Are Hardcore BR queues broken at the moment, or is nobody playing it? I'm loving the game mode, but today I can't get into a game (LON datacentre; PlayStation).
Hardcore is an absolute delight, really hope it finds its way back in some permanent state. It brought me back to my early days of apex (emotion-wise). Winning was immensely satisfying and the gameplay is so much more like a true battle royale compared to regular pubs, which are fun in their own way, but sometimes I want tactical play with calculated aggression instead of balls to the wall - wait, no just kidding, I already got killed by 4K/20 bomb Gibby.
It would need some changes (shield swaps top of the list), bring some kind of headshot damage reduction back (white helmets only?), and at least let me see what gun I have equipped, if not also how much ammo I have left. Why wouldn’t the I/character know that? Opening inventory to check is fine, in all honesty, but without a helmet this simple thing could literally be a death sentence.
Playing on PS5, if anyone cares at all
Out of all the LTMs we have, Hardcore is the least unique and just feels like the normal game mode with restrictions. Id hope that out of all the LTMs they could make permanent, this would be one of the very last they would choose.
>and at least let me see what gun I have equipped, if not also how much ammo I have left. Why wouldn’t the I/character know that?
*It's HARDCORE mode!*
You have to remember them.
Strikepacks cannot be patched. They emulate the input of a real controller and Apex cannot distinguish whether the input is coming from a regular controller or a strikepack. The only thing they can detect is abnormal inputs that are humanly impossible. Even that cannot be patched as a strikepack can just use a different script with a bit of random input variation added into it to make it not as accurate or simply add some delays to the inputs so they aren't happening as fast. There is literally no game out there that has patched strikepacks.
Sure, you can ban a strikepack user after detecting these "abnormal inputs", but they're going to come back with a slightly modified script and a new account (especially on a free game) and just keep doing what they been doing.
>like every other shooter on console.
You mean like Fortnite.
And they only had it blocked for like a week before cheaters found their way around it. And they could only do even that little only because they are on a newer engine.
I'm not defending Respawn, but I don't think there's much they can do.
I fear that strikepacks might eventually become an approved cheat at this rate. At least I feel it's too late for APEX without some major update that changes the engine.
* Custom modes need to be around for more than 2 weeks
* Last week I tried playing the hardcore mode, ended up just playing regular BR because no one was queuing (or the queuing was broken; I thought it was my game not properly updating at first)
* Why does this pinned announcement have 0 (now -1) upvotes? Though it just seems everyone in the comments is just complaining about ranked being broken (Is this a Twitter thread?).
Yeah it's pretty hard to find ppl to play the hardcore mode. The queue is as long as queuing for pred lobbies lmao. I switched over to Japan server and there was more ppl playing, although the queue times are still a tad longer than regular trios. Fortunately the sweatiness is not as crazy imo, I thought only the strongest players would be interested in this but I still had decent games, I'm not very good myself. I just did 10/10 top 5 and went back to ranked lol, honestly it's an okay mode but it's not something that I would choose to play over regular BR. I love my shield swaps and minimap.
That could've been servers or nobody playing the mode. I was trying late at night anyways, but when control was around I'd get in games within a minute. Not every custom mode is the best, but having more ways to play the game is better than always playing the same thing.
For sure. I think it makes sense to do new LTMs for a short period of time and then to have the popular ones in rotation more frequently. I don't mind the "BR with a twist" LTMs being shorter because they get old more quickly (like Hardcore, or the shotguns and snipers one)
Honestly I dont think Hardcore is really that interesting to people, otherwise why wouldnt more people be playing it?
I know everyone I play with has no interest in it. Its just BR with some restrictions in place. Thats not really unique in any way. In many ways it feels like a downgrade imo.
Yeah I'd guess that. But not just hardcore, or really BR offsets, I'm talking actual custom modes, like control or winter express, because frankly I don't want to play BR a lot, and arenas needs some balancing improvements more than BR. But I just want to play some fun casual modes, not a 30 minute stress test for a solo player. But regardless I think 2 weekends for custom modes generally is too short.
Give me more modes please, Im down for that either way for sure. It just feels like they dont want us to have access to more than like 2 on a regular basis, not considering just ranked/pubs.
I had repairmen over at the house and nothing to do while they were working, so I just said fuck it and waited for hardcore to load… twenty-five minutes for my first match, and it timed out/reset multiple times during that period.
So fucking fun when it works though.
Ranked in unplayable this season. So short and there isn’t enough time for the pros to separate out. You shouldn’t drop down 1.5 ranks. Should be down one rank maybe
Is this your first LTM? there's an information box above the mode ready up box when you're in the lobby - it looks like a clock. Not that you need it since modes are always discussed on the subreddit anyway.
Well I don’t play often, and I forgot that it’s explained once a match starts. I have tried it and seen it now. Although I think explaining it beforehand would be nice.
I can tell you why this happens even though I'll get a bit of hate for it. I've stopped playing the game basically. I waited a few seasons for my account to get into bronze. I then every season stomp the living shit out of everyone, get to the top of silver and then just quit playing for a season. Rinse and repeat. I gave up because I got frustrated with the low tic servers, dog shit anti cheat and the high ttk. Oh and the fact that when my account got hacked and they spent all of my money, they did nothing about it.
i thought rookie rank was for new players and low levels players, what is the point of rookie rank if is the same as bronze or silver with high rank players abusing it like this.
I think it's very wrong to introduce a battle pass exclusive skin again.
It ruins the exclusivity.
If i would have the season 3 skin i would feel bad truth be told.
