Another question because I see some disagreement over this in quite a few comment sections on the internet.To me, I think the game is geared towards aggressive play, and placement is a reward for surviving while actively engaging in gun fights and eliminating teams. Most abilities compliments this. The movement speed compliments this. All of the game's trailers show it as well. We have badges that reward high kills and high damage. Survival can be manipulated, at least in pubs, hence why I consider it a meaningless statistic on it's own.What are your opinions on the "correct" way to play Apex?

@Unitee01 For fun, apex should be played for fun. The play style can be anything, but it should be a care free environment where there isn't a certain play style perceived as “correct” and ideally everyone is having a good time. Start the match by saying hi in mics or in the chat. Just simply saying hi makes for a much more friendly environment, and makes playing the game more fun for everyone. Just to recap, the game is for fun, not to try to say that there is one specific correct play style.

@BigMacAttack8u is exactly right

Yes you can play how you want to but if you want to win it is generally around active plays either by quick rotations to have better placements or killing squads. The more you want to win, the more restricted on how you want to play because it’s directed by the current meta like you have to have a Seer and a Valk in your team. But for the general audience/players, do what you want to do.On a personal level, my friends and I play aggressively. If we see you playing very cautiously by hiding or just sniping, you’re getting aped immediately. Apex feels the best when it’s fast paced. Can’t really hide in this game anymore because of the scan meta.

@reconzero Umm, I don't think we are really at odds here. It seems like you think what I mean by aggressive is to just run up to everything and start shooting? That's not what I mean at all. You can still be smart at what fights you take and how you fight, like using cover for instance. And there are times when engagement is not the best play, like when you have bad positioning.I've had teammates who want to hide on top of some roof somewhere instead of participating. Half the match is basically just sitting there and then when the fights come our way they pretty much die instantly. I believe that is because they avoid fights instead of talking them thereby never actually getting better at the game. I would rather have 5 kills and die than wait 15 min, kill nothing or maybe 1-2 players and win, it just does not feel satisfying.Anyhow,"Unless their less aggressive buddies have higher win rates."Well, like I said to someone else earlier, passive play can and will only get you so far. Maybe someone can have a decent win rate, for now, but eventually they will be surpassed by people who has more experience in fights. Every player in comp knows this. Even hot drops aren't a bad thing if your goal is to get better at fighting."Sell to your audience (see "young and dumb" above)."Sell what exactly? It's just a showcase of what's possible. Some things literally exist to compliment fighting. Again, we would not have these awesome movement speeds and abilities if the intended way to play was to go camping. 🙂Just to sum up - aggressive does not have to mean dumb or reckless. But in order to progress a person HAS to start taking more fights eventually.

@reconzero So you're basically saying you are worried that if you play differently or improve the mm will ruin the game for you because you'll get harder lobbies? Theoretically that should already be the case if you've been playing this long. Either way, both scenarios sound kinda equally bad for me tbh :/ What's the point of playing if you're only interested in getting easy wins the easy way in the easy lobbies? The pride or enjoyment you speak of is gained by beating the odds which aren't in your favor, that's the point, at least for me anyway. I played very passively back in season 3 but it eventually just made the game feel dead to me and it always bothered me to know I couldn't really take fights head on. And if you think about it all the game really is is a series of 1v1's, in a way. But hey, I'm not here to judge you or tell you what to do or how to play, it's not really the point of the discussion. It's just my perspective. You do you 🙂

How do you think Apex should be played?

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Unitee01
3 years ago
@reconzero You see that's just it, bad players can have high or decent win rates. I can refer to myself here back in season 3. I was terrible, I didn't get many kills per match or do too much damage but I was winning, at a rate higher than players who were better than me. With my main I was in the top 5% with wins. This can also be due to getting matched with better teammates who help carry the team to the win often? I don't know. I've seen some of my friends, who struggle in my lobbies also have decent success with getting wins. I only really noticed the lobbies becoming consistently more difficult once I got better at killing people, which took a lot of deliberate practice, and win rates dropped off a cliff when that happened. YMMV

Well, to me aim and shooting isn't everything, but I think it's the most important, it is a shooter after all. All I meant by that is that we really can't compare stats across the board to one another without considering where someone falls on the skill ladder and who they are facing. Once you move up you will struggle to maintain what you had but it doesn't mean that you are bad or that you've failed. And yes, I do believe the system is flawed, because it seems that it struggles to find a middle ground. Matches end up being way too easy or way too hard, for me at least.
Lord_Scorpion34
Legend
3 years ago
@XxColdFangxX Like others have said there's not really a right or wrong way per se but I believe it is important to find people with similar play styles when playing solo or it can be a very frustrating experience. Some play to win, some ply for kills. Some are more aggressive while others more reserved. You have to find people w/ similar styles or learn how to compromise or else your gaming experience is soured.
reconzero
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@Unitee01

"I do believe the system is flawed, because it seems that it struggles to find a middle ground. Matches end up being way too easy or way too hard, for me at least."

Agreed. Hot or cold. Always. Never just warm.

"Once you move up you will struggle to maintain what you had but it doesn't mean that you are bad or that you've failed."

Also agreed. But for me the game becomes subjectively less fun the grindier it gets, even if I am getting objectively better. I know what you're thinking. "Improvement is overrated" is a lazy man's argument. Guilty as charged.
XxColdFangxX
3 years ago
@Lord_Scorpion34
I'm not exactly sure which one of my comments your posting from, but I've already stated that before that there isn't a right or wrong way to play.
As for finding people of similar play style..play style is far different from experience.
The gaming experience is soured wether I find someone with similar style or not because the lobbies are filled with people I can not compete with. That's not something play style can fix.
Maybe if I spent more time than I do now on the game, I'd learn more, gain more experience, but until apex get some of its major issues under better control, I'm not interested in that aggravation.
And I don't know about you, but I don't consider smurfing to be a play style.
Lord_Scorpion34
Legend
3 years ago
@XxColdFangxXI'm late to the party so I didn't wade through the whole thread yet 😂! I was just giving my take on the original post. I rarely look at who kills me so I don't know how many smurfs or higher skilled players are in my lobbies.
XxColdFangxX
3 years ago
@Lord_Scorpion34 All good.
I've started paying more attention to the people I see in the matches, mainly in arenas. I don't spend a lot of time in br. I decided to play a couple of arena games after a nice break and pretty much 3 out of the 5 matches I did have a lvl 5 or so smurf that did just as much damage as the guy with a 4k badge on his team.(Was in pubs)

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