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5 years ago

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My Apex Experience Today

Match 1: Q'd for Trios, missing a teammate, and the other teammate goes AFK after drop. I'm forced to 1v3 and I die to the first squad I encounter Match 2: Q'd for Trios. Full squad, but they want t...

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pastaclown
5 years ago
@JonStriker126 yeah that's the standard Apex experience, pretty much why a lot of people who originally started with Apex have quit, and why a lot of "professional" players have moved off of Apex to do other things.
Today I played for an hour just to do my dailies. An hour. For 125 total damage in a match, 5 knockdowns, 5 kills, 150 crafting materials picked up, and 2 games. An hour. Because every game was as you describe. Not to mention the lost fights due to no audio, or hit-reg not working again (can you believe I've had nearly 18 pellets of Mozam + Hammer rounds not reg in the last 2 or 3 days?), or whatever nonsense you can think of. It's frustrating, and the lack of polish after a near two year stint for a developer that's well regarded is saddening.
I like Apex, I hate playing it. Really sad that during S0 I'd play this game constantly averaging 56-108 hours a week genuinely enjoying it, to barely 10-16 hours a week for the past 4 seasons.

pastaclown

5 years ago

@JonStriker126 yeah that's the standard Apex experience, pretty much why a lot of people who originally started with Apex have quit, and why a lot of "professional" players have moved off of Apex to do other things.

Today I played for an hour just to do my dailies. An hour. For 125 total damage in a match, 5 knockdowns, 5 kills, 150 crafting materials picked up, and 2 games. An hour. Because every game was as you describe. Not to mention the lost fights due to no audio, or hit-reg not working again (can you believe I've had nearly 18 pellets of Mozam + Hammer rounds not reg in the last 2 or 3 days?), or whatever nonsense you can think of. It's frustrating, and the lack of polish after a near two year stint for a developer that's well regarded is saddening.

I like Apex, I hate playing it. Really sad that during S0 I'd play this game constantly averaging 56-108 hours a week genuinely enjoying it, to barely 10-16 hours a week for the past 4 seasons.

JonStriker126
5 years ago
@pastaclown

Yeah. A couple hours after I made my OP, my Dailies refreshed. They were something like: Play 2 games, play 2 games as Gibraltar, Get X Knocks (I don't remember the number), Get 5 kills or Assists, Get 10 Knockdowns.

Well, needlessly to say, I was still experiencing the issues that I talked about in my OP (lots of "drop and die games", missing teammates, etc), so after about 45 mins to an hour, I only finished the "Play games" challenges, and just shut the game off. I was already frustrated from trying to complete the previous day's dailies with the experiences I was having, I didn't want to deal with even more garbage trying to do another day's challenges. I even went so far as to not play the game for the rest of the day (which was yesterday).

Hell, it's 10 pm, as I type this, and I don't have much ambition to even do today's dailies (Which reset in about 6 hours), because I fear of that "standard Apex experience". But, the thing is, I have to do them, if I want to finish the battle pass. Because, sadly, this season is really challenge heavy with how you need to level up the pass. You can't really ignore them, because the XP grind is unreal (50K per level, at all times).

Honestly, that's why I've said if nothing changes/is improved, at least with the battle pass, starting next season, I don't foresee myself playing Apex much. I gave this season a shot, because it was a new system and I wanted to see how I could deal with it, but I don't really like it and I don't really want the system (as is) going forward. It makes me not want to play the game. Obviously, it isn't the only reason for my issues with this game, but with the way the battle pass is structured it definitely does amplify issues, because I feel like I'm playing for longer to get the same amount of progress on my battle pass (versus previous seasons), which therefore means I'm experiencing the issues with this game more often, because I need to play more often/more matches than before.

So, yeah, that's kind of what I'm at right now. Like you, I like the core idea of Apex, but some days I just hate playing it. Sadly, it's becoming like Overwatch to me, where I enjoy the universe/legends and the core game play, but there's a lot of issues that stand in my way of enjoying it as much as I potentially could be. And it's really a shame.