This and SBMM is the reason everyone is not playing apex. This game is not fun anymore. I am on console, and you are either getting teamed against or going against top 100 preds there is no in between anymore. When you have to play for 3 or 4 hours just to get 1 good game then it's time to move on to something else.
People will say “skill issue”. And not realize that there’s no opportunity to learn and get better if you immediately get rolled in all your fights, because everyone in the lobby has 5x your career kill count on one character and multiple Pred/Master badges. SBMM has been bad for awhile but these past two seasons have been straight up awful
I tested the game for several days and i literally get 1 good team every 2 hrs. So if i play 4hrs a day i have fun only a fraction of that time, thats terrible. For me the game went downhill after s 17 when they cranked mm through the roof. Now we have to play like we are in algs just to get a single win. Yeah Im back to battlefront 2 and older battlefield games which are actually enjoyable the majority of the time
@@reivoidwalker The problem is that they are not even trying to fix it. When was the last time they made adjustments to SBMM? I personally think that sbmm should go off of your KDR that way the players who have a lot of kills will be in lobbies with players just like them instead of running through lobbies with average players like me
Easy Anti-Cheat is the industry-leading anti-cheat service, countering hacking. HONESTLY IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL TO CALL YOURSELF THE INDUSTRY BEST WHEN YOUR ABSOLUTELY DOGSHIT.
Its amazing how everytime a game says "We upgraded our Anti-Cheat!" the cheats get more absurd and more obvious. Its almost like cheaters feel challenged.
That’s literally what it is. They’re programmers. They don’t care about gaming they care about making programs that work. The more advanced they become the more they can sell them for.
That's exactly what it is😂 most of them see the game devs posting shit about upgrading anti cheat as a direct challange more than anything💀 it will always be a cat and mouse game and unfortunately cheaters will probably always be 1 step ahead of devs with this shit😂😂
As a software engineer, I'd like to put my 2 cents here. This is just an opinion - roughly half my friends work, or USED TO work at game dev studios (some at big AAA names), so I have some insight on what's going on in that industry (from a dev's perspective), but I know nobody who's working for Respawn. I just hear what's the word in other studios. And what's happening is this: As everyone knows, these past few years, many people in IT have been laid off. As a matter of fact, it has become a popular thing to fire those pesky, overpaid, lazy dudes! By that I mean that stakeholders like it. They hand out bonuses for if - Elon Musk did it at Twitter, so it MUST be a good thing, right? Now, the reason I've never worked in the game industry and probably never will is because I work for money. I'm very good in my trade, but for me, software development is a trade, and being good in it is the way I can make more money. It's my main motivator. Game devs are different. Almost every game dev I know is passionate about their jobs. They work long hours for subpar pay, but usually they're very happy about MAKING GAMES. And the thing with passion and enthusiasm is that it's very easy to quench the flames - for example, by laying off members of the team. The team working at Respawn was already doing an admirable job at keeping the game functional, seeing that they've already lost many old devs who made Titanfall - game engines ARE A MESS usually, and if you fire, let's say, 5-10% of a team which was already stretched thin (and the game is actually doing VERY WELL financially so there shouldn't be a financial reason to fire people from that team), you'll crush morale. It's pretty cr.ppy, working at a place after a wave of layoffs, even if you were spared - not only is your workload now larger, but suddenly John who new how XY used to work is not there anymore, NATURALLY, the only documentation was written on the backside of a pizza box 3 years ago, even if you tried, you couldn't hit the deadlines... and you never know when will the next a-hole fly to your office in their fancy private jet to tell you and your remaining mates that you're, like, way too lazy and expensive to keep around so start packing. And they'll get a bonus for "cutting costs". So people will start getting by with the bare minimum of effort in their job - half of them will be busy trying to find a new gig somewhere else, half of them will be just depressed and low on morale. It may not be immediately noticeable for upper management, but the output of the team will be very low. This is way more evident with online games where content tends to change rapidly, as things'll fall apart way faster if nobody cares (and games in general require constant maintenance to stay functional, due to generally having a very low code quality - mostly it's just patches upon patches). So I very much doubt that Respawn will do anything about the cheaters in the immediate future.
That makes sense, and is what a good portion of people have been saying for years: that EA/higher ups are largely responsible for the mishandling of such a large (profitable) game. I've noticed that the quality of updates the past 2-3 seasons has been degrading. Not that apex was never buggy, but holy fs there are so many new bugs without any of the ones introduced 3 seasons ago being addressed. I wonder how much technical debt and spaghetti code they have. That all said, I think Respawn generally has anti consumer policies. Running a large online game and having no interaction with their player base is incredibly odd. When the whole servers go down for a day they don't post any updates, when the ALGS hacks happened we got a halfbaked bare minimum PR statement, when network admins criticized their servers they put out a near gaslighting level article. I'm sure they have to have policies for some reason that might make sense, but that doesn't mean they are good policies. I think the only thing that will "save" apex from a technical standpoint is for another online battle royal to come out that rivals their movement system. They need the competition to really start bleeding numbers to the point that execs take action. Lets be real though, the execs are more likely to can the project after they take their undeserved cash grab and run it into the ground in the process. Apex/Respawn like 3 years ago were like "we could have this game going for decades". You could tell they were passionate and had good intentions and plans, but then it became a large revenue source and has been mishandled. Couple that with the hacking epidemic, that all game devs are dealing with to some extent.
