It has always been a pretty considerable benefit of Wingman, Scout etc. Maybe a teeny bit more now.
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This game's matchmaking is fucking awful. I want to be able to enjoy it, but without matchmaking that puts me on a genuinely even playing field, it'll never fucking happen. I feel like I'm slamming my head into a wall every single match I have, and there's never any consistency. I can't tell if I'm getting better or worse since I can go from no kills in six matches to five kills in another two matches.
It's utter dogshit. Also, whoever coded the matchmaking to allow Masters and Predators to match with LOW GOLD in casual is out of their fucking mind.
It's utter dogshit. Also, whoever coded the matchmaking to allow Masters and Predators to match with LOW GOLD in casual is out of their fucking mind.
This is so fucking bad it's insane. They obviously broke something, too, because this never happened in any of the previous seasons.
I just started playing the game, rank bronze whatever, played with two low gold friends, met predator, stopped playing for that day lol.
I think they way it 'works' is that it doesn't really care what teammates it matches you with, then tries to find a match for your squad but goes off the highest rank in your squad or something to do it.
It's garbage and often makes the game unplayable for the whole squad. Like last season there was a fucking enormous skill gap just from diamond 4 to diamond 2 but the games all like 'ah yes plat 2 and apex pred are definitely equal!'
Matches would be fairer more frequently if they just randomly picked them.
It's frustrating, because in Blackout I'd have little difficulty getting two or three kills at minimum, and surviving into the Top 5 was never that difficult for me. Fortnite is a substantially harder game than Blackout due to its ever-evolving meta and unsurprisingly difficult building mechanics, but at the very least its matchmaking is good enough that I can play with my cousin (exclusively on Xbox) while I'm on my iPad or PC, and we'll not only have a few good matches, but win a decent number of them, too.
That never happens in Apex. Every match I do well in feels like a fluke because of how enormous the skill gap is, and how insanely unfair (and bad) the matchmaking is.
Why is the game not allow auto-swapping of attachments when you find something better? It hasn't always been like this, has it? For example, I have a blue barrel mod on my primary r301 and a white on my R-99 secondary. I find a purple barrel on the ground, equip my 301, pick up the purple barrel mod and my blue one flies onto the ground. I then have to swap weapons, walk over to the blue and pick it up to put it on the 99? I could have sworn it used to automatically do the switch before, but if it didn't, that would be a great switch.
I'm excited for the patch today, but I'm not excited to play the game -- if that's weird. lol.
My enthusiasm for this game has dropped significantly due to the terrible matchmaking and lack of options for duos/solos. This game is probably the most frustrating experience when you're a duo or solo. Especially solo.
Not to make hyperbolic statements or speak for anyone or anything, but at least for me, if the CoD BR comes out and has solos, my playtime of Apex is more than likely going to reduce to almost 0, if not 0.
All Apex needs to do to reinvigorate my hype is add solos/duos. That's literally it. I don't even care about a new map, new legends, new weapons. I just want to be able to play by myself or with a single friend, as is typical for my gaming sessions.
My enthusiasm for this game has dropped significantly due to the terrible matchmaking and lack of options for duos/solos. This game is probably the most frustrating experience when you're a duo or solo. Especially solo.
Not to make hyperbolic statements or speak for anyone or anything, but at least for me, if the CoD BR comes out and has solos, my playtime of Apex is more than likely going to reduce to almost 0, if not 0.
All Apex needs to do to reinvigorate my hype is add solos/duos. That's literally it. I don't even care about a new map, new legends, new weapons. I just want to be able to play by myself or with a single friend, as is typical for my gaming sessions.
Bro last night I had the most wild experience it felt like I was in the Twilight Zone:
I have 4k kills with Pathfinder, my main. I'm not bad at the game, but I know I'm not amazing either. I can have a string of games where I don't get any kills and then the next game I can drop 2k damage and 9 kills. That's just how it works out for me.
