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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I do not think it is a case of catering to the wrong audience.
I think it is/was a case of enough people wanting it back and EA/Respawn finally deciding lets give it a go and see if it works this time around.
I was not fond of Solo's the first time around because of the blatant "Teaming" etc.
That is why I have been against it coming back, to much Cheating and Teaming.
However I was not against it coming back as an LTM so that EA could get more data and see how and if it works as a mode that is good for the game and the company.
If EA could get a handle on all of the "Teamers" in Solo mode and get a better handle on cheaters in general it could be a perfectly good mode. I just do not see that happening since it happens in Ranked Trios as well.
@Asmodeus566ok i take the steam data as an example ... if Solos would have been the "demanded" Mode , the "Player Gain" at Season 21 start should have been way higher ... like with any other Season Start ... but it was one of the worst in Apex History according to the steam numbers ... so i guess it kinda was "catering to the wrong audience".
The Goal should have been : ok we had 625K players in Peak on Steam , now its 430K (April, before s21 start) ... lets get those 200K players back into the game.
The result was not gaining players ... the game lost quite a chunk of players due to S21 (nearly 80K Peak players from May until today).
i bet 100$ if they would have announced one of the following :
1) we overhauled the netcode/server quality
2) we changed the Matchmaking to something meaningful3) we now have unassisted lobbies as an option.
the game would have gained some ten-thousand players back
edit :
ofc ... 4) support EAC with internal gamefunctions to spot cheats a tiny bit better (cmon Respawn ... , you guys have the realtime data on the server, not too hard to spot fishy stats or recurring 100% pixel perfect macros for antirecoil,ect.)
To lure my former apex buddies back into the game bcs there is now SOLO Mode would be a hard sell ... not to say impossible.
But im 100% sure they all would have given the game another shot if the points above would have been met.
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