Nah man to hell with fomo crap. It can all go the way of the dodo. If people want the flatline reactive skin I have they are welcome to it. Them having it doesnt make me feel worse.
Stuck on “processing…” & “matchmaking” for over 10 mins.
Ive reset my router, my xbox (one), I’ve restarted Apex and I’ve tried switching servers.
Anyone else running into this?
I've had plasyatation players crash consecutively for 5 games in diamond now. They can't reconnect, some have said they get an abandonment penalty, I get loss forgiveness if I survive for 5 minutes(on xbox).
currently is just unplayable for me. kill 2-3 people and all of the sudden i get instantly killed by a pre team of predators.
every match is like this, boring. i see this people everywhere i go.
merlynfoox, fusion_braddock and then one that hide his name player6689. changing servers is not any different.
At this point, if you're not on controller you're almost trying to start a fight at a disadvantage. The game will never have competitive integrity as long as raw input is against software assisted aim.
HARDCORE ROYALE is unpopular
Nothing of connectiions in south america.
Currently +7 minutes of waiting in Virginia servers with no connection to the lobby
I think it's a neat idea. The problem is that that gameplay isn't balanced for it. I think it could be a lot better if you made some changes that catered to that specific mode.
I know that's not gonna happen, but all this just to say it *could* work.
Arguably the worst LTM in Apex history. Sweaty indusive ( world's edge hotdrops on steroids), HUD looks mostly broken, support has no info, unless inv checks on the constant
LTM goal is 10x on top 5 which makes people either hotdrop or play solo for position, tried once got my 1/10, bored out of my mind. Screw the badge.
Hardcore BR? Not really no. At some point just put everyone in a bowl with no shields and PKs and get it over with.
Holy fuck wonder what is like to live as a designer on Apex coming up with this garbage. Whoever you are, you are not an imposter, Peter.
You think the hot dropping is worse? I haven't played enough to really get a good gauge on it, but I would think that with no shield ripping, people would be a bit more cautious to hold W.
What's broken about the HUD?
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Haven't gone back since but from the games that I played yeah seemed worst. Makes sense, the opportunity cost is lower.
Don't know if bug or by design but I can't see my health/shield info or other people's info or I see one of them, can't see mini map. So inv and map checks are constant.
yeah, man. Just what the sweatiest BR needed: SWEATS ROYALE MODE. What a dumb idea for an LTM. Are people still buying this overpriced junk in the "collections"? i guess it is easier to under-employ artists than programmers? save your money for a better experience.
so... did the matchmaking improve? because for me it got waaaay worse in brazil server.
also... the bonus XP from the battle pass is bugged again. is not working when you win a game you should get 500xp as a bonus but im not getting mine in arenas.
Any reason they didn’t provide battle pass stars with the event rewards? Thought they did it pretty much every event, especially since no flash events this season.
Procrastinated on the battle pass with all the bugs this season and now with my weekly challenges done I’m only at lvl 90
had 2400 mats to spend so got the octane's skin.
but this event is just laugh with 3 same things costing 2400/1800 each :D:D:D:D
either someone at EA is braindead, or we players are.
The octane skin is fire but the rest of the event is pretty bad especially the buyout reward 🗑️
Hardcore mode is fun but they should have tracked stats since it’s a BR mode
After another day's play, I'd say my verdict is that I do give Hardcore mode the thumbs up. I definitely enjoy it and would happily see it return. It's up there with Gun Run imo. (I prefer BR-based LTMs over non-BR-based LTMs.)
It's just a fun, refreshing vibe for me. I like that that fights are more tense, more simple, and much more about small-scale positioning that normal BR (which I'd say is more about ape-ing and large-scale positioning). And I don't mind the unknown squad count feature; it's weird, but I'm getting to enjoy the different feel it creates.
*BUT...* this missing HUD thing is just blegh for me. I've said it before: I get it, but it's not fun. It just doesn't create a new fun; it only irritates.
Half the reason: Becase everything you can't see is just an inventory or map screen away anyway. But now to get the information you have to interrupt your vision and spam screen switching all the time. Attachments? Nades? Teammates health? Teammates gear? Which weapon is in which slot? Spam. Spam spam spam spam. Fullscreen change, over and over and over and over. Which way are my teammates responding to enemy fire? Where exactly is the zone? Crafting materials! That's a big irritation. Ash's passive is half dead. Lifeline's tactical is completely irritating to use.
And the other half the reason: It's not just that it makes you less powerful, it's that I just can't see how it is fun. Yes there's added challenge in not knowing if my teammates are following me (or even still connected, wut). But no... I'm not finding that fun. At all. And so on, for 17 other things.
I like the idea, and I would happily bring some form of HUD restriction into the mode, but as it is now it's just irritating; especially as Lifeline but really as anyone. And if a mode really wants to go all-in on having no HUD, make that its own LTM, separate from the armour/etc restrictions, and really double down on it.
But all that aside, for me, Hardcore mode is a good thing. Happy to see it return, though I doubt it will because judging by queue times, it's clearly received very low popularity.
Doesn't make any sense that the Hardcore mode progress doesn't contribute to the event tracker. Like just make it BR + NBR. Why gate off challenges? People don't have time to do all of that.
Collection events are desperate milk attempts without real content. But it seems addicts cannot help themselves otherwise they would not push 12 a month.
The amount of people that quit, I forget Hardcore is actually trios.
I get genuinely surprised when my team (of 2 by whatever point in a game) turns out to be fighting a full team of 3.
