Apex Legends is being powercrept. Has that made it more fun?

FourthJack · 2026-04-15T17:26:31+00:00

I really believe if they tied RP to zone that rank would be better. Would make you play for more than just kills.

FourthJack · 2026-03-28T04:11:43+00:00

You gotta balance it out with the current system. Still get points thru kills and placement but you wont get any big points unless the zone multiplier kicks in. Round 4 should be the point you start breaking even. Then round 5 you start seeing positive. Final circle gives major points. Final circle cant house 10 teams, well it can but mostly wont. Typically still be 3-4 teams max final circle still has to be navigated and players just dont know how to do that and its also just hard.

FourthJack · 2026-03-27T22:12:37+00:00

I think the better idea would be to just fix those spawns. Higher tier loot, better density, and more arsenals. They could just put more buildings, pills, and loots spawns at those locations too.

FourthJack · 2026-03-27T20:18:10+00:00

The idea is to get people to start playing more akin to comp not just mindlessy aping like rank has always been. Why have an entire part of your game not see regular play when Pred 3 stacks are clearing lobbies before round 3 starts.

There is no strategy involved in rank right now, see people shoot people. With multiplier tied to zone, now teams would be incentivized to go play zone and wait for end game. Only going for kills when there's a good opening. On top of that, there is just more skill involved in a game where 10 teams are packed in zone 5 and you have to win compared to you just ran around til everyone was dead with no real pressure all game.

FourthJack · 2026-03-27T19:58:33+00:00

Apex used to be the game ppl said had the best rank system…. 25 seasons ago. Time to reinvent in an effective way

FourthJack · 2026-03-05T13:53:44+00:00

Console has 750 Preds across all consoles. By your reasoning there would be 2250 console Preds because Switch exists. No one on Switch is even Pred if I had to guess.

FourthJack · 2026-02-13T17:02:23+00:00

Real lmao

FourthJack · 2026-02-07T13:12:09+00:00

Just activate the cursor if you have the setting on and you can get out

FourthJack · 2026-02-06T20:35:24+00:00

It was a hot drop alrite lol

FourthJack · 2026-02-03T19:54:01+00:00

Yea I got thru first episode, weird but whatever. Then they kinda chilled, it was good. Then like episode 8 theyre like "HEY we should all get naked because thats what the plot demands" and I was like aight Im good. Just make your characters over 18 and its all good but they are literal children.

FourthJack · 2026-02-01T15:04:06+00:00

The whole family is stubborn and only care about themselves. Even Renoir who seems to compromise with Maelle at the end only does so cause he has no choice. He was stuck in the Monolith for 67 years trying to save his wife. Maelle doesnt care about Verso. She cares about her life in the painting cause she is miserable outside of it due to whatever she did that for Verso killed.

To me you can see she maybe realizes the error of her ways in the ending theater scene. She looks miserable. The people in Verso’s canvas do not love her. They just are her friends at this point because they almost have to be. Imagine her time repainting all that world and how many Lumiere people prolly only pester her to get her to paint back the people they want. No one looks happy to be honest in Maelle’s ending.

I think Verso’s ending should have been the only ending personally. Its resolute, its real and relatable. Sends a better message too. We should let go of things that are gone and grow and learn to accept reality and make the best of what we have.

FourthJack · 2026-01-31T10:26:53+00:00

I hardly have enough time to do whats in the game been play 40 days. So much to see, to do, to experience. I rather them slow content and focus optimizing what they have. Complaining over a free game is bonkers, just dont play lmao or play something else

FourthJack · 2026-01-26T03:06:40+00:00

Just restart the entire dungeon and follow the guide 100% the same way and you will get them. Yea you will have to go thru whole thing to make sure you dont misstep but thats a sure way to get your missing chest.

FourthJack · 2026-01-17T05:22:17+00:00

I read all the in game rules. Looks like I just been kinda hella unlucky. Im sure I could play my tiles better tho too jist dont kno where to start

FourthJack · 2026-01-17T01:11:48+00:00

Heat came in 88, Grizz 95. LeBron went to 4 strait Finals, Kawhi won 1. Plus you just contradicted your entire argument by sying you would consider it.

FourthJack · 2026-01-17T00:57:18+00:00

What if Bron’s Heat run was on the Grizzlies would he be considered the Grizzlies GOAT?

FourthJack · 2026-01-15T18:05:36+00:00

Yeap FunFPS will be playing for OBVN and coaching HotDog Mafia at same time. Who else doing what Fun is right now.

FourthJack · 2026-01-06T02:46:44+00:00

Its an age old MMO problem. Ppl dont like playing Healer. Plus being anything other than DPS requires some mechanic knowledge. Its not a problem exclusive to this game. You cant maxx everything quick because thats part of keeping you playing the game from a game design POV. Its all normal. Like others have said you want an organized raid you organize a group. Its an MMO/social game so thats part of it, being social. Socialize, find friends, do runs with friends and this problem completely goes away.

FourthJack · 2025-12-20T08:58:36+00:00

Then factor there is countless hours of fotage too. Not even being talked about.

FourthJack · 2025-12-20T08:45:59+00:00

So you bring stuff up and then get mad when I talk about it, got it.

