Apex Is Out Of Control

[@nnoas971]

0:55 It has nothing to do with the anti-cheat system. They're using Nintendo Switch Lites due to their extremely low power consumption for this operation.

[@Gastro1769]

Ea looking at all 500+ of those accounts log into the game at the same time 😊 “Oh wow that apartment complex must really enjoy apex”

[@OfficialMyMindset]

A bot farm that large ain't stupid. They would likely have VPN set-ups to have different IPs on each account logged in.

[@Gastro1769]

fair point actually.

[@Mythicalgoon]

@@OfficialMyMindsetwhy bother if ea clearly doesn’t care?

[@TheGoldenApex]

Ikrrr😂

[@tomnelson341]

​@@OfficialMyMindsetcan you set up a VPN on a Nintendo Switch Lite?

[@stickywolfgaming9475]

Another reason for these bot farm is farming lootboxes for heirloom. You get way more from selling accounts with heirloom. Lvl 20 accounts are just byproducts imo as they are super cheap to buy

[@Ooran]

They weren’t bots those were actual Nintendo switch players

[@Splat56]

Bruh

[@NefertitiAphrodite]

R u dumb

[@bungus49]

goteem

[@TheTZRT]

Man is speaking facts

[@IitzAdamly]

vile

[@FashionD2]

Oh I saw that post on reddit. It's insane... How far this game has fallen in just a year.

[@Mustard-Seeds]

A year, in what kind of rock you've been living under? Apex has been in decay for longer than that.

[@kingdeedee]

Apex peaked between seasons 7 and 10 in my opinion. It's been slowly unraveling since after that, so I'd say it's been falling for longer than just 1 year

[@IllegalPizza777]

Y’all he didn’t say it’s only STARTED falling in the past year, he said it’s insane how far it HAS fallen in the past year. It started going downhill way before this but it’s out of control now

[@FashionD2]

@@Mustard-Seeds I was talking about how much it has fallen this year specifically. Ik its been going down hill for a while. Chill out a little

[@FashionD2]

@@kingdeedee That's fair. Season 7-9 were so good imo

[@CrisStan]

I remember when the minimum level was changed to 50 and the only reason that didn't work was because there was an exploit to play ranked anyway so they took it away. And it really slowed down matchmaking for lower ranks.

[@g_ball321]

Ranked should be level 100-200 to play ranked it would stop smurfing alot more and make it so people who dont belong in ranked arent playing as much

[@CrisStan]

@g_ball321 Agreed, but you really are overestimating the amount of players over 100/200

[@K1500Project]

This is to be fully expected for any online game (or service for that matter). This is also a major issue for music platforms like Spotify where there have been larges numbers of clearly documented stream farms to artificially boost stream numbers. There's an old saying, "whatever happens to musicians eventually happens to everyone else" - and we'll only see digital services like these abused more (though to be clear Spotify is 100% set up to facilitate this type of scam).

[@capyrika]

Imagine how many of those Switch Lites could've gone to kids out there at a much cheaper price used, kids whose families can afford no more than cheap bootleg games and consoles, imagine you could make a kid's whole year with one of those with just a few proper good games included, that thing would be their whole life, they're going to have memories of playing on the console years in the future.

[@GLRGaming]

Hey Grrt Switch Pred here. Bot lobbies were absolutely crazy last season in pubs. Every lobby had about 8 real players and people would fight it out for the free 4k 20s. I grind ranked since pubs lobbies are hard to come by but this season I haven’t came across anymore bot lobbies or cheaters this whole season. The game is dying but this season is the best switch Apex has ever been. Currently D1 about to be Pred again soon.

[@NefertitiAphrodite]

I really dont get whats difficult to fix about this, Just make it so they have to do more than just put a single input in to not get kicked. I think in overwatch if you try to do nothing the whole match even if you would punch and shit, it would get to a point where you would have to actually fight someone to get the afk timer off. I remember this one time, and im pretty sure it was overwatch, where I was trying to be afk but then it said that I need to engage in battle or something and even though I was running around the timer was still counting down. So I really dont understand whats difficult abt this, its kind of common sense just make it harder to get around the afk timer…

[@sleet9289]

well, they could always start using more advanced bots in that case, so i'm not sure how much that would help.

