Orientation Match option all the time
So... I bought my little brother an Xbox for Christmas(obligatory spitting sound of a life long PS player) because it was marked down to like 200 bucks. He's 11. We've been playing Apex together for a while, me on PS5 and him on PC. But he always plays with a controller because he doesn't like mouse and keyboard, so finally I said "Why don't you just play on the Xbox then?" And so he did.
Long story short, I found out about the (probably not) new orientation matches that new players have to go through (I am a season 0 player, and either I don't remember them at all, or... they weren't there in the beginning, my guess is the latter.)
But... Here's the thing... My little brother (being again, 11) is terrible at the game, lol, just because he's a kid. So we typically play duos (Because I don't A: want him exposed to the toxic and curse heavy, and racist mic community we seem to have gathered in Apex and B: Because I don't want to bog down any good players actually wanting to play the game.) We've been playing together for about a year or more now, and he's only ever really survived (and helped) in a couple fire fights... Until we played the Orientation matches...
He was having a blast.
I get it, they're dumb, barely programed bots you're fighting against, but he was having a lot of fun, because it was finally something he could beat consistently (He never complains when we loose in normal duos, but I can tell he's disheartened by the *constant* loses.
SO! Here is my proposed solution.
Bring Orientation Matches in as a full time option, buuuuut, to make it fair for the leveling system, just turn off XP gain from it.
No XP earned, so it's just dumb fun, that's all my little brother and I need/want. We wanna spend a couple dumb fun hours together playing Apex Legends, recently though, we've kinda stopped playing the game together. (I got Wildheart for both the PS5 and his Xbox so we could play that instead and, again, we've been having enormous fun... But he LOVES Apex Legends.)
I think this would be a really, really, really cool feature for the developers to add in the next season! (I also think it'll him better training to actually be able to get better at the game so he can go into the ACTUAL game and at least do decently.)
