Respawn, have a look at this 3 case studies
Case No.1
You click " READY " to play a round of Apex Legends, but found the other 2 team mates are all cheat selling spammers, they are extremely stupid and loud, you want to mute them, but there is no such function ... so you mute your PC instead, now the game starts, you could mute them by openning your inventory and check the squad tab. However, the 2 spamming bots have already disconnected the left the game ...
Case No.2
As you were brutally killed by a squad of 3 players in your last game, you started another game, but surprisingly you found your teammates again are 2 spamming bots, and you are determined to report them through the in-game report system and fortunately, the 2 spammers didn't disconnect as the game starts, so really got the chance to report them this time, but after you clicked the report button, you found there is no such option for reporting spamming activities, this is totally weird. The game has been out for almost 2 months, with like 100000 spamming bots active on the servers each day and with this latest update, Respawn didn't consider the option for in-game reporting of spamming activities.
One reason is that Respawn wasn't aware that there are any spamming activities going on ( strange )
Another reason is Respawn just wasn't planning to do anything about this spamming activity they've already been aware of.
Case No.3
This time you finally got 2 true teammates and you are doing quite well. You got to final 2 then instantly killed by not only 1 but 2 hackers from the emeny squad, but unfortunately all you 3 were killed by the same hacker from them. So you and your teammate only got the option to report 1 enemy hacker in this game. The other hacker from them, you and your teammate just didn't catch his ID name, and he got away with this like nothing had happened. Good for him, Mr. No.2 Hacker !
So, let's talk about Overwatch, well I don't like Overwatch but it has lots of neatly designed detailed functions in it.
1
Like Apex Legends, you press " Enter " to send text message, then your mouse cursor became free and were able to click on things on the screen.
So Respawn, add a right click menu just like Overwatch to mute spammers and to report hacker squadmate.
Overwatch is excellent on this, Apex is just a lazy designed product, it is so rough that you Respawn guys should be shamed of those flaws.
2
Add this function to report any members of the enemy squad, hold R to report then you got multiple choice option to report any number of enemy squad members.
Especially when the hacker(s) are in the winning team, and you got to report them at their victory screen.
Oh sorry Respawn,
I've got to add a case No.4 now,
I just got killed by a speed cheating aim-bot hacker, anyway I reported him for the 2nd option which is for " aim-bot ", but I also have to report his speed cheating behavior.
So shouldn't you make the in-game reporting menu be multi-choice ?
And also add a spamming one maybe.
Hi @TJ400000
I can tell that you're sick and tired of cheats and spammers. I really hope you find better matches in Apex.
I'm sure you already know how to report cheats and spammers.
It was announced in a recent 'check-in' that a solution to spammers is in development but may take time to implement.
"SPAMMERS DURING CHARACTER SELECT
We are very aware of the cases of players spamming during character select and the drop and then disconnecting shortly after. We’re keeping a lot of our strategy close to the chest so offenders don’t have time to build workarounds before we implement changes. Solutions won’t happen right away but we’re on it."
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/ayzbhj/respawn_check_in_382019/
I hope all your matches are victories!