I just can't keep up with pubs anymore

@Renegade_Prime86

LOL @ "every game is so f**king sweaty that I have to dry my balls with a hairdryer after every game"

Apex defintely made me feel I have to mentally prepare myself beforehand. So much focus is needed that my adrenaline goes nuts before a push. Even intense sweat to loot a deathbox quickly before someone else comes along. That 15 min is huge mix of emotions!

People hot land for quick reward and easy to start another lobby anyway. What is worse is spending 10 mins looting to die in 5 secs, then the enemy has benefit of using you as loot tick.

Yea any PvP game can feel like that. COD Cold War is same formula this year but it sells well.

Hence some PvE games coop match making I come back to as a break for casual play. You can't play tense play all the time as it can be stressful and not relaxing!

Few games I still enjoy in between, mostly coop match making. Shouldn't stress with Apex as primary game every day. Find some other games to mix it up!

Killing Floor 2
Destiny 2
Borderlands 3
Left 4 Dead 2
Diablo 3
Warframe
BF 4 and 5

@PeterN_UKHow's Borderlands 3? I was really thinking about getting it.
With Diablo 3 I committed one big mistake, I bought one of the exclusive editions back in the day and it made the game extremely easy (Pay to win) and the only reason why I bought it to get the necromancer 

@Renegade_Prime86Ranked is most certainly not what it was before. I find it roughly 40% harder to play ranked now than before. This is someone who mostly solo queued to pred series 3. I did have a team but the majority of my games was without people. Ranked now is like holy * what did I just walk into.

My bronze lobbies of course easy silver of course easy. Then I slid into gold and was like ohh ok this is the new plat. The lobby was quite sweaty compared to other seasons ranked. In fact I've not liked where rank has went since season 6. It is either full of smurfs and or cheaters pushing friends through.

Apex Legends if they do not find a way to limit the amount of smurfs the rank game will continue to be a joke. Force players to link their smurfs to their main accounts with a xxxx limit set on amount smurfs that can be made via HWID scans.

There is no reason to allow this to continue. Keep your game fair keep your game * free. Do you think Apex Legends your brand new level 10 tries ranked for first time and is steam rolled by a pred in disguise or a mastor or even a diamond. Why are you allowing people to create 10000 accounts to bully lobbies? Why are you allowing smurfs to destroy competitive game play? Why are there smurfs to even begin with? Why is there no systems in place preventing players from disrupting game play of new players granting them a uneasy feel about the game.

Say someone hits apex with a DDOS a powerful script one. This knocks all EA games offline by click of a button. Ok what does this do? It stops its players from being able to log on and play. It crashes your login servers possible the center it self.

How and why is this mentioned? Well you got smurfs this is why. They are literally hitting your new players with a ddos just in game form. They are creating unpleasant game play for your users. This brings you back to DDOS attack which can land someone in jail 3-5 years depending on how long the network was taken down. ( I am most certainly not saying any smurfs deserves to be in jail just a example of the 2 being compared both with same out come in the end of loss of revenue.)

So with this comes sure ddos is not happening preventing people from logging in. But instead they are preventing your new players to not want to log in. This is a loss of revenue to the company just as a DDOS attack is which is only reason people are put into jail for this action is lost of revenue for the company. How are players not wanting to log on and play any different? The only difference is they have the choice. Moral of the story a lot things can make your newer players experience much better.

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@Renegade_Prime86 wrote:

I am not gonna surf in the LFG section I tried, didn't work, people who you find online come and go, same s**t different smell

Clubs are useless, again it favors the people who are friends or already a team, even if you join one if you get accepted, people are just there and do their own business with friends 

DamnI am so exausted now

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This exactly. No matter how many people you friend, they won't come online the next day l, this is given or you will barely see them once every month lol. I have cycled between so many squads that it isn't worth anymore. Everyone quits Apex at some time. I still have some people from S2 that I played with regularly, but they didn't come online ever again.

The friends I started Apex with, they quit too during S1. The people I played with in S4, not to be seen after S5. I had made some new friends in S6, not seen online from the next day. It's funny when I clear my friend list. But you will find enough people preaching you to play with pre-made. After 2.2k hours of mostly solo-queue, it doesn't matter anymore. That's how it is meant to be. 

@BaldWraithSimpNow yall see why i play with some big streamers some even smaller. Their job revolves around playing Apex Legends. This to me is a godsend of players always online willing to play.

As for clubs it literally offered nothing at all that is any different now. In fact the minute the server patch was done I instantly made a club invited my team. Not a single request to even join Team A$$ Clap. =/ What good was this again? They added once again more content no one asked for nor wanted when there are game-changing concerns that need to be addressed first. Clubs are garbage. 

@E9ine_ACIt certainly is very helpful if you play with other streamers.

Clubs? Never heard of them before lol. The most useless thing in this game by far or any game for that matter. It's just a long list of people that you see online, beyond that it has no use. It's good if you have some friends already, same as your in-game friend list but with a different name.

Besides it would be stupid to send request to random clubs, what if one of them has cheaters. Better to be safe than sorry. 

@Renegade_Prime86

How is Borderlands 3. Big question... but OK

Base game
- Campaign ~25hrs. You have to finish this campaign in order to unlock all coop match making modes. Can just roll through it on "Easy" mode. You can public campaign so randoms join your journey but rarely someone pops into your game.- Campaign has NO enemy scaling. So you won't get walled and can just go back to whack more mobs.
- You are SWIMMING in loot. Every 2 mins more loot. Changing inventory, selling and re-equip more gear more times I change my socks and underwear.
- What is annoying is that after completing story mode you have to hunt down the locations to unlock these modes beblow:
- Coop match making - 3x Circle of Slaughter locations - https://www.powerpyx.com/borderlands-3-all-circles-of-slaughter-locations/
- Coop match making - 6x Proving ground locations - https://www.gosunoob.com/borderlands-3/proving-grounds-locations-how-to-enter/
- Then they become menu available for coop matchmaking directly.
- You can loot trade with other players. They tend to use their official forum for "Looking for" requests.
- Gear can only be equipped by level requirement

- WARNING. Even on easy mode a boss battle takes over 30-40 mins! Not because it is difficult. They put insane HP and you have to reload over around 150 times I am NOT kidding. One time I spent 1hr on one boss without dying and reload 200 times at least. You can cheese battles by keeping one mob alive, if you are knocked then killing on mob in downed state recovers you lol.

- WARNING. Currently match making coop does not fill a squad. Most of time with just 1 player. This is on PS, so unsure of other platforms like PC/Xbox. But research CAREFULLY on this.

Season Pass 1
- You can just skip this as no additional content for coop match making at all
- Just 4x DLC campaigns which are 6-8hrs each
- Enemies will scale according to your level. So if you do DLC first before base game campaign. Then base game campaign is ruined by being too easy.

Season Pass 2
- NO DLC campaigns at all
- Just adding extra game mode where you start with no loot and quickly hunt for gear and face a boss with coop match making up to 4 players
- Unlocks 4th skill tree for your character. So technically a pay to win addon.

Ultimate Edition - Base Game + Season Pass 1 + Season Pass 2. Expensive.

Just warning that recently I noticed coop match making isn't filling whole squad anymore. ☹️ Maybe just a PS problem but please research carefully for your platform i.e. Steam for PC and Xbox forum. But PS Europe definitely a problem.

Phew now please don't ask me about Destiny 2. I might need to write a book about that!

I feel your pain man. Fact is you have little hope of maxing out Ranked without a trusted team that you play with all the time. Playing with randoms will get you to diamond and no further without a massive slice of luck. 

I no longer play ranked. Its just too negative for me.