The thing is, Warzone gives you the tools necessary to disengage from those enemies and recover. Tacticals, vehicles, passive health regen, armor plates applying quickly, etc. In Apex, when you're attacked by another squad while you're still licking your wounds, that's it; the game rewards opportunistic engagements like that, and while it's a valid tactic, it's quickly becoming apparent to me that the pace of things like recovery items is simply too slow and restrictive to be ready for a fight in case of a third squad attacking after your first fight is over. Also, if Warzone's too slow for you, do contracts. They're designed to put you in the action and pick fights.
In a straight 1v1 situation, eight times out of ten it's gonna lose to a Havoc, R301, R99, Prowler, Flatline, etc. You get the idea lol.
"Mean" is definitely the word. It might not be good in a trade but when you're opening up on a group then watch then watch them run for cover as their shields crack one by one. Especially effective with a 2-4x at mid-range. Covering fire also feels like it should with a weapon like this. No one wants to peek you when you let rip with a purple mag.
I have like 500 hours in Apex and all it takes is one afternoon playing Counter-Strike and I'm trying to switch weapons with Q and using my tactical instead.
Go to Users\[your PC username]\Saved Games\Respawn\Apex\local and open "videoconfig.txt". Change the values next to "setting.dvs_gpuframetime_min" and "setting.dvs_gpuframetime_max" to whatever you want for your desired frame time (not your desired frame rate). It's measured to the thousandth, so the default "9500" and "9800" values (when dynamic res is set to 100FPS) are actually targeting a frametime between 9.5ms and 9.8ms.
I had this exact problem with The Division 2. Here's what I did to resolve it, though no guarantees it'll work for you:
I've played this game so much and only once managed to break 2500 dmg. Funny enough, it was my very last game of season 2.
I have been playing since the day it came out and I've only broken 2500 once, and that's because I was cheesing with a Charge Rifle.
It's a split season, they're currently using WE but will be switching to KC soon.
Not true. The vast majority of weapons are viable now, and weapon balancing from care package changes is in a good place (vanilla Havoc, for instance, is competent despite being relegated to regular loot).
I pretty much agree. This change alone would probably be enough to make it more interesting, but then they could almost become too good depending on their rarity on the map and how much they altered the values to level the tiers. As they were, they weren't really something I thought was that great. I feel like Level 4 Gold was still more useful.
You might as well buy it, even at your pace you'll get enough Apex coins back where it'll cover half the cost.
25% win rate for a BR is outstanding. I would say anything above 10% is more than the vast majority of players; I hovered between 10-20% for other games, but have been at 5-7% for this game.
I feel like I still consistently run into high skill squads. Just last night I was steamrolled by a guy who had 450 wins this season; more than half of my deaths I could attribute to high level players. I understand that will definitely be a thing that happens, but for the frequency it's pretty annoying.
Finally hit 1,000 wins for lifetime wins around a week ago so I'm quite proud :)
I think my total wins for Season 4 is now maybe 160+?
All I can say is that I've learnt a lot with this game. I was dreadful in Season 0 and Season 1 and only started to 'understand' the game in Season 2 onwards. Hated Season 3 because sniper-meta, but absolutely killing it in Season 4.
Honestly the only way to play / ENJOY this game to it's full potential is to play with a equal skilled squad. My win rate is 25%, which isn't great by any means, but winning 1 in every 4 games is good, and the only reason we lose is because of a bad RNG drop. Also me and my friends refuse to land anywhere else but Capital City/Train Yard (if it's a hot zone) and Sorting Factory (if it's a hot zone). If we landed far out all the time and took our time getting the best weapons/armour etc my win rate may be 30-40%. But that's boring really.
Also Respawn has definitely made SBMM easier/looser in this season. Which is great for players like me not always needing to play against people who have 20-50k kills, but it also sucks for the guy that has less than 1,000 kills and has to right against our squad. How does Respawn even win with this balance?
Matchmaking has been a nightmare for me this season. I'm not good like you guys obviously are, and I'm not terrible, so I'm in the unfortunate bunch that gets put into matches as the bottom tier in Diamond/Predator lobbies. Feels bad man.Matchmaking is definitely miles better then in the dark times during season 3 and completely giving up on solo queuing helped as well. From what I've seen, everyone's doing better this season, me included. The super high skilled squads I almost exclusively run into just in ranked now, exactly as it should be.
Oh absolutely. After slogging through most of S3 as a solo player I've convinced two of my friends to start it up again and the results have been much better, my win rate has only climbed 2% compared to last season but I am now at 50% Top 5 rate. My biggest hill to overcome is trying to finish off the last team who is basically all gold everything and we are not.
I've had to stop looking at my KDR, I went from 1.35 in S3 to 0.95 currently in S4, so I'm losing more gunfights than last season but winning more games? Sure I'll take it I guess. :p
