The thing i hate most is when i get paired with a pre-made duo. They often dont even ping anything because they can talk to one another. It makes all their desicions extremely confusing. This video did make me realise that im not the best teammate either. I gotta learn to be more patient and teambased i guess.
I always ping in a duo. Always. Where I'm landing, loot that is commonly wanted or obvious that the random needs. I know it's not the norm, noone seems to do it when I solo queue, but that just gives me more reason to. I know what it's like. We'd go into game chat, but I play on Xbox and the game chat audio is terrible. If the person is on Xbox I can't hear them, it's like whisper but if they're on PS it's like a jet engine going off. So loud I can't hear the game. Oh not to mention the latest patch that was supposed to have an audio fix for console has resulted in my mic just not working in game at all (and before anyone asks, Astro A50s and they work perfectly in any other game and in party chat or on my PC).
Whenever the buddies and I que with a rando we turn our in game on and just mute eachother in game. That way the rando can hear us and we can stay in discord
@@n1gtwhisper158 I play solo and duo a lot in ranked, the key as the duo is to ping a TON from both of you but especially the leader of the duo has to, and I repeat, has to use pings even when talking to friends in discord to describe stuff. Sure some of it is confusing at first but good players learn what's a position or enemy and what are just, hey there's the gun you want. Of course, if you as the solo, want to talk, as a duo, respect that. Learning to com in both voice channels is actually a useful skill irl (if niche) so get yourself edumacated the fun way on life skills. Play Apex to learn and you will have way, way more fun imo
I love the typical scenario, where you take out 2 enemies, nearly kill the 3rd, then your minions come and take him out and have a separate looting ceremony whilst you're on the floor on all fours. That is the most ungrateful and infuriating thing in the entire soloQ experience.
@@dense_and_dull But what is there to do when I am playing a shooting game and we are at the same spot getting pushed? I wouldn't be "solo" if my teammates helped immediately instead of just fooling around. I have no other choice than to stand my ground or get myself and my bots sent to lobby. Can't outrun everyone.
@@noanswer531 It's because the guy thought I'm a silver hardstuck with zero brain cells who pushes alone on purpose, but the truth is far from that. I was not abandoning others, instead I was the one who was abandoned due to people being afraid to shoot others in a shooting game.
@@eriksalusoo It's always your teammates fault, huh? The fact that you call your teammates bots and make up all these wild scenarios in your head proves you're just an average player who's ego has outsized yourself. Maybe if you spent more time getting good at the game and not blaming your teammates for everything, you wouldn't be here in the comment section making up wacky situations where you are the best player in your squad and only reason you don't do well is because of teammates.
I didn't notice you mention this. Lifeline always has first dibs on a gold backpack, it's utterly overpowered in her hands and often means an EZ win. Especially if you're trading for a purple one, they're the same capacity.
So true.If i see a goldbag and have lifeline or gibbi in the team my first job is to pick it up and serve it to them. I had a situation where we were me Octane, Horizon and a cocky Wraith. I found a gold bag and instantly gave it to Horizon since the poor guy revived our asses numerous times and as that mf Wraith took it instantly.... Like, you stupid f, you did not revived anyone, had to be revived 5 times and dare to take the bag to store you ammo!?
Lifeline res sucks with randoms. 90% of the time they res in the open without defending the res, basically guaranteeing you get killed during the animation. At least with Mirage and Gibby they are under the same danger you are while ressing you, making it less likely they attempt a res while being shot themselves. This changes of course when the Lifeline is actually a good Lifeline, but we are talking about randoms here. As a Mirage main, I'm keeping that bag until my Lifeline proves they're worthy.
@@joeblow8982 I feel you, my friend...I feel you. There are few good lifeline mains from time to time,but most are completely brashwashed. As if you sucked their brain through their ear with a vacuum. Just come, tap E and run away, not even bothering protecting you or some schiit.
@@joeblow8982 Most definitely. Im surprised how many lifelines are there in Arenas tbh, tho The Gaming Merchant has a video explaining how Arenas MMR works and im pretty sure they "abuse" lifeline just so they can revive and boost their MMR resulting in higher AP gains. I have to try it myself tbh.
The thing that annoys me the most is when I take out a whole team and my team takes all the batts. Can't tell you how many times I lost a fight because I haven't had a batt all game. On the other hand, this video made me realize I'm actually a very nice teammate. Now all I need to do is to get better movement...
I know your pain too well. I've learned to prioritize looting batts first over everything else. After I finish a fight I shield swap and then go straight for the batts. Then I look around for third parties. If it's clear then I'll loot everything else. I have my menu cursor speed pretty high so I can do all of this fairly quickly. Make sure you have an empty inventory slot before going in a box so that you can scoop up those batts right away
the thing i do to combat this (in a way) is to do that exact same thing. I loot all the batts/meds and then ask if anyone needs them and the quantity i have. i've gotten better response doing this than actually asking for any spare batts/meds
Man, people not separating from me being jump master and then looting the same building as me is one of the things that tilts me the most. That and someone playing lifeline and for some reason they just don't deploy the drone when they see that you are missing 20-10 HP. Also, when they just run past you when you're downed and going in 1v3.
I have had so many situations where I was in a vulnerable position to get revived and then BOOM ''Lifeline's got your back!'' and I obviously get thirsted or immediately get downed again after being revived.
I’ve had more good games closed mic then open as long as they can hear me on the mic and I can’t hear them it goes well as they can hear my instructions which if followed ends in a + plus game for us.
3:25 this one actually makes me so mad. I've had too many randoms rush a fight, I get in on the action take one guy down and sometimes break another but then I get downed. I look around cause they are super weak, my randoms 100% got this, there is no way they lose it now. "Crickets chirping," they aren't even here they ran to the next poi and now I'm getting spam finished and t-bagged and the sweaty ttv wraith is unloading a whole clip on my deathbox. And well here I go queuing up again for another match as a solo.
The first thing you said keeps happening to me, but i don't want to give the "jump master" title away because then they always land far away from anybody else to loot, so the only fight we are going to be involved is the final battle between 3 squads -and thats not how you get good at the game (avoiding fights).
@@irmalitaambarini6809 And its weird to avoid gun fights in FPS game. I understand that people want to win, so they avoid fights because they don't want to risk it, but to me thats not the way i want to win. And its like cheating yourself 20 kill badge, it loses all of its meaning/value.
@@alexsalmela8199 well some times it's okay to avoid fight, like when you in ranked and your teammate died you can rat out a bit so you can rez them or wait till your point reduction isn't that high. but other than that, it's not okay
3:49 I'm definitely guilty of this, however I usually play Crypto. Once I've hit an EMP and got the drone in place, I have no real means of making a hard push without help. I try to let the more aggressive legends know in advance where I'm attacking with pings and make the team push their decision or not.
Dear other Loba mains, use her to loot FASTER and LESS, not SLOWER and MORE 😭 cuts the looting time out. Since it is a shooter like ottr said. Good tips in the vid
After all, the idea of Loba's abilities is for quick looting. That's the reason why her ULT has a low cooldown. That's the reason why she can see higher tier loot. She can grab them as soon as she drops down, or ping them for teammates. It's all about making looting easier, so you can get into fights sooner
NEVER call "one shot" Always say "low" instead One shot means I should be able to poke a guy with a P20 shot or punch, sometimes it doesn't work which leads to potentially throwing the game, it got to the point where I never ever say "one shot", even if I do 199 damage on someone, I just say "low" instead, a much better callout.
