Bro I don’t want it to die. I still haven’t found another shooter that scratches the itch. I find EAs mismanagement to be absolutely infuriating. And I really hope they can either fix it or something else can come along to take up the mantle. It really frustrating watching this happen to a game you genuinely love.
as a titanfall veteran myself, it pisses me off that this game is dying. titanfall 2, arguably the best shooter out there, died for this game; which i used to play quite a bit, and i liked it, against my better judgement. and now this game is dying because of the same greed that killed titanfall - ea. respawn needs to find a way to break away from ea, because they are NOT helping.
@Elrealsodapop200 This. OG Respawn got replaced by diversity hires. Blame DEI and liberal propaganda. It's not just Respawn either. A lot of the big game studios are plagued by this crap. Formerly great IP'S have been destroyed by it: Halo, Gears of War, Battlefield, etc.
You know what will fix the cheating problem? A $300 heirloom and new skins. Its blatantly obvious they do not care about the game guys. Stop buying battle passes and skins until they prove they care about the consumer.
@buddhastl7120 of course they can stop it. Don't be naive. They make millions of dollars every single day. They can't out smart some fat loser in his mom's basement?? Come on now.
there is no way to stop cheating because people use something called dma its basically a mini motherboard or whatever you put in your pc that hides itself as a driver and the person can cheat all they want without getting caught its mostly used in Fortnite competitive people have made thousands using it
@@TheDeviantStrain they can post it man, but that doesn’t mean they won’t come back ever again. My first match in today on Silver III. Ended up with a player that has intense recoil that ended up killing me and my squad between 100-200 damage. Between 250-900 kills i have noticed that those players has the same recoil not just the recoil their gameplay are the same. i definitely know they are using the same product. The Cronus and not just that for the predators players that using console. They got moves with that 0 recoil honestly know none of them using keyboard but not just that. i don’t believe a player like them can outsmart a golden player. Most of the youtubers saying those players are hacking too. Using an illegal product in a battle royale game and it is called cronus.
@@TheDeviantStrain And not just that bro. I have been playing this game since season 1. Like i saw Apex Legends Whole time chamber of players i can definitely understand who is cheating and who is not. Like i have been compete so many good players for a long period of time and manage to get 3200 kills on my self bro. I am telling you man game style is the same. Same recoil, same tactics. Honestly those players are evolving with the tools. Nobody can get this much good in that few months or for a year. Just saying… I don’t think every human in the apex smart enough to play like that. “Moving forward to 2024, Apex Legends boasts an impressive 18 million active monthly players, as confirmed by EA during their FY2024 Q1 earnings call on August 1, 2023. This is a significant boost from August 2021, when EA reported an average of 13 million weekly active players” Just saying every 18 million of people can’t be this good with the same gameplay style.
@@TheDeviantStrain Yeah. hundreds of thousands of automated bans due to reports of inappropriate names lol. 4 years of reporting ppl for aimbot and other forms of cheating and not 1 confirmation e-mail. 1 month of reporting ppl for inappropriate names and ive already gotten 4 ppl banned. Don't believe me, try it for yourself.
@@JustShadowfighterpvp Cheaters have always been a thing. They are banning them but they create new accounts not much they can do about it other than ban. People claim people are cheating when they are not cheating as well. Every other lobby is somebody accusing somebody of cheating just because they get killed. Most people that complain about cheaters are just coping with losing
I carried my team in siege on ps5, emerald lobby… lost by one round close game…. Their carry then went to message me and say I was a roller noob and that I need to get good and get a Xim , and that he’s 4k hours deep and “imagine playing on roller” wtf😂😂😂
Video game franchises don't care about their African players in general,I'm from Ghana and been playing apex legends for 5 years now , Trust me I know how you feel about the server. One might think it's Ghana who even plays apex legends but you'll be supportive to see the number of game centers with apex legends scattered around the capital It doesn't help that they're overpricing every single thing in the game without considering exchange rates
Apex came out when I was still in middle school, then a couple of my friends convinced me to install it. Played it for a long time and I’m currently on my 2nd year of college. I always wanted to hit pred but I never had the time to put in the work. I’m trying to get pred but I run into 9 mans, aimbotters, strike pack users, zens, cronuses, etc. I feel like I’m a decent player but I get smacked almost every game now. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to hit pred. It might be too late and I should’ve gone for pred earlier when the game was without the mess it is now.
@@FadeMaster24 I solo queue most of the time. I will say I squad up with very honest players who’ve openly admitted that they’re using zens, or xims. Even a boy of mine bought a strike pack the other day smh. I’m not saying I die to hacks every single time, but its pretty common is what I’m saying.
Yeah man the highest I've ever climbed was in season 8 I believe to diamond 1. I solo queued the entire time as well. It was complely a nightmare but I enjoyed every minute of it back then. Now I hop onto a game I get OBLITERATED by people with hundred's of thousands of kills or pred and master badges in bronze league. Don't even get me started on the cheaters either that crap is even worse. Me personally, I've played since season 6 and haven't seen that many cheaters, probably because i don't ever get to high leagues in ranked.
But tbh I wouldn't even try. There's 3 stacks up there in pred with hundred's of thousnds of kills and I wouldn't think it would be worth your time to get to it. Just my opinion tho you may still love the game.
I blame respawn and ea, simple as that. It's about money, greed and they protect the whitelist players as well. Let's be real, when respawn tweeted, " Strike packs are illegal, BUT WE CAN'T DETECT THEM". If that wasn't telling the controller base to go buy it i don't know what is. Then after that tweet , i think Walmart tweeted, " and we have it on sale for $40". The cheating has been bad for two years now , don't believe me , look at steam charts. WHat has happened now is all the SOFT CHEATERS like most all your streamers and pros are now being overpowered by the HARD CHEATS. I remember shroud saying in the season just after when cross play happened (and he consulted on Apex a year before it came out) " hard cheats won't kill apex, soft cheats will". Well initially he was right but now, the hard cheats are forcing people out. The exodus started awhile back ( again steam charts) and the only boost you see on steam charts in players is when an "event" or start of a new season where people came back in hopes things got fixed annnnnd they didn't and they left days to a week or so after. The evidence and cycle is there in steam charts. Think about it, game had over 100 million downloads by the 4 month of release. 100 millionnnnnnnnnnnn . Where they go? From bias for controllers with massively turned up AA and then adding rotational to it along with game code, pushed m and k out over time, where the game is now 90%+ controller and that is a statistical fact ( just like the hackfest COD is , same thing) Add a strike pack, cronus, now undetectable DMA's and it's over. Now you have low skill players, some that never played especially the girls (just watch twitch) that stand around like bots yet are marching through masters LOL. It's so easy to add a strike pack or steam configs (which those have been banned but any controller with neo movement or crazy movement is obviously cheating and NOTHING is being done) The devs made their billions in revenue and they don't care streamers and pros with the , supposedly " its ok to use", configs, macros, overclocking controllers ( laughed at that where respawn said it was allowed), seem to be all ok to pros and streamers now though TOS says different. This was a matter of time. What Respawn and EA ended doing was treating apex how they treated titanfall and here we are. Apex could have been killing it still but being unbalanced now of M and k (though not all) many are using configs and macros to be able to compete and it's SO EASY TO SEE both controller and M and K and what they are using , the problem is, HARD CHEATS are destroying them and NOW they are crying about cheating. If they had the devs from the previous generation of gaming, this wouldn't have happened. I know that because i was there at the developer and also competed and never have i seen what these current devs have done to games (along with this gaming generation), what they have done to this game and have created such an imbalance that many FPS/Br's are massively cheated and done. People will and want to deny they use because they want the clout. They want the social cred, the badges, the heirlooms and the MONEYYY and they'll do anything to get it. Seriously think about it, 4k damage badge. So easy right? I remember for the longest time it was tough to get or a 20 kill badge ( don't say easy so many were boosting and teaming up to do this and we have seen a ton of videos showing this) Reason those badges were made with those numbers back in the day and for at least 10 seasons was that players were playing and testing how tough it was to get certain numbers when the game was being built (and shroud was part of that) and you're telling me, suddenly in the last 5 seasons or so, a player is SOOOOO AMAZING that his damage is equal to almost 4 squads where the squads (squad of 3) each had 1000 dmg? We seen 10k damage from two players. I remember itz timmy was like 400dmg from 10k. People were amazed and i laughed. I laughed because the record got broken by an actual cheaters that only got 300 dmg more than Timmy. Timmy didn't try it again for a long time, i wonder why? Talking about damage, we all know through apex data that the average damage for a player in all of apex is between 500-750 dmg. Basing this off the facts of the stats and taking the middle ground of 650 dmg per player in a squad of 3, you're telling me the person did the damage of almost 6 teams, 18 playersssssssssssss? (when there are only 20 teams in a match?) Unless someone is on a vpn and getting bot lobbies, how does that happen? The newer legends? Nope. The 3 main legends used from the beginning to go after high kill, high damage games were always Wraith , octane and Pathfinder for their ability to get out when hurt and then reengage, so it's not the legend. Did itz timmy get so much more amazing along with genburten ? NO. They weren't doing those numbers up until the last 5 seasons or so. But players don't care, all about content and "fanboy worship" and they want what they players are using and here we are. I would apologize for the long comment but enough is enough. There is a cheating epidemic in gaming period and players are even cheating at lan/comp events. PLEASE don't bring up the term , " skill gap" . Where was that term in the first 13 seasons? it wasn't used its a cover because people were suddenly or a lot of people were suddenly getting amazing and its an easy way to cover it up ( and no, please don't tell me aim trainers lol) .. i digress
Respect, i can understand your rage. i have the same rage. i do understand that EA and Respawn are not fixing the game because it costs more money but the biggest thing is that the player are not quitting the game and tolerating there shit. Entire community acknowledge that the game is filled with cheaters and bugs or bad matchmaking but no one is quitting the game. Every single fucking time when the community got angry the devs just launch some free shit skins and voila the community comes back to the game to grind that shit skin. The community doesnt understand that as long as they are keep playing and buying there shit they are gonna make shit (It happens in all the corporations). This game is a perfect example of as long as people are buying and playing there shit they are gonna make shit because why would anyone invest more money to fix the problem if small amount of players are complaining.
The Ping issues with people who live in South Africa is really bad, it makes the game next to unplayable, you can't be competitive with such high ping, online gaming in South Africa is nightmare...great video man :)
The ping is terrible ..pissing in the wind if u thinking about actually being competitive in apex as a south african ,to respawn/ea we dont exist but they have lore and characters originating from South Africa
I remember season 9 fondly for the discovery of zim/zen players I played super casually up until season 8 then I decided to try hard to see how good I could get what a mistake that was it was after that, that it occurred to me as along as xim/zen are thing FPS games will never have integrity
Quake is the reason of movement in FPS games, at the point that many Quakers play Apex because they find it fun and is some way similar to quake (even ACEU stated this)
Multi-Masters, played Apex since season-0, and played at Apex when it was at its best and at its worst. I quit 3 months ago and it was a great decision. Playing this game i didnt even realize it was making me DESPISE PEOPLE because of Matchmaking and how unfair it was if you dont use discord, and hackers ruining people's experience, EA's horrible job because they ruin everything they touch. I feel so much more peaceful quitting this damn game. I have faith that ONE DAY, there will be a game just as good as Apex if not better, and Managed by a MUCH BETTER COMPANY! But for now, if you get on Apex and you noticed you are CONSISTENTLY NOT ENJOYING YOURSELF AND IT FEELS LIKE "WORK", give it a break! 😂
Just so you know the server issue is correlated with cheater issue. The cheater send a lot of uninvited request and clogged the server. Overloaded and continue to damage the resources and performance. If the server itself designed to have average 1000 - 2000 request for a player but in cheater case it will request more than specified request range, then it cooked the server leading to crashing, rubber band etc.
I don't run into many players with blatant cheats but I suspect a big portion of ranked players are using some form of soft aimbot/wall hacks. When you play a game long enough you kinda learn what's organic and what's fishy....and there is a lot of fishiness going on
About time you made another vid bruh 😊👊🏿 Also I’m tired of PC players glazing on their keyboards about how bad hacking is on PC but console is infested with cheaters so this vid is much appreciated bruh 🙏🏿
They are cheating on console with strike pack n stuff but there are no hackers on console. Actual aimbot, wall hacks, ect are PC so it's a lot worse on PC
@@calantheshaman Naaah bro PC players are hacking into console lobbies so they can also use their wall-hacks I died to a wraith yesterday that was wall hacking in pubs.
@@zage932 they arent do your research not watch fake videos ive had a strikepack all of them they al suck just shitty macros of u think its cheating ur not very intelligent and suck at doing research
PC player here, i quit apex awhile back but honestly even when cheating wasn't then big of an issue playing apex just sucked, most are either unrewarding sweatfests or incredibly tedious with little in between with state of the game now i'm just gonna stick to valorant and siege honestly they're just easier to keep up with anyway
@@utopic1312 yeah all the skilless third partying enough to make me never want to play again, they should reduce gunfire volume in ranked at least. I can’t count the amount of times we’d clutch up to just die to a third, really terrible comp design
I'm also from SA and man playing any online FPS game is a nightmare. I ended up quitting Apex Legends around a year ago. Not only because of the lag but the lack of content mixed with shitty events asking for money
Just addressing the "we haven't got a new gun in a while" comment. Why do ppl constantly need new shinies, that often just unbalance a game? Maybe it's a thing due to my neurospicyness, lack of new items doesn't bother me if the game is good. When is the last time they added a new piece to chess? I would have been fine if they had not added more legends or guns since when I started in S3 and they had just had regularly added great new maps. I feel like the core game has disappeared. Gun game first, supported by abilities, that's what early Apex was. Now so many crutch abilities. In a 1v1 or squad vs squad it's still ok, but in a multi squad fight the visual and audio clutter and denial of area abilities are pretty ridiculous. Tacticals should NOT do damage, especially from a distance, too many defensive legends.
Man I’ve been sad watching this whole video. But holy that far cry soundtrack at the end… shivers. Didn’t expect such epic ending for such video. Kudos
@@kolasis4994 absolutely. Breath of fresh air. I have 500 hours and every time I play is just as fun as when I started. Not to mention the team of devs cares about and listens to the community!
Same story with me man. South African, Apex was my first online game, have a crazy love for Respawn's movement mechanics etc. Really enjoyed the video man! Tbh I knew this game was dying since s16, but I was in denial for the longest time
The only game that still stands strong is CS, but I think it's because players can host their own servers like Faceit and have control over matching making and security. Imagine if Apex had that, the game would be booming.
Crossplay with PC is one of the biggest reasons why there is this massive increase in cheaters and no one ever talks about it. If PC cheaters feel like they have to cheat to compete then how do you think console casuals feel when they are already playing at a disadvantage against legit PC players??
Deadlock just got SA servers,funny thing is not enough African players play it so I'm still getting put on EU servers lol,argh I need to leave this continent bruh
was big into apex bc of the satisfaction it gave me, but it hasn’t felt the same for a while. jumped over to the finals and haven’t came back to be honest, it actually feels fresh and the devs are super involved with the community which goes a long way
I played for the first 3 seasons nonstop. Starting on season 3 they added skilled based matchmaking. I stopped in season 4, then reopened it by season 10 played for about 2 seasons. I opened the game after one year on season 22. Revival was one of the best things they added. Then they removed it. I have more than 10k kills in all characters, but its hard man to enjoy it. Due to my kills I am being put in games with 100k players. I dont stand a chance against them. Dude i can try for around 2 hours to enjoy it then i quit. This game was killed by the matchmaking.