This is a very well put comment on the industry, thank you! I always thought about this and felt bad for the devs who really want to improve but just can’t because of those variables. I sometimes wonder what it would’ve been like if Respawn was an independent studio instead.
Also sounds to me investors demands are burdening the creators. Microtransaction, so unnecessary "politically correct" contents that they are pressured to put it, it's killing the creativity, and the company also.
Ranked? I've seen em there, but ive also seen them in the LTM's. I've had half of the TDM and Lockdown lobbies filled w\ bots and a handfull of player's. It's all so tiresome.
Ya I’m on console and I’ve had those bot gibbies on my team. They’re pc and they just stand there and only react if they’re shot at. Ppl are such losers
I play on PS5 but regularly team up with a PC player and the LTMs are a fucking joke in PC lobbies. It's just insane how many people are cheating in LTMs, pubs, and ranked.
I just started playing ranked. There are cheaters even in rookie lobbies with macros, smurfing, hacking is crazy. It is definitely not fun at any level, especially as casual player who tries to enjoy some downtime.
Yes! I got into the game again a few weeks ago and I was shocked to find people rage hacking in bronze lobbies! I’m an average player in terms of apex but man I’d get one clipped with most hits being headshots it was madness
I keep saying it, hold back your money from the game until they improve things, nobody listens lol. Companies listen to what the money does. Especially EA
It's mostly due to dma which is undetectable. Dma runs on a separate computer and is detected as legit hardware on the computer your gaming on. Y'all complaining without even knowing the cause ...smh
This also explains press in pubs. They’re fed up with the cheating in ranked and move to pubs. Then your average player is getting annihilated, wondering “Why the hell are there so many sweats in my lobby?!?!” Cheaters cause a chain reaction of misery.
I was playing a pub match this morning, and I was cooking. 3.3k damage with 7 teams left and out of no where I get one clipped like it was no one's business. I stayed and watched play. this man wasn't even aiming he was hip firing from like 100 meters away.
Its funny because this game is what.... 5 years old and Respawn / EA has hardly done anything about the cheating problem the entire time the game has been out. Will they do something now suddenly because we complain more about it? Probably not.
I think Apex ranked is cooked. The game is getting older. And games that get older lose more and more support from their respective developers. They don’t get more support as time goes on. Cheaters run the game now, full blown hacks on PC, and teamers on console. When your most popular mode is the most toxic to play at the highest levels, people eventually quit.
That's so funny I've definitely died to young breezy before and I thought it was suspect but I only watched for 2 minutes and saw the potato movement and assumed that he just hit a nice one clip with the havoc
ya it's a really sad day, I can't play apex solo anymore and even with the squad it's brutal between bad matchmaking and cheaters... Looking for a new game, and apex was probably the best game ever for so long... :(
Im an OG gamer I was top lobby in COD my whole life until cheaters came out, I dint get slower, I didnt get worse, they didnt get better, they just started cheating and it is so obvious right now! I got to experience real quality competitive gaming against other good players that this generation will never get to experience.
This is called addiction. Something frustrates you and you continue that activity just causing yourself stress. I dropped this game months ago and not coming back
This is a normal experience in Singapore, Taiwan, Tokyo, Hong Kong server Ranked for last 3 seasons. Now they are brave enough to infest the ranked in west servers. This is like cancers. It just keeps spreading.
The amount of cheaters is crazy. Unfortunately most people run into a few but once you get into higher ranks its absurd theres more then 1 in every game, take last season into example when over 60% of players in masters rank got banned
Jesus, it is so disgusting. 5-6 EA Execs bag 60 million in 2024 and fired 400+ people while the game gets worse with blatant cheaters and they will still make bank next week with gamers still buying the “event” next Tuesday.
Died to that twitter kid and spectated and he tried to act like he wasn’t cheating like a day ago. Ran into the pathy named gurl and a full three stack of cheaters. Respawn not being able to get this under control is gonna be the death of this game.
Ive found over the last year or so, when you get a lot of cheaters in pubs, play ranked. And visaversa. They seem to always practice on pubs at around the same time or rank up all at the same time.
So I just got a pc and have been considering switching over from Xbox. But I love playing on controller - are the lobbies so bad that it’d probably be better to just stay on console?