I agree, although there are times when I'll hit purple evo for 190 and they are in the open with no swaps or time to heal. Then I'll say one shot and I've never given a bad callout doing it this way. The only way that could fail is if my teammate hits them for 8-9 with a PK, but I don't know anyone that expects one pellet from a PK to cover the "one shot" category. I'll call it if I am 100% correct, but you can't expect everyone to actually think before saying it because "I hit him for a shit ton/I beamed him he's one" unfortunately.
It's simple, just say cracked if you crack the shield, low if you hit a few on flesh and just don't say one shot and It's annoying when someone says low on just a cracked enemy.
Honestly, this should be in game's tutorial at this point. Apex has become a very complex game over years and the learning curve got very steep. Hope they'll add something like that along with quality of life changes to firing range.
@@zryptex_7041 I don’t know if it’s because I play a lot of Wattson but I would happily carry 6 and just have 4 cells lmao , I burn through them so fast
Not a second wasted, all good advice for the average Apex Legends enjoyer. Thanks for doing your best in keeping the community well versed and considerate of one another, this is a teamwork game in the end.
I literally had a game where my teammates looted before reviving me which caused me to bleed out, so yes when the fight is over I'll be spam pinging to be revived after that
I had one random die to an enemy team, and instantly went "Rez maybe?" while we were under fire from the team that downed him and there was a third team rushing in. Bless his soul.
Imo I think it's especially important to turn on your mic. I know the ping system is great but it doesn't always show what you're thinking. I like to make sure I let my teammates to get inside my head so we can brainstorm properly. If you're not willing to turn on your mic during the match, don't turn it on at the end of the match to talk shit lmao
Every Apex Legends player should watch this. I mostly 3-man stack nowadays but your advice apply to that as well. My teammates and even I do some of these sometimes so it's good to know. And remember them while playing. Great content as always :)
Clutching the 1v2 or 1v3, but your teammates leave because they got finished is the most painful thing. There'll be 4 purple armors and 10 good attachments, but no one to grab them and you instantly lose the game.
This video honestly reinvigorated me to play again I only stopped because none of my friends play apex as competitively as I do so I could only rely on randos, but it looks like I have a few things I need to work on as well to be a better player. this video is a gem of the community
I do have just one complain: STOP LOOTING FOR GOD SAKE. Also, is really annoying when teammates never participated on the fights; like the voyeurs criptos.
I don't waste much time looting in PUBs - grab a weapon and move on. But you're not entirely correct when it comes to ranked, infact you're pretty wrong. Better make sure you have everything you may need instead of ask mid fight "fak i hef no ammo , i hef no heals". If you want to rank up of course, if you're fine being hardstuck Plat 4, Diamond 4 or 10k Masters up to you , to each their own.
@@Divinity_vA makes sense but I personally want more than 40 light ammo and 2 syringes when I leave my initial drop yk, though if my team wants to leave, I'm always down to just go
I’m guilty of leaving the fight when I get knocked. I usually send 5 seconds spectating the teammate and then leave when I see how terrible their aim/awareness is.
0:25 when that happens to me i usually stop and type "Hey you sure you don't want to take the food off my stomach too?" when they keep stealing my loot
One of the things I realized as a solo que back in s3 (started in s2) was that you absolutely have to play around the duo if you get them, solos not so much you can kinda take over igl, but, if they're a duo you NEED to follow them. They wont follow you, theyre in discord and have coms, they are 2, you are 1, you auto lose every "vote" I specifically pick support characters to help my team as opposed to trying to be the star. If I could give 1 person who solo ques advice, it's: be friendly immediately when you join the lobby. Try to get a dialogue going. If you start talking to your teammates, especially in lower elos, you have a much higher advantage over people who aren't talking, something I like to do is, "wow dude that pathy skin is sick" 9/10 times they're gonna thank you, boom. You've opened a dialogue.
Please keep this in mind when cycling or picking the closes respawn beacon. :) (The amount of randoms I get solo que with that make the worse decisions just because of ring pressure. 😭) Ring 1: Barely does any damage. Ring 2: A lil bit more damage. But can be out healed. Ring 3& above: Will eat your ass out and you can't out heal.
one thing thats always annoyed me is when my teammates leave before i can res them. its not like i *really* need them, but the problem is most times the enemy just gets a free armor swap from my teammates' boxes
European here, in our lobbys everyone‘s got a mic, but nobody know‘s how to use it, until somebody fucks up, then suddenly you get screamed at out of nowhere, scary as f
I hate it when teammates don't look at the minimap and don't listen to pings. Like I ping somewhere and start walking in that direction, and then the team either goes another way or takes like a full minute to register what is happening.
One of the greatest and most underrated things about Apex is the ping system Respawn has developed and refined for the game. Its incredibly easy to use and provides so much information for your squad! I dont think any other multiplayer game in the world comes close to it. The fact some people don't use it at all is an absolute travesty and those people are the some of the worst teammates to have. Even when I'm in a pre-made group where we're all using mics, im still pinging where I'm going, what im doing, where people are, etc. It makes my life and the lives of my teammates infinitely easier! Better communication leads to staying alive longer, which leads to more kills and more wins.
my biggest issue in ranked as i play solo EU (Dont do it unless you wanna have a mental breakdown) is most people have no awareness or game sense and have no clue how to play the legend they playing....
Bro. I've played this game since week one and never even knew about the icon for pinging items teammates can use. I've just been pinging loads of random shit this whole time. Thanks for that!
I played 4 hours of pubs yesterday after not having played for 2 weeks. I got 0 wins, not even a top 5 situation. OMEGArolled constantly by pre made squads. It was not fun.
the thing i hated the most is that when we are fighting there's always that one random who just go mile away from the fight to pop bats or heals making the fight harder.
Ohhh man , this people want to not loose rp so bad they be throwing games after games cuz once u down , they gone ! 😂 they are outttttt , and thats just dumb cuz most of the time u still have one more teammate alive and other teammate prob down 2 or 1 and is a 2v2 or 2v1 but no buddy runs half a mile to heal and hide and gain +6 rp
@@irmalitaambarini6809 It would have been nice and all if when they proceeds to run, they'll just hide but no. They're gonna proceed to join two full squads fighting
I always hoard shield battery's not because i want to but because i some how ALWAYS get streamer loot. Most shield bat's i had at one time was with a gold backpack and the whole lower row was shield bat's. Gotta love it.
see I usually carry like 6-8 for when I play ranked, cause they like to peek and take damage for no reason, so I keep batteries to give them when they burn through theirs lol
also after splitting on a contested drop, if a teammate is being shot on, as long as you have a gun and ammo you should go help out. there is no reason to fill up you backpack only to fight 3v1. you’re basically being a courier for enemies.