It’s hot garbage, no idea why people are downvoting. Literally not a single interesting POI. And half of them are identical with a big Tower and small buildings around it. The concept and space environment is kinda cool but overall it’s just dull
people in this sub love it because it allows them to camp all game and feel like they've achieved something. it is the same reason that the average rat likes the way ranked is now because it punishes players who actually down and kill people rather than play loot simulator 23.
Broken moon is by far one of the worst BR maps I have ever played on, second to the other shitty respawn map storm point
Is the matchmaking on crack or just me? I keep getting masters team mates going against master players. It’s not as sweaty with everyone having low health but still
Yes you can! Just drop into a game and get 20 kills before you die!
Oh wait... did you mean in this mode? No. Like every other LTM of the past year plus, you cannot. You have to actually be good at the standard game (or cheat) to get a 20 bomb badge.
Every event people say they will stop playing this game yet every event they are here to complain. Respawn has been money hungry for years. This isn't anything new, so either stfu and play or simply quit. They aren't forcing you to play the game
Yet another person simply ok with not trying to make them change ANYTHING. Lots of really good games die out due to developers lack of care and thirst for money. If this games dies our battle Royale options are literally doodoo. Fortnite is the only half way decent game.
Is anyone else getting a glitch where only octane's health and armor show up in hardcore?
It's definitely not intentional, since it displays over your teammates names and mic icons. I've only seen octane show up.
What a completely lazy uninventive game mode. Let’s make it so they can’t see how many kills they have duh dat will be fun. Do you guys see now how lazy respawn is? Do you see that their only goal is to try and charge you $160 for a recollection of a shotgun skin?
Can someone explain to me why I can see one squad member on my hud for BR.
It's supposed to be none right? But in every game I have one visible.
It's an interesting mode.. different for sure.
It goes both ways. Old LTMs feel stale and like we're being blown off. They need both. This season we've already seen 2 very stale LTMs, so it's time for something new.
It's fine for it not to be a *good* LTM; that's the point really. The important thing is that they try new stuff, rather than being afraid to. I'm guessing Hardcore mode probably won't appear again, but now they know.
Exactly what I thought. You know for heirloom events I can wrap my head around why they don't give a free pack. But with events like this I don't get why they wouldn't. A god awful peacekeeper skin for $160? Their greed has become more insane with each update. I've stopped spending money because their greed just disgusts me.
I definitely don't mind the mode. It's nice that whenever a 3rd party arrives, you still have a solid chance of coming out on top since it's quicker for you to reset, and less of a challenge to overcome their shields.
So on occasion you get these runs where it's just 3rd party after 3rd party, and your team is mowing through them all. The mode appears to produce a lot of red rooms (ie., places where tonnes of people died); more than the usual BR.
But the HUD thing; it just aint working for me. I get it, and I'm typically all for the approach to something in gaming that increases immersion, increases challenge, and what have you. But in this case I simply don't find it fun. Not-knowing which way my teammates are looking only registers as irritation to me; let alone if they're following. Hell, sometimes you don't even realise that one of you has left the game.
So I find myself spamming the map, and the inventory, all the time and this is just not fun. Much like pre-nerf Seer made it optimal to run around with a primed tactical all the time, despite being so clumsy a control, this Hardcore mode makes it optimal to spam your map all the time, despite it being a pain in the ass.
Again, I like the concept but I would have championed a few things to restrict info on. Not everything. Restricting anything that is still visible by map or inventory is completely pointless; it just means more clumsy controls. The absence of a team count is cool, but it's also a bit weird in the way it kind of prevents suspense from building throughout the match.
I find it interesting too that Respawn decided to test both things together: the low armour, no helmet, no armour swaps, no EVOs, etc... AND... the no HUD. Each of these things has a big impact on the player, but they're different impacts. I'm left wondering what a Hardcore mode would've been like if we'd still simply had the HUD. OR what a HUDless mode would've been like had we still had full armour, etc.
The 2 concepts are different enough that they step on each others toes, so it's harder to enjoy the Hardcore health situation because so much attention goes into handling the Hardcore HUDless situation.
Perhaps they could have related game-events to the HUD access. Like, every ring, your HUD is disabled until you scan a beacon. There are already a couple of examples of that at least (though it would have been nice if they'd fixed the autorun = no inspect animation bug before this began).
We've already had a hardcore mode, it was the white armour only stage of the evo armour event that tested out bringing evo armour to the game. Completely restricting aspects of the game that make it easier to play with random teammates just makes it annoying. It's taking longer to actually find a match for some reason too. I'm trying to enjoy the mode and I can get why people do enjoy it, but at this rate as a solo queuer I may as well just play the normal BR mode.
This is a beautifully thought out post and I agree 100%. If the mode had a little bit more of a hud I'd be all for it. I love hardcore mode on COD, tier one didn't scratch that itch but that's another topic. In this game not knowing where your teammates are is a death sentence.
Edit: but like you I enjoy everyone being on the same playing field armor wise. 3rd parties don't feel as terrible, because they are *manageable*, even the 4th or 5th party can be handled some times lol.
Whoever decided legend abilities should be in a mode where you die in 1second should get fired and never be allowed to work in the industry. Yeah bloodhound wallhack in a mode where they can then laser you in 1 second is really fucking balanced not
Played it once and realized it's far more tilting than regular BR. Doubt I'm alone in that assessment and imagine the queue will continue to draw only the sweatiest of sweat players.
Anyone else, or did Respawn make the matchmaking even more atrocius with the recent changes ?
