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2.4 hrs last two weeks / 3,236.7 hrs on record (1,586.5 hrs at review time)
Posted: 20 Jul, 2022 @ 1:30pm
Updated: 11 Dec, 2023 @ 1:27am

The Best Battle Royale on the Market with some Faults

Pros:
+ Smoothest Movement
+ Satisfying gunplay
+ Every animation & sound effect is so distinct, you can tell where and what is coming towards you.
+ Stressful but rewarding final circles in Ranked
+ Crossplay with friends on consoles (Nintendo Switch players are free kills)
+ Easy to complete battle pass within a month of playtime.
+ Beautiful maps such as Olympus & Stormpoint to the sweaty competitive maps, World's Edge & King's Canyon.

Neutral:
- Shares the same universe as Titanfall but the lore is okayish.
- I honestly think Apex has the worst cosmetic team next to Halo Infinite. Some of them are really just nice but exclusive to the battle pass or collection events. If you do find a really good skin that isn't a recolor of the default model, be ready to shell out 18/35/50 dollars up to 160+. It's honestly a cycle with this game, you get 3 seasons of good skins and 3 seasons of mediocre or trash skins.
- If you don't like the battle royale mode, there is a lite economy round based 3v3 mode to mess around in called Arenas.
- Limited time game modes like Control (Domination if you ever played COD) should be in the base game.
- Like every modern game today, the matchmaking system pits you against or with pro players, new players, or the average 2 hour free time guy.
- Since the game is free to play, there's lootboxes, completely random. Some get Heirlooms Shards (0.2% chance of dropping) early on, while it took me 800 hours. Heirloom Shards are for melee weapons or prestige Legends skins that do not affect gameplay. There is a bunch of crap in the lootboxes to further your chances of not getting what you want.
- Characters aside from the default roster need to be bought with in game currency or real money. They also cannot be tested in the firing range.

Cons:
- Somehow there's a game breaking bug every season.
- Squads/Quads (teams of 4) doesn't exist, leaving that one friend all alone while the rest play Trios. Nor is there a true solos mode.
- Servers are really bad causing desyc/bullets aren't registering, crashing, or disconnects.
- Enemy footsteps sometimes doesn't work.
- Joke of an esport; the recent ALGS 2022 had players dc, visas denied, teams teleporting across the map and dying to their deaths, or players gettings covid - forcing teams to play as a duo instead as a trio. The tournament organizers didn't want to restart despite all these problems. Also they didn't even play on LAN?? The event was connected to the nearest server. Even the custom matches for pros to scrim in, didn't work for a while.
- The balancing or design team whatever you want to call them is very questionable. You have 2 Legends, Seer & Valkyrie dominating tournaments without a single nerf in sight meanwhile, Lifeline's old shield passive was reworked into a new Legend, we have two of the same character now. Which leads onto my next point, a few characters share the same ability just slightly different. Sooner or later the game will become a massive unbalancing mess than it already is. Then finally, some Legends that need a buff stay untouched for a very long time.
- Easy anti-cheat would sometimes blue screen my computer or crash my game back to the desktop once in a blue moon.
- The lack of a spectating system without going into match or a dedicated match history.

Recommended Youtube / Twitch Content

Pro Mouse and Keyboard
- ImperialHal, Reps, Albralelie, HisWattson, Apryze, Sweetdreams, Hardecki, Nafen, Taisheen, Mande, sYnceD, Monsoon, Rogue

Movement Gods
- Aceu, Stormen, Taxi2g, Faide, Crylix

Pro Controller Demons
- ChaoticMuch, Verhulst, Daltoosh, Staynaughty, Knoqd, Pandxrz, Snip3down, Thekine

Casual / Funny
- Rag Tagg, Lej, Emerald Gemerald & the butt load of vtubers on Apex

Informative
- TheGamingMerchant & Mokeysniper

Fan Animations
- Cheetah, Tooncraft, Hoxdolum, & dopatwo
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14 Comments
StraightUpDogwater 14 Aug, 2022 @ 12:14am 
TheKine is a fucking idiot and one of the worst predators there is. He literally doesn't do shit except for three stack with Gibby and act surprised at everything. It's doubtful that he would do well solo queuing. Also, Snipedown doesn't really play Apex anymore.

Instead of those two, you should mention Gildersons (since he just got signed to NRG), and/or Genburten (since he's literally the best controller player in the game).

Crossplay is not a positive, unless you get off your shift at McDonalds and wanna chill with your "homies" you haven't seen since high school.

If you're a solo queue player, this game is borderline unplayable in nearly every mode due to the fact that you're going to get crossplayers on your team 95% of the time.
RhudeBoy 13 Aug, 2022 @ 7:26pm 
you are smoking crack if you think apex's audio is "distinct"
$2 steak 12 Aug, 2022 @ 7:15pm 
oh yeah i forgot about dopatwo, i'll add him into the list
TESCO's finest* 12 Aug, 2022 @ 4:55pm 
dopatwo sometimes uploads funny poopex legends animations. Not saying they have to be on the list, worth checking out. 1M subs.
Nicolas 10 Aug, 2022 @ 6:23pm 
take a shower
EJwave 9 Aug, 2022 @ 8:32pm 
Another great movement content creator is MokeySniper
madzaza 9 Aug, 2022 @ 1:54pm 
Love it, I can see the shit-ton of effort you put into this, goddamn! :steamthumbsup:
sorer 9 Aug, 2022 @ 10:25am 
so much copium in the comments due to crossplay being a positive
i cant feel the broken 8 Aug, 2022 @ 6:25am 
@Uzi Aim assist
Ex3o 1 Aug, 2022 @ 9:22pm 
How is crossplay not a positive?