The best full guide on etiquette in Apex. Happy to know I've had this pretty much completely figured out by now, as I'm apparently polite. I could have really used this as a new player though. I do however sometimes fall victim to the shiny death box that my teammate just made, which I should give them, but end up taking stuff. Usually feel bad and drop what I took ping what I took just to have it sit on the ground cuz teammate doesn't want it and we've already started to move on.
This video is actually god sent… so many randoms sit back and wait for something to happen while your fighting a 3 stack… u die and then something magical happens that u wouldn’t believe… they get aped because they’re alone… crazy right?
a lot of these are accurate. both my team mates calling me names and trash talking and im the one who gets banned for saying 'you're the one bitching, let me play...'
I just had an arena match: I was rampart, played since s0 My cousin was Caustic, played since s1 This Pathfinder with 1,017 kills (had s3 banner stuff and no s1 anniversary so i assume he started s3) Is SCREAMING in his mic saying "why aren't we rushing?? We keep losing cause y'all won't rush!!" Meanwhile: He splits off from our formation, dies, complains that we won't revive him, even though we are 2v2 and soon 2v3ing.. The round b4, he had plenty of time to revive us and make it a 3v1 but decided to rush and die instead... Needless to say, we let him die off in the final round, kept high ground mid circle, played our legends CORRECTLY, and won!!! Some people Also i have noticed that better wraiths tend to play semi support/Flank roles
Would be nice to get a video on arena etiquette! Can be frustrating to be a Lifeline anchored on a strong position and see your Octane face-roll right into the enemy team
This video was really helpful. I try to share my batteries when I notice I’m hoarding quite a few and I make sure my teammates have enough heals to get us through the fight. I also notice I’m bad about baiting my teammates when I get my shields absolutely melted and this video helped me work on that
Really annoying when on landing there is this guy that follows you and worst is run to steal your loot. I swear those i just go to another place to loot and if they engage i just dont go cause i couldnt even loot a thing
Thank God someone said it I'm a lifeline main and I try my best to be the last one down but I hate when I'm down and because the player that's alive is friends with the other down player on the team they pick them up first while your still in a fight:/ and it doesn't end there for lifeline mains we have it hard:(......
This video needs more attention, I’m now at a point where if I’m solo I never take jumpmaster because people don’t split off. I already do pretty much everything in the vid but it annoys me how so many people in this game don’t
I normally hold onto 4 battery's and 2.5 sets of cells, same goes for kits and syringes. I also make sure to let people know what ammo in running whenever I pick up a gun or switch weapons just so we all aren't running light ammo or heavy ammo guns because it makes looting harder. I also do this to let people know what ammo I need when I tell them I'm running low. Something my friends and I do, which I recommend you doing, is passing around the gold body armor(while making sure it gets back to its original owner) so we can heal up after a fight faster and get right back into the game.
I confess, I was a battery hoarder. cells, batteries and ammo, are the first thing I grab out of a death box. And that occasionally results in my squad being low on shields, but I always take note of their requests or if they don't have full shields. In addition I realized I don't need that many shield items, so I drop what I don't need and ping it so then know they can take it. I don't hoard anymore. All other points are things I already avoid doing.
I solo que the majority of the time and would like to note if your teammates pick up purple shield at start and you see bats, ping them or delivery them if room is available in your inventory. No sense having bats if you have white shield imo.
Honestly the worst part is when you know your teammates are worse than you, bc it's infuriating when you just can't do anything about a match no matter how good you are.
I played a game where a guy spammed his death box for a good 30 seconds and after his banner was recovered, he spammed the respawn another 10 seconds before he quit.
I occasionally play on console and I swear the majority of that player base thinks that looting is the most important thing on the planet even when they are right next to a downed teammate with 5 seconds left
I just started maining loba, i was usually a wraith/bloodhound main... loba is actually insane even in 1v3 situations. Fight resets are easy with her q, or even with her ultimate if you prepare a couple shields for swaps. Just one piece of advice that I can give as of now, is that you should loot quickly. Your ult is amazing for looting quickly, and you'll almost never run out of ammo. You can use this to hold a position very well, as long as your ult is hidden behind a wall or something.
When you dont have a weapon but your teammates abuse the "enemy here" ping so you give up and go full fight club, just to die and have your teammates leave you behind
i remember i queued with randoms in BR and my two teammates both split up and we were all on opposite sides of each other. then yk, one got shot, dead, and then we try to focus on getting their banner but since we're split up-never works out. please randoms, just stay together or use chat if you dont wanna mic up
Omg that first one I'm glad you put it first, I also would have put it last too lol. I like to try to make sure that at least all of us have at least 1 gun as we land. If my random picks up my weapons (passing me and picking the loot from the bin I literally opened) I will keep pinging I have no weapons. And one grenade 😆
Hey Ottr, love the content bro. As a crypto main, I feel the gold helmet is huge! I couldn't even say how many times I've thrown out my drone to grab banners and get one but get destroyed before I can grab the second, with the gold helmet you will get the drone back in time for another attempt at a fast grab. Also, something I point out to people is that a gold backpack does NOTHING for you over a purple, all it does is force upon you the responsibility to stop shooting and go for combat revives.
7:40 this happens to me all the time and its annoying. I always get left behind without the duo pinging or communicating with me. this entire video talks about all the randoms ive been with. I have never related to anything much more. also I love your content Ottr
The battery thing made me remember the time my teammate would no give up any on his 12 battery’s to his dying team with 1-2 shield cells so we just let him die lol.
I wished more people followed these rules. I would think these are all common sense, but I always have teammates that do otherwise. The thing that bothers me the most is when I wipe out a whole squad and I revive teammates before I start looting, the first thing that teammate does is loot all the boxes, leaving me to revive our other teammate. Then I check the boxes and barely get anything out of them. The crazy thing is, the teammates that usually gobble all the loot...they're usually the worst player on the team.
Watching this video made me realize that I'm actually a pretty decent teammate knowing that I've followed most of these etiquettes except for the armor swap since I wasn't sure what that was. I'll admit I'm also guilty of ping spamming but that's because I sometimes panic easily but I've been trying to ping less now. I also play in Singapore server and language barrier is such a disadvantage sometimes so I make sure to communicate a lot by pinging even when I play with a friend using Discord call. It helps a lot and it feels nice when your teammates always react to the pings
Besides the loot icon showing what other people need, I put all these tips into practice. It nice when you actually get randoms that just "click" and you actually see them as a teammates and not as a pain in the old blow hole. 10/10 biggest complaint is octane mains... I mean, batt looting as you actually have power to work with randoms. I hate watching my randoms die only to check there box to see a whole pharmacy while I'm stuck using cells. For that, ranked is my pubs But I would add that, if your a higher level to take point in your team and make them follow you. And if your a low level follow who takes point. Not only will it help newer players understand how to engage a fight better but will help you have more control if you want to leave a gunfight as they already hold your ping in high regard. It works I swear, its saved my team a lot from either getting swallowed by the storm near the end or third parties. Basically why would they push something you wouldn't right? Work with your randoms dont abuse them... unless they take all the batts.. then you should just wraith port them off the map... But for real. I see most high level players (mostly wraiths obviously) speed run their loot and kills just to get 1v3ed because they didnt wait for their team just to get mad they're not pro at level 10
As a battery hoarder I have to say, I only take batteries after my team passes it up. I do this for 2 reasons, at end game there is no better feeling (aside from winning) then having your team say they need Shields just to drop 4-6 batteries and still have 2-4 left for yourself
Good for newer folks who come into the game lol. IDC if you insta-leave when I'm fighting like 3 teams, banner timed-out, or no more rez beacons, but don't insta-leave when I have the banner or I'm 1v1ing the last guy.