Novell keep up the good work buds, ur vidz always get to the point and are based off facts. I agree with you when you say we play on high ping, Im from Jozi so we both know the struggle. But..... Im scared of getting SA Servers bro, look at Rainbow Six Siege, you could find a game in under 15 seconds, ranked or pubs. Same with BattleField 2042. When SA Servers were introduced the game died bro, long Q times or just no games at all, BF2042 you can only play on Local LAN XP Servers which causes that u cant actually do the in game challenges in BF as they dont count in LAN Lobbies. Its a catch 22 Bro, here is SA we just cant win
Thank you for talking about the constant crashing that's been happening on PS5 after the mid season update I thought it was only literally haven't seen in other UA-camr talking about this the people that used to love the game are leaving and the ones who still login to play just get booted back to the lobby thanks Apex
Instead of banning them they are banning people who uses wallpaper engine lol. 2 days ago when i launched the Apex, my Wallpaper Engine was on. I was always closing the Wp Engine before play Apex because it was kinda lagging my game but this time i decided to run the game when Wp Engine was on. After i played enough i closed the game and i got a notification that says something like Forbidden App, Program tbh i dont remember what it was saying i thought some app crashed bcs my pc is literally dying, so i didn't care about it. When i launched the game again tomorrow BOOM i got perma banned because of cheating i was like wtf then i realised that notification was about that. 90% MIGHTY Easy Anti-Cheat saw the Wp Engine as a sus program and banned me. My 5 years of effort, all of the season passes all the money i've spent all that heirlooms, stats and shit gone in an instant. Despite everything, Apex was the only game i was having fun while playing it. Thanks EA, for f*****n my joy. ( By the way they are not responding my mails maybe im kinda impatient bcs its been only 2 days but i dont think that they are going to solve my problem ever )
A fellow African gamer, finally someone who gets the ping struggles. We finally got a server for FIFA here in Lagos, Nigeria but nothing on the apex front. 180ms all day
One of the realest videos I’ve seen in a while. Especially the part about content creators. I feel guilty for ever hyping up any skin / event 😂 I’ve gotten so many people into apex over the years and it’s just like now for what? For a half functional game ran by corporate greed. Don’t even get me started with South America either, they gotta get some servers out there asap!
As a season one plyer, its been months since ive been on😅spent like 200 on it and have so many heirlooms but the sbmm and player base is completely bugged sometimes 11:10
I’m actually curious to hear what it is like to be a gamer in South Africa. I live in the Appalachian area of the US & we don’t have any kind of high speed internet & my wife is also thinking about taking an interview that would make us move to New Zealand.
I used to be like "servers are buggy sometimes, but it's fine". then i learned that Apex servers are on 20 tics per seconds, which is ridiculously low, even titanfill that was made 8 years ago havr 60, and highly competitve games nowadays have no less than 120/sec. It's baffling
The same has been said for years and yet people will continue to play and spend 500 bux on a deathbox skin. I quit the game back in season 5 and everyone thought it was “cooked” but here we are. Everyone acts like apex is literally the only game to play now a days when thats simply not true. If you want another great FPS shooter then play The Finals. Ive been playing it for months and its so much better than Apex.
True about mixtape. We win 20% control, 2 guys on me, on on the roof. All my squad can't capture zone B. Moreover they lost our first base and don't even try to capture C. And we lost 97-100 because my teammates play deathmatch and even lose at that. Control is horrable when your team is dumb. You do all by youself and they try so hard to ruin it.
the things you mention like "Q level balance" i'm experiencing in a daily basis , every other team have tryharder sweats who push as 3 always while our lvl 3 lifeline is looting a near box and confused which weapon to choose . the amount of times that come to my mind to delete this game is uncountable
I quit on and off for years. Coming back every now and then. HOPING that shit would be fixed. But man this last time I quit just truly solidified my decision. Hearing literally everywhere how downhill it's gone just honestly kills me man. This was the fps with the MOST potential I've ever seen, that in my honest opinion could've revolutionized gaming. But they just dropped the ball like an ice age sized meteor all over itself. I hope that someone out there has the passion and ability to create something in the same vision as Apex before time passes me by tbh lol. A true competitive movement shooter, without the issues that plague itself to death and a company that actually cares. Here's to hoping we get something of that caliber in our lifetimes everyone.
After that account merge thing outright deleted some accounts, I knew the player count would drop. But holy I wasn’t prepared to see how much it dropped
this is sad to see. I was never really good at Apex, but it still was pretty fun to play. and I also recently played the titanfall 2 campaign and that was beautiful as well. quite the tragedy
EA is just letting this game die slowly. I feel pretty bad about this because of the love I have for Apex, but I uninstalled it a year ago, and it seems that I'll never come back again.
Couldn't be any more true. The beginning of the current season was the final straw for me and I moved the game to my long time storage (which is usually not connected) and have started it up once for five minutes. I can only recommend you guys to do the same. As weird as it sounds, I feel much more healthy mentally and just watch some gameplay every once in a while. The game is completely broken, especially for solo pc players and a shiny new map is not gonna cover it ...
I’m a South African gamer and have been complaining about the same issues. Finally someone made it public, I always thought it’s was my internet connection at first, but when the internet improved, the experience didn’t. Make another video of how it’s like to game in SA
I was a day one player with well over 2000h in the game but yeah I feel your pain man. Uninstalled in January and was thinking of hopping back on today to have some fun but sheesh after seeing the state of the game I'm good bro
Another reason to not play anymore Respawn/EA multiplayer games...the cheaters will never be banned. It's frustrating to see that either Respawn/EA won't ban these cheaters or just don't have the skills to ban them. So why should I waste my time and energy playing any multiplayer games from them.
Rest in peace Apex, know that you tried, you were strong and brave, you went forward with all your strength, being wounded, exhausted, abandoned by your "superiors". We will remember you as brave as Titanfall 2 before. Thank you for your service to Apex
I've been playing since day 1 and uninstalled it 6 months ago because of all the cheaters.... sad because it was the only game I would enjoy playing for years... now I moved on...
I recently uninstalled an picked up the ps plus game collection and I can say the dopamine rush isnt the same, but I am having a good experience every session!
I understand the ping situation so much. I play from Guyana and geez on a good the day my ping is still absolute shit and I have better internet than most people. I have 1GB download and 500mbps upload
my game has been crashing non stop since i updated the space hunt event for apex legend's and i have personally never found any cheater's on my game's it's just pro's and sweat's and it's making me very angry and i don't have fun at all when i fight these sweat's and pro player's but the servers need to be fixed because this is absolutely ridiculous
let this game die, the respawn that made this trash isn't the same respawn that made the masterpiece known as titanfall 2. the ppl at respawn rn don't even have half the talent of the devs that already left
Titanfall 2 died for so apex could starve, and titanfall 3 wasn’t born to continue letting apex be starved. Once your game finally gets spinbotters in almost every lobby, its time to consider a new game, as this game is now old, and dying. The low skill floor has raised since less new or low ranking players are playing anymore, hence being put into more tryhard, pro lobbies. Games over, they made their bank from it, everything past that is just extra milking. Titanfall 3 would not have been as profitable as apex but it would’ve been a very revolutionary fps, one to even rival battlefield and cod.
Honestly so sad. I dedicated like 2 years of my life grinding tf out of this game because I loved it so much. Me and my two buddies played religiously and I have so many good memories. Now I haven't REALLY played the game since season 18, and I have no intention to come back. There is just way to many problems.
Honestly, i played since day 1. i LOVED it back then. even as a titanfall fan, it was still great. stopped playing around season 10... havent gone back
I used to play apex and do stupid stuff, like try to win with melee only, that was like season 7, season 9. Ever since season 11 apex has been slowly then quickly falling into nothing for me. They gotta fix everything.
Hahah, love having a relaxing Friday with a friend getting trashed into oblivion for hours until we both ragequit asking each other why we put ourselves through this again and again.