[@TermoPlays]

Apex isn't really a game with as much action as Overwatch. Many matches go by and my team sees no enemies until final circle. You can't look for movement either as a lot of people play around camping in houses with a controller legend. Without something really advanced, there just is no way that also won't punish people just playing the game in their own way or things they just can't control.

[@TheGoldenApex]

Frr

[@omegaegga]

0:10 tomboy lover ☠️

[@AlyxTheProtogen]

You gotta respect their taste and their audacity to display it to the world in such a manner

[@vladgabrielmatei9128]

One must appreciate such upfront honesty

[@OGPolaroid]

Femboy better

[@pseudoluv27]

i mean who doesn't?

[@AlyxTheProtogen]

@@OGPolaroid real

[@jaylenjames364]

Gaming is crazy now. Scapers buying all the GPUs. You can make a fortune making cheats for a game. AI cheats are hard to detect. Always online single player games. Now server farms? Gaming was way more simple 13 years ago.

[@delusionalmule8759]

it's probably EA inflating their own numbers

[@FLUXXEUS]

To be fair... Switch players already play like bots so I couldn't tell the difference _😂😂_

[@V4ny4]

As a person who plays apex, I have experienced this many times, I played a game of ranked leagues a few days ago and my whole lobby was full of bots which is really unfair, I couldn’t leave or I’d get an abandoned penalty, a match is 4-5 hours, I obviously can’t wait that long…

[@williamworrall8733]

Does anyone know what game is at 1:20, cool vid tho

[@fukkandre]

ultrakill or maximum action, idk

[@Schitzophrenic_]

“I am your beast” on Steam

[@savaget2058]

I was thinking the same thing, tired of Apex

[@GatoRudeman]

"I Am Your Beast" is the game.

[@danielllitpek2014]

The game's "I AM YOUR BEAST", its a neat little FPS against the clock with lots of challenges!

[@Senurm]

Nice to see you feeling better from your sickness!

[@Grrt]

Thank you!!

[@charlieq2012]

that's bs. it's an old video that's doctored. This was a farm bot in China. There are a bunch in Russia, China, India etc.

[@TatsuTeaJoonPark]

This is the reason why my game keeps server crashing every time I play on Switch?

[@TheGoldenApex]

That’s actually horrendous nooo

[@HFA_official]

it might be all gathered at once for profit: lobbies for achievement's boost, rank boost, and all those accs gonna get levels and with levels - lootboxes w heilrooms, and those which without are also selling, all that combined making them a nice profit

[@emperorofatlantis14]

Here's the ultimate solution to combat this on all platforms. Make it so it requires you as a player to do these things of the following to play rank at all Account level must be at least 20 You must garnish at least 100 kills You must win at least 10 games And lastly, you must at least get a total of 10k damage All of this just to unlock rank

[@law0fsurprise868]

winning 10 games is kinda too much for low-skill-set players. think of players who actually belong to bronze rank. we shouldn't really expect them to have 10 games won already in order to be able to start playing ranked matches. I think winning 3 games and additionally everything else you have on your list would be the solution already.

[@not--wrong]

or just 2fa

[@brandondean5680]

​@@law0fsurprise868 10 is plenty. Anything less than that isn't good

[@danielllitpek2014]

Congrats, you sped up bot development and locked out lower level players!

[@Silenceaverted]

Anyone know why the game is crashing a lot again since the winter express event started? I can’t play the game with my partner without the game crashing for them every time since the event started.

[@dankjenna590]

Been saying for years the apex numbers are skewered by the amount of bots that are 'known' let alone the unknown variable in that number. Now that were at the point where the average player count on steam is around 75k wonder what % of those numbers are cheaters/bots.

[@rzgarsaman7692]

arent we tired of: Apex is garbage, apex Ruined, Apex streamers and players leaving the game?