The only point where I loot stuff from a mates deathbox when it's obvious they can't get back to it. And even then I tend to share stuff like ammo and health items later on once they're respawned. I might not need those 8 stacks of ammo, but 6 for me and 2 for them will be better for the team. Same for batteries/syringes. If I see a mate is empty, I share some. I can work fine with less, but a mate without shield and on half health will hurt the entire team. And about banner/spawn pings, I especially hold back if I see they're in a fight. It only distracts and I can wait that much.
My favourite moments are when: -My rando falls off the map while dropping -My rando dies on an OOB mountain while dropping -My rando spam pinging their banner while I'm mid fight trying to clean up the duo that wiped them
I don't play solo anymore, but this is what seems to be the general rules in my squad: When you're the jump master, ping twice. One to specify the POI, pinged before leaving the ship or at most directly after, and one ping on the exact entrance you're going to, pinged before we split off. "The closer the enemy, the closer we land", but looting on top of each other is never an option. Depending on the clutch we're in we might need to loot different floors in a small house, but looting on the same floor is unacceptable. In larger houses the one going in the door first chooses a side, and the ones following loots the other side (think Bunker in Kings canyon) If you have two weps while your teammate has none, drop the one you're least comfortable with, or the one your teammate is most with. Two people with one gun each is worth way more in a fight, and it takes just a couple of seconds to do. This includes hot drops, and when respawning where there's no good loot. For us it's mostly a "first come first serve" deal towards gold items, but the proper person should get the gold items once you have a blue or above item to switch with. Going from gold backback to nothing is annoying, but losing only two inventory slots while also giving a mirage the golden backpack is a good investment. Same goes for helmets. We don't have a hierarchy of who gets it, but whoever wants more tacticals, or whichever ult needs recharge usually gets the pick. And a quick note if you're struggling in the ring. If you don't have heat shields and one player has a gold shield, share it to get the max out of your syringes. This might be risky to do with a rando, but with proper teammates it might be a life saver. Especially while doing risky things outside ring two and above. There's a lot of things that area massive deal breakers when it comes to looting teammates' deathboxes, but I don't see any problems with looting them *if you need it to survive, and as long as you give things back when they respawn*. Stealing someone's purple mags are not team play. Loot based rant over. Hope anyone finds it useful.
most of my wins are truly decided on "is the team a team? or 3 people playing together" Like when somebody revives you, drops a wingman with a stack of ammo and you see your team traded 2 for 2 while you were landing. You land those shots.
I was teamed with a premade duo who didnt like where i chose to drop as jumpmaster. They took off halfway across the map which gave me a choice, either try to make it to them and hope they will act like a team or just play as a solo for the 500th time. So i took off towards them encountering many battles on the way. Only when they realized i could handle my own did they come meet me and then we ended up getting the dub.
Ironically as a Loba player, on e of my favorite things about her is that I can loot faster then most others due to her ult so I can spend less time looting and more time doing other stuff... not the other way around that seems to be a stereotype surrounding player who play Loba that I haven't heard about until now.
Have you never seen Lobas afking from shop to shop to literally place it in the same spot in the middle of the looted camp 3 times in a row? You are a lucky man.
@@MyRageIsOP Honestly, I haven't. Loba is a pretty rare pick in general compared to the usual movement legend, Gibby, or Bloodhound you would see every game, and when someone actually pick her they are sorta new to the legend and sometimes never use the ult to begin with. lol
@@MyRageIsOP most loba's I have never use their ult for some god forsaken reason it's literally designed to help you loot after you hotdrop and get into a fight or are just passing a POI and want to see if it's got any batts
I hope this shit helps people learn the game properly because it took my ass only a week to get what to do and what not to do and i started in season 7 so seeing people who are like pinging constantly then yelling at you for telling them not to ping so much is just annoying.
One tip I'd like to add: If you have a teammate go down, and you finish off a squad, obviously armor swap, BUT. If the deathboxes are gold, check them too, in case one of them has a Gold Backpack.
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Teammate: "he's one shot"
Me: "indeed this man was one kraber bullet away from death"
One kraber bullet to the head away
Kraber headshot away from death*
They meant they hit them with one shot. Of course.
That's why I don't even say "he's one shot" I just say cracked when they're cracked
@@desmondleguay1969 i just say the amount of damage i done,like
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The thing i hate most is when i get paired with a pre-made duo. They often dont even ping anything because they can talk to one another. It makes all their desicions extremely confusing. This video did make me realise that im not the best teammate either. I gotta learn to be more patient and teambased i guess.
I always ping in a duo. Always. Where I'm landing, loot that is commonly wanted or obvious that the random needs. I know it's not the norm, noone seems to do it when I solo queue, but that just gives me more reason to. I know what it's like.
We'd go into game chat, but I play on Xbox and the game chat audio is terrible. If the person is on Xbox I can't hear them, it's like whisper but if they're on PS it's like a jet engine going off. So loud I can't hear the game.
Oh not to mention the latest patch that was supposed to have an audio fix for console has resulted in my mic just not working in game at all (and before anyone asks, Astro A50s and they work perfectly in any other game and in party chat or on my PC).
This has happened to be so many times. The thing that gets me is the team mate will run past me to res the other pre-made and then we end up wiped.
If they are a duo just tell them to com with you. It's actually more likely that they are comming if duoing.
Whenever the buddies and I que with a rando we turn our in game on and just mute eachother in game. That way the rando can hear us and we can stay in discord
@@n1gtwhisper158 I play solo and duo a lot in ranked, the key as the duo is to ping a TON from both of you but especially the leader of the duo has to, and I repeat, has to use pings even when talking to friends in discord to describe stuff. Sure some of it is confusing at first but good players learn what's a position or enemy and what are just, hey there's the gun you want.
Of course, if you as the solo, want to talk, as a duo, respect that. Learning to com in both voice channels is actually a useful skill irl (if niche) so get yourself edumacated the fun way on life skills. Play Apex to learn and you will have way, way more fun imo
I love the typical scenario, where you take out 2 enemies, nearly kill the 3rd, then your minions come and take him out and have a separate looting ceremony whilst you're on the floor on all fours. That is the most ungrateful and infuriating thing in the entire soloQ experience.
Maybe don't try to fight a squad as a solo? Have you ever thought of that?
@@dense_and_dull But what is there to do when I am playing a shooting game and we are at the same spot getting pushed? I wouldn't be "solo" if my teammates helped immediately instead of just fooling around. I have no other choice than to stand my ground or get myself and my bots sent to lobby. Can't outrun everyone.
@@eriksalusoo funny how this never got a response lol
@@noanswer531 It's because the guy thought I'm a silver hardstuck with zero brain cells who pushes alone on purpose, but the truth is far from that. I was not abandoning others, instead I was the one who was abandoned due to people being afraid to shoot others in a shooting game.
