u/JAGx9

Hello everyone,

I came back to Apex after a while. I have played maybe 30 games in the past 3 or 4 years. I loved this game on release and grinded hours on it up until season 7, I believe. I picked it up recently since some friends wanted to play it again.

My main point is, WTF is up with getting beamed in .5 seconds? Don't get me wrong, I've been beamed before and often since I don't play much. I've put maybe 20 hours into the game this month alone, and 19 of those hours I've been downed practically in less than two seconds.

Every time I spectate, I hardly ever see anyone with recoil, and I see people just ripping through purple armors like they are white armors from season 1. I don't know if they are actually cheating or not, hence this post. What I have witnessed is so insane. Everyone is getting downed and downing others extremely fast that I'm confused as to what has changed. Am I alone on this? Am I just really bad (I'm okay being bad)? I've seen the stuff about controllers, but is that really a big deal affecting lobbies left and right?

I mostly play for fun with my friends on crossplay. I am on M&K and friends on console, we occasionally queue up for ranked (we are not good silver mid gold at best). But we have seen this issue on pubs and on wildcard. Should.i just stay away for good? I honestly love the playing but I dont really see the point in queuing up to loot for 10 mins and get sent to the lobby in 5 seconds.

Thanks for your input.