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ShidWidley69420's avatar
4 years ago

Toxic Randoms

Ok....I'm 32 years old and have been gaming for 25 years.

I'm only here to point out how broken the matchmaking is in this game - and the result is the frustration boiling over and inadvertently creating the current state of the Apex Community. Toxic AF.

I've heard every kind of hate speech(no surprise there) and listen to more screaming teenagers and 20-somethings in this past week playing Apex than I think I ever have in any game - its on par with the old COD lobbies and old MMO's.

Imagine if the matchmaking system ACTUALLY paired you with people of similar skill, instead of giving one decent player the responsibility of babysitting 2 people who clearly cannot keep up with them(often times I'm the one that can't keep up)

We just get dunked on constantly. While I don't mind getting my * beat by the young guns, the young guns DESPISE losing because they have to carry a team mate. The frustration and hate is redirected at their fellow players, ie their own team mates. It seems its been this way for a very, very long time.

Idk, I enjoy this game, but the garbage I'm hearing people talk at each other, because they don't ever talk TO each other.....is bad enough that I came here to post about it and I'm probably just gonna go play a game that has a community that actually enjoys the game they play. This is embarrassing tbh.

It doesn't seem like anyone that plays Apex actually enjoys it. They're all so angry, and personally, that ruins the experience to the point where I just don't want to play it.

6 Replies

  • its a cartoonish free to play game.. kids and morons going to be all over the place. 

  • Asmodeus566's avatar
    Asmodeus566
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    4 years ago

    @ShidWidley69420 

    Sorry to hear about that. Yes there are sometimes a lot of Toxic players.

    I just tune them out as they are not worth it, you can mute them and then you do not have to listen to them. Use that report button especially if they are sending in chat text and that usually fixes them.

    I play with 2 friends for a long session once a week and I do not have to deal with the toxic's. The other 80% of my game time I play solo Q and only about 5% of that time I run into toxic teammates and follow the advice I provided above.

    Whatever you do do not stoop to there level and be Toxic back at them via Text or over the Mic. Toxic text is easily reported in game and if they send in a video report it will have the voice chat so beware. 

    I hope that you get better teammates or at least less toxic ones in the near future. 

  • I have a suggestion 🙂

    I have been using this tactic myself, never EVER use text chat for anything but:

    - gg

    If you want to communicate, use short simple commands on voice and use push to talk, and if you want to be salty, don't push T and let it rip hehe 🙂

    If anyone is salty just mute, makes my day any day - normally the saltiness comes from one who already died spectating you so you can pat your back and just tell yourself, well I'm better then him atleast.... and just run a full wooozha and focus on your game instead. Mostly I meet decent people these days perhaps one "zizzle" a week or so, but back before I started matchmake with the trails lobbies it was insanely toxic (almost every game), that feels different in the higher lobbies these days 🙂