Anywho, yesterday I got into a lobby purely filled with Predators and Diamonds. I was the weak link in my team. My teammates: Lifeline with 18k kills Predator, Octane with 10k kills Predator. The Champion Squad: Wraith with 26k kills, Pathfinder with 13k kills, Bangalore with 16k kills, each with 20 bombs & 4k damage badges. When I saw my teammates I was like wtf, and then I saw the Champions and I was like WTF.
This was the sweatiest lobby I've ever been in. Even that one time I got in a lobby with BackOffMyJanKz wasn't as crazy as this. Naturally I kept going doing to literal gods at the game, but my teammates were so good they kept rescuing me until we got down to the last 3 squads and lost to the Champion Squad. My jaw was like on the floor the whole time just witnessing greatness lol. It was so fast paced, and to them this was like casual (judging by the way they were talking on the mics).
I have 4k kills with Pathfinder, my main. I'm not bad at the game, but I know I'm not amazing either. I can have a string of games where I don't get any kills and then the next game I can drop 2k damage and 9 kills. That's just how it works out for me.
Anywho, yesterday I got into a lobby purely filled with Predators and Diamonds. I was the weak link in my team. My teammates: Lifeline with 18k kills Predator, Octane with 10k kills Predator. The Champion Squad: Wraith with 26k kills, Pathfinder with 13k kills, Bangalore with 16k kills, each with 20 bombs & 4k damage badges. When I saw my teammates I was like wtf, and then I saw the Champions and I was like WTF.
This was the sweatiest lobby I've ever been in. Even that one time I got in a lobby with BackOffMyJanKz wasn't as crazy as this. Naturally I kept going doing to literal gods at the game, but my teammates were so good they kept rescuing me until we got down to the last 3 squads and lost to the Champion Squad. My jaw was like on the floor the whole time just witnessing greatness lol. It was so fast paced, and to them this was like casual (judging by the way they were talking on the mics).
Is the patch supposed to fix the broken ass loot boxes? In the middle of a firefight I just tried grabbing some light ammo for my r-99 out of a box (PC, short press) and it somehow swaps for a Mozambique on the other side of the box. Fuck me, this didn't happen until this season. So frustrating to have tiny bugs like this make such a big impact on gameplay.
I'm just
I have issues with that, and mashing X to pick up items. There's even been times where I'm pressing it over an item, I hear an audio cue that I "picked it up" so I run away just to see that the sight still isn't on my gun. It's still on the floor.
I have issues with that, and mashing X to pick up items. There's even been times where I'm pressing it over an item, I hear an audio cue that I "picked it up" so I run away just to see that the sight still isn't on my gun. It's still on the floor.
I just played a game with a guy carrying 20 health kits small ones
I was asking for health the whole time
his name was pied piper lol
I was asking for health the whole time
his name was pied piper lol
You are correct that at some point this changed. It used to be that when you picked up a better barrel mod you'd eject the worst one from your set and it would attach to the gun you're using moving the other one to your other weapon.
I'm not sure when that changed, but it was sometime during Season 3 I think. I'm not sure it was intentional. It was that way for all the mods before and now you have to manually move things around/eject shit and pick it up. It definitely slows things down.
I know I should care more when something like this changes, but I love this game so much it really doesn't phase me. I just adjust to it. The skill expectation at high speed is just unmatched by any other video game. I can imagine this in arcades as a kid eating all my money for just one more run, win or lose.
Yep, it actually has soured me completely on the game.
Are you sure? I have a distinct memory of being annoyed by it for ages, probably since launch. Although Blackout and Apex are kind of a haze for me and Blackout did some major changes to attachments at some point so I might be confusing them.
I'm 99% sure because it was jarring when it changed. I was so used to things shifting to the open slots on my secondary weapon that when it flew on the floor the first few times I thought I did something differently that caused it to happen.
How are you losing the fights? Have you figured that out?
The weapon meta does change from season to season. Also, it's pretty clear all the players are better now than they were six or even three months ago. One thing that has definitely changed (and not a lot of players along with it) is that it definitely pays to be a little cautious now instead of rushing in headfirst. Far too many random people I play with want to push every team they see and that's just not how you win. It's a mix of gear, timing of the attack, and your position in relation to them that will define the victors. It might have been easier a season ago to be super aggressive, but people know how to defend now and that means you're gonna lose if you get too crazy.
