4 years ago
PC vs Console
I have played significant amounts of Apex on both PC and Playstation. I've noticed that the game is significantly more difficult on PC than it is on Playstation, especially recently. I am consisten...
I know I am about to start the classic controversy,
and that this thread will become a literal battlefield soon hitting 50 comments in less than a week if it gets attention,
one thing that probably makes console easier is aim assist, here I said it, come fight me,
anyways another thing is that, since PC is more competetive and console more casual,
it's no surprise,
casual PC players rarely can exist in Apex, the reason is, to play Apex on PC you need a PC that can run 3 Cyberpunk games simultaneously
not every casual player has a beefy PC you see,
which is why on console you can get easier games, because consoles are for both casual and pros,
however pro players want a good pc that can go beyond 60fps, hence why on pc there's more sweatyness aspect,
than on console.
@damsonwhufndthis and @RevMainPls
Thank you for your responses!
I understand what you are saying and I won't profess to know how Apex Legend's matchmaking works; however, I think a skills-based matchmaking will neutralize most of the points you raised, as long as the player pool is large enough.
If your computer is better than my computer, and you are better at Apex as a result, your MMR (matchmaking rank) will be higher than mine. If your MMR is significantly higher than mine, you should consistently be placed in more skilled lobbies than me. The same reasoning is why people shouldn't worry about controller users in a PC lobby (or combined console and pc cross-play for that matter); if they are better than you, they won't be in your lobby. If they are worse than you, they also won't be in your lobby.
However, if all PC players are better overall and the user pool is relatively small, I could definitely see that having an affect; I just don't see that being the case at this point in the Apex Legends lifecycle.
Yeah, that would make sense.
Also,
what @dougieee mentioned, the price
Xbox Series S costs: 342$ USD
And Google says that it runs Apex on 120 fps,
Cheapest Notebook that can run Apex on stable 60 fps and probably more is 777$ USD
Cheapest prebuilt PC has similar price, except you need on top of that a monitor, MnK and probably speakers or headphones
So you can see why it is more likely for a casual player to be on console, it's literally cheaper,
Everyone has a TV and if not, cheap TVs are like under 200$
still about 200$ cheaper than gaming on a cheapest gaming Laptop.
another thing to think of is that people are inconsistant,
in result you can see proof right here,
with peopel building inconsistant "skill based matchmaking",
just because something is called fair skill based matchmaking doesn't mean it's true,
the matchmaking doesn't know that that level 1 Lifeline newcommer is actually another account created by a Perdator player that already player like 3000h into this game,
maybe after 10 games, maybe.
You can have days where you only get trash players in your team and everyone else is slightly better despite you performing well,
you can have days where you get only good players and seem to question why do you play against potato players,
usually it should be both,
but sometimes matchmaking is like, "oh you've won a game that means you're probably a warlord that plays this game for living like a streamer, here is a lobby with literally everyone being way better than you, also your team is gonna be bad, since you're good you should be able to carry them"
things like that.