{"id":14743,"date":"2022-08-11T10:05:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T09:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/apex-legends-somethings-got-to-give\/"},"modified":"2022-08-11T10:05:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T09:05:08","slug":"apex-legends-somethings-got-to-give","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/apex-legends-somethings-got-to-give\/","title":{"rendered":"Apex Legends &#8211; something&#8217;s got to give"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\nMy fireteam and I &#8211; hitherto committed to PUBG but casually on the lookout for something else, so unhappy were we with the lack of communication, infrequent updates, and all-too-common disconnects &#8211; had been on the hunt for a new team-based shooter, and Apex Legends scratched an itch that neither Fortnite nor PUBG could reach. Fun, chaotic, and built on fantastically snappy gunplay, Respawn&#8217;s surprise battle royale hit the floor running, and we fell for it faster than Bangalore drop, shock and locks. Apex Legends&#8217; arrival was smooth, too, immediately feeling polished, and it offered a frantic, pacey twist on the battle royale formula. It became our go-to game, not for a few weeks or months, but for years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe wheels started to fall off for us when Apex Legends introduced skill-based matchmaking (often shortened to SBMM). Yes, yes, I know it&#8217;s an unpopular view and something Respawn is unlikely to change, but I loathe SBMM in unranked play. I know it&#8217;s there to balance out lobbies and make it easier for newbies to get acclimated. But if you&#8217;re only a little above average in the game &#8211; or play with someone who is &#8211; your slightly-better-than-average arse is continually up against &#8220;Apex Predators&#8221; who melt you from across the map should you so much as glance in their direction.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nJealous? Me?! You bet I am. It doesn&#8217;t matter how many hours I sink into Apex or how many rotations I rehearse; I&#8217;ve resigned myself to the fact that I have neither the reflexes nor the dexterity to ever become a trail-blazing Predator. But it&#8217;s one thing to encounter sweaty players if you&#8217;re choosing to go against players circa your skill level in Ranked gameplay &#8211; quite another if you&#8217;re playing unranked and chilling with some pals. RNG and good luck have always been a big part of the appeal of battle royales &#8211; you win some, you lose some; that&#8217;s the way it goes &#8211; but ranking us in unranked matches can be unnecessarily frustrating. Forcing me into SBMM is not making me a better player; it&#8217;s just making me not want to play anymore.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/apex-legends-somethings-got-to-give\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; eurogamer.net<\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My fireteam and I &#8211; hitherto committed to PUBG but casually on the lookout for something else, so unhappy were we with the lack of communication, infrequent updates, and all-too-common disconnects &#8211; had been on the hunt for a new team-based shooter, and Apex Legends scratched an itch that neither Fortnite nor PUBG could reach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14744,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,31],"tags":[4705,5033,3050],"class_list":["post-14743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pc","category-popular","tag-fireteam","tag-hitherto","tag-my"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Apex Legends - something&#039;s got to give | Xtreme Servers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"View Apex Legends - something&#039;s got to give for free, here on XtremeServers. 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