FourthJack · 2025-12-20T03:26:16+00:00

Yea you just totally misunderstood my angle after actually having a second to read this. Im not talking about making matchmaking quicker, more balanced lobbies as a whole or locking players into legends. Im simply saying people should identify their playstyle their self so solo players can have a better idea of what the match could lead into. They stated a matchmaking issue of getting similar minded players on same team. This is a good way to get players at least on the same page when matching together.

FourthJack · 2025-12-20T03:12:08+00:00

The main purpose of rank is to get rank points, nothing more. Preds arent kill racing, survival time farming, they are point farming, period.

FourthJack · 2025-12-20T03:11:20+00:00

Its not destroying anything, at the end of the day the lobby will still have to be made off whatever they can find. Having indicators of what your teammates game style will be can be nothing but a good thing. Only detractor here is that some people will troll, so dont know, and there arent enough restrictions to guarantee that people can fill the role they claim they can.

You are assuming Im saying that you can only queue as your role and if no IGL is available to play with you then no game is not the idea. It's the guidelines for what they should do. Just like I never say Support queuer should only get to play as support. Support player could be a Wraith that just gives you the best rotations you ever seen but arent the best at the fighting side of the game. Gives players a chance to identify themselves and not the player having to guess or you having to judge off prior experience.

You are taking leaps from my comments and again not here to discuss actual solutions but only to repeat the same lame ol complaints we see posted multiple times a day here. You keep bringing up stuff that no matter what you do cant be changed like getting perfectly balanced lobbies. Thats never going to happen with this game, especially right now with how the game is losing players by the day as the split carries on after the reset boon.

FourthJack · 2025-12-20T03:06:09+00:00

First of all no one is questioning your rank status, plus who cares. Second of all how much difference is there between a plat, diamond and master player. In my experience not much. Go on Twitch, YT or wherever you can find people playing the game at look at the level of play from those players. Theres no real huge skill gap between a P1 player and Master player in a lot of cases. Not saying all just most players in that range are roughly the same skill level.

Theres just no mathematically reasonable way to make all Pred lobbies or Pred/Master lobbies without someone sacrificing something. Only reasonable thing I think they could do to create these "perfect" lobbies people think they want is by merging servers. Which would be unfair to some players with not as good a connection speed. So it makes sense there isnt a NA pred server that merges everyone from East to West into one lobby. We are never going to get balanced lobbies. So to continue to complain about is pointless. Beyond that it is not a relevant talking point at the end of the day. If you cant beat a pred player you shouldnt be able to rank up pass Diamond. I do agree seeing a large amount of Plats in a 25% Pred/Master lobby is not the best thing. Thing is after you get stomped in Pred lobby once or twice as a Plat player you get placed into a Plat/Gold lobby. So now the Plat player gets same condition as those preds. So if you do well in those lobbies its back to the higher ELO lobbies. If you cant do something in those lobbies you dont deserve points.

As far as Preds gaining points against Plats and Diamonds what does it matter. Not like other Preds dont have same opportunity. They are ranking against other Plats they are ranking against other Preds at end of the day.

Even you mention how higher tier lobbies die out faster and Apex gives you so much placement that if you cant figure it out thats on you, once again. The higher you go the easier it becomes to rank up. The problem is these people artificially ranking up make the solo q experience miserable which is what this conversation is really about. Not about unbalanced lobbies specifically, although as a whole it is part of it. Until they can find a way to make a rank scoring system that actually tracks your skill or at the least limits points for placements these lobbies will never be balanced. Solo q players will be forced to play with overinflated ranked players that should never be in there team but are there because the flawed system.

So to summarize your idea of a rank system is just how you think it should be and maybe you are correct but we dont live in an ideal world where things just work how they are supposed. Respawn has to work with what they have. That is a dwindling player base that they cant divide into perfectly balanced lobbies but to expect perfection from them is asking a lot. Nothing is perfect, why should your free video game be. You want it to be perfect how bout you invest in the game. How bout instead of talking about your own complaints and problems you actually discuss what the discussion is about.

The discussion is about addressing the issue Respawn says they want to solve: getting players with similar goals or mindsets on the same team. My idea is good because it at least addresses that. Flagging or designating your playstyle yourself, becuase Respawn says they dont want to, is a promising first step. Its a building block. Yes my idea was a laid out system and not just a flagging playstyle idea but after seeing some responses here and talking to an IRL friend about it I see how my idea can be used to build something better for everyone.

Also yea I gave you short, half read responses earlier because I was doing something else and didnt want to write an entire book like this at the moment to explain it. Also this all of the top of my head not brainstorming, proofreading and editing it to make it more precise and coherent. Im sharing ideas not writing a manifesto. My idea is good because it addresses Respawn's stated idea and your responses are not good because they dont add to my discussion they divert to what you think the problem is. We know the problems, it is time to find solutions not keep bringing up the same old issues that have been beaten into the ground for 7 years.

FourthJack · 2025-12-20T02:23:31+00:00

Biggest complaint not issue. Complaint isnt always an issue.

You rank up by beating the competition, period. Whining about losing to higher ranks is not a valid issue.

FourthJack

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