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Max1mu5Prime's avatar
5 years ago

Is it just me....

...or is this game getting unplayable? I'm on Xbox One, so some points that may be isolated to the fact I'm crap, or may be part of a wider issue others are experiencing:

- Every time I start the game, without fail, it will 'crash' and kick me out. Mostly happens when an actual game has started. And almost always only happens once?!

- Opponents, particularly in the last day or so, DO NOT MISS. I am getting decimated from up close, from distance, whilst my shots that look ok aren't landing. I check the death summary and I'm getting slammed with no reply far too often

- Ranked is absurd - I'm only Bronze 1 and my last team-mate had a 500 badge and was massacring opponents, it made no sense as to why it's so mis-matched?

- Always last to land or load up - lost count of the amount of times I've landed in a warzone, opened a couple of bins and presented with 2 backpacks, an extended heavy mag and some syringes before meeting a rapid end to some blue-armoured opponent with a Mastiff.

- Bad team-mates; people just hurtling off with no cause, people constantly taking "dibsed" loot, taking loot from deathboxes for ages before offering a revive, it all feels quite toxic and you end up thinking "well, I know what's happening if you get shot down"

Even a few days ago it still felt "fair" - I'm capable of winning, have a couple of predator badges, etc., and was regularly stacking up 5+ kills per match on Tuesday so I'm not terrible at the game. But in the last couple of days it's felt very different and I can't work out what it is or what the cause is?

- Does my network have to be hardwired into superfast broadband?

- Is there a lot of 'cheating' (aimbots, Bloodhound exploits, etc.) going on? 

- Do I suddenly suck really hard?!

Any similar experiences, help or tips would be appreciated. 

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  • I would normally advise people to use an SSD and go hardwired but with next gen around the corner just throw in an ethernet for better connection and deal with long load times, Ethernet will make it more smooth but the xbox (especially the OG) takes a while to render the map that's why it takes you a bit longer to get in.

  • Oh one more thing, if new player the first 18 levels or so you are in noob lobbies then you get thrown into the deep end with everyone that's playing for a while, I came out my noob pool with a 4k/d since getting thrown in with big boys I'm happy to hold a 1-2 kills to death.

  • @CAGOA33 Hmmm. With next gen I'll probably look at adding a socket, I'm reliant on ethernet but via a second router which is wirelessly connected to the main router.

    I also wonder if there's another level I've got to. I'm well beyond 18, I think I'm around Lvl 210 or so now and like I say almost overnight it went from playable to feeling like you're one of the victims in a YouTube "I just did 10k damage" video.
  • CAGOA33's avatar
    CAGOA33
    5 years ago

    Ok so its possible you are just bouncing between skill brackets, few good games it's putting you into higher tier matchmaking a few bad games you go back down to where you find it easy, that's the problem with SBMM in casual most people just yoyo about from easy to hard it doesn't really find a level for anyone other than the top players.

  • Thanks mate, appreciate the advice. Was close to uninstalling the damn game this morning! Obviously just need to get smashed a few more times then I'll settle back into my level!! 

    You may know - surely there's NO cheating on Xbox, right? Just good players?

  • No. Its not just you. Also on xbox one. 

    1. I had that same problem.  I never start the resume the game when I first boot up. I always close it out first and reload. Solved/prevents the problem. 

    2. Matchmaking in this game has officially * the bed. I'm decent as well and my stats have all been pillaged by matchmaking this season. I'm more commonly facing champions with 10k kills or more and getting lazered by sweats left and right. 

    My damage per game is about the same if not a little higher than last season but my KPG and Win Rate have both dropped significantly from last season. How can my DPG stay the same but wins and kpg decrease? Because the better the player the more difficult it is to kill them even after putting out hundreds of damage on them. I've literally had 4 games this season with over a thousand damage and 0 or 1 kills to show for it. My knockdown ratio is higher than normal as well as top 5 placements but my win rate is down about 1.5% from normal. I can't explain it any other way than they * with SBMM and its not self correcting. 

    3. Ranked doesnt matchmake on skill. Only uses rank to arrange lobbies. I was probably one of the guys stomping on bronzes and silvers in the past month. 

    4. Random is random but yes it does happen to me and yes its hella frustrating. Especially when some no talent pre pubescent pissant ends you because RNG wasn't your friend. 

    5. Matchmaking has always been *. Thats my official opinion after 9k games. 

    6. Respawn and EA have neglected to due proper diligence on their server tick rate and their net code. Look up apex legends tick rate on YouTube. Sad thing is they will never address this issue. Been a literal part of the game sincd launch. Haven't even mentioned it.  They haven't even acknowledged it worse yet. 

    God this game makes me so * toxic. Probably because its breaking my heart since I want to love it but I cant ignore the steaming pile of horse * it is 80% of the time. 

  • CAGOA33's avatar
    CAGOA33
    5 years ago

    @Max1mu5Prime I'm never one to accuse others of cheating on APEX, it may happen but mostly put my deaths down to bad play, there are probably people who use chronus max which is like a keyboard and mouse attachment thing but honestly as someone who has actually played with K&M I don't find it an advantage so doesn't bother me if someone was using it.

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