Unplayable. Tried again, no idea why. Hear shots at Fight night, go to check it out. Get beamed by someone I can't even see. Keep in mind, I'm no where near it yet, just heard the shots and walked towards it. Playing Ash, so I see a couple of fresh Death Boxes, but not a full wipe though. Proceeded to get chased down after my teammate got insta-melted, and then lose to some "Rookie" player. Which half my shots wouldn't register properly. They're the only one on their team with damage and kills btw.
I don't know what else to say at this point. COMPLETE, and UTTER GARBAGE of a season. Raise the tick rate, DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE CHEATERS, raise the TTK, and most importantly, PLAY YOUR OWN F'ING GAME!!! You need to play daily to understand why you're changing values, tweaking legends, raising or lowering the TTK. You're clueless Respawn. Stop listening to stock holders, they don't play your game.
"Stop listening to stock holders, they don't play your game."
And yet, this is the way or the world. Respawn is under the thumb of EA. EA only cares about the revenue stream. It's been down significantly for two or three straight seasons. EA sends a hatchet man to Respawn and he says, "Make it go back up yesterday. I don't care how you do it as long as it doesn't cost any money." And some poor schlub at Respawn has to do SOMETHING or lose his job. He can't spend any money, like on anti-cheat, because EA won't give him a budget. All he can do, the ONLY thing he can do, is change values. Legend traits, weapon characteristics, etc. That's it. And he knows that he has to go BIG so that he can show the overlords at EA that he didn't just sit on his butt. If he goes big and it still fails then it's not on him and maybe, just maybe, he gets to keep his job. This is a textbook case of the greed/toxicity continuum. EA wants the game to make money without actually having to put any money back into it. Wilson's "Apex 2.0" bombshell proves that by the time they understand they have a problem it's already too late. And their "solution" is still years away.
And at this point, even if everything reverts back to "normal" for next season... is that really all it would take to satisfy the player base? Going back to something that was pretty bad, just not AS bad as it ultimately got? I just can't see it. I can't see that working. It still doesn't address the cheating or the rampant secondaries. Which, imo, are the two most crippling features of this game right now. I'll take an OP Ash any day to a genuine aimbotter/wall hacker. Or a diamond tier sweat posing as a level 14 noob.