Cheaters in console too man. So many unnatural situations were the enemy should not know where I'm at but they do and kill me. Console wall hacks is a thing and its ridiculous how bad it is
I feel really sad in games nowadays but I have now switched from PVP games to PVE the joy of being able to play a game with friends and not have to worry about cheating is amazing great
I completely quit playing multiplayers because of the cheating problem. It's in every game. I used to hop on Apex just to spectate. It gave me and my viewers some pretty good laughs sometimes. We got to see a cheater using walls, chasing a team, but being a cheater... He obviously didn't know the map at all. He got like 100 feet away from them, jumped over a wall that was separating them, and didn't realize.... there's a pretty big gap. 🤣🤣🤣 Down he went.
We went from playing to watching gameplays to seeing our favorite youtubers watching cheaters gameplays because it is so infested that it cannot be played, incredible
I'm just happy I spent my entire teenage years enjoying video games and didn't have to deal with these garbage cheaters, it's so bad I don't even really game anymore tbh
I gave up on Apex last season after constant Match making and cheating issues. It sucks because this was the first true shooter I played regularly online but it just gets too exhausting to try and play this game knowing that a cheater or a smurfing 3 stack is going to ruin your game. I still come back to watch you and other Apex creators and to see this still not only be an issue but getting worse saddens me.
18:56 consistent devo hits with no deviation from that distance? I know i haven't played apex in quite a while but i don't remember the devo being that consistent at that range
These games are terrible, I don't even bother with them anymore. First person shooters are ruined now, doesn't matter which one you run. Cheaters ruined the online portion.
I’ve had that Young Breezy guy in my pub game once and I had him on my team and I had asked them how they even knew where the enemies were they were WAY too confident in how they pushed with NO intel
Exactly. I just got to the 11:50 mark of the video and so far, few suspicious moments but its just looking like hes salty he died to a team thats simply better
That’s crazy to see how many people aren’t paying this game anymore due to cheaters. I feel like I haven’t had this problem (maybe i have who knows) but I also don’t play ranked I just hop on to run around and have fun, catch a couple dubs. It makes me sad that the apex loving community is facing these problems I hope you all (see the fixes you’d like and) come back soon, the games await
They are everywhere, solos, ranked mixtape, its so tiresome. This used to be a fun game. I remember season 15 if I found a cheater I would report them and they would get banned while I was spectating them.
Yeah, I've been playing since before seasons were a thing, took a few breaks here and there, but never uninstalled Apex during those breaks. All this BS lately had me uninstall for the first time, ever. Maybe I'll play again if they get a handle on this. I'm already bad, I don't need to be playing against cheaters!
You can easily tell if the online players are cheating by how many hits they got you with in apex, and I don't know why people be cheating and affecting the games from every gaming Platform and you wonder why these games be having so many updates 🤔😒
Nothing new. Cheating has been such a very large issue the last month/s for all multiplayer games that ALL of their major content creators can’t ignore it anymore. Look at Apex, look at Overwatch, look at CoD, and that’s just SMALL examples.
How can you tell if the third teammate is getting boosted or got paired up with cheaters while solo q'ing? This might be a dumb question. I've gotten cheater teammate while solo q'ing and I'll leave the game if I realize. But it has me scared of getting in trouble for being on a team with a cheater and a spectator assuming the worst. Is there a way to tell? Always love your videos, Jankz!
This game was at its best when it first came out and cross play was not implemented. I remember I went on a 11 win streak before cross play existed after it was added into the game I was barely able to win a game anymore. The skill gap was ridiculous it went from fun to frustrating very fast.
I’m almost diamond and within 5 minutes the lobby was down to 8 teams and then we died only to be spectating cheaters… it’s very frustrating this season. I’m still playing because I love the game and it’s fun but they need to fix it.
+they dont check the official apex discord at all, over the last 5 days i saw 7+ people promoting boosts and cheats, messages weren't deleted for over 1 hour
I constantly play against predators, my teammates are usually lower level and skill, I'm a really, really good player, and have been playing for years. Never got Predator, but was Master so many times. The situation currently on EU servers is INSANELY bad. Each and every game will have multiple cheaters on it, it's honestly getting so bad, and I stopped playing for the first time. I don't think I'll ever be coming back.
I quit Apex about a year and a half ago to play DMZ on CoD. I have loved DMZ, but I miss Apex. Although, every time I watch an Apex video the main thing about it is the cheating. It doesn't make me want to come back, although I want to so bad.
