February 2019
This is not the only game to force team play.
Overwatch
Counter Strike
Left 4 Dead
Team Fortress
Any Battlefield
Dead by deadlight
The list could be longer with actual research, but off the top of my head these are the most successful.
The game is designed and balanced through squads.
If you want to play by yourself, this might not be the game for you.
A solution with Apex would be a death match game mode for solo players. I would like one just practice gun fighting
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And none of those are BR's, which all notoriously have solo/duo. Also in all of those you start with weapons, smaller maps, and completely different structure all together. While I neither agree or disagree you have to look at all angles of your argument, also when the inevitable addition of solo/duo is implemented you can always opt to play 3v3. It is the intended way to play after all.
February 2019
You are correct 3v3 is the intended way to play. Forced squads make it easier to balance the game. If there is solo the same people will be on here begging to remove class abilities due to distinct solo advantage. Its not in the Devs best interest to add more Qing options to slow down matchmaking when they know they are huge swaths if players who prefer team/competitive play.
They also said they dont want to be like other BRs. Which is relatively a very new genre and is not beneficial to be like the others.
February 2019
They could simply just allow you do spawn in as a solo player or a duo in the normal game, it is doable but it is way harder.
February 2019
Solo vs 3 man squads? Maybe in COD or PUBG. But this game has classes with abilities that syngergize off each other and a ping system.
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I understand what you mean, but your argument is just not valid, you can NOT compare those games simply because apex is a BR, and the ones you mentioned are not.
''If you want to play by yourself, this might not be the game for you.''
Tons of ignorance in that sentence. If developers start thinking like that, the game is gonna die in the blink of an eye.
''The game is designed and balanced through squads.''
That is a true statement, and they did it wonderfully. If solo mode will ever be added, it will be a very different experience, changes would need to be done, but that doesn't mean the squads would have to change as well. I personally don't have a problem if they end up not adding solos, but I truly believe it would just increase consumer satisfaction overall.
(I know the game is FTP, but they do need people to like the game in order to gain money from in-game transactions, and by ignoring the solo mode, they are defnitly losing the chance to make these gains more significant).
February 2019
Duo is still teamplay though and why would you care how other people are going to play?
Let them play squad/duo/trio or heck even solo.
Solo is probably going to take a while as the system as it is right now would work for duo/squad but not for solo
February 2019
February 2019
solo players would then dictate how the game would be balanced. 60 Bangalores/Lifelines would be a nightmare in 1 game.
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Solos are needed, what teamplay can i have with one braindead russian guy that doesnt know english and one that doesnt have a mic? ?????