I couldn't help but notice the music from Minecraft at the beginning and then music from The Finals. Hearing The Finals here caught me so off guard. 😂😂
Day 1 console player. I’ve finally stopped playing for almost two months now. Apex has drained me and it’s gotten to the point that me and my whole squad have abandoned the game. Started playing warzone and even played the beta black ops 6 and it’s given me the breath of fresh air I needed.
E district is insane,i love the lived in feeling. Apex is it for me i love it. But lately i have been getting just layered. Ill get into a one on one and just get lazerd within seconds it redisculos the aim these dudes have
Gibby isn’t just using aimbot, it’s silent aim, it works by selecting a pov for the aimbot and it doesn’t matter where you actually aim as long as it’s within the FOV circle it will hit the closest target in the fov. Commonly used at very small fov for closet cheaters so it looks like they are still hitting their shots and it doesn’t look like lock on.
I used wake ready to hop on this game and ever chance I had my first pred season taken away because of fight 6 and 12 man squads every game I completely gave up on it after all the hard work I loved this game
I wanna say 70% of the time I get noob teammates. 20% of the time I get toxic teammates who love to push solo and get mad when they lose a 3 v 1. And 10% I get a decent player who plays the game as a teammate who wants to win. I used to dismiss randoms that send invites to me after we get a win. Lately I accept those invites and end up having more fun and more wins with the hard to find God randoms!
Big suprise that a pure focus on crap cosmetics instead of focusing on gameplay hasn't worked. I was a hardcore titanfall2 fan and played a lot of apex but eventually I gave up. I saw the focus of shift on the game and decided it wasn't for me.
5k+ hours, 10x+ masters SoloQ here. Stopped this nonsense of a game 2 seasons ago now. Never felt better. I come back from time to time but haven’t spent a single dollar in a year and do not grind anymore. I understand that the level 53 cheaters problem on PC is bigger than what they can manage, but seeing 9manners on their main acc just ruining the fun on console for several seasons in a row is just too much. Fuck EA, fuck Respawn, and as much as I love it, fuck this game.
Dude! A Soith African? No wonder you have a lot of common sense. Thank you for highlighting the console cheater plague. I’m a Saffa living in Taiwan (so no ping problems here) and the servers here are at least 50% filled with Xim/Chronus users. If I go on the local online shopping apps you can see how these have sold in their thousands on each shop. It’s disgusting, they have no problem with cheating.
Maybe my opinion means nothing as a pub-only player, but I enjoy the game from the perspective that I play it. I solo queue pubs sometimes(which can be annoying af), but mainly get the most out of it when squading with my friends. I love grinding the battlepass and collecting badges/skins(I've only ever spent enough money to keep buying the battlepass). I also geek out over aesthetics and character design. It's sad to hear that from the competitive angle the game is circling the drain. I understand how a lot of the current issues fly over my head, but I'm really scared that eventually the game will be compromised in nearly every way, for every type of player.
So its not just me, as a mediocre apex casual player, I noticed sometimes when I pop off, THAT ONE 10+ KILL game my nintendo switch says “game closed for unknown reason.” And now better devices like pc are also experiencing security issues, lovely.
Require people to provide an ID when creating an account. Problem solved. Or make the game $20 or something. Most player spend way more than that on useless cosmetics anyway. People will think twice about risking a ban if they need to buy the game again afterwards. The real problem is that a ban don't mean anything if the game is F2P. It's so easy to create a new account and hop back in.
I agree with everything said here. I’m particularly interested in the discussion on matchmaking. I’m not sure what the answer to matchmaking is though. As an above average player, I’m ok playing other above average players, but I also don’t want every single pub to play like a tournament because the algorithm is bending over backwards to ensure everyone in the community is “kept safe”. I think new players and really below average players should be kept safe in their own lobbies. But as it pertains to non-ranked, I think the matchmaking actually should have variety (sometimes your opponents are bad and sometimes they are demons); variety is a good thing for public matches. As it stands now, I think the algorithm is too punishing towards average skilled players (and above average but not pred level). Winning one game or having one strong performance will throw you into these top MMR lobbies where 90% plus players are at that Master-Pred level. The REAL issue is that “movement” up the MMR ladder happens faster than movement down. And this is magnified by the type of account you have. You can test this yourself by making various accounts. On my main (104k kills total), it takes roughly 25-30 games with under 0 kills and 0 damage to be dropped into an easier lobby. But on my other accounts that intentionally have below average stats, losing just 2-5 games after a win will return me to weak lobbies.
Bro I don’t want it to die. I still haven’t found another shooter that scratches the itch. I find EAs mismanagement to be absolutely infuriating. And I really hope they can either fix it or something else can come along to take up the mantle. It really frustrating watching this happen to a game you genuinely love.
The finals man good game
They just don´t care, these are just numbers and bonuses to be taken or missed, for them. The feelings of players are not even in their universe.
Buy a PS5, stop being such a nerd
Don't worry my guy. It will get better trust. Apex will have it's redemption arc
just hop into the game and i absolutely love it, I might be late but no other game that attracts me more than apex, please don't die
as a titanfall veteran myself, it pisses me off that this game is dying.
titanfall 2, arguably the best shooter out there, died for this game; which i used to play quite a bit, and i liked it, against my better judgement. and now this game is dying because of the same greed that killed titanfall - ea. respawn needs to find a way to break away from ea, because they are NOT helping.
you can still play titanfall
Tf2 got plagued with cheaters the same way, and they just let it die
To me Titanfall Last Titan Standing mode was the best.
sorry bud but OG respawn is no more, its over
@Elrealsodapop200 This. OG Respawn got replaced by diversity hires. Blame DEI and liberal propaganda. It's not just Respawn either. A lot of the big game studios are plagued by this crap. Formerly great IP'S have been destroyed by it: Halo, Gears of War, Battlefield, etc.
"apex is dead" has been my favorite genre of content for the past 5 years
its dead compared to last years
I actually just came back too apex and this shit still fun
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@@MasterChiefLJcome back in 5 days?
@@humandiii ok
You know what will fix the cheating problem? A $300 heirloom and new skins.
Its blatantly obvious they do not care about the game guys. Stop buying battle passes and skins until they prove they care about the consumer.
They cannot stop it. Their only option is to ignore it and blind their consumers with misdirection.
@buddhastl7120 of course they can stop it. Don't be naive. They make millions of dollars every single day. They can't out smart some fat loser in his mom's basement?? Come on now.
They don't care, you can free use cheats. Important it's pay for skins 😂
there is no way to stop cheating because people use something called dma its basically a mini motherboard or whatever you put in your pc that hides itself as a driver and the person can cheat all they want without getting caught its mostly used in Fortnite competitive people have made thousands using it
But their skins are sooooo gooood! I love spending over $15 for some nice, flashy hand models for my characters 😭
The last time i remember hackers getting banned is 2019-2020 😭💀
they literally posted theirban numbers the other day and its in the hundreds of thousands...
@@TheDeviantStrain they can post it man, but that doesn’t mean they won’t come back ever again. My first match in today on Silver III. Ended up with a player that has intense recoil that ended up killing me and my squad between 100-200 damage.
Between 250-900 kills i have noticed that those players has the same recoil not just the recoil their gameplay are the same. i definitely know they are using the same product.
The Cronus and not just that for the predators players that using console. They got moves with that 0 recoil honestly know none of them using keyboard but not just that. i don’t believe a player like them can outsmart a golden player. Most of the youtubers saying those players are hacking too. Using an illegal product in a battle royale game and it is called cronus.
@@TheDeviantStrain And not just that bro. I have been playing this game since season 1. Like i saw Apex Legends Whole time chamber of players i can definitely understand who is cheating and who is not. Like i have been compete so many good players for a long period of time and manage to get 3200 kills on my self bro. I am telling you man game style is the same. Same recoil, same tactics. Honestly those players are evolving with the tools. Nobody can get this much good in that few months or for a year. Just saying… I don’t think every human in the apex smart enough to play like that.
