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Cheese9Man

3 years ago

The official Matchmaking blog post

Here’s the most awaited blog post about matchmaking https://www.ea.com/games/apex-legends/news/matchmaking-2023

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MindTrick85

Seasoned Hotshot

1 year ago

@Airish85 Dev harrasment is not cool on any lvl I agree with you on this one. I have 9686 hrs 55 mins playtime on apex showed by EA app, and I have spent a lot of money as well for this game, point is they don't focus on real issues that game has which are 99% cheating issue. Generally in business if you treat your customers like poop they will not comin back and that's the case here lots of players feel like they have been mistreated by EA not fixin or not even tryin to find actual solutions on ongoin issues, includin myself, that's one of the reasons I stop buyin' anything ingame content. I play fortnite ranked as well 1200hrs on that game and I have encounter 2 cheaters during that amount of hours. In apex this season you pretty much encounter at least a wallhacker in every single lobby you play. I love competitive gaming when it's fair not when u get killed by a cheater over and over again. My hiswattson statement was only bout' fortnite comment and I agree on that hands down. I can play 1000 matches of fortnite without a cheater. EA has multibillion revenue due to it's games generally so kinda lame excuse. If fortnite would have similar cheater issue there would be more cheaters as well so that statement doesn't make sense either. This season I played like what 5 games of solos in 2 of them I got killed by a cheater at endgame tells a lot about the state of the game, and I am not the only one who feels like it's dyin check all the YT videos from big apex channels... Sayin the exact same thing. Other modes don't even matter in this case if multiple preds are able to cheat on highest level without ban there's an issue with anticheat and that is a solid fact, you have to admit that is correct. They haven't worked on anticheat the way they should. I have seen this similar cheating issue on battlefront 2015 when game started to die it got overrun by cheaters and soon no one played it anymore, same happend with need for speed world. I loved apex seasons and seasons and seasons over and over but then somethin' went sideways it's like an artist lost his passion to paint they lost their passion to keep the game fun. They more focused if someone sayin poop in game chat than actually ban the cheaters with aimbots wallhacks speedhacks etc. This is also a fact.

Airish85

1 year ago

@MindTrick85 Massive stats you have. I guess we are on the opposite ends of the player spectrum in terms of what we look in games so agree to disagree 🙂

Not denying problems with Apex or Anticheat. Me, I have encountered one blatant cheater this season. YT Apex channels show the situation at the top lobbies and of course it looks much worse if you only rely on those short clips. For casual like me the situation is clearly different.

Agreed also that EA input towards cheating is poor. I would assume since its neverending battle (ban some and new cheats roll in next day) they have accepted it as a unavoidable bad. Thats the issue with F2P that once banned they can just create a new account and back to playing in 15 minutes. I would have been probably be willing to buy Apex for some sum but then again it would kill the already small player base and the matchmaking would be a nightmare for a player of my skills.

Its hard to get real stats of the cheating issues but below gives some input:

MindTrick85
Seasoned Hotshot
1 year ago
@Airish85 sent u a long reply dont know if u get it... as I cant see it -_-
MindTrick85
Seasoned Hotshot
1 year ago
@Airish85 I type the main points I wrote before as for some reason it didn't sent it and spent like 15min to write it... -_- I watch cheater clips from YT as well so it clearly doesn't give accurate number as you stated before. One thing that would make a difference is that lvl to play ranked would be set way more higher like lvl 100. I know some would disagree with this but it would resolve smurfin issue for momentary at least and would make harder to cheaters encounter ranked games with new accounts as well, before they find solution for fixin anticheat. Multiple ways to improve it they currently focus on wrong things like divided battlepass on upcomin season, instead spend that money on anticheat team and hire few more people that focus only on that issue. It would be sad to see game that we love die. I went master s18 s19 soloq s20 already started to feel lack of intrest to grind and this season is just a waste of time due the ridicilous cheater issue. thx for constructive conversation about ongoin issues on apex. I do appreciate it <3 There's a lot of ways to improve the anticheat as it's current state is a complete joke. Example if low lvl player has 5.0 K/D and most shots are headshots this could be easily monitored and yes of course there's high skill players who capable to do that but would be take less effort to manually check those players are they legit or not. I might miss few things from the post I spent earlier that didn't come trough for some reason.