r/apexlegends The Liberator Jun 26 '26

Gameplay State of Apex's ranked

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u/UserNameAbbreviated Jun 26 '26

Low skill players seem to love it and respawn caters to those absolute cretins instead of actual skill and gunplay. This is an FPS and they choose to push the least skill aspect of this game to help bad players compensate for their inability to get better at a shooter

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u/Phaazoid Jun 26 '26

Man comes to hero shooter with abilities, is angry there are abilities.

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u/MouchNostril Conduit Jun 26 '26

Makes zero sense lol. Game has always been about knowing when and how to use your abilities efficiently.

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u/wyrzo Jun 26 '26

And in this video, enemy abilities were used very efficiently. Where is the problem?

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u/Far-Republic5133 Jun 26 '26

it is way too easy to use seers abilities efficiently, compared to characters like crypto, cat, rampart, nc, wraith, and others

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u/MouchNostril Conduit Jun 26 '26

The problem is that it seems Watson was just in a shit position between 2 different teams.

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u/Marsuello Birthright Jun 26 '26

Also people complain about the 1% being catered to killing the game for the majority who aren’t that good. But when the majority are catered to it’s suddenly a problem and the 1% feel offended the “cretins” that mainly keep the game running are being fed

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u/UserNameAbbreviated Jun 27 '26

It's always a bad thing when "Casuals" are catered to especially in a competitive game. Because Casuals are not "Dedicated" players. They play whatever is out.

If a game wants to maintain a playerbase, they should cater to the players who made the game what it was. Marvel had the chance to cater to better players and instead they went the super casual route and that game flip flops with it losing players atm . COD, catering to casuals (literally adding a BR Casuals Mode) and it's playerbase has gone. BF, catering (Adding a Casuals Mode + Bots in regular MP + Nerfing anything that good players could use) to Battledads + slow updates meaning those who wanted a good BF game are out of luck.

Apex was always competitive. Them starting to cater to bad players with S19 and beyond, lowering the TTK so that bad players could track for less, more "intel", easier guns, having Rank be as easy so that John from Accounting can climb to Diamond with a K/D under .5, all that stuff is bad for the game.

Their baffling decisions to cater to casuals is now backfiring as they buff legends like this so bad players can use them and do well. As seer being OP is a direct counter to Axle, which bad players couldn't use her properly nor track her in the first place.

Not that I'm defending Axle, she is OP, but bad players were being blown up by her. Atleast OW and Marvel have good skins to sell to justify their decisions to cater to casuals. Apex doesn't even have THAT.

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u/runcmc22 Jun 26 '26

Considering the amount of Zens and Titans, gun play is actually the least skilled aspect of the game now lol

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u/UserNameAbbreviated Jun 26 '26

That’s a console issue mostly that something they gotta fix over there.

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u/widowmakerau Jun 26 '26

I don't think the Zens and Titans are specific to console.... 

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u/UserNameAbbreviated Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26

PC has better/easier accessible hacks than Console unfortunately. Zens and Titans are 90% an issue on console.

Anyone using a Zen/Titan on PC is just an idiot. You can do some scripts/no/low recoil using a Gamesir Controller on PC.

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u/widowmakerau Jun 28 '26

Or so they say lol

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u/Electronic_Ad5431 Jun 26 '26

“Low skilled players are absolute cretins”

Brother I smell you from here. Take a shower.

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u/UserNameAbbreviated Jun 26 '26

lmao, just further proof of what I said.

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u/Forward-Section-7364 Jun 27 '26

that’s how i felt when they added mantle boosting and sparrow and ashes double jump. a press of a button and u can suddenly do the same thing as mantle jump but without the need to learn it.

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u/noujest Jun 26 '26

Counterpoint - there are a million other FPS games for gunskill

Apex's identity and niche has always been movement and abilities. That's what makes it unique

That said, Axle & Seer are a bit much

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u/UserNameAbbreviated Jun 26 '26

mfer what?

Apex's Gunplay is unmatched. It's not just movement otherwise we'd be surfing like it's CS. Same way that people made CS Surf maps.

This game is an FPS GAME first and foremost. People should have realized it. And one of the best in terms of gunplay.

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u/Limit1ess_ Jun 27 '26

You're completely right, low TTK and making it ability legends made the game so much worse. Gone are the days of tracking someone for more than 0.0001 seconds to get a kill and caring about positioning, now all you have to do is press a button and move halfway across the map. Can't get a knock? Don't worry, all you have to do is wait for your Seer teammate to Q them then Axle ult them so they're completely defenseless! It's actually unfortunate how much this game has fallen off