A guy punched me into the centre fire of Harvester and a team mate went off on one at me because apparently I needed to stick with him to win. I didn't even bother explaining myself, I just quit out and moved on.
Live for me, downloading right now. Just over 18gb in size which seems pretty big for this kind of update?
It'd be cool if there was an unannounced Town Takeover!
Seriously doubt it though :p
Apex Legends on Twitter
“As an FYI, players will notice this patch size is larger than most. This was done so that future patch sizes will be significantly smaller than what they've traditionally been.”
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They just mentioned that this is a large update so that future updates are so big. I wonder what they loaded in there for the dataminers to get a hold of.
Honestly no idea. Just feels like we can't finish.
But love all these patch notes. Dunno how I feel about the backpack stuff tho
Matchmaking. Game hasn't been good since the first month of season 3. Still fun on smurf accounts tho.
What is the standard amount of ammo that you used to keep for each weapon? For me:
Sniper: 40
Shotty - 32
R-99/R-301 (Alternator if I can't find any of these) - 240
Flatline/Hemlock/Prowler - 240
Hammerpoint P2020 - 160
Wingman - 160 (rarely ever use this)
G7 - 160 (rarely ever use this...I suck with single shot weapons)
Havoc - 320
LStar - 320
Do you guys think this is overkill?
Sniper: 40
Shotty - 32
R-99/R-301 (Alternator if I can't find any of these) - 240
Flatline/Hemlock/Prowler - 240
Hammerpoint P2020 - 160
Wingman - 160 (rarely ever use this)
G7 - 160 (rarely ever use this...I suck with single shot weapons)
Havoc - 320
LStar - 320
Do you guys think this is overkill?
I couldn't even tell you the exact ammo count since I go by stacks.
Wingman : one full stack. It's a pistol you don't need much and if your shots are on point one stack can last a few firefights.
Alternator/99 : 3 full stacks. They get burned up fast.
Syringes : one stack. Lifeline doesn't need syringes imo. Shields are more important.
Cells : two stacks. 12 cells. Compliments my aggressive nature with Life and her passive.
Bateries : one stack.
If I feel like grabbing throwables or more consumables then I'll fit them around that setup.
But lifelines quick heal makes me go through cells mid fight super fast.
Update was superfast for me on PS4 over a late lunch. I actually got to play a couple games too. The changes to the inventory are definitely interesting. I actually was less concerned with managing it now but maybe that's because it simplifies your choices through having less of them? The new mode is fun. I found the new shield but only got to level it up once before my teammates engaged too quickly and we were dead.
Sniper: 40
Shotty - 16
R-99/R-301 (Alternator if I can't find any of these) - 240
Flatline/Hemlock/Prowler - 240
Hammerpoint P2020 - 80
Wingman - 80
G7 - 240
Havoc - 160
LStar - 160
Some interesting changes that should switch things up, especially the changes to the backpack and number of slots for healing and nades.
I'm with you on the G7. It's a poking weapon and you need a ton of ammo for that.
LOL@ another Peacekeeper nerf. This weapon stopped being OP like two seasons ago guys.
I dunno about the backpack changes though. I get they don't want people to have forever supplies but the fix is built into the game.
Beginning your supplies are scarce by the nature of the genre; what you scrounge is what you get.
Towards the end yeah you do have people with forever gear but by that time the circle and the endgame is in play...a thousand medkits aren't going to save you from the insanity or enhance your survival because the game will be settled in a few minutes anyway.
This also makes the sentinel worse since the power up mode is now even more useless
I dunno about the backpack changes though. I get they don't want people to have forever supplies but the fix is built into the game.
Beginning your supplies are scarce by the nature of the genre; what you scrounge is what you get.
Towards the end yeah you do have people with forever gear but by that time the circle and the endgame is in play...a thousand medkits aren't going to save you from the insanity or enhance your survival because the game will be settled in a few minutes anyway.
This also makes the sentinel worse since the power up mode is now even more useless
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