[@DivineCell]

Is that serious what you are saying after seeing this video? No we aren't because it's laughably entertaining to see how EA and Respawn have neglected this game. This just adds the extra dirt into the grave for this deadbeat titanfall

[@rzgarsaman7692]

@Callatos bro why you so mad😂 im saying the game is garbage and we all know that and thats it! why are u so mad

[@DivineCell]

​@@rzgarsaman7692 Because your initial comment implied that you were defending the game with the "aren't you tired of" Sorry for the aggression, but people who defend this shi need to be bullied lol

[@DivineCell]

Sorry, but your initial comment implied that you were defending the game with the "aren't you tired of" Sorry for the aggression, but people who defend this shi need to be hassled

[@DivineCell]

​@@rzgarsaman7692 Sorry, but your initial comment implied that you were defending the game with the "aren't you tired of" Sorry for the aggression, but people who defend this shi are crazy.

[@thundrJade2]

Native Switch player here, this would be really easy to do. I've tried before to switch lobbies to only have Switch players in them and this is impossible on most servers. I was the only one in queue; this would be really easy to do.

[@jafaribramwell3162]

I have 1000+ hours on the switch s23 has been the worst time to play on the switch, since the season start every match I've played the game crash at least once.

[@decimav9420]

Whats the music in the bg ? Sounds so familiar but cant recognize it

[@thatgamerdude319]

pretty Shure its from half-life 1 or half-life 2

[@Elitum]

Triage at Dawn from hl2

[@dannyrhodes5767]

I have a clip from the other day of a bangalore i ran into just jumping on the spot. This explains alot.

[@gamerfreak5961]

As one of the 10 actual players of the Switch version, I can attest that the game barely even functions. 15 to 30 FPS max. 900p resolution. Crashes EVERYWHERE to this day. It would take a real miracle to fix it

[@Noodlez_]

not the pokemon sword lite too, seen like 3 of them in there😭

[@darrellg1972]

EA & Respawn: Does it affect our bottom line? No? Then who cares.

[@Viper1976_]

It does and really has affected their bottom line - they’re just too freaking stupid to see it. I’ve spent nothing on this game because of all their issues, their cheaters, the unbalanced game play and on and on. I would have spent so much more on a game that was FUN!!! Isn’t that what it’s supposed to be? Fun!?! Fair!?!? This has NONE of that! It’s filled with the dumbest idiots to have ever played an online game. Toxic doesn’t describe the level of how bad it is here. Totall and utter trash.

[@HFA_official]

Every top tier game which got something on a line, something what you could sell - is suffering from this.

[@alyasVictorio]

Okay! I bet there comes their "Nintendo vs Apex" lawsuit incoming against Apex devs who hadn't solve their bot issue let alone their usage of their Switch Lite for botting

[@SunMawR]

that's...kinda impressive...

[@prod.extema.da.sickomane]

what is the name of the song in the background

[@jaumesillozzo]

Blud doesn't even know Half Life 2 Soundtrack - Triage At Dawn whaduhell oh may GoooOOoOD

[@krab4473]

They sell more if they manage to pull an heirloom on the account

[@anonymousarthur08]

It’s probably reject switch lites that were manufactured in China and the manufacturers just sold them for way cheaper than the normal price, making the financial investments to make those bot farms lower

[@ThatGuyAndy]

So are they gonna stop switch support now as well like they did with Linux since it’s easier to cheat on them?

[@SyCuJa]

Hey now i play on the switch! Mostly when im on the toilet but that still counts! Gyro controls are the future!

[@atdynax]

Best solution is to discontinue the Switch version.

[@LaughingMajora]

noooo! i play on switch 😢

[@miraizinhamiraizoka]

@@LaughingMajora and i used to play on a steam machine… LETS GO BANNING NINTENDO SWITCH

[@atdynax]

@@LaughingMajora My condolences. No but seriously. Apex isn't made for the Switch. And most players don't play it on there, which is reflected in the player distribution amongst the systems.

