If people don't play Apex anymore today, what would be the reason?
For me, the lack of patches, when something is obviously broken, we had to wait for months along with the big event update, and then we're getting sick and tired of it.
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@bosourd The garbage loot distribution? It gets really old finding a dozen P2020 and Mozambiques. It gets really old landing on an R-301 and only having 20-40 rounds for it the rest of the building is shot gun ammo or sniper ammo...
I general the situations in which you get slaughtered because of horrible RNG outcomes. It is probably the number one complaint I hear.
I general the situations in which you get slaughtered because of horrible RNG outcomes. It is probably the number one complaint I hear.
I gotta agree with the lack of patches and hotfixes to be honest.
I don't want new content every week, i just want the game to run properly. Tired of being killed by audio bugs, being ambushed by teams out of nowhere on drop because their initial dive trail never appeared so you assume you've got an area to yourself. Sentinel bugs, grenade bugs, gibbys occasional vanishing ULT, Crypto's champion banner read telling you there's no squads in the area for you to get jumped seconds after reading said banner.
I'd list the rest but it would take a week to type them all out. 😛
SBMM. I can't stand it anymore. I am a pretty good player but can only ever play in lobbies with the best of the best. I played solo for the first 8 months or so of this game working my way from a negative kd having never played BR before to the point where I could get a double digit kill game every day. I switched consoles and spent a ton of money on a pro controller so I could play with my girl who got heavily into apex after I goaded he enough. But soon after the SBMM escalated ridiculously and I was only ever forced into extreme lobbies. I remember when it first happened, it seemed that every champion and every player i was killed by had the 4k 20kill badges which I have never been able to get over the hump and obtain with my highest game being 18. So now i went from expecting 8-12 kills per game to expecting 0-5 where I occasionally have a very good game and drop maybe 8 or 9. But the worst part is that my girl only has a KD of .6 now because they are forcing her to play against players as good or better than me and she just can't compete. That means I usually can't compete against a full squad. She is frustrated and doesn't want to play with me any longer. So now I have spent this extra money on this game and a scuff for absolutely nothing as i preferred the elite controller anyway. My KD plummeted as well. It is completely infuriating to me when I watch her play solo with other randoms and see the lack of competition and understand why she would rather play alone, and I am left playing by myself against pull pred squads and knowing that those badges I worked so hard for and refused to ever cheese to get will never be obtained.
lag + clueless devs who refuse to fix the matchmaking
Lag, disconnects, matchmaking of a horrendous scale and magnitude. Audio issues. Footsteps almost non existent yet the announcer for ring closing blows my eardrums out? Btw my voice over settings are really low, I can barely hear my teammates legends quips yet no matter what is happening the ring announcer is loud AF.
No solo or duo mode, no active mode option other than vanilla or ranked TBH.
Ranked games that are solely based on pre-mades with no consideration for solo or duo players at all.
Pub games that have newer teamates on my squad going up against people who are not on a regular basis.
Anyways I am down for 1 or 2 games a night at the most then I bounce for something else to unwind from work.
The biggest downside for me right now is that the game is still trio version only. Playerbase getting split keeps getting brought up. Fortnite has multiple modes along with a PVE version, no issues there. While they may boast bigger numbers unfortunately Respawn is looking at this like a conventional game IE TF2, which it is not. It is F2P battle royale which in it's very nature encourages solo play. Use your skill guts and instinct to be the last 1 standing. Sometimes you feel like being aggressive sometimes not and sometimes in between. Are 3 people always going to be on the same page? Even if they play together frequently basic psychology tells you no.
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