“Moving forward to 2024, Apex Legends boasts an impressive 18 million active monthly players, as confirmed by EA during their FY2024 Q1 earnings call on August 1, 2023. This is a significant boost from August 2021, when EA reported an average of 13 million weekly active players”
Just saying every 18 million of people can’t be this good with the same gameplay style.
@@TheDeviantStrain Yeah. hundreds of thousands of automated bans due to reports of inappropriate names lol. 4 years of reporting ppl for aimbot and other forms of cheating and not 1 confirmation e-mail. 1 month of reporting ppl for inappropriate names and ive already gotten 4 ppl banned. Don't believe me, try it for yourself.
@@JustShadowfighterpvp Cheaters have always been a thing. They are banning them but they create new accounts not much they can do about it other than ban. People claim people are cheating when they are not cheating as well. Every other lobby is somebody accusing somebody of cheating just because they get killed. Most people that complain about cheaters are just coping with losing
Console is full of 9 manners and Cronus Zen/Xim Matrix/Strike Pack abusers which IS cheating
Unfortunately, most competitive games today on console are like this today :( siege is ruined by Xims , apex by strike pack… online gaming is dying
Apex in console it won't pick up strike packs or zens ?
No it’s not…
Anyone who says using external tools for a better performance isn't cheating must be crippled by insecurity or is delusional beyond any help.
@@MLFv2 Correct
Got banned last night for the 3rd time for raging at cheaters.(On PS). I'm done with this shit.
I carried my team in siege on ps5, emerald lobby… lost by one round close game…. Their carry then went to message me and say I was a roller noob and that I need to get good and get a Xim , and that he’s 4k hours deep and “imagine playing on roller” wtf😂😂😂
Don't rage in PSN at anyone for anything, they have policies separate from games themselves and do not care about cheaters in any game.
Rolled. @xmishu_
Why you raging on ps it's stupid and brain dead. Ofc ps will ban fast as hell.
That's just sad.
Online gaming has become so soft...
Video game franchises don't care about their African players in general,I'm from Ghana and been playing apex legends for 5 years now ,
Trust me I know how you feel about the server.
One might think it's Ghana who even plays apex legends but you'll be supportive to see the number of game centers with apex legends scattered around the capital
It doesn't help that they're overpricing every single thing in the game without considering exchange rates
same for india, the nearest sever which has enough players to connect to a game is tokyo which gets about 175 ms of ping.
Apex came out when I was still in middle school, then a couple of my friends convinced me to install it. Played it for a long time and I’m currently on my 2nd year of college. I always wanted to hit pred but I never had the time to put in the work. I’m trying to get pred but I run into 9 mans, aimbotters, strike pack users, zens, cronuses, etc. I feel like I’m a decent player but I get smacked almost every game now. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to hit pred. It might be too late and I should’ve gone for pred earlier when the game was without the mess it is now.
How do you know they are using all of those cheats? You guys sound the same as cod and xdefiant whiners 😂😂
@@FadeMaster24 I solo queue most of the time. I will say I squad up with very honest players who’ve openly admitted that they’re using zens, or xims. Even a boy of mine bought a strike pack the other day smh. I’m not saying I die to hacks every single time, but its pretty common is what I’m saying.
Yeah man the highest I've ever climbed was in season 8 I believe to diamond 1. I solo queued the entire time as well. It was complely a nightmare but I enjoyed every minute of it back then. Now I hop onto a game I get OBLITERATED by people with hundred's of thousands of kills or pred and master badges in bronze league. Don't even get me started on the cheaters either that crap is even worse. Me personally, I've played since season 6 and haven't seen that many cheaters, probably because i don't ever get to high leagues in ranked.
But tbh I wouldn't even try. There's 3 stacks up there in pred with hundred's of thousnds of kills and I wouldn't think it would be worth your time to get to it. Just my opinion tho you may still love the game.
Can’t even get outta silver without hackers
I blame respawn and ea, simple as that. It's about money, greed and they protect the whitelist players as well. Let's be real, when respawn tweeted, " Strike packs are illegal, BUT WE CAN'T DETECT THEM". If that wasn't telling the controller base to go buy it i don't know what is. Then after that tweet , i think Walmart tweeted, " and we have it on sale for $40". The cheating has been bad for two years now , don't believe me , look at steam charts. WHat has happened now is all the SOFT CHEATERS like most all your streamers and pros are now being overpowered by the HARD CHEATS.
I remember shroud saying in the season just after when cross play happened (and he consulted on Apex a year before it came out) " hard cheats won't kill apex, soft cheats will". Well initially he was right but now, the hard cheats are forcing people out. The exodus started awhile back ( again steam charts) and the only boost you see on steam charts in players is when an "event" or start of a new season where people came back in hopes things got fixed annnnnd they didn't and they left days to a week or so after. The evidence and cycle is there in steam charts. Think about it, game had over 100 million downloads by the 4 month of release. 100 millionnnnnnnnnnnn . Where they go? From bias for controllers with massively turned up AA and then adding rotational to it along with game code, pushed m and k out over time, where the game is now 90%+ controller and that is a statistical fact ( just like the hackfest COD is , same thing) Add a strike pack, cronus, now undetectable DMA's and it's over. Now you have low skill players, some that never played especially the girls (just watch twitch) that stand around like bots yet are marching through masters LOL. It's so easy to add a strike pack or steam configs (which those have been banned but any controller with neo movement or crazy movement is obviously cheating and NOTHING is being done) The devs made their billions in revenue and they don't care streamers and pros with the , supposedly " its ok to use", configs, macros, overclocking controllers ( laughed at that where respawn said it was allowed), seem to be all ok to pros and streamers now though TOS says different. This was a matter of time.
What Respawn and EA ended doing was treating apex how they treated titanfall and here we are. Apex could have been killing it still but being unbalanced now of M and k (though not all) many are using configs and macros to be able to compete and it's SO EASY TO SEE both controller and M and K and what they are using , the problem is, HARD CHEATS are destroying them and NOW they are crying about cheating. If they had the devs from the previous generation of gaming, this wouldn't have happened. I know that because i was there at the developer and also competed and never have i seen what these current devs have done to games (along with this gaming generation), what they have done to this game and have created such an imbalance that many FPS/Br's are massively cheated and done. People will and want to deny they use because they want the clout. They want the social cred, the badges, the heirlooms and the MONEYYY and they'll do anything to get it. Seriously think about it, 4k damage badge. So easy right? I remember for the longest time it was tough to get or a 20 kill badge ( don't say easy so many were boosting and teaming up to do this and we have seen a ton of videos showing this) Reason those badges were made with those numbers back in the day and for at least 10 seasons was that players were playing and testing how tough it was to get certain numbers when the game was being built (and shroud was part of that) and you're telling me, suddenly in the last 5 seasons or so, a player is SOOOOO AMAZING that his damage is equal to almost 4 squads where the squads (squad of 3) each had 1000 dmg? We seen 10k damage from two players. I remember itz timmy was like 400dmg from 10k. People were amazed and i laughed. I laughed because the record got broken by an actual cheaters that only got 300 dmg more than Timmy. Timmy didn't try it again for a long time, i wonder why?
Talking about damage, we all know through apex data that the average damage for a player in all of apex is between 500-750 dmg. Basing this off the facts of the stats and taking the middle ground of 650 dmg per player in a squad of 3, you're telling me the person did the damage of almost 6 teams, 18 playersssssssssssss? (when there are only 20 teams in a match?) Unless someone is on a vpn and getting bot lobbies, how does that happen? The newer legends? Nope. The 3 main legends used from the beginning to go after high kill, high damage games were always Wraith , octane and Pathfinder for their ability to get out when hurt and then reengage, so it's not the legend. Did itz timmy get so much more amazing along with genburten ? NO. They weren't doing those numbers up until the last 5 seasons or so. But players don't care, all about content and "fanboy worship" and they want what they players are using and here we are. I would apologize for the long comment but enough is enough. There is a cheating epidemic in gaming period and players are even cheating at lan/comp events. PLEASE don't bring up the term , " skill gap" . Where was that term in the first 13 seasons? it wasn't used its a cover because people were suddenly or a lot of people were suddenly getting amazing and its an easy way to cover it up ( and no, please don't tell me aim trainers lol) .. i digress
can i get a Twitch name or some evidence for one of these girls who stand around like a bot and march though masters?
