Solo with friends is far to easy to do
I did it a few times last night just to see if it could be done. It does not take anything more then pressing y at the same time and you'll be put into the exact same game together. You can then land...
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"On 8/13 we'll be trying out a Solos Mode in Apex for a limited time. We'll talk more about Solos when it's live and you've had a chance to play it. For now we're going to put it out there and see what happens and what kind of feedback we get. ". This sounds like it's not the final version of the solo mode.
Forcing players that are friends to join different matches may affect the game worse than you think. On one hand, many of those who are friends in the game may actually want to fight against each other. Then, when you have many friends, your waiting time will probably increase dramatically. For each friend in the queue, 59 other players are needed to have him join a different match. Therefore, If you have 20 friends, the queue will need to have 1200 players. Considering the split playerbase because of all the different modes, Apex would probably need tens of millions of daily players to fill the queues with such high numbers on each server.
@DoYaSeeMe Really?! It would negatively effect the game? Are you kidding?! If they want to game together go play on teams.
cheat
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gerund or present participle: cheating
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act dishonestly or unfairly in order to gain an advantage, especially in a game or examination.
This is cheating no matter how you view it. Your argument saying it might negatively impact the game is not that great. That’s like saying you should let people use aimbot and other hacks because those who use it won’t play the game otherwise. They can play fairly or not at all.
cheat
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gerund or present participle: cheating
1.
act dishonestly or unfairly in order to gain an advantage, especially in a game or examination.
This is cheating no matter how you view it. Your argument saying it might negatively impact the game is not that great. That’s like saying you should let people use aimbot and other hacks because those who use it won’t play the game otherwise. They can play fairly or not at all.
@DarthValtrex Yes, it will, because the queue times will be much higher and because not being able to play against a friend occasionally takes some of the fun away. Also, this rule can't stop you from removing the friends from your list or team up with someone random in the game. In some cases, the available number of players on a servers is low, so those having many friends in the game may end up sitting on the bench forever.
I am not supporting cheating, but neither ideas that can create more problems when attempting to fix one. Also, teaming up in solos is not officially cheating until stated in the game's rules of conduct, it doesn't fall in the same category as hacks that exploit code weaknesses. The reporting that can be done at this point is more likely to help them frame these rules and think of other measures to prevent this from happening, if the solo mode will become permanent.
Games code of conduct YOUR PLAYING SOLOS stay solo!
Haha, "your" (you're) funny. I remember a case where an RV owner went in a ditch after putting the vehicle on autopilot and leaving the steering wheel. He then sued the RV manufacturer and won because they didn't detail enough in the vehicle's manual what autopilot is/isn't supposed to do. The "solo" term is relative until Apex clearly draws the rules.
In a ranked solo mode, the waiting queues would fill slower, especially for the top ranks. In that case, counting up to join the match simultaneously wouldn't even matter, you could join a queue 2 minutes later than your friend and still be in the same match.
I would bet you're one of the people who is exploiting this right now. There is a difference between playing against friends and working together. It creates a huge advantage for a group of 3-4 players in the same Solo match working together to eliminate targets. It's nearly impossible to take people out 2 or 3vs 1, unless your skills are far superior to the 2 or 3 your trying to take out.
All your arguments are mute and pointless.
1. You can fix this issue you by staggering the queue time. Just random amounts between .01-.59 seconds would create enough variation that it would put friends in different games. a 1 minute queue is not terrible especially if it creates a fun and fair environment for everyone.
2. Quit showing the champion so that it's more difficult to identify if you're in the same game.
If they don't fix this, then you're going to turn Solo into another team match type game. No one will play it truly solo, you'll just have groups of friends trying to queue at the same-time and get into the same game.
It's this kind of garbage that's ruined EA reputation with a lot of gamers. You have a handful of morons who think it's fun to cheat and they ruin it for everyone else.EA have useless game rules. they play with their friends and still not getting punishment. USELESS. if someone gets 5 votes that helping with an enemy then he/she must kick out from matchfor fair gaming environment but Respawn just watch on their profit like giving paid items. the current position of the game is 1% free cosmetics and 99% are paid. this is what respawn want but they dont want fair gaming environment because they are not able to give it.