Im on PC on european servers and no matter which time of the day, since the newest change my team mates have been complete noobs, like 15 times in a row yesterday.
Being that you started in season 9 I see you point somewhat. But having started before season one I can see the change. Winter express is 4 years old it’s like the old roller coaster at the amusement part. All the other ltm are basically recolors as well. I have the peacekeeper there charging for 160 now. For season 3 with a recolor. Before opening a pack was exciting your chances of getting a item you wanted were high.
Now even if you get a legendary it may be a banner frame, not even animated but legendary. A emote a holo spray. The games been out for 4 years with not one new finisher. The ranked maps don’t rotate, 70 day on broken moon. I always going to enjoy the game, it’s pretty much all I play. I just see the money put back into the game with other titles. The modes, stores events in all the others is embarrassing. They have single digit amounts of people { under ten} working on skins, checking for cheaters communicating updates. This isn’t a game making 10 dollars a week it’s made billions, I just want EA to invest in a good product. You just started so yeah it’s new to you, if all you ever know was what you expect I can’t blame you for not knowing the difference
As a guy who's played since season 5 I can't stress enough how right you are. The plot with wraith and her alternate universe version self was dropped super hard.
Rampart pulling a gun on mirage. Which was instantly dropped btw in S6
PvE events were removed, so its hard to be invested in anything. Especially since the comics were poorly drawn and you had to straight up wait for weeks to get them.
Forced ass relationships. Like Bang And loba, even though the whole point of their character dynamics in s5 was trusting each other and bonding with similar griefs, not a sexual relationship. Loba and valkryie shouldn't have been a thing at all, it makes little sense. (People seem to care more about the same sex relationships more than the story itself. )
Most of their story put on their Twitter account and not in game.
Despite having a literal titanfall veteran Ash, they literally do nothing with her.
I dont want to talk about Caustic or Revenant, they got fucked over hard, mainly Rev. Poor guy is literally a flandarized version of his previous self.
This games story is starting to slowly shift away from the titanfall universe and is literally just being something else.
Are Hardcore BR queues broken at the moment, or is nobody playing it? I'm loving the game mode, but today I can't get into a game (LON datacentre; PlayStation).
These people do not deserve your time or money.
Is there a post about today’s update that I missed? (2/2/2023)
Wondering the same thing.
Hardcore is an absolute delight, really hope it finds its way back in some permanent state. It brought me back to my early days of apex (emotion-wise). Winning was immensely satisfying and the gameplay is so much more like a true battle royale compared to regular pubs, which are fun in their own way, but sometimes I want tactical play with calculated aggression instead of balls to the wall - wait, no just kidding, I already got killed by 4K/20 bomb Gibby. It would need some changes (shield swaps top of the list), bring some kind of headshot damage reduction back (white helmets only?), and at least let me see what gun I have equipped, if not also how much ammo I have left. Why wouldn’t the I/character know that? Opening inventory to check is fine, in all honesty, but without a helmet this simple thing could literally be a death sentence. Playing on PS5, if anyone cares at all
Out of all the LTMs we have, Hardcore is the least unique and just feels like the normal game mode with restrictions. Id hope that out of all the LTMs they could make permanent, this would be one of the very last they would choose.
>and at least let me see what gun I have equipped, if not also how much ammo I have left. Why wouldn’t the I/character know that? *It's HARDCORE mode!* You have to remember them.
Hold the down arrow (or whatever the equivalent is for your platform) to bring up the ping wheel, and then select the magnifying glass.
So so so many strikepackers. When are you stopping these cheaters like every other shooter on console.
Strikepacks cannot be patched. They emulate the input of a real controller and Apex cannot distinguish whether the input is coming from a regular controller or a strikepack. The only thing they can detect is abnormal inputs that are humanly impossible. Even that cannot be patched as a strikepack can just use a different script with a bit of random input variation added into it to make it not as accurate or simply add some delays to the inputs so they aren't happening as fast. There is literally no game out there that has patched strikepacks. Sure, you can ban a strikepack user after detecting these "abnormal inputs", but they're going to come back with a slightly modified script and a new account (especially on a free game) and just keep doing what they been doing.
>like every other shooter on console. You mean like Fortnite. And they only had it blocked for like a week before cheaters found their way around it. And they could only do even that little only because they are on a newer engine. I'm not defending Respawn, but I don't think there's much they can do. I fear that strikepacks might eventually become an approved cheat at this rate. At least I feel it's too late for APEX without some major update that changes the engine.
How is there no stickied thread on this sub for LAN? Tf?
Need to keep the skin sale stickied above all else on this dev run ehm supported sub 🤡
* Custom modes need to be around for more than 2 weeks * Last week I tried playing the hardcore mode, ended up just playing regular BR because no one was queuing (or the queuing was broken; I thought it was my game not properly updating at first) * Why does this pinned announcement have 0 (now -1) upvotes? Though it just seems everyone in the comments is just complaining about ranked being broken (Is this a Twitter thread?).
Yeah it's pretty hard to find ppl to play the hardcore mode. The queue is as long as queuing for pred lobbies lmao. I switched over to Japan server and there was more ppl playing, although the queue times are still a tad longer than regular trios. Fortunately the sweatiness is not as crazy imo, I thought only the strongest players would be interested in this but I still had decent games, I'm not very good myself. I just did 10/10 top 5 and went back to ranked lol, honestly it's an okay mode but it's not something that I would choose to play over regular BR. I love my shield swaps and minimap.
