Forum Discussion
"if you're checking the box to fill Squadmates, you're consenting to play as a squad."
If you're checking the box to fill squadmates it's because you're not willing to wait 10 minutes for a match.
And careful with the whole "consenting to play as a squad" thing. That means different things to different people and you might easily find yourself the object of someone else's ire for a failure to imagine the game as they imagine it.
I would be the poster boy for this. As an experienced player who solo queues and most commonly is matched with seven year-old children who have 50 matches under their belt and the youthful assurance that they know everything there is to know about the game... I'm sure I could make a very legitimate case against each and every one of them for "not playing as a team," "for engaging in foolish, high-risk behavior," "for recklessly endangering themselves and their squadmates," and just generally "for not playing properly (meaning, the way I play)." Should I advocate for getting them all banned? Should they all sit a corner for ten minutes to think about what they did? I don't think so. They should get on with their lives. As should we all. With our casual, un-ranked, free-to-play game.
"10 minute ban from matches would seriously curtail the practice." Maybe, maybe not. It might just cause them to stay and screw with you in other ways out of spite. It might cause them to tiktok for 10 minutes and then repeat. It might cause the game to lose half its population. Let's face it: quitters buy things in the store just like everyone else.
And finally: if your jumpmaster chooses an LZ that you know is just plain dumb then you should break off. Period. Stop enabling that kind of stupidity. Whether they quit when downed is beside the point. Every time experienced teammates go along with a bad jumpmaster they send him the message that what he's doing is okay. And it isn't.
@reconzeroI play no fill all the time. I never have a 10 minute wait for a queue. The longest it goes is 2 or 3 minutes usually. If you queue with a team and do your own thing the majority of the time while being annoyed I say just no fill.
- reconzero3 years agoSeasoned Ace@hayhor
You've had better luck than I have. No-fill matchmaking for me is a pretty long and drawn-out affair.
I definitely queue with a squad, and I definitely do my own thing, but I don't find it frustrating for myself, per se. I find it frustrating for them - watching them make incredible rotation and position mistakes, obviously believing that they have to go wherever the circle pushes them, and wondering all the while when their awol #3 is going to get himself killed. They always die first. Always. And I feel bad, but I'm not a life coach. I can only lead by example.- hayhor3 years agoHero@reconzero The time to find a match when no filling depends on the time of day. If I queue on NA at 8 am eastern it will take forever. But any peak time I find games fairly quickly or at least quick enough for me.
- Lord_Scorpion343 years agoLegend
@hayhor wrote:@reconzeroI play no fill all the time. I never have a 10 minute wait for a queue. The longest it goes is 2 or 3 minutes usually. If you queue with a team and do your own thing the majority of the time while being annoyed I say just no fill.
Obviously this is not an option in ranked 😅
- hayhor3 years agoHero@Lord_Scorpion34 If it was I'd probably play it.
- Lord_Scorpion343 years agoLegend@hayhor I will admit so far this split I've gotten farther & points solo either cuz my team died early on or cuz I chose not to follow them.
- reconzero3 years agoSeasoned Ace
@Lord_Scorpion34
"Obviously this is not an option in ranked"
That depends entirely on the mindset of the player. If you believe that rank is a ladder that must be climbed to the highest possible rung, then ratting solo will not fulfill your dreams of diamond two, or wherever. But if you believe that rank is a description of where you are as a player (and largely of where matchmaking is) then rank is just a number and the benefit of playing ranked is (in theory) tighter matchmaking and a higher likelihood of squadmates and enemies who adhere more closely to the meta.
Rank is a game that developers play with people who crave acceptance. And a game players play with each other because their ultimate motivation is a paralyzing fear that their natural endowment is inferior to the next guy's. Free yourself of that mindset and suddenly ranked gameplay becomes just gameplay. Nothing to chase. Nothing to prove. Just another match like any other. Save your anxiety for things in life that really matter, like work, family, and purpose.- hayhor3 years agoHero
@reconzeroOmg that 2nd paragraph is spot on with how I feel about ranked.
About Apex Legends General Discussion
Recent Discussions
- 3 hours ago
- 5 hours ago
- 5 hours ago
- 2 days ago