Cheating has ruined Apex. I’ve played consistently since launch and had to stop playing. I love the game but I can’t do it anymore. It’s so frustrating
Honestly JanKz I just watch your content now.. I haven’t played apex in 6 months I got tired of getting cheated I’m not the best played but I can hold my own and 9 shots with a havoc and 6 are head shots is criminal
I stopped playing a few seasons ago when I would be just about to rank up and then here comes a flying trident with an aimbotting horizon…. Keep in mind this was 3 seasons ago… cheaters are why I don’t play apex anymore it completely ruins the experience
If you stop playing the game, they will eventually fix it. The problem is they wait for ban waves. Ban waves are the most effective way at the time. The reason behind a ban wave is they wait for a certain amount of people using a specific software to ban all at once. When this happens the software creator will get 100s, if not thousands, of charge backs. It's effective momentarily but doesn't solve the issue
I stopped playing in S17, due to bad ranked system, sbmm and cheaters. Best call I have made for myself. Still like to watch the pro streamers, and its just sad cuz in the core apex is such a awesome game.
Sucks don't it? The best way to combat cheaters using AimBot is to get up close with shotguns. AimBot can be enabled be ADS. It doesn't have to be, but a lot of guys set their AimBot to be enabled only when they ADS, so if you get up close where you can force a hip fire, then it's one for one. The problem is getting up close before they rinse your face off.
The game is in the toilet. SBMM doesn’t work and neither does ranked. Was in Bronze 2, played with two teammates that had mics and were decent. After game asked me to join. Turns out they were plat so we couldn’t play together. Then why was I in their lobby or even matched with them? Would rather wait extra and play with similar skill and/or ranked players than wait less and keep ending up in BS lobbies
This and SBMM is the reason everyone is not playing apex. This game is not fun anymore. I am on console, and you are either getting teamed against or going against top 100 preds there is no in between anymore. When you have to play for 3 or 4 hours just to get 1 good game then it's time to move on to something else.
Agree the only reason I came back to apex was solo mode returns. Once that’s gone I’m out.😔
People will say “skill issue”. And not realize that there’s no opportunity to learn and get better if you immediately get rolled in all your fights, because everyone in the lobby has 5x your career kill count on one character and multiple Pred/Master badges. SBMM has been bad for awhile but these past two seasons have been straight up awful
1000% agree! SBMM is so BAD!!!!
I tested the game for several days and i literally get 1 good team every 2 hrs. So if i play 4hrs a day i have fun only a fraction of that time, thats terrible. For me the game went downhill after s 17 when they cranked mm through the roof. Now we have to play like we are in algs just to get a single win. Yeah Im back to battlefront 2 and older battlefield games which are actually enjoyable the majority of the time
@@reivoidwalker The problem is that they are not even trying to fix it. When was the last time they made adjustments to SBMM? I personally think that sbmm should go off of your KDR that way the players who have a lot of kills will be in lobbies with players just like them instead of running through lobbies with average players like me
EA got their anticheat from dollar tree
don't disrespect the dollar tree man.
Easy Anti-Cheat is the industry-leading anti-cheat service, countering hacking.
HONESTLY IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL TO CALL YOURSELF THE INDUSTRY BEST WHEN YOUR ABSOLUTELY DOGSHIT.
More like a free trial version.
Lol
Nah they got their anti-cheat from dumpster diving
Its amazing how everytime a game says "We upgraded our Anti-Cheat!" the cheats get more absurd and more obvious. Its almost like cheaters feel challenged.
"We upgraded our Anti-Cheat! So all cheater now can feel relax and play happily"
That’s literally what it is. They’re programmers. They don’t care about gaming they care about making programs that work. The more advanced they become the more they can sell them for.
That's exactly what it is😂 most of them see the game devs posting shit about upgrading anti cheat as a direct challange more than anything💀 it will always be a cat and mouse game and unfortunately cheaters will probably always be 1 step ahead of devs with this shit😂😂
Smurfs and cheaters are why I finally uninstalled this game unfortunately. This was my all time favorite game too so it really sucks
Glad i havent played since season 17/18
You're not missing anything. i haven't played since s12 i came back to try solos, and nothing has changed @ConcernedCitizen420
@@w1Cked760Well there’s your problem, trying to play solos in a fully structured for a strict team based game. Them even allowing Solo play is cringe.
felt. been playing religiously since season 8 but the game just doesn't feel playable anymore atp.
Agreed! I literally stopped playing this game a month ago and I'm moving on to other game genres
As a software engineer, I'd like to put my 2 cents here. This is just an opinion - roughly half my friends work, or USED TO work at game dev studios (some at big AAA names), so I have some insight on what's going on in that industry (from a dev's perspective), but I know nobody who's working for Respawn. I just hear what's the word in other studios. And what's happening is this:
As everyone knows, these past few years, many people in IT have been laid off. As a matter of fact, it has become a popular thing to fire those pesky, overpaid, lazy dudes! By that I mean that stakeholders like it. They hand out bonuses for if - Elon Musk did it at Twitter, so it MUST be a good thing, right?