@@eriksalusoo It's always your teammates fault, huh? The fact that you call your teammates bots and make up all these wild scenarios in your head proves you're just an average player who's ego has outsized yourself. Maybe if you spent more time getting good at the game and not blaming your teammates for everything, you wouldn't be here in the comment section making up wacky situations where you are the best player in your squad and only reason you don't do well is because of teammates.
I didn't notice you mention this. Lifeline always has first dibs on a gold backpack, it's utterly overpowered in her hands and often means an EZ win. Especially if you're trading for a purple one, they're the same capacity.
So true.If i see a goldbag and have lifeline or gibbi in the team my first job is to pick it up and serve it to them.
I had a situation where we were me Octane, Horizon and a cocky Wraith. I found a gold bag and instantly gave it to Horizon since the poor guy revived our asses numerous times and as that mf Wraith took it instantly.... Like, you stupid f, you did not revived anyone, had to be revived 5 times and dare to take the bag to store you ammo!?
Lifeline res sucks with randoms. 90% of the time they res in the open without defending the res, basically guaranteeing you get killed during the animation. At least with Mirage and Gibby they are under the same danger you are while ressing you, making it less likely they attempt a res while being shot themselves. This changes of course when the Lifeline is actually a good Lifeline, but we are talking about randoms here. As a Mirage main, I'm keeping that bag until my Lifeline proves they're worthy.
@@joeblow8982 I feel you, my friend...I feel you. There are few good lifeline mains from time to time,but most are completely brashwashed. As if you sucked their brain through their ear with a vacuum. Just come, tap E and run away, not even bothering protecting you or some schiit.
@@Divinity_vAlol exactly. Don't get me wrong tho... if the Lifeline has 1000s of kills/res showing on banner, I'm bringing that bag right to her feet.
@@joeblow8982 Most definitely. Im surprised how many lifelines are there in Arenas tbh, tho The Gaming Merchant has a video explaining how Arenas MMR works and im pretty sure they "abuse" lifeline just so they can revive and boost their MMR resulting in higher AP gains. I have to try it myself tbh.
The thing that annoys me the most is when I take out a whole team and my team takes all the batts. Can't tell you how many times I lost a fight because I haven't had a batt all game. On the other hand, this video made me realize I'm actually a very nice teammate. Now all I need to do is to get better movement...
I'm getting better with movement and repositioning in fights and it's so nice!!
If there's anything this game has taught me it's first come first serve. If my teammates are gonna be selfish af then I'm gonna do the same to them.
I know your pain too well. I've learned to prioritize looting batts first over everything else. After I finish a fight I shield swap and then go straight for the batts. Then I look around for third parties. If it's clear then I'll loot everything else. I have my menu cursor speed pretty high so I can do all of this fairly quickly.
Make sure you have an empty inventory slot before going in a box so that you can scoop up those batts right away
the thing i do to combat this (in a way) is to do that exact same thing. I loot all the batts/meds and then ask if anyone needs them and the quantity i have. i've gotten better response doing this than actually asking for any spare batts/meds
@@DeathSeed32 spamming that you need health/shields and the loot goblin won't share tho is the fucking worst
Man, people not separating from me being jump master and then looting the same building as me is one of the things that tilts me the most.
That and someone playing lifeline and for some reason they just don't deploy the drone when they see that you are missing 20-10 HP. Also, when they just run past you when you're downed and going in 1v3.
Exactly. It happens all the time to me. They get so much time to rez and heal but no, they will run to 1v3.
Same next time am a throw them of the cliff and then am a fly away with valk
i feel you brother. All lifeline players in this game are Ai's and not real
I have had so many situations where I was in a vulnerable position to get revived and then BOOM ''Lifeline's got your back!'' and I obviously get thirsted or immediately get downed again after being revived.
What about when you grab a weapon you literally landed on and they endlessly punch you
Your advice is always god tier. I’m a solo fill who tries to go open mic and I want this video to teach me and my randoms
Push to talk
Same brother
I’ve had more good games closed mic then open as long as they can hear me on the mic and I can’t hear them it goes well as they can hear my instructions which if followed ends in a + plus game for us.
3:25 this one actually makes me so mad. I've had too many randoms rush a fight, I get in on the action take one guy down and sometimes break another but then I get downed. I look around cause they are super weak, my randoms 100% got this, there is no way they lose it now. "Crickets chirping," they aren't even here they ran to the next poi and now I'm getting spam finished and t-bagged and the sweaty ttv wraith is unloading a whole clip on my deathbox. And well here I go queuing up again for another match as a solo.
The first thing you said keeps happening to me, but i don't want to give the "jump master" title away because then they always land far away from anybody else to loot, so the only fight we are going to be involved is the final battle between 3 squads -and thats not how you get good at the game (avoiding fights).
especially in strompoint, its gonna be so boring if you keep avoiding fight in that map.
@@irmalitaambarini6809 And its weird to avoid gun fights in FPS game. I understand that people want to win, so they avoid fights because they don't want to risk it, but to me thats not the way i want to win. And its like cheating yourself 20 kill badge, it loses all of its meaning/value.
i used to do this all time when i started playing and ive gotten so much better since i started hot dropping every game
@@alexsalmela8199 well some times it's okay to avoid fight, like when you in ranked and your teammate died you can rat out a bit so you can rez them or wait till your point reduction isn't that high. but other than that, it's not okay
@@irmalitaambarini6809 I agree
3:49 I'm definitely guilty of this, however I usually play Crypto. Once I've hit an EMP and got the drone in place, I have no real means of making a hard push without help. I try to let the more aggressive legends know in advance where I'm attacking with pings and make the team push their decision or not.
Dear other Loba mains, use her to loot FASTER and LESS, not SLOWER and MORE 😭 cuts the looting time out. Since it is a shooter like ottr said. Good tips in the vid
I'm a Loba main and I usually go for spots with contest just so I loot after killing
@@PunLlarena same, i rarely dig in a box during a fight. Use the ult to get a few essentials and carry on 😁
After all, the idea of Loba's abilities is for quick looting.
That's the reason why her ULT has a low cooldown.
That's the reason why she can see higher tier loot.
She can grab them as soon as she drops down, or ping them for teammates.
It's all about making looting easier, so you can get into fights sooner
I barely ever use the ultimate in a small area we landed unless there is enemies
@@emma6648 yo what ? how did i find you there ?
NEVER call "one shot"
Always say "low" instead
One shot means I should be able to poke a guy with a P20 shot or punch, sometimes it doesn't work which leads to potentially throwing the game, it got to the point where I never ever say "one shot", even if I do 199 damage on someone, I just say "low" instead, a much better callout.
I tend to use low when they're around 40hp otherwise I just say they're flesh.
I agree, although there are times when I'll hit purple evo for 190 and they are in the open with no swaps or time to heal. Then I'll say one shot and I've never given a bad callout doing it this way. The only way that could fail is if my teammate hits them for 8-9 with a PK, but I don't know anyone that expects one pellet from a PK to cover the "one shot" category. I'll call it if I am 100% correct, but you can't expect everyone to actually think before saying it because "I hit him for a shit ton/I beamed him he's one" unfortunately.