[@taikonomiko1869]

Please do something EA... Leave Nintendo services and seperate the lobby accordingly with the devices they used

[@stcosyem]

They aren’t just running apex either. Cheater/bot organizations more than likely run multiple games

[@brandondean5680]

Warzone, overwatch, even bo6 from what I hear

[@mistakenjelly8599]

One IP address should simply be limited to 10 people, if you exceed that circumstance you should have to go through a device clearance or extra checks 🤷‍♀️ 10 people on one IP is already beyond reasonable, and schools with residential have separated connections anyway

[@Eyan17]

Apex is so bad, grrt stopped using apex footage.

[@FolgenNamp]

EA doesn't care cuz they represent numbers playing. Numbers that they can show to people and say: "see, people still play the game. Everything is fine"

[@Clifzn1]

I’ve played game for so long no matter how bad it gets I’m still gonna play it 😅

[@nickevershedmusic8927]

I started this game on Nintendo Switch.

[@namanienie123]

as a switch player i stg if they ban switch from apex i will actually quot the game im not even gunna migrate to pc

[@Driven2Chonk]

Should've blacklisted China region years ago but EAs too greedy and the game/community suffers from it.

[@James-vx2om]

Na for me when queue up for pub. I get no teammates or maybe 1 and we’re going a against 3 stacks preds or pub stompers and there’s my teammate dropped edge of the map loot for 3 hours then die as soon he get shot at then left the game 😂

[@juliusd3th3r4t7]

I accidentally stumbled in a taiwan servers , (i play in tokyo servers due to them being tryhards and gave a challenge ) The red flag was there was no hot drop at major spot at tge first 10 sec

[@raspekwahmen3622]

I think switch lite costs much cheaper in China since they are manufactured there.

[@PapiPink]

They blocked Linux users because of cheaters but the real cheaters were on the Switch. Respawn really don't know what's going on, it's really sad at this point

[@tylercullen3986]

Free 20 bomb?🤩

[@footistarzz2]

But why? like that is a lot of money, for what exactly?

[@utopic1312]

They make more from the accounts than they lose from them switches

[@CaptainBasculin]

Pretty much every F2P game has this issue, if there is any way people can pay for in a F2P game, there will be bots. I don't want to link platforms to encourage this; but there exists account selling platforms with certain badges and items.

[@ricardofrade1606]

Guys i have played apex for the last 3 months now (just came back from a long pause around 2 years), i never find this bot lobbies, where do you find them in normal games? Personaly i am loving playing apex again, the game seems as fast pasted and satisfiyng when u kill a player as ever. If someone wants to play together add me. Big fist pump from portugal.

[@SourDieselEyes]

This has been a thing since 2021. its a 3.4 million dollar botting company, its not only china, taiwan has whole buildings full of bots on all games not just apex

[@sxshi9984]

All this for Apex is a little crazy

[@ReFLexX_ii]

Maybe it is time for Apex 2 and we just overhusl everything including the engine..

[@Parado.x.]

Hellen Wong pov:

[@MRS_Nessie_lover]

At this rate just give everyone 1 free heriloom shards bc selling cosmetics and recycling old modes isn’t bringing many people back Myself included as someone who played in season 0 til now I’ve been less playing 😢

[@rekthereaper3760]

What do they get out of all those bots ? Are they being payed to run numbers up?

[@seaballads11]

Looks very profitable, that’s tempting. Man the Chinese are geniuses.

[@cedarzekaya]

those poor switches only being used to be bots in Apex Legends 😢

[@HellGatyr]

That's why nintendo switch is selling so good Rank booster and other farm games can do this since switch actually the cheapest hardware gaming

[@enigma2297]

It does not fail to baffle me that people will pay to for cheater accounts. Aside from the fact the point of a game is to ultimately have fun, all this effort and money put into cheating looks like a chore to me

[@erjepee]

well tbh these bots kinda ruined us players to gett our badges, seems like devs knows about this but they didnt do anything abt it so instead they just make a shortcut so we dont get our 4k and 20bombs badges nomore. like i surely got 2 more 4k badges and FINALLY 1 20k badge from A REAL GAME and till now i didnt get any. it shows on my stats but didnt them badges. ion even know anymore it feels like they dont care abt this anymore. matter fact i tested it myself with those bots on HK servers u surely dont get 4k badge from it no more. so yea i hate Apex's Devs man, i feel like i got scammed for my hardwork in the game.