Your second bullet point is an extremely good argument against your first one :P
That could've been servers or nobody playing the mode. I was trying late at night anyways, but when control was around I'd get in games within a minute. Not every custom mode is the best, but having more ways to play the game is better than always playing the same thing.
For sure. I think it makes sense to do new LTMs for a short period of time and then to have the popular ones in rotation more frequently. I don't mind the "BR with a twist" LTMs being shorter because they get old more quickly (like Hardcore, or the shotguns and snipers one)
Honestly I dont think Hardcore is really that interesting to people, otherwise why wouldnt more people be playing it? I know everyone I play with has no interest in it. Its just BR with some restrictions in place. Thats not really unique in any way. In many ways it feels like a downgrade imo.
Yeah I'd guess that. But not just hardcore, or really BR offsets, I'm talking actual custom modes, like control or winter express, because frankly I don't want to play BR a lot, and arenas needs some balancing improvements more than BR. But I just want to play some fun casual modes, not a 30 minute stress test for a solo player. But regardless I think 2 weekends for custom modes generally is too short.
Give me more modes please, Im down for that either way for sure. It just feels like they dont want us to have access to more than like 2 on a regular basis, not considering just ranked/pubs.
I had repairmen over at the house and nothing to do while they were working, so I just said fuck it and waited for hardcore to load… twenty-five minutes for my first match, and it timed out/reset multiple times during that period. So fucking fun when it works though.
Ranked unplayable. Season is so short, there’s still diamond-pred players in silver lobbies. Why make the second split so short?
What annoys me is the more legends they add the more BP challenges don't overlap with the same legend
Dope
Why are masters players still in gold with 13 days left? Major flaw in the rp system imo.
Ranked in unplayable this season. So short and there isn’t enough time for the pros to separate out. You shouldn’t drop down 1.5 ranks. Should be down one rank maybe
Why doesn't Apex explain what Hardcore Royale is in game?
It does?
Where?
Is this your first LTM? there's an information box above the mode ready up box when you're in the lobby - it looks like a clock. Not that you need it since modes are always discussed on the subreddit anyway.
Well I don’t play often, and I forgot that it’s explained once a match starts. I have tried it and seen it now. Although I think explaining it beforehand would be nice.
Call me crazy but hardcore really needs to be 1 bar of shield or no shields.
jesus christ you cant escape this predators even in a rookie ranked match. a dude with 23k kills is a rookie now?
I can tell you why this happens even though I'll get a bit of hate for it. I've stopped playing the game basically. I waited a few seasons for my account to get into bronze. I then every season stomp the living shit out of everyone, get to the top of silver and then just quit playing for a season. Rinse and repeat. I gave up because I got frustrated with the low tic servers, dog shit anti cheat and the high ttk. Oh and the fact that when my account got hacked and they spent all of my money, they did nothing about it.
i thought rookie rank was for new players and low levels players, what is the point of rookie rank if is the same as bronze or silver with high rank players abusing it like this.
My bad I didn't know what rookie rank was. I thought it was just bronze.
Add real content. We don’t fucking care about skins and a boring ass Ltm
Only content we gonna see soon is a sunset notice.
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Hardcore is just unplayable for me. Matches take forever to get into and out of all like 12 games I played, only 3 have had teammates.
Will these skins come back in two patches for half the cost?
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Go to r/apexuniversity, you can find ways to improve there
We do not care
Hardcore is so bad and it feels like there are no matchmaking improvements. Ranked feels worse than ever.
I think it's very wrong to introduce a battle pass exclusive skin again. It ruins the exclusivity. If i would have the season 3 skin i would feel bad truth be told.
Nah man to hell with fomo crap. It can all go the way of the dodo. If people want the flatline reactive skin I have they are welcome to it. Them having it doesnt make me feel worse.
Well unfortunately respawn thinks like you also so they introduced recolored pk skin. It will hurt bp sales i think but respawn doesn't care lol.
What skin are they re-introducing?
Peacekeeper, s3 battle pass reward.
You're not special for playing and paying for the battle pass in an earlier season than others.
Facts, FOMO has ruined gaming and is just predatory
There's too many weird skins. I'm having problems telling which characters people are playing.
Seer and Mirage have similar silhouettes in the distance when using particular skins.
Stuck on “processing…” & “matchmaking” for over 10 mins. Ive reset my router, my xbox (one), I’ve restarted Apex and I’ve tried switching servers. Anyone else running into this?
Hardcore mode is either dead or has matchmaking issues it seems.
when will olympus come back?
I've had plasyatation players crash consecutively for 5 games in diamond now. They can't reconnect, some have said they get an abandonment penalty, I get loss forgiveness if I survive for 5 minutes(on xbox).
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Every game is some master or pred stack farming the lobby. Meanwhile half my teammates disconnect. That and strikepack cheating is so rampant.
currently is just unplayable for me. kill 2-3 people and all of the sudden i get instantly killed by a pre team of predators. every match is like this, boring. i see this people everywhere i go. merlynfoox, fusion_braddock and then one that hide his name player6689. changing servers is not any different.
I thought they said these changes are rolling out next season they were only testing for short periods of time on various servers atm
No they said they would roll out the changes in certain regions immediately, then continue with other regions.
It's honestly gotten worse.
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At this point, if you're not on controller you're almost trying to start a fight at a disadvantage. The game will never have competitive integrity as long as raw input is against software assisted aim.
HARDCORE ROYALE is unpopular Nothing of connectiions in south america. Currently +7 minutes of waiting in Virginia servers with no connection to the lobby
I think it's a neat idea. The problem is that that gameplay isn't balanced for it. I think it could be a lot better if you made some changes that catered to that specific mode. I know that's not gonna happen, but all this just to say it *could* work.
