COMPLETLELY DONE with APEX S25

See you tomorrow 

Yeah I thought the servers were suppose to be a "New feature" since this Amazon update but tbh idk. When it first started it was pretty bad & I gave it the benefit of doubt to settle in, sort of say. But after hearing people & Even seeing streamers that hold private tournaments that I watched are crashing/DC more than usual imo from previous observations. 

I did hear someone else say the TTk affects the ping, & I'm guilty of playing on other servers, there seems to be less now but the fact they don't have cool location names (Australia, Japan) idk where I'm going. I thought that was one of the best features & also connected the fan base from around the world (ALGS). ap-northeast-2 sounds bot lol. 

How you release a new legend & the game is not fun is tough on the fans part b/c like you stated "it's just not the fun we fell in love with" I hear this from Bronze to Pred overall !!   I was thinking how SEASON 22 was a breeze compared to this current state. 

I can honestly say at this point that my expectations of new seasons are always tempered by previous experience, mostly bad. I didn't expect Sparrow to be anything interesting or anything dangerous, and unless you're a hyper competitive rank grinder then he really isn't.

Ash is still a joke but I guess I've made my peace with that.

The new servers, so far, seem to be working okay for me.

One thing I have definitely noticed lately, since the beginning of this season, is much MUCH tighter matchmaking. My gray bars are so narrow that the red line almost fills it up every time. That is something I never thought I'd see. There are, of course, still many players in any given match who are running a secondary and don't belong where the matchmaker is putting them. So it's not all sunshine and roses. But it's still a huge improvement over... pretty much ever. And I'm not waiting appreciably longer for matches. So I don't understand why it took so long for this to happen. But I'm glad it did.

I never thought the matchmaking could get much worse yet low and behold this season is as bad as I have ever seen it.

I have averaged around 1.2 K/D since Season 1.

This season i am sitting at .38 and every match i am right at the far end of the skill bracket with all the 20 bomb Masters/Preds.

No bone throwing this season it seems...

Exactly what are you using to judge skill in this game? The fact I reached Platinum/Diamond a couple of times?

As someone who spends a lot of money supporting this game I just can't anymore,😒Sorry....

Honestly, nothing has changed ... 
AWS Servers are more of a "touch up", Matchmaking will still send you to Servers where the routing is crap. Without any significant changes to the netcode and enforced regional locks, the no-regs, audio issues and general weirdness wont vanish.
But hey they now mix high ping with  lowping players on purpose, to try to adjust  the matchmaking, such a brainiac idea ... will only lead to more "wtf" complaints ... bcs even AWS Servers cant do miracles if the netcode is still garbage.
I always get a huge laugh when i read the Patch Notes, just phony crap as usual. 

 

Steamcharts look fake anyway, uptick by over 30% ... 
Fun Fact : Apexlegendstatus tells me roughly the same amount of ranked players like last season.
Do any of those 30% not play ranked ?!?!
Also, they removed the percentage of Masters and Preds for the previous seasons, so you cant calculate the amount of ranked players anymore ... wonder why that is ;)

MindTrick85​ Lets see what Ubisoft can pull off, at least the know how to fix Hitreg, have a decent Matchmaking and they know that input based lobbies are the way to go

Likely lucky timing and enough people back to try new season that they can properly matchmake. Wait for the Churn to start in a few weeks. 

When I am on, it's the usual bad matchmaking. 

After so many Iterations of Apex Matchmaking it should be obvious to everyone that this is all on purpose.
There is no reason to hide the MMR, otherwise they would do that in Chess too.
If somebody tries to cheat an open ELO System it will be obvious to everyone , the only reason to hide a Matchmaking Rating is to rigg it to your liking so nobody ever knows its been manipulated.

They will also remove RP out of thin air, similar to last season where they gave you only a fraction of the RP you earned, happend to me 4 times now. I was at 720 RP Plat 3, lost a game and ended up having 540 ... 180 RP down the drain instead of 45.

Hopefully this TTk just compounds the issues. A stress reliever causing stress. It's a skill issue if you can't adjust, agreed. It's just unnecessary & contradicts All the other patch notes. Changes to helmets, shields & guns is a wild adjustment. Yes, I'll be there to complete my battle pass but my clock in hours are thinning. 

It's hard to please everyone but this TTK If anything causes more frequent healing, more 3rd parties to take advantage, less Legend ability usage. If this were to engage Newcomers the Vets will still dominate to the adjustments, & the ones who comeback to SEE Sparrow are getting melted like never before & go "oh I see why i deleted this game!!" It's a sniper fest but when I get hit with a good shot/knocked by, that initiates a normal push time, they are scared to b/c the ttk is so high, they get knocked otw then we start this game over again& again until the 5th party arrives.

Maybe a good idea for a twist on 'Rank' but this adjustment is 1 of the core elements that made this game what it is imo & I'll leave this topic alone.  

Also there are opinions the complete opposite of my take, that's fine. 

r1ggedgame​ Match Making is still somewhat secret as they can't really share that with us.  If we knew exactly how it worked then people would just game the system; they do already to the best of their ability.  The worst problem with multiplayer online games is the people; people are happy to screw over everyone else to make it easy for them (that's why you have cheaters or people who try to game the match making engine).  Sad but true.

My experience has been mixed.  Overall the matchmaking (I feel) is better; but I don't touch ranked, zero interest.  I love the fact they at least show the layout of the lobby before you start; that's huge for me.  Unfortunately I find I am usually rock bottom about 30-40% of the time which mystifies me (I usually get totally green team mates, not their fault and I try to help but there is only so much you can do when Loba has not figured out how to open her shop, etc).  Frustrating but what can you do?