Summary
- I've often wondered why I'm worse at Apex Legends than when it was first released.
- A YouTube video with Season 1 footage enlightened me.
- The skill floor of Apex is far greater now than it was five years ago.
I make countless excuses when I die in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Apex Legends, my first-person shooter of choice. Lag is a common one. I love blaming the fact that controllers are much stronger than keyboard and mouse. I had no footstep audio. Thankfully I’m not good enough to get into cheater lobbies, but I still call someone’s aim “sus” if they nail one too many headshot♒s.
When I’m honest with myself, I know full well why my skills have declined. I used to play all the time. I maxed out every battle pass, worked on my aim in the firing range, and hit damage numbers that I can only dream of these days. Now, I play games for work so can’t focus my efforts on just✱ one title. I also have a family now, so would prefer to spend time with my wife and daughter rather than lock myself in my office on a sunny weekend.
Aside from my lack of time input, other players continue to get 🃏better. The skill ceiling in t♌his game is so high, and that’s why we love it. The opportunities for improvement are endless, and that’s both a positive and a negative. I can only imagine what it’s like for new players trying to figure out how to shoot and use their abilities.
This has been put into perspective to me by a YouTuber called ‘Kandyrew’. He’s a popular Apex Legends content creator that YouTube autoqueued onto my screen after an 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:ALGS match, and his pitch sold me on the entire video.
In the video, Kandyrew looks back at every season of Apex Legends, talking about the events and new additions, and accompanies it with a clip of his gameplay from that season. For the first year aꦦt least, he’s terrible. I’m not saying this to be mean, as Kandyrew at his worst is likely better than I’ve ever been or ever will be, I’m just pointing out how far everyone has come.
He b🥃arely strafes to begin with, let alone trying wallbounces, bunny hops, or other advanced movement tech. If you ever wonder why you’re winning fewer matches than back in Season 1, check out what the very best players were doing back then and think about what Bronze players were doing.
Kandyrew is a man who has the 4K damage and 20 kill badges on every single Legeܫnd. He’s not quite at the level of an esports competitor, but he’s got to be in the top percentile of Apex Legends players. He plays this game for a job. And the levels he’s at in the early minutes of this video are astonishing. I think I, a Gold player, could beat Season 1 Kandyrew in a fight at least once, and that’s🎶 saying something.
I’m glad he’s ꦦbeen so honest. 🐻It must take a lot of guts to post your gameplay clips when you know you’re ten, twenty times better now. But it shows how far he’s come over the game’s lifespan, and you go on his journey through the years as much as you follow the journey of Apex Legends and its constant updates.
I finished the video with a feel﷽ing of clarity. When Apex Legends 🐬first dropped, it was a level playing field. Everyone was in the same boat. Sure, if you had a thousand hours in Halo 3 you’d have an advantage over someone who picked up a controller for the first time, but there was still a lot to learn.
Nobody knew about tap strafing back then, even the pro players were figuring out just what you could do with the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Titanfall successor's physics. Even once they figured it out, it took a season or two for the information to trickle down via forums and social media posts, and then longer still before YouTube tutorials taught the masses. After another season of mastering the technique, the best players could wallbounce and tap strafe, they knew how to abuse recoil smoothing to win fights. Every Apex Predator mastered these skills, then Master players, then Diamond. Eventually, it trickled all the way down so even Bronze lobbies might have a movement fiend dropping ludicrous feats of acrobatics on the 59 other players.
Apex Legends has always had a high skill ceiling – it’s why the game took off like it did – but the skill floor has been consistently raised for years. The worst players in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Season 21 are far betterꩲ than those in Season 3 or 4. Heck, the worst players now could probably rack up double-figure kills in a lobby from years gone by. This is the fate of෴ a successful live-service game.
You’re not worse at Apex Legends than you were when it first rele🀅ased, everyไone else is just better. And that’s okay. I’ve come to terms with it, and so can you.