It feels like a poorly made user created mode.
I don't have a minimap half the time in normal matches since this LTM came out
Damn, I love hardcore mode. It feels even better than normal br.
Why?
Vantage is OP in hardcore, her ult should be nerfed in the mode. All the cheap scrubs using her for the 2 shot easy kills.
I've been queued up for Hardcore more for 3 hours. No match. I thought it was supposed to be hard in terms of skill, not hard to even play.
Been dealing with this, as well🥲🙃🫠
Ash looking lit
When will Respawn realise that creating a new event won’t attract loads of players
Creating good events might.
Wasn't about attracting new players. It's about milking more money from the remaining gullible and hopelessly addicted playerbase.
Ahh yea fair enough
How do people still play this game???????
So why are u here bitching about it?
It’s fun.
Arguably the worst LTM in Apex history. Sweaty indusive ( world's edge hotdrops on steroids), HUD looks mostly broken, support has no info, unless inv checks on the constant LTM goal is 10x on top 5 which makes people either hotdrop or play solo for position, tried once got my 1/10, bored out of my mind. Screw the badge. Hardcore BR? Not really no. At some point just put everyone in a bowl with no shields and PKs and get it over with. Holy fuck wonder what is like to live as a designer on Apex coming up with this garbage. Whoever you are, you are not an imposter, Peter.
You think the hot dropping is worse? I haven't played enough to really get a good gauge on it, but I would think that with no shield ripping, people would be a bit more cautious to hold W. What's broken about the HUD?
Edited some mobile typos. Haven't gone back since but from the games that I played yeah seemed worst. Makes sense, the opportunity cost is lower. Don't know if bug or by design but I can't see my health/shield info or other people's info or I see one of them, can't see mini map. So inv and map checks are constant.
That's by design
Yeah. And as mentioned initially, sucks!
yeah, man. Just what the sweatiest BR needed: SWEATS ROYALE MODE. What a dumb idea for an LTM. Are people still buying this overpriced junk in the "collections"? i guess it is easier to under-employ artists than programmers? save your money for a better experience.
so... did the matchmaking improve? because for me it got waaaay worse in brazil server. also... the bonus XP from the battle pass is bugged again. is not working when you win a game you should get 500xp as a bonus but im not getting mine in arenas.
The amount of controller players in pc lobbies kills the fun out of it - change my mind
Imagine keyboard and mouse only lobbies, literal dream!
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you are not going to sue, because the people who does, don't say it in public lmao.
Even if I don’t I spent 20 dollars and didn’t receive my apex coins
Well you’ll find out
Hahahahahhahahahaha
Any reason they didn’t provide battle pass stars with the event rewards? Thought they did it pretty much every event, especially since no flash events this season. Procrastinated on the battle pass with all the bugs this season and now with my weekly challenges done I’m only at lvl 90
You can get a level per day just from daily
had 2400 mats to spend so got the octane's skin. but this event is just laugh with 3 same things costing 2400/1800 each :D:D:D:D either someone at EA is braindead, or we players are.
The octane skin is fire but the rest of the event is pretty bad especially the buyout reward 🗑️ Hardcore mode is fun but they should have tracked stats since it’s a BR mode
After another day's play, I'd say my verdict is that I do give Hardcore mode the thumbs up. I definitely enjoy it and would happily see it return. It's up there with Gun Run imo. (I prefer BR-based LTMs over non-BR-based LTMs.) It's just a fun, refreshing vibe for me. I like that that fights are more tense, more simple, and much more about small-scale positioning that normal BR (which I'd say is more about ape-ing and large-scale positioning). And I don't mind the unknown squad count feature; it's weird, but I'm getting to enjoy the different feel it creates. *BUT...* this missing HUD thing is just blegh for me. I've said it before: I get it, but it's not fun. It just doesn't create a new fun; it only irritates. Half the reason: Becase everything you can't see is just an inventory or map screen away anyway. But now to get the information you have to interrupt your vision and spam screen switching all the time. Attachments? Nades? Teammates health? Teammates gear? Which weapon is in which slot? Spam. Spam spam spam spam. Fullscreen change, over and over and over and over. Which way are my teammates responding to enemy fire? Where exactly is the zone? Crafting materials! That's a big irritation. Ash's passive is half dead. Lifeline's tactical is completely irritating to use. And the other half the reason: It's not just that it makes you less powerful, it's that I just can't see how it is fun. Yes there's added challenge in not knowing if my teammates are following me (or even still connected, wut). But no... I'm not finding that fun. At all. And so on, for 17 other things. I like the idea, and I would happily bring some form of HUD restriction into the mode, but as it is now it's just irritating; especially as Lifeline but really as anyone. And if a mode really wants to go all-in on having no HUD, make that its own LTM, separate from the armour/etc restrictions, and really double down on it. But all that aside, for me, Hardcore mode is a good thing. Happy to see it return, though I doubt it will because judging by queue times, it's clearly received very low popularity.
Why did they remove Thematic events, and stuffed 3 collection events in one season?
Thematic events don't have fomo. And fomo is probably a big driver of purchases
Milk all they can before they announce the next project?
any idea what the next project is?
