

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Silz616
7 years ago
@low_tier_squid wrote:
@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.
I say they should play the hand they're dealt. That's what I like about Apex.
I had some struggles with RnG last night. Armour and pistols everywhere in a few games, but that's how it is and I like it. It'd be boring dropping in knowing you'll get what you want when you land.
It makes those drops when you hit armour, Spitfire and barrel stabiliser right off the bat that more rewarding.
The only live streams I watch are Hutch, because he's OG and jst plays regardless of outcome and theaveragesniper, who again, when I watch him, he's just played out whatever scenario he's given.
I hope they don't introduce ranked or esport. It'll ruin the experience for us more casual players as I guess there would be tons of weapon rebalancing and Respawn would feel the need to bend to "pro" pressure.
I like the game pretty much as is. Really fun and a bit random. I love it.