What i really like Apex at the beginning, was that the game was very, very hard and has infinite ceiling for improving, and unlike like most FPS games of today, its not all about AIM, but also heavy about movement and how good you are in dodging shots is going to determine a lot of gun fights. Also Apex was giving us a straight up duels, which was so fun. I came from CS:GO and i couldn`t stand the low TTK. Another thing i like so much in Apex was the TTK. Which was in a no way HIGH TTK. It was perfectly normal, not high, not low. I start playing when the game was released but i got no time then and was having a complete break from any game. I start playing seriously in Season 4. I start practicing like mad(get Kovaak Aim trainer, Apex Aim trainer) and was spending 2-3 hours in just practicing, in Firing Range too. I was watching Pro for a lot of time to understand what/when/how to do. To understand movement and how to react in most situation. I created myself a strafing patterns for a different fight and different guns, and different distances. Practice them like mad, because you need to do it constantly, in order your muscle memory to start doing it constantly in the game as well.
And all simply for nothing. They totally lost me with the Lifeline auto-revive stuff, and now they totally kills the game for me.
All the stuffs i like is gone. No sense to even wait for a fix, because they messed the game so deep, they are never going to fix it.
I will just grinding Kovaak, and the Aim trainer for movement training and wait for a better title or just start playing Rogue Company.
Again Low TTK in a BR game, where you have to wait so much, aka "wasting your time" on loading screen, legend select, dropping, looting, healing so much, and your actual gun fight last 1/10 of your gameplay is just ridiculous. Its a very bad thing.
And you are never going to improve that way. You have to grind on aim trainers, which is not as fun, as playing the actual game, right ?
Just a pure example:
In one hour time playing Apex Legends, how much time you will spend actually fighting, actually aiming at the targets?
You will probably get what 10 kills ? Maybe 20-30-40 at best ? I`m talking for a average guy who wants to get good and improve.
In that time in Aim trainer or in CS:GO aim botz map i will probably kill 5000-6000 targets. I usually get 1000 kills in less than 10 minutes, so do the math.
Low TTK games mean more empty time, mean more time in healing(i play a few games and experience exactly this), mean more loading screen time, mean dying way quicker and way less fighting time.
Low TTK is for games like CS:GO, where you pretty much don`t wait to respawn, where you have deathmatches with insta respawn and you can learn and get good by actually playing the game. Valorant is the same.
For Arena games with a insta respawn. Even tho a lot of arena games like Quake Champions have high TTK, which was/is so fun.
The skill ceiling is so high, and movement play a huge role.
Low TTK game usually have restricted movement, like CS:GO and Valorant and counter-strafing is a must.
Also whoever thinks changing the game by so much from season to season and expect people to be happy and to keep the player base, obviously knows nothing.
Yeah they should add/change stuffs, but not that drastics. CS:GO is almost the same as it comes out for example. Same for 1.6, but people were still playing it, right ? So totally changing the game is not what will keep your player base.
And lastly the cheating. When i started it wasn`t that bad, now its completely terrible. Don`t know how it feels, but mid Season 5 and towards the end(before i stop and even after, because i still watched streamers) the situation was terrible. Insane amount of hard cheaters, as well as soft cheaters, no-recoil/single fire macro/script users.
And most of them are still playing.
The experience was became worst and worst. There is zero sense to stay in a game that makes me only nerves and gives me close to zero enjoyment anymore.
Just mark my word, there is no way they can come back from this. No way they fix the game. They got to remove Rampart completely, because she is purely a camping legend and what they are strive for. They obviously want to follow Warzone aproach.
Buy ain`t going to work. I will just go play Warzone instead. Way more viable weapons, way more fun stuff, not such high amount of time spending in looting/healing, also way better server(aka not getting killed behind a cover or a door 1-2 sec. later), also way better modes, they have a solo mode, and way better chances on pulling 1v2, 1v3 and so on and i think way less cheaters.