1000% competitive games are dead
I think your on to to something not gonna lie 🫡🫡
Respect, i can understand your rage. i have the same rage. i do understand that EA and Respawn are not fixing the game because it costs more money but the biggest thing is that the player are not quitting the game and tolerating there shit. Entire community acknowledge that the game is filled with cheaters and bugs or bad matchmaking but no one is quitting the game. Every single fucking time when the community got angry the devs just launch some free shit skins and voila the community comes back to the game to grind that shit skin. The community doesnt understand that as long as they are keep playing and buying there shit they are gonna make shit (It happens in all the corporations). This game is a perfect example of as long as people are buying and playing there shit they are gonna make shit because why would anyone invest more money to fix the problem if small amount of players are complaining.
The Ping issues with people who live in South Africa is really bad, it makes the game next to unplayable, you can't be competitive with such high ping, online gaming in South Africa is nightmare...great video man :)
Nothing, but pain.
The ping is terrible ..pissing in the wind if u thinking about actually being competitive in apex as a south african ,to respawn/ea we dont exist but they have lore and characters originating from South Africa
6:16 LOL That's my clip 😂 It really sucks to be matched with top global predators. Nice vid, dude!
I've said around season 9 already. EA will ensure Apex dies. It's just what they do.
I remember season 9 fondly for the discovery of zim/zen players I played super casually up until season 8 then I decided to try hard to see how good I could get what a mistake that was it was after that, that it occurred to me as along as xim/zen are thing FPS games will never have integrity
@@MRscurr8 Majority aren't even using Zen/strike pack, it's just a excuse yous make to feel better about your short comings.
Quake is the reason of movement in FPS games, at the point that many Quakers play Apex because they find it fun and is some way similar to quake (even ACEU stated this)
Deleted my comment cause this is exactly right
If Quake was the original (and i agree with that), then Titanfall revived / popularised it.
Multi-Masters, played Apex since season-0, and played at Apex when it was at its best and at its worst. I quit 3 months ago and it was a great decision. Playing this game i didnt even realize it was making me DESPISE PEOPLE because of Matchmaking and how unfair it was if you dont use discord, and hackers ruining people's experience, EA's horrible job because they ruin everything they touch. I feel so much more peaceful quitting this damn game. I have faith that ONE DAY, there will be a game just as good as Apex if not better, and Managed by a MUCH BETTER COMPANY! But for now, if you get on Apex and you noticed you are CONSISTENTLY NOT ENJOYING YOURSELF AND IT FEELS LIKE "WORK", give it a break! 😂
Just so you know the server issue is correlated with cheater issue. The cheater send a lot of uninvited request and clogged the server. Overloaded and continue to damage the resources and performance. If the server itself designed to have average 1000 - 2000 request for a player but in cheater case it will request more than specified request range, then it cooked the server leading to crashing, rubber band etc.
I don't run into many players with blatant cheats but I suspect a big portion of ranked players are using some form of soft aimbot/wall hacks. When you play a game long enough you kinda learn what's organic and what's fishy....and there is a lot of fishiness going on
They use Cronus Zen, Xim Matrix, or Strike Pack with wall hacks
As a Kenyan apex lover this hits different
About time you made another vid bruh 😊👊🏿
Also I’m tired of PC players glazing on their keyboards about how bad hacking is on PC but console is infested with cheaters so this vid is much appreciated bruh 🙏🏿
They are cheating on console with strike pack n stuff but there are no hackers on console. Actual aimbot, wall hacks, ect are PC so it's a lot worse on PC
@@calantheshamandidn’t they nerf console aim assist for that reason?
They nerf aim assist but don’t stop Cronus apex is dead already
@@calantheshaman Naaah bro PC players are hacking into console lobbies so they can also use their wall-hacks I died to a wraith yesterday that was wall hacking in pubs.
@@Tazzioo PC controller aim assist was nerfed not console
Triple pred here, I quit Apex a while ago due to strike packs and teaming - wouldn't dare playing on PC 😆
strikepacks dont make u a pred
its xims giving aim assist to moust with no recoil is broken
@@Michaeljohndavx Strike packs are basically recoilless controllers
@@zage932 they arent do your research not watch fake videos ive had a strikepack all of them they al suck just shitty macros of u think its cheating ur not very intelligent and suck at doing research
PC player here, i quit apex awhile back but honestly even when cheating wasn't then big of an issue playing apex just sucked, most are either unrewarding sweatfests or incredibly tedious with little in between with state of the game now i'm just gonna stick to valorant and siege honestly they're just easier to keep up with anyway
@@utopic1312 yeah all the skilless third partying enough to make me never want to play again, they should reduce gunfire volume in ranked at least. I can’t count the amount of times we’d clutch up to just die to a third, really terrible comp design
That FarCry 3 Outro music hit me right in the heart!!! The Nostalgia !!!!! Great video
10:53
I'm a hardcode Titanfall player, I started playing Apex in the first half of season 22 and I'm super glad I didn't spend any money on it
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Every game I play the champion has the 20 bomb 4k badge and all sorts of stuff I don't have including like 60000 kills. Apex is cooked
Only 60k mate last week I got smoked by a mirage with over 200k kills
What does that have to do with anything? I don't understand your point.
so? 60k or 200k doesnt mean that this player is cheating@@MartyGT2825
Sbmm idiot, he thinks that because they have that they are out of his real skill level
@@TIZFUNK My point is Apex is cooked
I'm also from SA and man playing any online FPS game is a nightmare. I ended up quitting Apex Legends around a year ago. Not only because of the lag but the lack of content mixed with shitty events asking for money
Just addressing the "we haven't got a new gun in a while" comment. Why do ppl constantly need new shinies, that often just unbalance a game?
Maybe it's a thing due to my neurospicyness, lack of new items doesn't bother me if the game is good. When is the last time they added a new piece to chess?
I would have been fine if they had not added more legends or guns since when I started in S3 and they had just had regularly added great new maps.
I feel like the core game has disappeared. Gun game first, supported by abilities, that's what early Apex was. Now so many crutch abilities.
In a 1v1 or squad vs squad it's still ok, but in a multi squad fight the visual and audio clutter and denial of area abilities are pretty ridiculous. Tacticals should NOT do damage, especially from a distance, too many defensive legends.
Man I’ve been sad watching this whole video. But holy that far cry soundtrack at the end… shivers. Didn’t expect such epic ending for such video. Kudos
6:24 is where THE FINALS music starts. W video
love the finals
Best fucking fps that has ever been released!
@@kolasis4994 absolutely. Breath of fresh air. I have 500 hours and every time I play is just as fun as when I started. Not to mention the team of devs cares about and listens to the community!
@@kolasis4994 Huge cap
Same story with me man. South African, Apex was my first online game, have a crazy love for Respawn's movement mechanics etc. Really enjoyed the video man! Tbh I knew this game was dying since s16, but I was in denial for the longest time
Didn’t realise you were a South African brother 🤝
The hackers couldn’t be in TeamFortress 2 so they had to go else where.
The only game that still stands strong is CS, but I think it's because players can host their own servers like Faceit and have control over matching making and security. Imagine if Apex had that, the game would be booming.
As a Former PvZ Bfn player, I fell you guys's pain when it comes to profit > fixing the game
As a pvz gw2 fan i share the same pain 😢
Crossplay with PC is one of the biggest reasons why there is this massive increase in cheaters and no one ever talks about it. If PC cheaters feel like they have to cheat to compete then how do you think console casuals feel when they are already playing at a disadvantage against legit PC players??