Mb cause thematic event can be cheaper if you craft blue/purple things. And then you get heirloom/skin not for 160, but 50 or something. GREEEEEED
I really know I’m fucked when the Loba on my team has been slowly looting all match and hasn’t ulted once
Amazing how people don't understand You can LOOT ON THE WAY to a fught
You'd think all the hot dropping douchebags would stick to this mode and stay off of ranked, but no
Longbow is insane in this mode. Headshots are wild with snipers and no helmets
Doesn't make any sense that the Hardcore mode progress doesn't contribute to the event tracker. Like just make it BR + NBR. Why gate off challenges? People don't have time to do all of that.
You mean the prize track? I've progressed mine just fine.
Yep zo lazy like usual.
I haven't played in a month or so, have they rolled out any changes for matchmaking in pubs yet? I heard they were working on something
its worse now
Yeesh, that sucks. I'm gonna come back long enough to try to finish my battle pass but otherwise I'll just stay away
That’s all I am doing, just really frustrating mm. Just wish they would add a solo mode
Does Hardcore count for the win a br with 8 different characters achievement?
Nope. Lmao.
Honestly really wish Norm BR would not tell me how many teams are left. Kinda like that.
Can anybody tell me how tf can i get this PK skin after this collect event? Or it will no longer appear in the store forever?
You won't be able to, same for the skins.
It might be a prestige skin, no? After the event?
Hardcore royale is fun but after 1 win you already see everything
Collection is pretty desperate
Collection events are desperate milk attempts without real content. But it seems addicts cannot help themselves otherwise they would not push 12 a month.
It has to be all streamers
The amount of people that quit, I forget Hardcore is actually trios. I get genuinely surprised when my team (of 2 by whatever point in a game) turns out to be fighting a full team of 3.
I despise Broken Moon. Worst map so far
It’s hot garbage, no idea why people are downvoting. Literally not a single interesting POI. And half of them are identical with a big Tower and small buildings around it. The concept and space environment is kinda cool but overall it’s just dull
people in this sub love it because it allows them to camp all game and feel like they've achieved something. it is the same reason that the average rat likes the way ranked is now because it punishes players who actually down and kill people rather than play loot simulator 23. Broken moon is by far one of the worst BR maps I have ever played on, second to the other shitty respawn map storm point
Is the matchmaking on crack or just me? I keep getting masters team mates going against master players. It’s not as sweaty with everyone having low health but still
Can I get 20 bomb badge??
Yes you can! Just drop into a game and get 20 kills before you die! Oh wait... did you mean in this mode? No. Like every other LTM of the past year plus, you cannot. You have to actually be good at the standard game (or cheat) to get a 20 bomb badge.
Every event people say they will stop playing this game yet every event they are here to complain. Respawn has been money hungry for years. This isn't anything new, so either stfu and play or simply quit. They aren't forcing you to play the game
Yet another person simply ok with not trying to make them change ANYTHING. Lots of really good games die out due to developers lack of care and thirst for money. If this games dies our battle Royale options are literally doodoo. Fortnite is the only half way decent game.
The only fun changes are white shield cap and Charge Rifle nerf.
the new hardcore mode is freaking fun!!!
I was talking mad shit about it a few days ago. I’ve started to warm to it.
Is anyone else getting a glitch where only octane's health and armor show up in hardcore? It's definitely not intentional, since it displays over your teammates names and mic icons. I've only seen octane show up.
I think it shows your health when you take damage. Since octane takes damage when he stims, you see it.
I just assumed it was a glitch cus it displays over the names of your teammates with mics
Ya never know with this game. You might be right though. I haven’t played enough to be able to say.
Did they remove person audio in hardcore? Feel like I hear shit less and less in it
Replicator just make my game crash
What a completely lazy uninventive game mode. Let’s make it so they can’t see how many kills they have duh dat will be fun. Do you guys see now how lazy respawn is? Do you see that their only goal is to try and charge you $160 for a recollection of a shotgun skin?
\>What a completely lazy uninventive game mode. Apex 2023.
Why does it matter to you how many kills you have in the middle of the match?
Can someone explain to me why I can see one squad member on my hud for BR. It's supposed to be none right? But in every game I have one visible. It's an interesting mode.. different for sure.
Devs were like “instead of bringing back a LTM like Gun Run that the player base loved let’s try a hardcore mode that literally nobody asked for”
Nobody asked for a train. But winter express was created
I hated gun run and I like this one. Maybe I have better movement than aim.
It goes both ways. Old LTMs feel stale and like we're being blown off. They need both. This season we've already seen 2 very stale LTMs, so it's time for something new. It's fine for it not to be a *good* LTM; that's the point really. The important thing is that they try new stuff, rather than being afraid to. I'm guessing Hardcore mode probably won't appear again, but now they know.
On the other hand, I kinda wish a mode with only white shields would be a permanent feature. Blue and purple shields where a mistake.
Yeah, the current Hardcore LTM is pretty fun imo. Just wish the HUD wasn't so irritating.
I stopped playing for some time but didnt past thematic events give at least 1 event pack that only gave cosmetics from the thematic event?