"he's one shot" then the enemy proceed to armor swap
I usually call one shot if I’m sure the enemy as 20hp or less, otherwise I’ll just say low or the damage I dealt
It's simple, just say cracked if you crack the shield, low if you hit a few on flesh and just don't say one shot and It's annoying when someone says low on just a cracked enemy.
Honestly, this should be in game's tutorial at this point. Apex has become a very complex game over years and the learning curve got very steep. Hope they'll add something like that along with quality of life changes to firing range.
In low rank they do sometimes forget your banner.
Me: I probably dont do any of these, they're so annoying!
Ottr: Stop hoarding batteries
:o
he said 10, so 8 is fine, right?
@@sombrero4316 8 is definetly okay :)
@@sombrero4316 you need 6 at most in high tier ranked
4 batts is perfect for me. Endgame ofcourse.
@@zryptex_7041 I don’t know if it’s because I play a lot of Wattson but I would happily carry 6 and just have 4 cells lmao , I burn through them so fast
I can't even count how many times my randoms quit as soon as they're knocked and I end up winning the fight but now i have to try and win as a solo
Not a second wasted, all good advice for the average Apex Legends enjoyer. Thanks for doing your best in keeping the community well versed and considerate of one another, this is a teamwork game in the end.
I literally had a game where my teammates looted before reviving me which caused me to bleed out, so yes when the fight is over I'll be spam pinging to be revived after that
I had one random die to an enemy team, and instantly went "Rez maybe?" while we were under fire from the team that downed him and there was a third team rushing in. Bless his soul.
He asked nicely at least 😂
Imo I think it's especially important to turn on your mic. I know the ping system is great but it doesn't always show what you're thinking. I like to make sure I let my teammates to get inside my head so we can brainstorm properly. If you're not willing to turn on your mic during the match, don't turn it on at the end of the match to talk shit lmao
So is it safe if I never talk, like, at all?
Who are you to tell a person what to do
@@emma6648 ahhh so ur the person that uses thier mic to swear in the end of the match instead of using it to prevent the death of ur team
@@emma6648 also if u gonna are say that then also blame ottr not just this guy
Every Apex Legends player should watch this. I mostly 3-man stack nowadays but your advice apply to that as well. My teammates and even I do some of these sometimes so it's good to know. And remember them while playing. Great content as always :)
Clutching the 1v2 or 1v3, but your teammates leave because they got finished is the most painful thing. There'll be 4 purple armors and 10 good attachments, but no one to grab them and you instantly lose the game.
This video honestly reinvigorated me to play again I only stopped because none of my friends play apex as competitively as I do so I could only rely on randos, but it looks like I have a few things I need to work on as well to be a better player. this video is a gem of the community
“Are your randoms god awful?”
Instantly liked the video after that
I do have just one complain:
STOP LOOTING FOR GOD SAKE.
Also, is really annoying when teammates never participated on the fights; like the voyeurs criptos.
they loot 24/7 bc if they fight they die 0.1 sec lmao
I don't waste much time looting in PUBs - grab a weapon and move on. But you're not entirely correct when it comes to ranked, infact you're pretty wrong. Better make sure you have everything you may need instead of ask mid fight "fak i hef no ammo , i hef no heals". If you want to rank up of course, if you're fine being hardstuck Plat 4, Diamond 4 or 10k Masters up to you , to each their own.
@@Divinity_vA makes sense but I personally want more than 40 light ammo and 2 syringes when I leave my initial drop yk, though if my team wants to leave, I'm always down to just go
Finally a video that talks about the little icon that lets know your teammates need the item you're looking at
I’m guilty of leaving the fight when I get knocked. I usually send 5 seconds spectating the teammate and then leave when I see how terrible their aim/awareness is.
0:25 when that happens to me i usually stop and type "Hey you sure you don't want to take the food off my stomach too?" when they keep stealing my loot
One of the things I realized as a solo que back in s3 (started in s2) was that you absolutely have to play around the duo if you get them, solos not so much you can kinda take over igl, but, if they're a duo you NEED to follow them. They wont follow you, theyre in discord and have coms, they are 2, you are 1, you auto lose every "vote" I specifically pick support characters to help my team as opposed to trying to be the star.
If I could give 1 person who solo ques advice, it's: be friendly immediately when you join the lobby. Try to get a dialogue going. If you start talking to your teammates, especially in lower elos, you have a much higher advantage over people who aren't talking, something I like to do is, "wow dude that pathy skin is sick"
9/10 times they're gonna thank you, boom. You've opened a dialogue.
Loba main: It is a looter!
Haha imma Loba main
Please keep this in mind when cycling or picking the closes respawn beacon. :)
(The amount of randoms I get solo que with that make the worse decisions just because of ring pressure. 😭)
Ring 1: Barely does any damage.
Ring 2: A lil bit more damage. But can be out healed.
Ring 3& above: Will eat your ass out and you can't out heal.
The battery thing is real, people swoop them all up and if I ever have more than 2 I drop and ping em
one thing thats always annoyed me is when my teammates leave before i can res them. its not like i *really* need them, but the problem is most times the enemy just gets a free armor swap from my teammates' boxes
European here, in our lobbys everyone‘s got a mic, but nobody know‘s how to use it, until somebody fucks up, then suddenly you get screamed at out of nowhere, scary as f
As someone who has been solo queue since season 1, everyone needs to see this video. They need to put this video as a link in apex.
I hate it when teammates don't look at the minimap and don't listen to pings. Like I ping somewhere and start walking in that direction, and then the team either goes another way or takes like a full minute to register what is happening.
One of the greatest and most underrated things about Apex is the ping system Respawn has developed and refined for the game. Its incredibly easy to use and provides so much information for your squad! I dont think any other multiplayer game in the world comes close to it. The fact some people don't use it at all is an absolute travesty and those people are the some of the worst teammates to have. Even when I'm in a pre-made group where we're all using mics, im still pinging where I'm going, what im doing, where people are, etc. It makes my life and the lives of my teammates infinitely easier! Better communication leads to staying alive longer, which leads to more kills and more wins.
my biggest issue in ranked as i play solo EU (Dont do it unless you wanna have a mental breakdown) is most people have no awareness or game sense and have no clue how to play the legend they playing....
Bro. I've played this game since week one and never even knew about the icon for pinging items teammates can use. I've just been pinging loads of random shit this whole time. Thanks for that!
I played 4 hours of pubs yesterday after not having played for 2 weeks. I got 0 wins, not even a top 5 situation. OMEGArolled constantly by pre made squads.
It was not fun.
the thing i hated the most is that when we are fighting there's always that one random who just go mile away from the fight to pop bats or heals making the fight harder.
