Re: Why it is Respawn refuses to address the actual cause of third partying?

@Zero-Loot5Arena does in fact have its own set of trackers. Damage done, Kills, and wins. You also get 3 badges one of which being win streaks. 

Complaining about third parties is about as pointless as people complaining about campers on a game such as BF5 when there are objectives to defend.  Its the nature of the game, last man standing.  There's no benefit to be had from letting teams fight, gear up and heal before you move in out of some misplaced act of chivalry.  They wouldn't extend you the same courtesy.

They could maybe tone down the range of gunshot sounds, but I can't really see the problem; you just need to have eyes up your backside at all times in this game.

For me third partying is part of the game and should never be removed. I just love having that rush that after you finish a squad you need to immediately either heal or shield swap when you hear the third party coming your way. 

I think this is a necro  thread from February.  All there is to say about it is:

Arenas

The end.

@Zero-Loot5  Fair enough, but there is no coincidental 3rd parties as you call them lol, the moment you hear that teams engagement and you decide to attack then it's a calculated decision, which is also what the majority do.

As for the team you're third partying, I doubt they see any difference between a 'coincidental 3rd party' as you put it, and a team waiting around to 3rd them....as the bottom line is the action is exactly the same.

For the record I'm not sitting on either side of the fence here, I couldn't care less if they try to reduce 3rd party scenarios or not, either way I shall remain a rambo. XD

However if they were to the gunfight audio is only a minor part of the issue, the fact mobility legends, especially legends such as valk/pathy/octane can allow their teams to traverse the map so quickly means that there will always unavoidably be 3rd partying seeing as most teams have at least one of these legends.

@Peri_Longbow_plzgun sound can be improved for sure. But Apex is a fast paced game, so doing anything to traversal is just bad.

Besides 3 teams landing in the same location will always end up in a third party. You can't do anything about that.

Even if gun sound is reduced, third parties will still exist. 

@Zero-Loot5  I'll happily accept that, there certainly is a difference between mindsets. However as baldy said, you can't change people's mindsets.

Let's try a hypothetical scenario here, respawn reduce audio distance for gunfire and entirely remove mobility tacticals/ults. Now everybody would have to sprint/jump tower around the map so even if they hear gunfire they then have to make it to said fight.

Simple solution right? Now Let's say a squad of players with extensive knowledge of the map, rotations and drop trends decides "hey Let's go and 3rd party some squads"  they can literally just loot preempt and position themselves favourably and then it becomes a waiting game.

It's easily done, frag/skull are both extremely good examples as you can fight both areas until you're the last squads remaining, and more often than not a 3rd squad will jump in.

I just don't see how any in game changes can really limit this substantially enough to appease the masses.

@BaldWraithSimp 

You can't fully prevent third-party encounters. But you can reduce them to a bearable amount. Or at least reduce their occurrence to a level where every player perhaps encounters it once or twice in every fifth match. Just a random number.

Let's face it, we run around searching for a fight. There are two ways to do that. You either bump into someone and fight with them, or you follow the obvious gunfire that emanates from beyond the hill in the next city 200 meters away. (whether it's actually 200 meters or not I don't know, I didn't measure my gun sound range) That's two weakened squads, so in theory a potential of 6 kills to be gained. The sad part is that the former option rises the risk of having multiple squads nearing your location, which makes you the very victim of the thing that you do, which again will turn your location into a combat hotspot, which can quickly go as far as having 5+ squads gone within a matter of seconds.

Two ways to fix this. Make gun fire less loud. That would be unrealistic, but then again we're sitting here with sci-fi stuff, so every weapon could have a silenced mechanism. Second option could be to make weapon sounds at a certain range just vague and not locate-able. So if you're 200 meters away from an active gunfire, all you hear would be fire from above. As weird as it sounds, that would even have the potential to lure people into the wrong direction. It only gets more directional as you near it. Just a thought.

We're still seriously talking about third partying?

Play Arenas.  That's all, that's it.

If you don't like third partying, play games with 2 teams.  This is not a Respawn problem.

@hayhor  Easier to alter the game so awareness isn't required apperently lol. :,)

@MandatoryIDtag Yes, this too.

I mean, my solution is the solution Respawn made, called Arenas.  You happen to need awareness there too but you won't ever be 'third partied'  So I have to believe this thread is just so people can be angry online.  Especially since the OP is 5+ months old.

But, yeah, uh, awareness is actually part of a Battle Royale game, go figure?  The challenge of it, to me, it part of the entire appeal, such as moving and looting and other things besides shooting (which is also fun).

Apparently, however, when all these things go wrong, it is apparently a problem for the game.  Despite being a Battle Royale, we should all just stay put, be loaded with loot, and shoot only one team at a time down a narrow street.  Then we get reloaded and healed and face the next team, and as long as enemy weapons can do us the favor of not doing damage while our weapons do lots, we can call ourselves champions and be Apex tier and somehow be proud of ourselves.

Anyway, there is Apex Legends Arena, like I said 😉

Third partying happens in high plat / diamond+ so people who are against lowering gunshot volume should state their rank before commenting thanks

@KarvaRausku  it wasn't even that bad up until S3, S4 is when the real nosedive in audio quality began as far as i'm concerned. 5 seasons of sketchy audio has gotten pretty tiresome to be honest.

I mean hell it can even be a problem if you're not being third partied, the amount of times I've been silently rolled by a team flanking via a silent zipline is actually beyond a joke.