Thanks for such a great game but...

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@Dominicomucci wrote:

I would just ask that the devs look into one thing and that is people who quit mid or early game or even in selection. 

Every time this happens it's ruining it for 2 other people. I've had people quit in the select screen because "thier character got picked". I've had people quit when knocked or killed before the timer is even out. 

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Hmmmm, maybe solo queues is a good idea after all. 

@Dominicomucci I leave right after selection if anyone on my team is under lvl 20.

I leave as soon as I land if my whole team isn't in the same town. 

I leave right after selection if my team has only two players.

If apex wants to stop or fix this problem they should probably add a solo q

i have like 5 potential legends to swop between so 3 is always there for me no matter what the others take.

i rarely quit until my beacon is pinged out if i get downed early.

i do quit if i get downed and see the other 2 on my team flee instead of stay and fight and

are far away not turning back.

@DominicomucciI am sorry to break it to you, but random squads are filled with a) trolls; b) people that don't care at all about playing as a team; c) Completely new players that are still clueless on game mechanics and get into squads with lvl 80+ players. Just thirty minutes or so ago I had two lvl 1 and lvl 2 guys in my squad, while i am lvl 83+ Its just redicilous. 

I need to be able to depend on my team in some way, just like they need to be able to depend on me. That's why it's a squad mode. I can't depend in any way on people that ping the ground infront of them and cant climb over a building and people that loot for 5 minutes 2 dead lootboxes. I am sorry but I neither have the desire nor the time to play with competely new people, trolls or some tryhards that run ahead thinking they are the new Shroud and can solo every single squad out there and die to the first one they encounter.

When I queue with random players i have to throw the dice at the moment and pray that I will get lucky to get some decent players, who have desire to communicate and can stand their in a firefight and don't down the first 30 seconds after landing.

While matchmaking continues to be such a joke, people will continue to leave when they see there is no point in wasting their time and punishing them, because they didnt want to carry two dead weights on their shoulders or spectate a troll teammate that carries your banner around, but never bothers to revive you... or trying to teamplay with some tryhard that only cares about himself is not the way this needs to be handled.

People shouldn't be punished, because Respawn matchmaking is failing miserably 90% of the time. What needs to be done is for Respawn to adress this and actually comes up with either decent matchmaking system or implement solo and duo modes.

The game needs solo que, a better matchmaking and possibly giving people a time out if they quit early, meaning they cannot just que into another game if they quit early and are less likely to quit early as a result. I think it would address the leaving early issue. A lot of people including myself cannot be bothered to play with people if they're lvl 1 or are bad players.

So listen guys, very important instead of asking or attempting to get SOLO q after they already said they have absolutely no plans in introducing a solo q. We should instead focus on how to make regular matchmaking better. Now remember adding a ranked system sounds good in theory but also remember that wait times to get into a game will be much longer. Currently the game is still very popular so the times won't be almost much at all, but as players leave and come and the overall playerbase stabilizes to dedicated players the que times will continually grow. 

This was always meant to be fast paced, end quick, start quick. So adding a ranked system probably would take away from the original purpose of the game and how it was made, there are however I'm sure other ways to improve the overall matchmaking, maybe finding a way so that every squad within a lobby has close to the same average of level.

So instead of ranking they just go based off of average level system so that if you are stuck with a level 1-10 player you know that other squads are as well because they'll be leveling it out amongst everyone to get to that (avg.) this will avoid a lot of wait times and still make it fair, although the player may still be new or troll or whatever you at least know everyone in the current drop also has newer players with them. The average could also be much higher obviously and so everyone would be equally skilled again across the board.

I say these things because they've been adamant about not introducing solo's so complaining or bringing it up isn't going to change their minds, they have a direction planned for the game and I don't see them shifting that just because. This was meant to be different and add new systems to the BR genre and it has done that, so I wouldn't expect to see very many features added from others. I'm sure they will add new modes and such as we continue.

What I really look forward to seeing is a more expansive training map where you can que with some friends that way if one of your buddies wants to play the game and is new you can coach him through the basics and show him the ropes without having to jump straight into a match.

The only time I leave is if I'm knocked or killed and it's obvious my team has no intentions of even trying to help me get back in the game. Other than that people quitting early should have some type of wait period before being able to hop in another game. For the people that leave with the excuse of " iF tHeY'rE uNdEr LeVeL 20 tHeN lEaVe" get your heads out of your a hole. We all start somewhere, just like when I started, it was obviously my first time playing apex but this isn't the first shooter or br that I've played and it won't be my last. Which means there's basic skills already there. I never leave even if they're super low level cause at least a lot of low levels at least try to help. Unlike the over 1000 kill try hards who take off on their own and die.