Ohhh man , this people want to not loose rp so bad they be throwing games after games cuz once u down , they gone ! 😂 they are outttttt , and thats just dumb cuz most of the time u still have one more teammate alive and other teammate prob down 2 or 1 and is a 2v2 or 2v1 but no buddy runs half a mile to heal and hide and gain +6 rp
@@blancordmusic6742 and sometimes they just run into third party making it way worse for the team
@@irmalitaambarini6809 It would have been nice and all if when they proceeds to run, they'll just hide but no. They're gonna proceed to join two full squads fighting
I always hoard shield battery's not because i want to but because i some how ALWAYS get streamer loot. Most shield bat's i had at one time was with a gold backpack and the whole lower row was shield bat's. Gotta love it.
see I usually carry like 6-8 for when I play ranked, cause they like to peek and take damage for no reason, so I keep batteries to give them when they burn through theirs lol
also after splitting on a contested drop, if a teammate is being shot on, as long as you have a gun and ammo you should go help out. there is no reason to fill up you backpack only to fight 3v1. you’re basically being a courier for enemies.
The best full guide on etiquette in Apex. Happy to know I've had this pretty much completely figured out by now, as I'm apparently polite. I could have really used this as a new player though. I do however sometimes fall victim to the shiny death box that my teammate just made, which I should give them, but end up taking stuff. Usually feel bad and drop what I took ping what I took just to have it sit on the ground cuz teammate doesn't want it and we've already started to move on.
Holy shit the first one is so relatable and i play with a premade squad and yell at them whenever they dont
This video is actually god sent… so many randoms sit back and wait for something to happen while your fighting a 3 stack… u die and then something magical happens that u wouldn’t believe… they get aped because they’re alone… crazy right?
a lot of these are accurate. both my team mates calling me names and trash talking and im the one who gets banned for saying 'you're the one bitching, let me play...'
I always tell my teammates "bro break off, break off", they never break off
I just had an arena match:
I was rampart, played since s0
My cousin was Caustic, played since s1
This Pathfinder with 1,017 kills (had s3 banner stuff and no s1 anniversary so i assume he started s3)
Is SCREAMING in his mic saying
"why aren't we rushing?? We keep losing cause y'all won't rush!!"
Meanwhile:
He splits off from our formation, dies, complains that we won't revive him, even though we are 2v2 and soon 2v3ing..
The round b4, he had plenty of time to revive us and make it a 3v1 but decided to rush and die instead...
Needless to say, we let him die off in the final round, kept high ground mid circle, played our legends CORRECTLY, and won!!!
Some people
Also i have noticed that better wraiths tend to play semi support/Flank roles
Would be nice to get a video on arena etiquette!
Can be frustrating to be a Lifeline anchored on a strong position and see your Octane face-roll right into the enemy team
This video was really helpful. I try to share my batteries when I notice I’m hoarding quite a few and I make sure my teammates have enough heals to get us through the fight. I also notice I’m bad about baiting my teammates when I get my shields absolutely melted and this video helped me work on that
i played rank yesterday and a teammate pick a crypto and just drop outside of the map at the start of the game and just pinging their banner
Really annoying when on landing there is this guy that follows you and worst is run to steal your loot. I swear those i just go to another place to loot and if they engage i just dont go cause i couldnt even loot a thing
Thank God someone said it I'm a lifeline main and I try my best to be the last one down but I hate when I'm down and because the player that's alive is friends with the other down player on the team they pick them up first while your still in a fight:/ and it doesn't end there for lifeline mains we have it hard:(......
This video needs more attention, I’m now at a point where if I’m solo I never take jumpmaster because people don’t split off. I already do pretty much everything in the vid but it annoys me how so many people in this game don’t
depends on poi. if we're landing estates i'm riding that ass XD
6:27 causally dropping an armor swap to a disabled teammate 🤣
When teamates ignore your revive to loot is always the most annoying thing. Much more annoying then them taking your kills loot.
I normally hold onto 4 battery's and 2.5 sets of cells, same goes for kits and syringes. I also make sure to let people know what ammo in running whenever I pick up a gun or switch weapons just so we all aren't running light ammo or heavy ammo guns because it makes looting harder. I also do this to let people know what ammo I need when I tell them I'm running low. Something my friends and I do, which I recommend you doing, is passing around the gold body armor(while making sure it gets back to its original owner) so we can heal up after a fight faster and get right back into the game.
I confess, I was a battery hoarder. cells, batteries and ammo, are the first thing I grab out of a death box. And that occasionally results in my squad being low on shields, but I always take note of their requests or if they don't have full shields. In addition I realized I don't need that many shield items, so I drop what I don't need and ping it so then know they can take it. I don't hoard anymore.
All other points are things I already avoid doing.
I solo que the majority of the time and would like to note if your teammates pick up purple shield at start and you see bats, ping them or delivery them if room is available in your inventory. No sense having bats if you have white shield imo.
Honestly the worst part is when you know your teammates are worse than you, bc it's infuriating when you just can't do anything about a match no matter how good you are.
I played a game where a guy spammed his death box for a good 30 seconds and after his banner was recovered, he spammed the respawn another 10 seconds before he quit.
I occasionally play on console and I swear the majority of that player base thinks that looting is the most important thing on the planet even when they are right next to a downed teammate with 5 seconds left
I'm happy that you're teaching other people how to be a good teammate, it's nice :)
Then i hope every random see it
I never realized the guy with the hand wave meant that another teammate could use that loot. That is so cool!
I play with a headset cranked up as loud as I can and spamming pings just creates unnecessary clutter and keeps me from hearing foot steps lol
The thing that annoys me the most, is randoms that leave instantly after getting knocked or finished, especially if I already killed the duo/trio
I just started maining loba, i was usually a wraith/bloodhound main... loba is actually insane even in 1v3 situations. Fight resets are easy with her q, or even with her ultimate if you prepare a couple shields for swaps. Just one piece of advice that I can give as of now, is that you should loot quickly. Your ult is amazing for looting quickly, and you'll almost never run out of ammo. You can use this to hold a position very well, as long as your ult is hidden behind a wall or something.
When you dont have a weapon but your teammates abuse the "enemy here" ping so you give up and go full fight club, just to die and have your teammates leave you behind
2:40 Holy crap, did not know that LOL. Thanks for the tip!
When I play with my friends we all do a bat check every now and then just to make sure everyone's got around the same amount of batteries
i remember i queued with randoms in BR and my two teammates both split up and we were all on opposite sides of each other. then yk, one got shot, dead, and then we try to focus on getting their banner but since we're split up-never works out. please randoms, just stay together or use chat if you dont wanna mic up
I absolutely hate when people land with me as jumpmaster, but then other kids land super far away?! Like why is there not a standard by now. 🤣
That guy with the hands up doesn't pop up on my screen when someone needs it even though my teammates need it
Omg that first one I'm glad you put it first, I also would have put it last too lol. I like to try to make sure that at least all of us have at least 1 gun as we land. If my random picks up my weapons (passing me and picking the loot from the bin I literally opened) I will keep pinging I have no weapons. And one grenade 😆
Hey Ottr, love the content bro. As a crypto main, I feel the gold helmet is huge! I couldn't even say how many times I've thrown out my drone to grab banners and get one but get destroyed before I can grab the second, with the gold helmet you will get the drone back in time for another attempt at a fast grab. Also, something I point out to people is that a gold backpack does NOTHING for you over a purple, all it does is force upon you the responsibility to stop shooting and go for combat revives.
