The fall of Apex
Mediocre skins (and full of just recolors for $25 each), broken rank system, so many cheaters, scarce rewards, stingy event rewards, money hungry developers, disregard to community needs, I mean I ca...
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Yeah, new servers - switch to Amazon? - kinda improved crazy no-reg situation present a few seasons ago, maybe matchmaking became a bit faster because of fewer region servers available, but EMEA / EU central after D3 is totally unplayable because of hackers. Back in the days you could improve situation via going to London, Belguim servers (a bit further from Russia / Asia / Middle East <- regions, countries where hackers are just bluntly obvious)...now though have to go straight to NA EAST = Ping from 40-70 to 120+ but totally agree with Blekerodo it is better than playing vs so many hackers. Sad thing is that I see at least Russians going there as well because NA has known to be per se easier one to play on = can farm even faster with hacks on.
As for Lazlo3o message - I will say only one thing: google some youtube videos about business plan behind free to play games :) and thanks for sponsoring it for us! Appreciated!
To be clear - I'm hitting fast D4 and only going to pubs because I'm not interested in playing against masters and preds in solo q.
I also encounter cheaters on NA - you can't avoid them, but it's much rarer.
When I enter EU - I feel like half the people have WH. Everyone knows my move, I always get hit in the back. It's just a waste of time playing on this server. And that aim... People always hit everyone like they were some kind of robot. It's just crazy.
EA/Respawn - do something about it, because I don't remember it being this bad in terms of cheaters on this server for many years.
Cronus/Xim are still up and running because Forget Dat is still pushing that **bleep** and has over 22k kills this season. Still no ban, gg.
I guess I am somewhat "BSMD" because since I started Apex in Season 7 I actually liked the grind, mission impossible type of games - where I am total underdog - vs where you get 5+ KP without even trying too hard.
Given I am "gifted" and reached P2 or P3 on my first attempt at ranked and then since season 9? every split when I played I got to Diamond4+ I have had an experience that P1 or lower lobbies are just too easy most of the time and always have been. The gap between P1 or lower vs D4 is just too big and always has been like that in Apex, you just go straight from "easy / normal" to basically "hardcore" mode where every mistake is punished, as soon as you lose teammate Preds and other hackers just hunt you down even from other side of the map etc. Which since season 7 has made players quit ranked as soon as they get D4 (sort of bragging rights and cosmetics) or for one on roller/exploiting/boosted go to borderline Masters (hard flex like they gods of the game + cosmetics). Which ruins the point of ranked imo. Respawn / Apex has underdelivered the most in this aspect = there is no bridge between soloq or even when you find people on LFG discord servers between D4 and Masters + too much hacking at that level. Not only unbridgable skill gap between good player and hacker / Pro 3stacks but also mental struggle - really have to rat out most of the games while trying your absolute best just to break out of D4, not a pleasant experience and more often just feels totally like mission impossible.
As of late though Diamond has lost its "glory" -> What has become worse over past 5? seasons is that Respawn did allow less skilled players to get into D4 (back in the days it was 3-5% tops 8% if not mistaken of players being D4-D1, something like 0.3% in Masters and 0.1% in Pred), now D4-D1 contains like 30% of player base of ranked which is just crazy and thus creates this imo worst experience possible were you get:
1. a few Pred/Master 3stacks per lobby whom will farm the lobby
2. lowest skill players are just "bot like" (P1 or even close to ex-Gold level game awareness and skill set) - talking about players who don't use any audio, any comms, drop into 3+ teams and hope to kill them all while doing on average like <200 damage per game in D4+ lobbies
3. hacker % increase per lobby + smurfs
Basically Diamond lobbies are more trash/random than I would assume Platinum or Gold would be where player count is lower yet more evenly distributed (all are equally average / bad vs average/bad playing top of the tier).
Yeah I don’t fall for that crap. I play for free. I’m not spending money on overpriced digital items. You won’t catch me dropping to my knees for them just bc it’s “just business” or “always been this way”. It’s this way because a lot of fools fall for it
Glad to hear that, from your initial post I got impression that you have spent a lot on the game :)
