Skill gap

Hi @HamoHitman 

I think the battle royal mode is designed to be very easily accessible by a wide range of players. That's possibly why you have a spectrum of weapons and Legends with very different abilities.

"WEAPON BALANCE

Overall, we feel that the current weapons present solid options for a variety of gameplay styles. We've found that the Skullpiercer Wingman has been on the stronger end, but it’s designed to be a weapon with a higher skill ceiling. Our adjustments are attempting to move it more into the hand cannon space and away from full auto Deagle. We’ve also adjusted the rate of fire of the Peacekeeper with Shotgun Bolt attachment, so players will have a larger window of vulnerability if they miss their shot. Additionally, the scarcity of energy ammo and lower number of energy weapons overall has made those weapons difficult to main, so we’ve increased energy weapon and ammo availability."

The gameplay designers have stated that they wish to change the balance and meta of Apex less frequently:

"HOW WE THINK ABOUT LIVE BALANCE AT RESPAWN

A core philosophy of our development process for Apex Legends is to listen to player feedback, parse through all the data we get from the game, try things, and then playtest them a ton to get them just right. And… repeat. The goal is to ship polished, closer to the mark updates than if we got things out rapidly and iterated in the live environment. We know y'all are putting a ton of time into the game and mastering every nuance (like Wraith portalling people off cliffs for the final kill lolz). Our goal is to make less frequent, better tested, higher impact changes, so it minimizes the effects on your time spent mastering a particular mechanic, weapon, character, etc. You shouldn't have to read our patch notes every few days just to keep up with how characters and weapons now work."

You can find more about it here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/News-Game-Updates/Live-Balance-Update/m-p/7641591/highlight/true#M16

And the same thing on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/ay5hh2/live_balance_update_live_on_all_platforms_lets/

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There is a massive skill gap in both games.  If you suck there is no chance you will beat a good player unless the net code screws you.