Solo's Mode, The Good, Bad or Ugly S21 Thread
Ok Legends only a few hours to go, lets share are experiences here about:
What many have been craving to come back or have: The Solo game mode.
Well, well, well…looks like Solos is coming back ...
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Is anyone aware in this APEX how many cheaters they are in SOLOS??? reported few of them but still seeing the same guys playing... so sad they don't even hide their cheats.
@ Everyone here and @EA_Mari
Thanks for the great feed back from everyone. Keep it coming there is still some time left in the LTM.
After checking out what you all posted, it looks like there are many comments on different aspects related to Solo's, I have attempted to sift and count them (all mistakes are mine and sometimes I had to infer):
Mentions: 4 Duos should stay.
Mentions: 6 Full of cheaters/teaming
Mentions: 1 Would like to see solo Ranked
Mentions: 3 Loving the Solo Mode
Mentions: 3 Ambivalent to the Solo Mode
Mentions: 10 MM is horrible/no balance (Surprise, not so much)
Mentions: 4 Kitted weapons good
Mentions: 1 50m range finder good
Mentions: 5 50m Range finder bad (does not allow for sneak plays etc)
Mentions: 1 Inability to report suspected cheaters
Mentions: 4 The respawn mechanic is bad
Mentions: 1 The respawn mechanic is bad
What is my take on all of this from what I have seen here, experienced via playing and or seen read somewhere else:
The MM is very very bad, pred level players wiping the floor on casuals and or new players (not Smurfs).
Lots of Smurfs playing the mode.
Teaming and general cheating is out of hand.
Solo's the second time around is probably worse than the first time around.
So lets get Duos back in and say goodbye to Solo's and this time forever.
Either way lets keep the feedback coming.
@Asmodeus566How about let's try fixing the bad? Get rid of the respawn mechanic and the 50m enemy warnings that no one asked for. Make it play like the rest of the BRs. In a couple hundred solos games Ive played Ive only suspected teaming once. I couldnt prove it tho because of the respawn mechanic. Oh and tighten the MM in all modes really.
I get you've been biased against solos from the beginning but the feedback for it isn't any different than the daily feedback for the rest of the game. If we used your logic we'd just delete apex and start over.
Fixing the bad would be great.
Fixing the MM for solo's and for all of BR/mixtape would also be the way to go.
I get why the have the respawn mechanic = player retention/a second chance as it kinda sucks when you get unlucky and die early. Do I like the mechanic no.
I get why the 50m warning was implemented, it is there to counteract what was happening the first time around when solo's was there, to encourage fighting and counter camping/sneaky play.
I do not like that either, it fully removes a viable playstyle.
@Asmodeus566HOW is your take on this after what you have read that solos has to go? HOW?!?!? people dont like machanics EA/respawn added to a normal BR - so get rid of the new mechanics! there is also people loving the solo mode.
what people hate is that duos is gone, they are forced to play with randoms or solo mode although a friend is online - how about bring both permanent? thats what you should take from that.
and people cheating/teaming? bad matchmaking? - ITS IN EVERY GAMEMODE!!! the whole game is infested with cheaters teamers etc. i have encountered WAYYY MORE teaming people in duos before that patch and even this season in ranked more than in solos. i saw ranked games where 9 people met in the last ring, dropped all their stuff and had a fistfight. WTF - and your take is that solos are bad?!?!? so how about getting rid of trios, ranked etc aswell?
people who dont like solos, dont play it. its a decision to play solos, why take that opportunity for people who WANT to play that mode, only because others dont like solos? they dont have to play that mode. it does not effect them.
i want to keep solos and duos permanently, and i keep fighting for it. i would rather see trios gone than duos and solosEA/respawn is expecting us to pay 300+$ on basically 1 heirloom, one 1deathbox noone really wants, and maybe 2 or 3 good skins, between all the garbage in the collection (noone cares for most of the skins in the collectikn event, especially not the 18 stickers, holosparays whatever) but cant even invest enough to fight against all the cheater, the teamer, the bugs and audio problems, and cant even bring us 2 modes side by side permanently that every BR should have?? i am so sad what apex has become/is becoming, it could have been the greatest BR of all time but it will always just be another br second or third or whatever to fortnite and others. now that even pubg is getting unreal engine 5 is will only get worse. and i hate it, i want apex to be more but with all what is going on, i cant see that happen... i lost hope and it kills me inside
Woah hold up there, I did not mean to offend you or anyone else here.
That I did not like Solo's the first time and now the second time around is just my opinion. Others may or may not share that opinion. That is perfectly fine and part of why we are all here.
If EA finds that it is healthy for the game/the community and profitable they should by all means make it an additional permanent option to play along side with Duos and the two Trios mode and even mixtape.
I am actually happy that it was brought back a second time for a test drive, and think it is great that a lot of players like it.
Either way, providing input about the Solo mode, the Good, Bad or Ugly, what one likes, dislikes and or what could improve the mode is the best way we can help provide some feedback here to help EA/Respawn make decisions on how to improve the mode and or whether or not keep it.
Just because I do not think the mode is worth the effort to keep (Fix the other problems first) does not mean it is not worth keeping (see above EA).
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