[@thomasjones6413]

Omg!! they're making nintento think the Switch lite was actually a good idea!! We have to stop these fiends

[@Profoundblackpeople16]

What game were that at 1:17

[@kingdeedee]

I mean is this really a surprise? It's the same way Respawn abandoned Arenas and it became a cesspool for cheaters and boosters. I've long quit playing this game so at this point all the bad news I see about it makes me laugh. EA is getting what they deserve for all the ways they've mishandled Apex

[@MikeyTrippz]

shut down service on the switch........its not even a good experience cant see why that would be a loss

[@roachmilk-qv6dr]

Wait so free 20 bomb?

[@tomashoang5762]

they are waiting apex to make skins tradable

[@RooneR22]

After that i think they going pull the trigger on Switch

[@hydraulicpress439]

can apex ban them just like they ban linux? (i have no idea how tech works)

[@marcsello7473]

This game is soo cooked🥺🙏

[@justinsbennett]

Bro this game is so bad that I cant even purchase apex coins even though theres money in my steam account. EA is completely unreachable too lmaoo. This game is literally whats wrong with gaming. RIP Apex

[@un1xzz]

the switches are cheaper in China, at least i think so

[@g_ball321]

Those werent bots those were my random teammates i always get vs 3 stack pred pros

[@nweba1]

i didn't know you can play this game on nintendo

[@ulriksrensen5281]

Ea care, they don't give 2 doo doo's about this, they dont't care about any game they have anymore, they are like all other major company, you buy their doo doo and they just ignore all the complaints.

[@-DeZiRe-]

How do these accounts get in my ranked team every time😅

[@SomeHomesickAlien]

I completely forgot about this games's existence tbh

[@Square_One]

Lemme put my tinfoil hat on real quick. It's run by EA. They saw how much money account sellers were making off their game and wanted to corner that market for themselves. Also didn't the decision to lower the ranked level requirement line up roughly with the switch release? Why would they decide to do that? We already know every decision EA makes is based on how much profit it can make. I don't know but whatever's going on, the reason is money.

[@shallot4991]

Those are all clearly steam decks actually

[@3PowRs]

Itd be hilarious if EA shut down the switch servers lol

[@usmansrighthand4284]

This game sucks bruh, I have 700 hours on this shit hole game, deleted it and been playing THE FINALS for the past week now and man lemme tell you lads, it feels weird playing a game where you can just feel the love from the devs man

[@affentossepen]

*proceed to ban linux player... ow classic

[@CasperLydenberg-b2m]

They just need to remove apex from the switch like they did with mobile ngl

[@sebastianphilipsen6684]

Okay so, there is one thing I just don't get about bot farms. What is the point? Why use all of this time, energy and money to just... Stand there, at least use it to hack or something like that. That way I could see what people *might* enjoy. Of course this isn't to endorse hacking, I am just trying to find some reason to do this lol

[@LunaTulpa]

money obviously. if you can get an heirloom shard from a lootbox, you're able to basically immediately sell the account and make another, times that by however many switches you see

[@botond1111]

Bro, be careful with these people... not long ago a WoW creator was also threatened by such organisations. Apex is dead anyways Sadge

[@MrPwnag3r]

what makes you think that these devices are only used in apex cheating?

[@stormmcbeth5744]

This game is so cooked

[@magicshon]

You need to buy these bot accounts in order to enjoy playing in a regular skill lobby

[@hasithaashan8253]

they are moving from hard hacks to soft aimbot type shit also now new cheats have heirloom unlock play on a Asian server and look at dive trails and kill cams because more than 50% people have many heirloom items like skins and heirlooms at level 50-60 accounts granted cant prove this but common sense says otherwise for me as long as no cheaters its ok

[@gagewarner6502]

So, how much lower is the ACTUAL player count lol

[@AnnaKasanova]

allowing all of this but banning linux, ok

[@Motorkona]

Holy shit bro

[@one-four-three9722]

And people are still trying to argue that this isn't a dead game hahahahaha