Now, the reason I've never worked in the game industry and probably never will is because I work for money. I'm very good in my trade, but for me, software development is a trade, and being good in it is the way I can make more money. It's my main motivator. Game devs are different.
Almost every game dev I know is passionate about their jobs. They work long hours for subpar pay, but usually they're very happy about MAKING GAMES.
And the thing with passion and enthusiasm is that it's very easy to quench the flames - for example, by laying off members of the team. The team working at Respawn was already doing an admirable job at keeping the game functional, seeing that they've already lost many old devs who made Titanfall - game engines ARE A MESS usually, and if you fire, let's say, 5-10% of a team which was already stretched thin (and the game is actually doing VERY WELL financially so there shouldn't be a financial reason to fire people from that team), you'll crush morale.
It's pretty cr.ppy, working at a place after a wave of layoffs, even if you were spared - not only is your workload now larger, but suddenly John who new how XY used to work is not there anymore, NATURALLY, the only documentation was written on the backside of a pizza box 3 years ago, even if you tried, you couldn't hit the deadlines... and you never know when will the next a-hole fly to your office in their fancy private jet to tell you and your remaining mates that you're, like, way too lazy and expensive to keep around so start packing. And they'll get a bonus for "cutting costs".
So people will start getting by with the bare minimum of effort in their job - half of them will be busy trying to find a new gig somewhere else, half of them will be just depressed and low on morale. It may not be immediately noticeable for upper management, but the output of the team will be very low.
This is way more evident with online games where content tends to change rapidly, as things'll fall apart way faster if nobody cares (and games in general require constant maintenance to stay functional, due to generally having a very low code quality - mostly it's just patches upon patches).
So I very much doubt that Respawn will do anything about the cheaters in the immediate future.
Your yapping bro
That makes sense, and is what a good portion of people have been saying for years: that EA/higher ups are largely responsible for the mishandling of such a large (profitable) game.
I've noticed that the quality of updates the past 2-3 seasons has been degrading. Not that apex was never buggy, but holy fs there are so many new bugs without any of the ones introduced 3 seasons ago being addressed. I wonder how much technical debt and spaghetti code they have.
That all said, I think Respawn generally has anti consumer policies. Running a large online game and having no interaction with their player base is incredibly odd. When the whole servers go down for a day they don't post any updates, when the ALGS hacks happened we got a halfbaked bare minimum PR statement, when network admins criticized their servers they put out a near gaslighting level article. I'm sure they have to have policies for some reason that might make sense, but that doesn't mean they are good policies.
I think the only thing that will "save" apex from a technical standpoint is for another online battle royal to come out that rivals their movement system. They need the competition to really start bleeding numbers to the point that execs take action. Lets be real though, the execs are more likely to can the project after they take their undeserved cash grab and run it into the ground in the process.
Apex/Respawn like 3 years ago were like "we could have this game going for decades". You could tell they were passionate and had good intentions and plans, but then it became a large revenue source and has been mishandled. Couple that with the hacking epidemic, that all game devs are dealing with to some extent.
Yep its been a problem since season 1
This is a very well put comment on the industry, thank you! I always thought about this and felt bad for the devs who really want to improve but just can’t because of those variables. I sometimes wonder what it would’ve been like if Respawn was an independent studio instead.
Also sounds to me investors demands are burdening the creators. Microtransaction, so unnecessary "politically correct" contents that they are pressured to put it, it's killing the creativity, and the company also.
The only way to avoid cheaters at this point is the Firing Range
I second this lol
Give it time, if enough people play It their just cheat on that
@@Nick-pb5mx lollllll
I’m sure they’re working on a way in there too 😂
Not even there, they can get into ur acc and take control over ur game XD
Ranked? I've seen em there, but ive also seen them in the LTM's. I've had half of the TDM and Lockdown lobbies filled w\ bots and a handfull of player's. It's all so tiresome.
Worse part is, they are using a controller on top of aim bot scripts 💀
Ya I’m on console and I’ve had those bot gibbies on my team. They’re pc and they just stand there and only react if they’re shot at. Ppl are such losers
I play on PS5 but regularly team up with a PC player and the LTMs are a fucking joke in PC lobbies. It's just insane how many people are cheating in LTMs, pubs, and ranked.
There are no bots in Apex Legends.
@@H53. Just like there's no war in Ba Sing Se?
That last sentence was hilarious! “I’m sure they are doing something about it”. Haha I’ve been hoping that for several seasons but it just gets worse.
I just started playing ranked. There are cheaters even in rookie lobbies with macros, smurfing, hacking is crazy. It is definitely not fun at any level, especially as casual player who tries to enjoy some downtime.
