Alright so I started playing Apex on launch day, loved it, had a ton of fun, ran off of that high for ages, played ~5 hours a day at least all the way up to shortly after season 2 release. (In this time I put in about 360 hours)

I started playing again recently (the day before season 4 as it looked interesting) and I have been having a blast (put in another 50 hours or so) and questioning why I stopped playing, until I remembered, that 99% of the issues are still there but in different forms.

As you may be able to tell this is a list of stuff that is problematic with the game, many of the problems within are based around direction of the game/inactivity on issues aside from actual balance (we all know the state of weapon balance, I recommend Frothy on youtube if you want more details on that), but this is more core things, less to do with number changes, although those will be addressed.

Firstly however, a thanks, thank you for the love of god for bringing back Kings Canyon, its out in about ~8 hours I think and I am very excited to play it, this was originally on the list of things that there is no reason not to have in the game so great thank you, however a warning PLEASE RESPAWN, DON'T JUST REMOVE THE OPTION TO PLAY KINGS CANYON AT THE END OF NEXT MONTH OR SOME BULLSHIT.

Ok, along similar lines I have seen numerous posts on this sub with ideas such as implementing a weekly rotation of solos, duos, third person etc. but mainly the first 2. Why is this not in the game? Is there and actual reason to lock this stuff behind random events and make them limited, not only are they just a bit of variety with a slightly different meta (I personally found alot of success in wraith crypto this recent duos) and allow many friends to not have to deal with randoms, but it can also slight mitigate the next issue in the list SBMM

As a slightly above average player at 2.4 KDR this season so far (assuming 1KDR to be average which seems logical to me) SBMM is actually just detrimental to my fun in 2 major ways. Primarily for me, it means when I play with my friends, who mainly play league/fighting games, they get shit on, and on the rare occurrence that we win I will have 6 kills and they will have 3 between them. This isn't me trying to flex, its just a fact. Back in the glory days of season 1 (admittedly I was worse back then, but so was everyone else) me and my friends had a blast, I didn't need to think 'oh they are fighting a 2v1 better drop everything and go help them just in case' like I do now, also I feel it goes without saying that they just had more fun, and therefore we all had more fun. Keep in mind these idiots play league of legends, they don't like fun and even less keeping their wallets full, yet they don't play this game anymore really due to SBMM (largely), so Respawn and inadvertently EA is literally losing players/money from this (isn't that meant to be EA's thing? money?). Secondly (there was a secondly?) SBMM means that if I play a pub, as a 'ok' player (in my opinion) there is literally like a 60% that the champion is a real gamer wraith with 17k kills, nothing about them but that's a. not skill based matchmaking, its "you are above average so now play with pros" matchmaking, and b. not what i want to be matching into on a Thursday afternoon when I'm listening to some lo-fi and just want to chill. That's for ranked not pubs

On a slight tangent from that, can we get some not trash skins in the store please? i.e not having the same valentines skin for the longbow that we got last year? love you respawn but come on, on this point getting a premium battle pass r99 skin at level 0 (COOL!) then getting whatever it is called at level 97 for the r99 (SAD!).

Next on the list a couple of short ones, please, PLEASE, for the love of god, fix the audio (literally look on any pro players twitter/streams and they will be saying the same) and also HOW is there not a reconnect feature?? the game has been out for over a year come on please........ internet issues happen, not to mention the fact that I crash still after a year (only about once every 5 hours but that doesn't make it less annoying), even shroud has tweeted about this seriously.

Lastly I want to raise the issue of champion balance/meta direction. Like I mentioned earlier I don't care for numbers but there are larger issues that are becoming more apparent with the game, and are straying from the game we all loved in season 1.

1. Please stop giving gibi passives, rework wattson and actually give octane and crytpo the love they have deserved since release.
2. Add back bhop healing, it was so good for the game. There was literally no reason to remove the "exploit" as it just perfectly fit the speed and pace of the game (pre wattson)
3. The zones are ridiculous, seriously, what is the deal with getting to round 5 and the zone is half covered in a mountain, why are these in the game.
4. Start buffing legends into the game (mirage, octane, bloodhound) and stop making everyone have to play these defensive legends just to win ranked games (nothing against those players, although getting flamed over mic for wanting to leave a house after sitting in it doing nothing for 5 minutes by my wattson is an interesting experience)
5. On a similar line, there will always be great weapons, or at least ones that are the best, that is the definition of meta, players will find the most effective ones. That being said, why cant we let them be the ones that are also difficult to use? And when I say difficult I mean skillful. Changes like adding randomness to r99 and r301 spray, hard nerfing wingman firerate (dont get me wrong it was op but i feel like that just was more an issue of numbers/skullpiercer than firerate), and making dipshit changes to pk so that you barely need to aim it, basically this point settles down to listen to your community (especially the pros)

TLDR;

Respawn please stop removing things the community clearly likes (duos, solos, going back abit, bhop healing), stop making whack decisions for balancing legends/move away from defensive meta and please for the love of god put in a reconnect feature

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I get that many of you will disagree with one of multiple points I have made, but I will point out that none of these points are my original ideas, I'm just putting them into my own words after having played enough to agree with these points, these are all things that have been said my personalities that are prolific in the community; mendo, acesu, shroud, etc. I'm just throwing my coin into the pond and hoping that Respawn takes this along with other complaints and takes action.

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For real though love the game, just hoping that at least some of these changes take place so I will still be playing it in 5 months <3