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E9ine_AC's avatar
5 years ago

New COD Launched Today

Never thought id say it but jesus this game is fun. EA I would get your cheaters taken care of before you lose a lot to this game. Offers a lot more then apex with game modes squad picking and more. You got a run for your money game out now. 

 
I love Apex with a passion but in its current state its at times just not even remotely enjoyable anymore (At Times). 
 
This new COD is providing quite action pact games. The respawning jumping back into the battle and many game modes. Will be hard for you to compete unless you make drastic change to keep the player base around. 
 
Now this is not be at all saying everyone will leave apex for this game or that game. They are just leaving in general because of how it is handled and cared for. Just saying the industry just launched a game that has the action pact fights apex does with more options. 

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  • @hayhor The main thing is that, in Apex, hacks feel much worse than in other games. This is mainly because of the long TTK. For example: if it usually takes 5 seconds to down someone, any player being downed in 2.5 seconds will become suspicious. In other games, where it takes like 1 second to usually kill someone, players will hardly notice when they get down in 0.5 seconds.

    Another thing, spectator mode is not an actual video stream, it is the game engine rebuilding the view, based on the data that comes from the server (probably at 20fps) which then is smoothed with interpolation. Spectator mode can go really wild when there's an issue. I've seen a Path downing people without even shooting at them and, just as i was about to report that player, I noticed his crosshair was way off as well and that he was moving a bit sideways as well. All this was because the camera rotation was updated 1 tick behind the other stuff.
  • @E9ine_AC Apex definitely needs to look at either expanding or hooking more directly into TitanFall 2 or the rumored 3rd game. Sort of like how Warzone hooks into Modern Warfare and Cold War. That will give them the "variety" without having to alter the core Apex Legends product.

    If they tightly coupled Apex to TitanFall 2 and 3, even sharing weapon skins across games, then they create an ecosystem that appeals to a much wider player base and can keep them engaged.
  • @hayhor Console players were turning off cross play in Warzone as well long before the Cold War beta due to massive cheating issues on PC. It seems Respawn is very well aware of this since they appear to have turned off cross play with PC for the beta. I have yet to get matched with a PC player.
  • hayhor's avatar
    hayhor
    Hero
    5 years ago
    @ArchAngeL-PCX They said the only way a console sees pc lobbies is by teaming with a pc player. I've done this a few times without running into cheaters.
  • @hayhor ok. I didn't realize you had to specifically invite the PC player in order to ever get into a PC lobby as a console player.
  • PeterN_UK's avatar
    PeterN_UK
    Seasoned Ace
    5 years ago

    Well that was fast. Beta not even finished and cheats already created and ready for the full release.

    Seriously if you're investing in a high end PC to play games at maximum value then having the prospect of someone snapping shots at you. Kick in the teeth.

    In years to come if it gets any worse we are going to end up choosing consoles demanding M&K support/using third party hardware and play on lower graphics in order to have fair play.

    The rate of bans reported and applied is of a lower rate compared to new accounts for cheating are created. So it means you can't ever minimise the problem, more of a cure than a prevention.

    Creating email addresses are free and someone can bypass hardware based bans with technical skillset.

    Battle royal games are free in itself. SMS 2FA login is really needed everytime you want to play or app linked to mobile number. Good for security anyway and if banned then the mobile phone number associated is also banned. Means cheaters would have to constantly buy a new SIM card and add credit, time consuming for them and costs bit of money and effort. But at the moment they just create new email accounts or use disposable ones off certain websites which are immediately ready.

    Imagine that simple change and resources of people freed up having to deal with every cheat ticket