  • @ShidWidley69420 It's a PVP game every PVP is toxic, Destiny, Fortnite, Cod, I've played all. I am the teammate that always carry a team & lately people just are toxic morons anymore & you can't carry if one is across the map at Fragment & your other teammate is a staging when y'all landed at Lava Siphon 2 minutes ago, this game like all the rest are unplayable unless you have a squad to play with but even then the bugs, the hackers, the hit boxes, the wandering around to find fights, the lobby dying out constantly very quickly in the first ring, trying to find loot, find your loadout, which yea is better then having toxic teammates who don't wanna fight at ALL or just wanna solo everything & quit the second they get knocked, but still those other things all ruin the game regardless so I feel Apex time is over & not just Apex but all BR, Arena shooters are where it's at, no wandering around looking for fights, no worrying about teammates, no looting, no having to know where to find good loot, upgrading your shields, getting in the ring, 3rd partied, living in the lobby constantly because of your teammates/RNG giving you crap weapons like Mozams when you looted 3 bins to some random enemies 1 but he gets a 301 & a nemesis lol, also I don't get why you say Apex like it's only Apex, I'm 29 & I gotta say last season & the one before that, I've encountered way more adults 20+ 30+ year olds who are just toxic, like I say "hey (insert legend their playing) don't go too far, cause we won't be able to help you man, stay close" in a calm rational manner & get told to shut the f up, which at that point, they regret because I'm not the one for all that, I'm just tryna play a game. I've encountered people who probly have kids my age, acting like moronic teens, it's crazy, I play with kids, it's basically coo, I play wit teens 16+ or adults & they act like they know it all even when they are new to the game lol
  • @Zkepz Why though? Plays they just quit the second they get knocked, also your gonna have to play a 2v3 or 1v3 on every fight you get into once your teammate goes on, it's not worth it, being someone who has been there & even won many of those 2v3's even won some 1v3's to win vs the last team, it gets tiring, I carry already so why carry at an even bigger disadvantage, I started using my sweaty teammates for shields & bait, I let them push & get focused(because they never listen) while me or the teammate(assuming they not a sweaty * like that guy) clean up & get all the kills. Also some people who go off on teammates do be right, like if I get pushed & down the guy who pushes me & both of my teammates here me say I'm low, I need back up, I'm gonna get pushed by the remaining two & my teammates(who have great loadouts even better then me with a 301 & Volt, the other got some Car & Flatline with a purple shield & blue while I got a Prowler & a Mozambique & a white which after knocking a guy changes into blue) but they still looting endlessly even after I get finished off & I die to people who don't even have good guns like sniper rifles & a P20 which is a fight we shoulda won, they just have teamwork, many times I down two in that scenario just for both of the guys to get revived & my team finally comes to help just to get beamed up by all 3 & back to the lobby I go, best believe I'mma let em hear it, even when I knock two people, or three & get me a purple just to get pushed by a lone wolf & my team busy looting my death boxes not even far from me & let me get finished off, then kill the guy who took my purple & now one of them have my purple shield & loot, na I'm good I tell them off & I leave, I never just rush a fight, I'm a team player I make sure everybody has guns & enough ammo so that we can win or have the best chances to win our first fight, I used to be the guy who played Lifeline & gave people the purple shield or Blue shield Why had no shield just a regular white that you spawned in with or I stayed with the blue to give them the better shield because I wanted to better my teammates, as seasons went on teammates became more & more horrible to play with so I started keeping the shields for myself as they would push fights by themselves get beamed & Now some one on the enemy squad who were all white shields now have a purple, oftentimes in a 1v1 the purple shield wins the fight barely just because of the simple fact that it can take more damage than a white shield So many times that has been my undoing with a teammate being a brainless octane mean & it's not just octane means who do it I've seen every legend in the game do it over hundreds of times usually it's an octane or bloodhound but it's not just them I see gibraltars quite often do what I see defensive legends do it quite often. Nowadays especially today and yesterday all I got were teammates who constantly push fights the moment they lend it in they resorted to punching on people who already had guns instead of just landing where I peeing & telling them why I'm landing here because there are guns here & people don't go here so we can grab some guns & then push those fights that are 30 meters away, They even grab some Mozambique or P20 & push a full squad who have way better guns get beamed and & then quit the game, literally every game I played yesterday (Monday) for over an hour was like that until I said f this & got off, That's the same as today (Tuesday), It was so bad I got off. Whenever I die when I didn't need to die and then have to come back and get my loot that my teammates take when they could have been assisted me instead of just literally stirring off into the abyss & trying to loot supply bins that they already looted as if something new will grow into it.. Yea I just leave the game at that point & tell him that they are not good teammates because they are not, it's just crazy I'm out here dropping full squads with a mozam and a P20 or some other not very good loadout compared to the top tier guns me while my teammates have way way better guns than me even a better shield in me & they're scared to push fights even after they have a lot of ammo for their guns & even find some good mags🤦🏿‍♂️ I always felt that match making should match you with the way you play so if you were toxic player who wants to solo and sweat you should load up with people who play that way like the game should track everything you do & put you in lobbies with those type of people & those type of teammates & if you're a good team player you should get other team players to play with you, I love Apex but soon as XDefiant & Shatterline come to Xbox, it's bye bye Apex, Apex is unplayable anymore even if you have a squad, you'll survive more just to get shoot around corners or through walls. It's not worth the headache for a game that has a lobby that dies out & trash RNG & now that people only land one spot on the map these days & those spots have horrible loot but somehow they still have better loot then you is not only crazy but not only not worth it. Last time it was actually still fun was 4 seasons ago I believe, now that Fragment Edge is back, it's all people wanna do, EA must love that map, Broken Moon is already gone, it's crazy.