Game is broken: Being killed instantly these days

@W3stminst3rLast night was the worst night I've had so far playing apex. The cheating was so bad I was getting one shotted in every mode I tried. I would get about 15 damage on the person and they would hit me once (rapid fire cheat that dumps whole round at once) and I'd die.

This game is just making me angry now and is getting very frustrating. It's not just my skills either since I used to play a lot better than this and my stats were much better before the problems started.

Also, it's not bad matchmaking since I don't care how good you are the stuff these players do is not possible in the game, like instant one shots, swimming through the air, invincibility where shots go right through them, etc. Also, you can't tell me it's just me because everyone I've talked to are complaining of the same things.

I miss how good this game was, but one more night like last night I'm uninstalling. If they let these people take their game over, they are going to lose their game since there's no way a publicly traded company like EA sports will continue to finance something that is losing players each month because only a private club of cheaters can play. I'll be happy when that new patch comes out that's supposed to block cheaters.

I can just repeat myself:

In Apex, some might call me "a veteran" since I joined the game in S1. I don´t really care about titles to be honest but I want to adress one thing:

I´ve had bad days...I´ve had good and I´ve also had very good days in Apex Legends. I fed my Youtube-channel with videos on a weekly base and I´ve always felt more like hunter than the prey.

But: With the start of S20, something in Apex has changed.
Lots of smurfs...lots of server-crashes...I´m playing like a madman but my K/D is dropping like it never has before.

I went from 1.18 KD to a 2.85 KD over the years. Then, suddenly, it started to drop. No idea why.

S22 is the worst saison so far. I´m around ~1 K/D but nothing has changed:
I know the maps, I know the movement, I can aim...but they keep killing me instantly or out of impossible angles.

They´re not even moving properly, no wall-jumps, no slides etc. Just running and shooting - and they hit!!

I think they implemented bots without us noticing.

I'm already giving up. I was counting on some good reset in the new split. The new split has barely started and neither duos nor trios are unplayable. Players with 20 bombs and 4000 damage badges kill me all the time. I've had enough of this. Regards.

My shots largely miss the opponent's body at all, and the opponent always hits me. Very interesting.

@W3stminst3rI'm encountering the same issue almost every single match. I take so much damage so quickly. Even when I shoot at an enemy first, as I'm damaging them, they'll flip around and get me down to 25 health after I broke their shields before they even start returning fire.

I have gotten in the habit of after shooting a clip, or even less, moving and assuming that I took damage. Even if I don't see them turn around, or return fire.

There's a few possibilities going on. Maybe people are cheating, massively manipulating the network, which I've seen people tank the third circle for several seconds with like 10 hp. Their damage received is being paused until they deal damage. Bad networking by design, Respawn said they tried to balance it between people with good networks and awful ones, you know for sales.

All I know is that it feels WAY OFF. I move constantly, reposition, and I have decent movement. Yet people just beam me all the time like I'm standing still. I've seen characters get stuck in one spot like how lag switches used to look.

I don't understand how I can win one round with 4k damage, and like 15 kills, but then some rounds everyone just seems to know where I am with pixel precision.

---

@AymCTL wrote:

@W3stminst3rLast night was the worst night I've had so far playing apex. The cheating was so bad I was getting one shotted in every mode I tried. I would get about 15 damage on the person and they would hit me once (rapid fire cheat that dumps whole round at once) and I'd die.

This game is just making me angry now and is getting very frustrating. It's not just my skills either since I used to play a lot better than this and my stats were much better before the problems started.

Also, it's not bad matchmaking since I don't care how good you are the stuff these players do is not possible in the game, like instant one shots, swimming through the air, invincibility where shots go right through them, etc. Also, you can't tell me it's just me because everyone I've talked to are complaining of the same things.

I miss how good this game was, but one more night like last night I'm uninstalling. If they let these people take their game over, they are going to lose their game since there's no way a publicly traded company like EA sports will continue to finance something that is losing players each month because only a private club of cheaters can play. I'll be happy when that new patch comes out that's supposed to block cheaters.

---

This game isn't a serious competitive game, don't take it too seriously. Respawn and EA certainly don't. 20 tick servers are a complete joke for "competitive" play. Then on top of that, they designed the game to balance out high ping players with low, to try and make it "fair".

It's a fun game, but it has a massive cheater problem. Even with the state they banned all these cheaters, it's F2P, and those cheaters are back within minutes. The anti-cheat needs to be automated to some extent to be effective, otherwise you can't keep up.

These companies rather make as much money as possible rather then give us the best version of their game.

@W3stminst3r Not everything is cheating you know.  You seem pretty obsessed wiht the topic.  Although it could be said I am somewhat obsessed with matchmaking so there you go.

Towards the end of the season it's the same for me.  Insta death every single encounter.  Casuals stop playing so you just get matched over and over against people above your pay grade.  Match making is broken in that scenario; there simply isn't enough casuals to match us up against one another or we get distributed amongst players far above us (if that's the case... why?).  I think not playing end-season is probably the best solution.  It seems lots of others take time off once they finish the BP or whatever.  Every end of battle pass is the same; game is unplayable for us casuals.  You are just a KD pill.

75% of ranked players I can’t even raise my gun before I’m dead.