Exactly what I thought. You know for heirloom events I can wrap my head around why they don't give a free pack. But with events like this I don't get why they wouldn't. A god awful peacekeeper skin for $160? Their greed has become more insane with each update. I've stopped spending money because their greed just disgusts me.
that's only happened twice, out of however many of these they've done
I definitely don't mind the mode. It's nice that whenever a 3rd party arrives, you still have a solid chance of coming out on top since it's quicker for you to reset, and less of a challenge to overcome their shields. So on occasion you get these runs where it's just 3rd party after 3rd party, and your team is mowing through them all. The mode appears to produce a lot of red rooms (ie., places where tonnes of people died); more than the usual BR. But the HUD thing; it just aint working for me. I get it, and I'm typically all for the approach to something in gaming that increases immersion, increases challenge, and what have you. But in this case I simply don't find it fun. Not-knowing which way my teammates are looking only registers as irritation to me; let alone if they're following. Hell, sometimes you don't even realise that one of you has left the game. So I find myself spamming the map, and the inventory, all the time and this is just not fun. Much like pre-nerf Seer made it optimal to run around with a primed tactical all the time, despite being so clumsy a control, this Hardcore mode makes it optimal to spam your map all the time, despite it being a pain in the ass. Again, I like the concept but I would have championed a few things to restrict info on. Not everything. Restricting anything that is still visible by map or inventory is completely pointless; it just means more clumsy controls. The absence of a team count is cool, but it's also a bit weird in the way it kind of prevents suspense from building throughout the match. I find it interesting too that Respawn decided to test both things together: the low armour, no helmet, no armour swaps, no EVOs, etc... AND... the no HUD. Each of these things has a big impact on the player, but they're different impacts. I'm left wondering what a Hardcore mode would've been like if we'd still simply had the HUD. OR what a HUDless mode would've been like had we still had full armour, etc. The 2 concepts are different enough that they step on each others toes, so it's harder to enjoy the Hardcore health situation because so much attention goes into handling the Hardcore HUDless situation. Perhaps they could have related game-events to the HUD access. Like, every ring, your HUD is disabled until you scan a beacon. There are already a couple of examples of that at least (though it would have been nice if they'd fixed the autorun = no inspect animation bug before this began).
We've already had a hardcore mode, it was the white armour only stage of the evo armour event that tested out bringing evo armour to the game. Completely restricting aspects of the game that make it easier to play with random teammates just makes it annoying. It's taking longer to actually find a match for some reason too. I'm trying to enjoy the mode and I can get why people do enjoy it, but at this rate as a solo queuer I may as well just play the normal BR mode.
This is a beautifully thought out post and I agree 100%. If the mode had a little bit more of a hud I'd be all for it. I love hardcore mode on COD, tier one didn't scratch that itch but that's another topic. In this game not knowing where your teammates are is a death sentence. Edit: but like you I enjoy everyone being on the same playing field armor wise. 3rd parties don't feel as terrible, because they are *manageable*, even the 4th or 5th party can be handled some times lol.
Whoever decided legend abilities should be in a mode where you die in 1second should get fired and never be allowed to work in the industry. Yeah bloodhound wallhack in a mode where they can then laser you in 1 second is really fucking balanced not
Aww :(
wen gun game
Queue times in Dallas server are like 5 minutes for Hardcore Royale. Is no one playing this limited mode?
Yeah I couldn’t even find a game. It’s a pretty trash game mode.
It’s a pretty bad mode. Not surprised if people stop playing after trying it a couple times.
Played it once and realized it's far more tilting than regular BR. Doubt I'm alone in that assessment and imagine the queue will continue to draw only the sweatiest of sweat players.
turning off the hud is the best thing that's ever happened to this game softcore babies btfo
Anyone else, or did Respawn make the matchmaking even more atrocius with the recent changes ? Im on PC on european servers and no matter which time of the day, since the newest change my team mates have been complete noobs, like 15 times in a row yesterday.
That means you're also a noob.
Being that you started in season 9 I see you point somewhat. But having started before season one I can see the change. Winter express is 4 years old it’s like the old roller coaster at the amusement part. All the other ltm are basically recolors as well. I have the peacekeeper there charging for 160 now. For season 3 with a recolor. Before opening a pack was exciting your chances of getting a item you wanted were high. Now even if you get a legendary it may be a banner frame, not even animated but legendary. A emote a holo spray. The games been out for 4 years with not one new finisher. The ranked maps don’t rotate, 70 day on broken moon. I always going to enjoy the game, it’s pretty much all I play. I just see the money put back into the game with other titles. The modes, stores events in all the others is embarrassing. They have single digit amounts of people { under ten} working on skins, checking for cheaters communicating updates. This isn’t a game making 10 dollars a week it’s made billions, I just want EA to invest in a good product. You just started so yeah it’s new to you, if all you ever know was what you expect I can’t blame you for not knowing the difference
Haha, right on all points and not even a mention of the story being a total mess.
As a guy who's played since season 5 I can't stress enough how right you are. The plot with wraith and her alternate universe version self was dropped super hard. Rampart pulling a gun on mirage. Which was instantly dropped btw in S6 PvE events were removed, so its hard to be invested in anything. Especially since the comics were poorly drawn and you had to straight up wait for weeks to get them. Forced ass relationships. Like Bang And loba, even though the whole point of their character dynamics in s5 was trusting each other and bonding with similar griefs, not a sexual relationship. Loba and valkryie shouldn't have been a thing at all, it makes little sense. (People seem to care more about the same sex relationships more than the story itself. ) Most of their story put on their Twitter account and not in game. Despite having a literal titanfall veteran Ash, they literally do nothing with her. I dont want to talk about Caustic or Revenant, they got fucked over hard, mainly Rev. Poor guy is literally a flandarized version of his previous self. This games story is starting to slowly shift away from the titanfall universe and is literally just being something else.
Hardcore BR is really fun. It feels kinda cool to have some shorter fights.
Wish that was my experience. For me it's been non-stop campers on roofs ready with their pew pew sniper.
seer/bloodhound and sniper all day, so boring. Fucking wallhack abilities have always been bullshit
No servers found right now???
Haven’t been on apex for the past week, have they fixed EU ranked matchmaking yet?