Stuttering issues after genesis update
The game has become impossible to play as it sttuters even on champion screem. I skip frames in fights. Cant even play arenas. I am on origin. I repaired the game with lastest nvidia drivers. Sea...
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Just attempted to play Arenas this evening & the whole performance issues were just brutal although the ping remained at around 40ms throughout the game the amount of stuttering & screen clipping was terrible.& my character kept drifting,rubber-banding & moving without touching my controller.And when I kept trying to adopt the old peek-aboo approach (crouching on the corner of a building/object taking pop-shots) whilst exchanging gunfire with the enemy my character would just suddenly drift away from the building as getting sucked in by an imaginary Horizon's Black Hole Ultimate.The whole game just felt terrible & painful to endure but through blind loyalty to my teammates quitting just wasn't an option but having to grind out a game in such appalling conditions does leave me questioning my appetite for the game (mainly because the game is unplayable with no resolution in sight it seems).
I did hear speculation from several Apex You-Tubers that the whole furore around server issues dogging the game throughout Season 9may be resolved for the start of Season 10 in August.They both claim from insiders involved in the game that neither EA or Respawn own the servers that Apex is played on.In fact the servers are owned & leased by a company called Multiplay where EA signed a 6 year contract to use their servers for Apex & both Titanfall games.The 6 year contract apparently ends in August & leaves EA with the option to (either) re-sign with with Multiplay which one would assume to be problematic for future seasons due to the fact the consistent server problems that have dogged Season 9 could cause the same issues in Season 10 & beyond. It is well known in the industry that Apex (on Multiplay servers) is one of the lowest 'tick rate' performing multiplayer games at 20hz compared to other games such as Fortnite;30hz, Overwatch;60hz with Valorant;128hz (the highest performing game).The lower the 'tick rate' of a game the more problems ie performance issues, unresponsiveness & other issues as well as packet loss being more common.When the contract ends the speculation is that EA could cut ties with Midway & either provide servers of their own or negotiate leasing servers from an alternate company with less problematic servers.Fingers crossed either way.
Apologies for the long-winded message (phewww!)
My feeling is that the pressure to drive revenue within the org must be pretty strong. I don't get the impression that any of these franchises are really built for the long term. It seems more like once you get a successful property its a pump & dump to squeeze whatever revenue you can out of it, as fast as you can, because your racing against the new sexy that isn't out yet, but you know is coming. That being said, I would be surprised to see any significant improvement in infrastructure (since every $ spent is one you could be reporting as profit)... and since the player base is pretty flat right now and appears to be slightly declining I'm not sure how you make that case to management. I mean.. I hope it comes true.... I'd love to be wrong.
And if you want a case study on how declining platforms are handled.. just look at where Titanfall is right now and how much time and $$ is being invested in that property.
- @MintyBatsnack As I've always said in my opinion when Apex is on form (with no performance issues etc) it is probably the best multiplayer out there.If Apex was to end at the end of season 9 & was no more I don't feel there is another game to fill Apex's shoes at the moment. There are some genuine rivals due out later this year with Battlefield 2042,the next COD game & Overwatch 2.Respawn have a pretty good track record when it comes to quality games & the devs have mentioned they have already laid out ambitious plans for at least the next 3,4,5etc seasons with future characters & maps already in the pipeline.Apex's future will ultimately be in EA's hands as they own Respawn & if reports I noted in my previous comment are correct about EA's 6 year contract leasing servers owned by Midway coming to an end then it'll fall on EA to continue on with the problematic servers which will inevitably lead to a further fall in player-base.Or do they decide to provide their own servers or lease servers more capable of dealing with the complexities of a game like Apex trying to build on it's player base.I just feel that it the game is still suffering from the same issues as it has done in season 9 when in fact nothing has changed I honestly believe the game will never see a season 11.I know plenty of players who got so frustrated with the long serving issues in season 9 they deleted the game believing nothing was going to be fixed.But I know (as I regularly speak to them) they will be back playing again if the game is genuinely fixed & I believe those same performance issues are the main reason the player base has seen a sharp decline.
I do think there is still plenty of life (potentially) in the game particularly as it traverses between the Titanfall universe.i cant believe it takes so much time to fix it? no way
they won't fix it