I live in South Africa. I feel you bro😢
Deadlock just got SA servers,funny thing is not enough African players play it so I'm still getting put on EU servers lol,argh I need to leave this continent bruh
@@kjbzabrini768 Same thing happens in call of duty MW2 South Africans don't stay on a game long enough.
And then people ask me why my ping is always so high 😂
Another bro from SA. Someone who truly knows how bad our ping is
The cheats are built into the game... what that tell ya?
The devs are the ones selling them
My intuition was right
was big into apex bc of the satisfaction it gave me, but it hasn’t felt the same for a while. jumped over to the finals and haven’t came back to be honest, it actually feels fresh and the devs are super involved with the community which goes a long way
Agreed apex is cooked
Cooked*
@@brandondean5680 thx
Been cooked for awhile
@@foxy-oe7ww got you bro. Don't want some clown to roast you for it
I played for the first 3 seasons nonstop. Starting on season 3 they added skilled based matchmaking. I stopped in season 4, then reopened it by season 10 played for about 2 seasons. I opened the game after one year on season 22. Revival was one of the best things they added. Then they removed it. I have more than 10k kills in all characters, but its hard man to enjoy it. Due to my kills I am being put in games with 100k players. I dont stand a chance against them. Dude i can try for around 2 hours to enjoy it then i quit. This game was killed by the matchmaking.
0:13 zeus mentioned lets gooo
Finally
Entertainment GOAT
I'd never thought I'd see your name again Long time no see
👁️👄👁️
@@rubrtt omg i remember your name 😲
where have you been omg 😂
@@ItsYoGirlAustralia I've been playing this shité excuse of a game apex 😭 jokes aside how've you been?
i LOVE THE USE OF GHOSTRUNNER MUSIC! these vid are BANGERs
Novell keep up the good work buds, ur vidz always get to the point and are based off facts. I agree with you when you say we play on high ping, Im from Jozi so we both know the struggle. But..... Im scared of getting SA Servers bro, look at Rainbow Six Siege, you could find a game in under 15 seconds, ranked or pubs. Same with BattleField 2042. When SA Servers were introduced the game died bro, long Q times or just no games at all, BF2042 you can only play on Local LAN XP Servers which causes that u cant actually do the in game challenges in BF as they dont count in LAN Lobbies. Its a catch 22 Bro, here is SA we just cant win
Apex is like a package of fun and excitement, and then you spend a little time with the package and you dig deeper and only find sh*t.
No ways you're from SA too bro, whereabout cape town?
Joburg bro!
@@NOVELL1 nicee, im in durban
Thank you for talking about the constant crashing that's been happening on PS5 after the mid season update I thought it was only literally haven't seen in other UA-camr talking about this the people that used to love the game are leaving and the ones who still login to play just get booted back to the lobby thanks Apex
Instead of banning them they are banning people who uses wallpaper engine lol. 2 days ago when i launched the Apex, my Wallpaper Engine was on. I was always closing the Wp Engine before play Apex because it was kinda lagging my game but this time i decided to run the game when Wp Engine was on. After i played enough i closed the game and i got a notification that says something like Forbidden App, Program tbh i dont remember what it was saying i thought some app crashed bcs my pc is literally dying, so i didn't care about it. When i launched the game again tomorrow BOOM i got perma banned because of cheating i was like wtf then i realised that notification was about that. 90% MIGHTY Easy Anti-Cheat saw the Wp Engine as a sus program and banned me. My 5 years of effort, all of the season passes all the money i've spent all that heirlooms, stats and shit gone in an instant. Despite everything, Apex was the only game i was having fun while playing it. Thanks EA, for f*****n my joy. ( By the way they are not responding my mails maybe im kinda impatient bcs its been only 2 days but i dont think that they are going to solve my problem ever )
A fellow African gamer, finally someone who gets the ping struggles.
We finally got a server for FIFA here in Lagos, Nigeria but nothing on the apex front. 180ms all day
One of the realest videos I’ve seen in a while. Especially the part about content creators. I feel guilty for ever hyping up any skin / event 😂 I’ve gotten so many people into apex over the years and it’s just like now for what? For a half functional game ran by corporate greed. Don’t even get me started with South America either, they gotta get some servers out there asap!
Hearing you say "the titanfall treatment" is so sad man
As a season one plyer, its been months since ive been on😅spent like 200 on it and have so many heirlooms but the sbmm and player base is completely bugged sometimes 11:10
I’m actually curious to hear what it is like to be a gamer in South Africa. I live in the Appalachian area of the US & we don’t have any kind of high speed internet & my wife is also thinking about taking an interview that would make us move to New Zealand.
I used to be like "servers are buggy sometimes, but it's fine". then i learned that Apex servers are on 20 tics per seconds, which is ridiculously low, even titanfill that was made 8 years ago havr 60, and highly competitve games nowadays have no less than 120/sec. It's baffling
The description of solo queuing in pubs couldn't have been more accurate 😂😂😂😢
The same has been said for years and yet people will continue to play and spend 500 bux on a deathbox skin. I quit the game back in season 5 and everyone thought it was “cooked” but here we are. Everyone acts like apex is literally the only game to play now a days when thats simply not true. If you want another great FPS shooter then play The Finals. Ive been playing it for months and its so much better than Apex.
True about mixtape. We win 20% control, 2 guys on me, on on the roof. All my squad can't capture zone B. Moreover they lost our first base and don't even try to capture C. And we lost 97-100 because my teammates play deathmatch and even lose at that. Control is horrable when your team is dumb. You do all by youself and they try so hard to ruin it.
Literally feel like complete bots sometimes because you have to do EVERYTHING! I agree
the things you mention like "Q level balance" i'm experiencing in a daily basis , every other team have tryharder sweats who push as 3 always while our lvl 3 lifeline is looting a near box and confused which weapon to choose .
the amount of times that come to my mind to delete this game is uncountable
I quit on and off for years. Coming back every now and then. HOPING that shit would be fixed. But man this last time I quit just truly solidified my decision. Hearing literally everywhere how downhill it's gone just honestly kills me man. This was the fps with the MOST potential I've ever seen, that in my honest opinion could've revolutionized gaming. But they just dropped the ball like an ice age sized meteor all over itself. I hope that someone out there has the passion and ability to create something in the same vision as Apex before time passes me by tbh lol. A true competitive movement shooter, without the issues that plague itself to death and a company that actually cares. Here's to hoping we get something of that caliber in our lifetimes everyone.
After that account merge thing outright deleted some accounts, I knew the player count would drop. But holy I wasn’t prepared to see how much it dropped
this is sad to see. I was never really good at Apex, but it still was pretty fun to play. and I also recently played the titanfall 2 campaign and that was beautiful as well. quite the tragedy
EA is just letting this game die slowly. I feel pretty bad about this because of the love I have for Apex, but I uninstalled it a year ago, and it seems that I'll never come back again.
Finally a fellow south African player that understands the ping issue here
Man, I was at Dreamhack Atlanta in a sea of PCs, consoles and gamers. In three days I saw ONE GUY playing Apex ONCE.
That is a sign.
Couldn't be any more true.
The beginning of the current season was the final straw for me and I moved the game to my long time storage (which is usually not connected) and have started it up once for five minutes.
I can only recommend you guys to do the same. As weird as it sounds, I feel much more healthy mentally and just watch some gameplay every once in a while.
The game is completely broken, especially for solo pc players and a shiny new map is not gonna cover it ...
I uninstalled apex a couple of weeks ago, the only thing that would make me play this game again is if they introduce a solo mode or a soloq only mode
Thanks for the background music. I'm texting this while driving my tractor through a Walmart.