Yes! I got into the game again a few weeks ago and I was shocked to find people rage hacking in bronze lobbies! I’m an average player in terms of apex but man I’d get one clipped with most hits being headshots it was madness
I keep saying it, hold back your money from the game until they improve things, nobody listens lol. Companies listen to what the money does. Especially EA
I agree but somehow somewhere there's a loser buying every event skin and cosmetic that comes out
@@DBailey94 Yep
blame the streamers.
I haven’t bought shit I’ve had enough.
It's mostly due to dma which is undetectable. Dma runs on a separate computer and is detected as legit hardware on the computer your gaming on. Y'all complaining without even knowing the cause ...smh
Oh my god, Jankz doesn't usually cuss much, so when they grabbed the Kraber and he just went "Son of a bitch..." it caught me SO off guard XD
SAME
This also explains press in pubs. They’re fed up with the cheating in ranked and move to pubs. Then your average player is getting annihilated, wondering “Why the hell are there so many sweats in my lobby?!?!”
Cheaters cause a chain reaction of misery.
"After the ALGS we fixed the system and improved the anti-cheat in the game"
Yeaaaah my BALLZ
more like anti-game in the cheat
I used to think I was safe on console, but this past week has been eye opening. It’s sad that people find fun out of that.
18:36 first time I’ve heard Jankz cuss in a LONG TIME
SAME MAN when i heard it i knew he was mad
Bro facts finally after so many after 😂🎉 I replayed it to make sure.😅
I was playing a pub match this morning, and I was cooking. 3.3k damage with 7 teams left and out of no where I get one clipped like it was no one's business. I stayed and watched play. this man wasn't even aiming he was hip firing from like 100 meters away.
Its funny because this game is what.... 5 years old and Respawn / EA has hardly done anything about the cheating problem the entire time the game has been out. Will they do something now suddenly because we complain more about it? Probably not.
Unfortunately you’re right
No matter if it fails or not they got their money and they know they will get it with either this game or another
I think Apex ranked is cooked. The game is getting older. And games that get older lose more and more support from their respective developers. They don’t get more support as time goes on. Cheaters run the game now, full blown hacks on PC, and teamers on console. When your most popular mode is the most toxic to play at the highest levels, people eventually quit.
That's so funny I've definitely died to young breezy before and I thought it was suspect but I only watched for 2 minutes and saw the potato movement and assumed that he just hit a nice one clip with the havoc
Apex Rank has no meaning.
1 month later and nothing changed, sad to 53k people putting an overwhelming negative review on Steam
ya it's a really sad day, I can't play apex solo anymore and even with the squad it's brutal between bad matchmaking and cheaters... Looking for a new game, and apex was probably the best game ever for so long... :(
Its funny when itemp gets mad his brummy accent comes out xx
Season 21 pred badge will forever be a mark of shame
What season was that fake masters badge also
@@billybob-fw3vr season 17
@@jelteghtc thanks bro. I got masters that season but I never put on the badge and some random thought he was cool because he had it on lol
@@billybob-fw3vr Mate anybody who proudly displays a season 17 masters badge is just outing themselves as rats 🤣
@@billybob-fw3vr Season 12 in addition to all the LP seasons
It's the fact they also celebrate when they win like they are that good at the game..sad as fuk ..this game will be dead on pc soon..
The game been dead on pc, keyboard and mouse is unplayable
@@emma6648especially with the lurch strafing octanes and level 12 lifelines that don’t miss
Im an OG gamer I was top lobby in COD my whole life until cheaters came out, I dint get slower, I didnt get worse, they didnt get better, they just started cheating and it is so obvious right now! I got to experience real quality competitive gaming against other good players that this generation will never get to experience.
12:35 It went from being fun to being a kill everyone challenge in hitman, front row seats to a horror movie massacre.
My concern is how these players make it this far into the ranks or even their account.
The devotion clip at 18:50 is the most painful to watch
This is called addiction. Something frustrates you and you continue that activity just causing yourself stress. I dropped this game months ago and not coming back
This is a normal experience in Singapore, Taiwan, Tokyo, Hong Kong server Ranked for last 3 seasons. Now they are brave enough to infest the ranked in west servers. This is like cancers. It just keeps spreading.
The amount of cheaters is crazy. Unfortunately most people run into a few but once you get into higher ranks its absurd theres more then 1 in every game, take last season into example when over 60% of players in masters rank got banned
Jesus, it is so disgusting. 5-6 EA Execs bag 60 million in 2024 and fired 400+ people while the game gets worse with blatant cheaters and they will still make bank next week with gamers still buying the “event” next Tuesday.
been getting squads that team up in every match on ranked. Ridiculous game
Died to that twitter kid and spectated and he tried to act like he wasn’t cheating like a day ago. Ran into the pathy named gurl and a full three stack of cheaters. Respawn not being able to get this under control is gonna be the death of this game.
Ive found over the last year or so, when you get a lot of cheaters in pubs, play ranked. And visaversa. They seem to always practice on pubs at around the same time or rank up all at the same time.
