Before people start sucking at Apex's teet and screaming 'lol cya no one cares' take a moment to take stock of how utterly cancerous it is to queue up with random players. Absolutely horrendous experience 95% of the time. Just felt like throwing this out there.
I'd like for an option not to get random teamates and actually start the game solo. I don't get why that's not an option. Sure the game would have more than 20 squads on average and sometimes the 3x3 achievement may be literally impossible, but those are minor problems. There are some solo players who would rather not ruin the experience for their unwanted teammates.
@MartenPhilip wrote:
@ZeBlindRabbitI've shared a guide with provided evidence that you can achieve victories all by yourself. A fully dedicated solo mode might never happen as the legend system is purely designed for team play.
So you're rage quitting over something you can already do.
Jump solo, play solo & win solo.
So you leave your squad down one.
I've just dropped into half a dozen games where someone does exactly what you're talking about and that ALSO makes me want to uninstall the game. If you could enter the match solo then great, but when your team is compromised by you wanting to play captain hero then what you're doing is compromising the game itself.
Solo (and DUO modes hopefully) are very much needed and the reasons are actually more then few.
First and foremost if this game wants to stay competitive with other Battle royales it needs to offer what those other Battle royale games have and -more-. Fortnite, PUBG, COD, ROE, all of those games have solo, duos, squad modes. Apex isn't doing anything unique when they offer squad orientated gameplay mode, because every other battle royale game have -that-. They are actually staying behind, because they do not offer the rest of the modes other battle royale games do and by doing so lose on a huge portion of playerbase.
Dont get me wrong. Apex is quite unique, but that uniqueness isnt in the game mode, its in the fast phased combat and the diverse type of legends you can play.
While squads is great way to play a game, sadly it has proven time and time again that its absolutely horrible experience to play with randoms and Apex isn't an exception. Once in a full moon you get actually decent team, where there is good communication (either through mics or the ingame ping system) and you get a decent and fun game and even some wins.Sadly 99% (and this is not exaggarated in the slightest atleast in my experience) the games with randoms are a clown fiesta.
I lost count on how many times my "teammates" revive me only to find half of my loot gone from my box. I literally had a guy that looted my box right infront of me, as i was going back to pick my loot. (And no, the fact that he revived me, doesnt make it okay to loot half of my stuff). I had a guy that grabbed a wingman right underneat me and then RAN away and left me to fight against two squad guys on my own melee (they were both melee aswell, so we could've taken them easily if he stayed with that wingman), but no, he ran to loot. I lost count on how many times i get one of those tryhards with TTV in their names where they run solo or rush entire squads on their own, cause you see they already found their perfect loadout, but they dont give a flying f*** that the rest of their teams hasnt yet, so that games end pretty quickly. I lost count how many times level 2 players decide its the best idea to drop right into the hotzones, while not having any experience whatsoever and gets destroyed while fire testing the weapons they just picked into the nearby walls.
Bottom line is -- squads is a mode that is best to play with friends. Playing squads with randoms is a horrible, HORRIBLE idea and annoying experience for the majority of the time and i am buffled by the fact that Respawn decided its just a great idea to have only that mode in their game.
[Comment Removed - Admin.] Deathlyhearts hit the nail on the head on every single point. I actually did uninstall, despite trying again and again to want to stay. But after (and I actually counted) 17/20 games of people either solo dropping and leaving us a 2-man team, rage quitting before the game even started, yelling into the mic, d/cing after being downed, or just generally being toxic, I figured this game just isn't very much fun when you're forced to be stuck in a team. Granted, there were three games where the people were coordinated, using mics, and were nice people.
You can only focus on yourself and improve your own skills. When you get a bad team experience, never forget that you were 1/3 of the problem as well. If you wanted to be aggressive but your other 2 wanted to push another direction because they need more gear, you're the problem player in this situation, you're being out-decided by the other 2 guys. Your best bet is to just swallow your pride and stick with your team if you actually want to improve your odds of winning. If you think you know best and yet your team still won't follow you...maybe it's your ego that is the problem.
Whenever I try to push one way and I see my teammates not following me, I turn right back around and stick with them. I already know it's gonna be one of those games, so why struggle against it? You greatly improve your odds of success if you stick with your team.
Keep in mind that, at the end of the day, it is entirely possible to solo win games already. Top streamers do it regularly...I've seen Shroud do it just for fun and a new challenge. Times where his randoms die and disconnect and he finishes and wins the whole game. The fact that you can't do this is a reality check...you are NOT good enough to pull off these carries, so stick with your team. If you were truly skilled enough at Apex, you wouldn't need the 2 anyway, they'd just basically be bots with the potential to assist you, but it would still be you ending that game with 17 kills and 2500 damage. But, it's not. Why is that? Could it be you are not nearly as skilled as you made yourself think? Hmm.
