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Originally Posted by dlk9s
I played a decent amount over the weekend, as my family was gone for about 30 hours. I'm still so so so bad at it. Like it's weird how bad I am when I'm generally a pretty solid FPS player. I did just buy a new mouse, so that is probably hurting in the short-term as I get used to it. I also started playing on my laptop so as to avoid all the crashes on my regular gaming PC. It runs great, but the laptop naturally has a small monitor and the keyboard is smaller than I'm used to for gaming.
Yeah, changing your equipment is hard. There are some new nvidia drivers that are supposed to be better crash wise, and soon to be some new AMD ones. Even with your laptop you can probaby use an external keyboard/mouse/screen though?
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(except for the one time a teammate called me a pussy when I was the only one left and was trying to figure out a way to save my teammates without running head-long into an entire opposing team with limited ammo).
Operating solo is something that takes getting used to, as is figuring out how to get your team respawned. It's funny - if I see a respawn happening I usually want to push it because it means there's at least one man with no weapons, so a full team should be able to take them on pretty easily. But other people don't seem to do this. So sneaking to a respawn location often isn't too hard, actually. If it's pretty early game you can even go to one not too far outside the zone, or about to be out of the zone, as those will be "safer"
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One thing that has helped was that I changed the aim-down-sights setting.
Yeah this was a game changer for me in PUBG. In general when you have choices, take the one that will benefit you the most in a panic. It does not take long to remember to hold ADS to aim, but in a panic your first instinct will be to let go, so hold-to-ADS will serve you well.
I played a ton of PUBG and in PUBG you should use ADS pretty much 100% of the time you shoot. That's not really true in Apex. Some weapons do fine at short range without it, like the wingman is really not bad hip firing, and you strafe WAY faster if you don't ADS, like nearly 100% walking speed I think, so you won't get hit as much
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If battle pass is a pay thing, which I assume it is, I hope it weeds out all the good players and lets us bad ones play against each other in the F2P version.
It's usually a pay thing, but optional. In most games you earn points that you can turn in for items. If you pay, you get extra benefits - in PUBG if you didn't pay the items you earned would be temporary for example. In a lot of games it encourages people to screw around a bit more because they add new objectives that earn points, that are not necessarily good for winning the game, like in PUBG they'd tell you to drive 2km in a match or something or take out 50 tires, or shoot an uzi 300 times in a match. So people would do silly stuff to make their objectives.
Switching to Apex from PUBG the biggest adjustment I feel like I had to make was always pressing advantages. It's relatively hard to secure a kill in apex because there's so much cover and the various ults give protections. So if you've done a bunch of damage to at least one opponent, hopefully more, but you're still at full health you need to close in and finish the job.
The next thing I've been working on is the opposite, pulling back when the tide shifts. The map is small and people can move fast/quiet so its common to get into a fight and then for 1 or more team to show up and get involved.
Movement is super important. If you shoot at someone and don't kill them, you need to relocate and not just peek from the same location. Bonus points if it's unexpected. Going up is always a good idea, especially if you learn some cheeky spots people don't expect. Like a lot of 2 story buildings you can get onto via climbing onto an open door, people never expect you to be there.
Sometimes if you're getting chased through a building, open the exit door but wait inside where they'll run past you and blast them from behind, etc.
I dunno. I am a lot better at theory than practice, but my advice is try to see where things go wrong and theorize about how it could have gone differently.