Not just ranked..... pubs also.
So I just got a pc and have been considering switching over from Xbox. But I love playing on controller - are the lobbies so bad that it’d probably be better to just stay on console?
I have been playing since day one and I'm even seeing them in the ltm matches like control gun game and solos.its wild
Cheaters in console too man. So many unnatural situations were the enemy should not know where I'm at but they do and kill me. Console wall hacks is a thing and its ridiculous how bad it is
The Apex community been asking for a better anti cheat system since season 1, but ea thinks charging two season passes is better than fixing the game
I feel really sad in games nowadays but I have now switched from PVP games to PVE the joy of being able to play a game with friends and not have to worry about cheating is amazing great
the whole sentence of ''when you die to a cheater and you spectate them they die to another cheater'' is wild
what even is this game
Idk why I’m getting recommended this video a whole month later, but the new season is fireee and cheating isn’t as bad rn🔥🔥🔥
I completely quit playing multiplayers because of the cheating problem. It's in every game. I used to hop on Apex just to spectate. It gave me and my viewers some pretty good laughs sometimes. We got to see a cheater using walls, chasing a team, but being a cheater... He obviously didn't know the map at all. He got like 100 feet away from them, jumped over a wall that was separating them, and didn't realize.... there's a pretty big gap. 🤣🤣🤣 Down he went.
We went from playing to watching gameplays to seeing our favorite youtubers watching cheaters gameplays because it is so infested that it cannot be played, incredible
I'm just happy I spent my entire teenage years enjoying video games and didn't have to deal with these garbage cheaters, it's so bad I don't even really game anymore tbh
I gave up on Apex last season after constant Match making and cheating issues. It sucks because this was the first true shooter I played regularly online but it just gets too exhausting to try and play this game knowing that a cheater or a smurfing 3 stack is going to ruin your game. I still come back to watch you and other Apex creators and to see this still not only be an issue but getting worse saddens me.
My friend asked why idc about masters/pred badges anymore. Season 12 and this absurd cheating situation is why
THERES MULTIPLE PEOPLE WHO CHEATED BEFORE CURRENTLY IN PRO LEAGUE. THEYRE EVERYWHERE EVEN IN COMP
18:56 consistent devo hits with no deviation from that distance? I know i haven't played apex in quite a while but i don't remember the devo being that consistent at that range
EA: “There’s probably a solution to alleviate all these problems but we won’t try to find them” *RAISES BATTLE PASS BY 10$*
Canonically accurate Revenant lol
Almost, all they need is to fix their god awful movement.
These games are terrible, I don't even bother with them anymore. First person shooters are ruined now, doesn't matter which one you run. Cheaters ruined the online portion.
19:51 biblically accurate pathfinder
I’ve had that Young Breezy guy in my pub game once and I had him on my team and I had asked them how they even knew where the enemies were they were WAY too confident in how they pushed with NO intel
I actually love spectating cheaters videos
Same reason I left cod. The higher in the ranks you got the more infested it became. Wasn’t even worth the grind anymore
be optimistic all you want, the cheater problem ain't going anywhere
Loving the ranked content Jankz 💪🏽
You know it's serious, because Janz actually cursed.😂😂 My guy dropped the B word with conviction.
I love how as soon as you die, "this guys cheating"
Exactly. I just got to the 11:50 mark of the video and so far, few suspicious moments but its just looking like hes salty he died to a team thats simply better
That’s crazy to see how many people aren’t paying this game anymore due to cheaters. I feel like I haven’t had this problem (maybe i have who knows) but I also don’t play ranked I just hop on to run around and have fun, catch a couple dubs. It makes me sad that the apex loving community is facing these problems I hope you all (see the fixes you’d like and) come back soon, the games await
They are everywhere, solos, ranked mixtape, its so tiresome. This used to be a fun game. I remember season 15 if I found a cheater I would report them and they would get banned while I was spectating them.
My respect for jankz after this vid is high asf
Yeah, I've been playing since before seasons were a thing, took a few breaks here and there, but never uninstalled Apex during those breaks. All this BS lately had me uninstall for the first time, ever. Maybe I'll play again if they get a handle on this. I'm already bad, I don't need to be playing against cheaters!
Keep exposing the truth 🔥💯 This is for sure the normal Apex experience,, yes, let them know
"If you ain't cheatin you ain't tryin"
-Apex Legends
this ranked season has been ridiculous.
You can easily tell if the online players are cheating by how many hits they got you with in apex, and I don't know why people be cheating and affecting the games from every gaming Platform and you wonder why these games be having so many updates 🤔😒
It's not easy, especially because apex has built in cheat called aim assist.
Nothing new.
Cheating has been such a very large issue the last month/s for all multiplayer games that ALL of their major content creators can’t ignore it anymore.
