Taking the fun and skill out the game

@LordloshBang Yea me too. Good chat and take care man. 

@Sir_Named Nope. 😛

In all honesty I am not sure what the "vision" for this game is. I took a break from late in season 4. Came back at the start of season 5 and within a week was off of it completely. Came back this week when I saw an update and event. Loaded in and played my first game of A & D. My random teammates decide Airbase was a good landing spot since that is where the ship was flying over first. We land on one side with 4 other squads right by where the respawn beacon is normally. I drop one with my mozzy and we are getting pushed by the remaining squads so I zip across getting shot at with a triple take do the normal hop and low and behold i am swimming in the ocean. At this point I search out the patch notes and see this as an "improvement". Like wtf, so basically you can be a sitting duck on a zip line going in a straight line for someone with little to no skill can clap you? Yet they added re-direct to Octanes jump pad to counter the exact same thing? Logically speaking the 2 are counter intuitive to each other. 

Said it before and will say it again, it is their game, and as long as they are bringing in new players who cares right? 

A couple of games in and went to ranked and from Tuesday to last night fought my way to Diamond and will leave it at that for this season. 

To the developers if you even read these things, if you haven't noticed yet player retention is going to be an issue. As of the end of season 4 no one I have ever played Apex with was or is planning on playing again. Using discord to find teammates and those that started in season 0 with me are no longer playing. Why you might ask, connection issues and lack of solos are the top 2 reasons followed by hit reg issues and getting shot through walls, doors etc. Why is solos such a big issue if you have friends? Well it is simple, the odds you are all on at the same time every day each of you individually plays is not likely, and random teammates are if nothing else pretty atrocious in this game. From rapid disconnect when downed to afk, the list goes on. 

I lost count on how many friends have left this game after 150 or so on my friends list are no longer playing for the reasons listed above. 

I will probably try again in season 6, but seriously doubt I will feel the need to play or post anything further. Btw disconnects and connection issues in general are still a thing? Seriously not sure how that can be a non worked out issue at this stage in this games lifecycle.

Continuously clicking space as fast as possible = skill....

@mastiffslinger I think most saw the potential the game had but the direction it went wasn't to their expectations. For better or worse that's up to Respawn/EA to decide.

They could do a lot more to incentivise people to keep playing and I have seen many suggestions for example just to add more badges using multiple characters, getting x amount of kills per weapon ect which doesn't take much work to put in as the trackers are already there.

I agree it's hard to find good team mates after some leave and repeating the process it becomes tedious to keep replacing them after awhile. What makes it worse is they're removing, nerfing or reworking everything that lets a single player help carry a game on the most popular/enjoyable legends. Not saying they didn't need balancing because Respawn have actually done an ok job on that front, credit where it's due but they have made the game less enjoyable overall and could have been done differently imo.

As for servers, i made a thread awhile back what i think people would like to see but it's not gonna happen unfortunately.

@jTiKey Anyone can spam space and bounce on a zipline but doing so while not getting hit from multiple angles and shooting back did require a fair amount of skill actually.