I’m a South African gamer and have been complaining about the same issues. Finally someone made it public, I always thought it’s was my internet connection at first, but when the internet improved, the experience didn’t. Make another video of how it’s like to game in SA
I was a day one player with well over 2000h in the game but yeah I feel your pain man. Uninstalled in January and was thinking of hopping back on today to have some fun but sheesh after seeing the state of the game I'm good bro
Another reason to not play anymore Respawn/EA multiplayer games...the cheaters will never be banned. It's frustrating to see that either Respawn/EA won't ban these cheaters or just don't have the skills to ban them. So why should I waste my time and energy playing any multiplayer games from them.
This applies to all multiplayer games there’s no real way to permanently ban modders
i can see you are Far Cry 3 player
Rest in peace Apex, know that you tried, you were strong and brave, you went forward with all your strength, being wounded, exhausted, abandoned by your "superiors". We will remember you as brave as Titanfall 2 before. Thank you for your service to Apex
I've been playing since day 1 and uninstalled it 6 months ago because of all the cheaters.... sad because it was the only game I would enjoy playing for years... now I moved on...
Im kinda feeling the same bro since day 1 here as well
I recently uninstalled an picked up the ps plus game collection and I can say the dopamine rush isnt the same, but I am having a good experience every session!
I understand the ping situation so much. I play from Guyana and geez on a good the day my ping is still absolute shit and I have better internet than most people. I have 1GB download and 500mbps upload
my game has been crashing non stop since i updated the space hunt event for apex legend's and i have personally never found any cheater's on my game's
it's just pro's and sweat's and it's making me very angry and i don't have fun at all when i fight these sweat's and pro player's
but the servers need to be fixed because this is absolutely ridiculous
let this game die, the respawn that made this trash isn't the same respawn that made the masterpiece known as titanfall 2. the ppl at respawn rn don't even have half the talent of the devs that already left
Titanfall 2 died for so apex could starve, and titanfall 3 wasn’t born to continue letting apex be starved.
Once your game finally gets spinbotters in almost every lobby, its time to consider a new game, as this game is now old, and dying. The low skill floor has raised since less new or low ranking players are playing anymore, hence being put into more tryhard, pro lobbies. Games over, they made their bank from it, everything past that is just extra milking. Titanfall 3 would not have been as profitable as apex but it would’ve been a very revolutionary fps, one to even rival battlefield and cod.
Back then it was more rare to encounter a cheater than it was to get an heirloom.
Now you’ll find at least one almost every other match.
Honestly so sad. I dedicated like 2 years of my life grinding tf out of this game because I loved it so much. Me and my two buddies played religiously and I have so many good memories. Now I haven't REALLY played the game since season 18, and I have no intention to come back. There is just way to many problems.
Honestly, i played since day 1. i LOVED it back then. even as a titanfall fan, it was still great.
stopped playing around season 10... havent gone back
I played this, until i played The Finals, never looked back
I used to play apex and do stupid stuff, like try to win with melee only, that was like season 7, season 9. Ever since season 11 apex has been slowly then quickly falling into nothing for me. They gotta fix everything.
I don't want it for apex legends to die but Respawn needs to get there shit up
6:20 the exact reason i left apex
Hahah, love having a relaxing Friday with a friend getting trashed into oblivion for hours until we both ragequit asking each other why we put ourselves through this again and again.
I couldn't help but notice the music from Minecraft at the beginning and then music from The Finals. Hearing The Finals here caught me so off guard. 😂😂
Day 1 console player. I’ve finally stopped playing for almost two months now. Apex has drained me and it’s gotten to the point that me and my whole squad have abandoned the game. Started playing warzone and even played the beta black ops 6 and it’s given me the breath of fresh air I needed.
E district is insane,i love the lived in feeling. Apex is it for me i love it. But lately i have been getting just layered. Ill get into a one on one and just get lazerd within seconds it redisculos the aim these dudes have
Gibby isn’t just using aimbot, it’s silent aim, it works by selecting a pov for the aimbot and it doesn’t matter where you actually aim as long as it’s within the FOV circle it will hit the closest target in the fov. Commonly used at very small fov for closet cheaters so it looks like they are still hitting their shots and it doesn’t look like lock on.
I used wake ready to hop on this game and ever chance I had my first pred season taken away because of fight 6 and 12 man squads every game I completely gave up on it after all the hard work I loved this game
I wanna say 70% of the time I get noob teammates. 20% of the time I get toxic teammates who love to push solo and get mad when they lose a 3 v 1. And 10% I get a decent player who plays the game as a teammate who wants to win. I used to dismiss randoms that send invites to me after we get a win. Lately I accept those invites and end up having more fun and more wins with the hard to find God randoms!
Big suprise that a pure focus on crap cosmetics instead of focusing on gameplay hasn't worked. I was a hardcore titanfall2 fan and played a lot of apex but eventually I gave up. I saw the focus of shift on the game and decided it wasn't for me.
5k+ hours, 10x+ masters SoloQ here. Stopped this nonsense of a game 2 seasons ago now. Never felt better. I come back from time to time but haven’t spent a single dollar in a year and do not grind anymore.
I understand that the level 53 cheaters problem on PC is bigger than what they can manage, but seeing 9manners on their main acc just ruining the fun on console for several seasons in a row is just too much.
Fuck EA, fuck Respawn, and as much as I love it, fuck this game.
Dude! A Soith African? No wonder you have a lot of common sense. Thank you for highlighting the console cheater plague. I’m a Saffa living in Taiwan (so no ping problems here) and the servers here are at least 50% filled with Xim/Chronus users. If I go on the local online shopping apps you can see how these have sold in their thousands on each shop. It’s disgusting, they have no problem with cheating.
Maybe my opinion means nothing as a pub-only player, but I enjoy the game from the perspective that I play it. I solo queue pubs sometimes(which can be annoying af), but mainly get the most out of it when squading with my friends. I love grinding the battlepass and collecting badges/skins(I've only ever spent enough money to keep buying the battlepass). I also geek out over aesthetics and character design.
It's sad to hear that from the competitive angle the game is circling the drain. I understand how a lot of the current issues fly over my head, but I'm really scared that eventually the game will be compromised in nearly every way, for every type of player.
So its not just me, as a mediocre apex casual player, I noticed sometimes when I pop off, THAT ONE 10+ KILL game my nintendo switch says “game closed for unknown reason.” And now better devices like pc are also experiencing security issues, lovely.
that you can only enjoy these titles on high ping is painful af..
Require people to provide an ID when creating an account. Problem solved.
Or make the game $20 or something. Most player spend way more than that on useless cosmetics anyway. People will think twice about risking a ban if they need to buy the game again afterwards.
The real problem is that a ban don't mean anything if the game is F2P. It's so easy to create a new account and hop back in.
If gta is anything to go off that doesn’t matter ppl still mod games they just make the mods better so itll lessen the impact
it's basically warzone 1 again but this time, I jumped off the ride way sooner.
I agree with everything said here. I’m particularly interested in the discussion on matchmaking.
I’m not sure what the answer to matchmaking is though. As an above average player, I’m ok playing other above average players, but I also don’t want every single pub to play like a tournament because the algorithm is bending over backwards to ensure everyone in the community is “kept safe”.
I think new players and really below average players should be kept safe in their own lobbies. But as it pertains to non-ranked, I think the matchmaking actually should have variety (sometimes your opponents are bad and sometimes they are demons); variety is a good thing for public matches.
As it stands now, I think the algorithm is too punishing towards average skilled players (and above average but not pred level). Winning one game or having one strong performance will throw you into these top MMR lobbies where 90% plus players are at that Master-Pred level.
The REAL issue is that “movement” up the MMR ladder happens faster than movement down. And this is magnified by the type of account you have. You can test this yourself by making various accounts. On my main (104k kills total), it takes roughly 25-30 games with under 0 kills and 0 damage to be dropped into an easier lobby. But on my other accounts that intentionally have below average stats, losing just 2-5 games after a win will return me to weak lobbies.
It’s sad to see it and I honestly hope apex comes back but atm the finals hits hard