Look at Apex, look at Overwatch, look at CoD, and that’s just SMALL examples.
pretty happy that lifeline got krabered by "exodia the forbidden one" lmao
How can you tell if the third teammate is getting boosted or got paired up with cheaters while solo q'ing? This might be a dumb question. I've gotten cheater teammate while solo q'ing and I'll leave the game if I realize. But it has me scared of getting in trouble for being on a team with a cheater and a spectator assuming the worst. Is there a way to tell?
Always love your videos, Jankz!
Hey Jankz it's been a while since I've seen you in my feed. Great to see the vid bro💯 also I miss this trio💯
This game was at its best when it first came out and cross play was not implemented. I remember I went on a 11 win streak before cross play existed after it was added into the game I was barely able to win a game anymore. The skill gap was ridiculous it went from fun to frustrating very fast.
I’m almost diamond and within 5 minutes the lobby was down to 8 teams and then we died only to be spectating cheaters… it’s very frustrating this season. I’m still playing because I love the game and it’s fun but they need to fix it.
I swear I’ve seen that cheater revenant. The cheating is out of control! This season’s lobbies are insane.
The solution is simple
Integrate cheats into the game
Is it too expensive to hire the guys who make cheats and assign them to counter this?
Of course it is too expensive. They better hire more lgbt support so they can ban random people they find "toxic" :DD
This is why I've been stepping back from apex trying to find something new to play but I miss the mobility
+they dont check the official apex discord at all, over the last 5 days i saw 7+ people promoting boosts and cheats, messages weren't deleted for over 1 hour
The reason why there's more cheaters.If the coz when you do a three stack , it doesn't matter what rank you are in , you can all play together
I know this is off of the "cheating topic," but at 8:35 jankz just did a really cool havoc effect just by spectating.
Imagine playing controller on PC and still needing cheats to hit your shots. That's next level sadness.
Theres so many cheaters that are becoming a new way of content
I constantly play against predators, my teammates are usually lower level and skill, I'm a really, really good player, and have been playing for years. Never got Predator, but was Master so many times.
The situation currently on EU servers is INSANELY bad. Each and every game will have multiple cheaters on it, it's honestly getting so bad, and I stopped playing for the first time. I don't think I'll ever be coming back.
I quit Apex about a year and a half ago to play DMZ on CoD. I have loved DMZ, but I miss Apex. Although, every time I watch an Apex video the main thing about it is the cheating. It doesn't make me want to come back, although I want to so bad.
I have never understood the appeal of cheating. If I was bad at a game and wanted to get better I practiced. These people are so sad.
If it wasn't EA I'd be optimistic, but anything with EA stamp on it I've given up on it
Cheating has ruined Apex. I’ve played consistently since launch and had to stop playing. I love the game but I can’t do it anymore. It’s so frustrating
Damn....haven't heard anybody call anything greasy in Apex since they first added the second version of King's Canyon.
Honestly JanKz I just watch your content now.. I haven’t played apex in 6 months I got tired of getting cheated I’m not the best played but I can hold my own and 9 shots with a havoc and 6 are head shots is criminal
Insaneo style mentioned!
I stopped playing a few seasons ago when I would be just about to rank up and then here comes a flying trident with an aimbotting horizon…. Keep in mind this was 3 seasons ago… cheaters are why I don’t play apex anymore it completely ruins the experience
I was the kind of person who only hopped on to play ranked, now I basically only play mixtape and quads
It's as if cheating needs to be treated as Macro level theft from everyone in every lobby they play in.
If you stop playing the game, they will eventually fix it. The problem is they wait for ban waves. Ban waves are the most effective way at the time. The reason behind a ban wave is they wait for a certain amount of people using a specific software to ban all at once. When this happens the software creator will get 100s, if not thousands, of charge backs. It's effective momentarily but doesn't solve the issue
I stopped playing in S17, due to bad ranked system, sbmm and cheaters. Best call I have made for myself. Still like to watch the pro streamers, and its just sad cuz in the core apex is such a awesome game.
Sucks don't it? The best way to combat cheaters using AimBot is to get up close with shotguns. AimBot can be enabled be ADS. It doesn't have to be, but a lot of guys set their AimBot to be enabled only when they ADS, so if you get up close where you can force a hip fire, then it's one for one. The problem is getting up close before they rinse your face off.
Not a bad idea, but it doesn't solve the issue entirely.
Yup... glad I did not came back. I was getting hope with the "better anticheat news" but it was just all talk...
The game is in the toilet. SBMM doesn’t work and neither does ranked. Was in Bronze 2, played with two teammates that had mics and were decent. After game asked me to join. Turns out they were plat so we couldn’t play together. Then why was I in their lobby or even matched with them? Would rather wait extra and play with similar skill and/or ranked players than wait less and keep ending up in BS lobbies