7:40 this happens to me all the time and its annoying. I always get left behind without the duo pinging or communicating with me. this entire video talks about all the randoms ive been with. I have never related to anything much more. also I love your content Ottr
This video is actually loaded with content great work ottr
The spam pings are the worst. That happens so much when theyre downed. Also the endless looting
My enemy ping is bound to my scroll wheel
@@xanira6367 the spam ping makes me mute their ping lol
The battery thing made me remember the time my teammate would no give up any on his 12 battery’s to his dying team with 1-2 shield cells so we just let him die lol.
I do most of these things already except technically the respawn ping, I just do it once to say. “Here’s the nearest one”
I wished more people followed these rules. I would think these are all common sense, but I always have teammates that do otherwise. The thing that bothers me the most is when I wipe out a whole squad and I revive teammates before I start looting, the first thing that teammate does is loot all the boxes, leaving me to revive our other teammate. Then I check the boxes and barely get anything out of them. The crazy thing is, the teammates that usually gobble all the loot...they're usually the worst player on the team.
Watching this video made me realize that I'm actually a pretty decent teammate knowing that I've followed most of these etiquettes except for the armor swap since I wasn't sure what that was. I'll admit I'm also guilty of ping spamming but that's because I sometimes panic easily but I've been trying to ping less now. I also play in Singapore server and language barrier is such a disadvantage sometimes so I make sure to communicate a lot by pinging even when I play with a friend using Discord call. It helps a lot and it feels nice when your teammates always react to the pings
Honestly this some of the best advice you have shared with all of us ever. Definitely sharing cheers my dude!
Besides the loot icon showing what other people need, I put all these tips into practice. It nice when you actually get randoms that just "click" and you actually see them as a teammates and not as a pain in the old blow hole.
10/10 biggest complaint is octane mains... I mean, batt looting as you actually have power to work with randoms. I hate watching my randoms die only to check there box to see a whole pharmacy while I'm stuck using cells.
For that, ranked is my pubs
But I would add that, if your a higher level to take point in your team and make them follow you. And if your a low level follow who takes point. Not only will it help newer players understand how to engage a fight better but will help you have more control if you want to leave a gunfight as they already hold your ping in high regard. It works I swear, its saved my team a lot from either getting swallowed by the storm near the end or third parties. Basically why would they push something you wouldn't right? Work with your randoms dont abuse them... unless they take all the batts.. then you should just wraith port them off the map...
But for real. I see most high level players (mostly wraiths obviously) speed run their loot and kills just to get 1v3ed because they didnt wait for their team just to get mad they're not pro at level 10
As a battery hoarder I have to say, I only take batteries after my team passes it up. I do this for 2 reasons, at end game there is no better feeling (aside from winning) then having your team say they need Shields just to drop 4-6 batteries and still have 2-4 left for yourself
Good for newer folks who come into the game lol. IDC if you insta-leave when I'm fighting like 3 teams, banner timed-out, or no more rez beacons, but don't insta-leave when I have the banner or I'm 1v1ing the last guy.
I wish everyone would watch this video
The only point where I loot stuff from a mates deathbox when it's obvious they can't get back to it.
And even then I tend to share stuff like ammo and health items later on once they're respawned. I might not need those 8 stacks of ammo, but 6 for me and 2 for them will be better for the team.
Same for batteries/syringes. If I see a mate is empty, I share some. I can work fine with less, but a mate without shield and on half health will hurt the entire team.
And about banner/spawn pings, I especially hold back if I see they're in a fight. It only distracts and I can wait that much.
I thought this was going to be a rant but as a season 12 player this should be common sense.
My favourite moments are when:
-My rando falls off the map while dropping
-My rando dies on an OOB mountain while dropping
-My rando spam pinging their banner while I'm mid fight trying to clean up the duo that wiped them
I battery horde but I always ask my teammates if they need batteries
I run into so many randoms that don't follow any of these rules
I don't play solo anymore, but this is what seems to be the general rules in my squad:
When you're the jump master, ping twice. One to specify the POI, pinged before leaving the ship or at most directly after, and one ping on the exact entrance you're going to, pinged before we split off.
"The closer the enemy, the closer we land", but looting on top of each other is never an option. Depending on the clutch we're in we might need to loot different floors in a small house, but looting on the same floor is unacceptable. In larger houses the one going in the door first chooses a side, and the ones following loots the other side (think Bunker in Kings canyon)
If you have two weps while your teammate has none, drop the one you're least comfortable with, or the one your teammate is most with. Two people with one gun each is worth way more in a fight, and it takes just a couple of seconds to do. This includes hot drops, and when respawning where there's no good loot.
For us it's mostly a "first come first serve" deal towards gold items, but the proper person should get the gold items once you have a blue or above item to switch with. Going from gold backback to nothing is annoying, but losing only two inventory slots while also giving a mirage the golden backpack is a good investment. Same goes for helmets. We don't have a hierarchy of who gets it, but whoever wants more tacticals, or whichever ult needs recharge usually gets the pick.
And a quick note if you're struggling in the ring. If you don't have heat shields and one player has a gold shield, share it to get the max out of your syringes. This might be risky to do with a rando, but with proper teammates it might be a life saver. Especially while doing risky things outside ring two and above.
There's a lot of things that area massive deal breakers when it comes to looting teammates' deathboxes, but I don't see any problems with looting them *if you need it to survive, and as long as you give things back when they respawn*. Stealing someone's purple mags are not team play.
Loot based rant over. Hope anyone finds it useful.
most of my wins are truly decided on "is the team a team? or 3 people playing together"
Like when somebody revives you, drops a wingman with a stack of ammo and you see your team traded 2 for 2 while you were landing. You land those shots.
I was teamed with a premade duo who didnt like where i chose to drop as jumpmaster. They took off halfway across the map which gave me a choice, either try to make it to them and hope they will act like a team or just play as a solo for the 500th time. So i took off towards them encountering many battles on the way. Only when they realized i could handle my own did they come meet me and then we ended up getting the dub.
Ironically as a Loba player, on e of my favorite things about her is that I can loot faster then most others due to her ult so I can spend less time looting and more time doing other stuff... not the other way around that seems to be a stereotype surrounding player who play Loba that I haven't heard about until now.
Have you never seen Lobas afking from shop to shop to literally place it in the same spot in the middle of the looted camp 3 times in a row? You are a lucky man.
@@MyRageIsOP Honestly, I haven't. Loba is a pretty rare pick in general compared to the usual movement legend, Gibby, or Bloodhound you would see every game, and when someone actually pick her they are sorta new to the legend and sometimes never use the ult to begin with. lol
@@MyRageIsOP most loba's I have never use their ult for some god forsaken reason
it's literally designed to help you loot after you hotdrop and get into a fight or are just passing a POI and want to see if it's got any batts
I hope this shit helps people learn the game properly because it took my ass only a week to get what to do and what not to do and i started in season 7 so seeing people who are like pinging constantly then yelling at you for telling them not to ping so much is just annoying.
For some reason
All my teammates
Doing all the bad things🗿
One tip I'd like to add: If you have a teammate go down, and you finish off a squad, obviously armor swap, BUT. If the deathboxes are gold, check them too, in case one of them has a Gold Backpack.
And you didn't even mention the one teamate running away from a valk ult when it was sent in chat and pinged.