Apex Legends BR

sbi5ar · 9 Mar 2019 at 09:08

Xcept1 said:
Finally had a great game with two randoms for my last match of the night. Everyone was pinging things, dropping loot which other people needed etc. Two of us ended up with the Mastiff and the other had digital threat optics on both weapons. The last enemy squad was holed up in a building. Popped my smoke and instantly the Blood Hound pinged the enemies, ult'ed and we burst in from two sides. Fight lasted about 3 seconds...Victory! Sometimes it all clicks and comes together without a word being said.

I find this with randoms... particularly the "all comes together without a word being said" then on the winning screen everyone comes alive with cheering and gg's on the mic

sbi5ar · 9 Mar 2019 at 09:10

Zefan said:
The ones you're talking about are just weapons someone has equipped a gold skin for, and have either been swapped out for something better or have been left in their loot box after dying. A weapon with a gold skin has zero advantage over one with any other skin.

It's more than a gold skin though, for example, a gold wingman has a golden portrait in the bottom right with "gold" attachments although I believe it still uses heavy ammo.

Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRMUaeziNXk skip to 11:55 and you'll see it.

Zefan · 9 Mar 2019 at 09:13

sbi5ar said:
It's more than a gold skin though, for example, a gold wingman has a golden portrait in the bottom right with "gold" attachments although I believe it still uses heavy ammo.

That fully populated attachments thing does ring bells actually, upon googling it's clear I'm mistaken!

chroniclard · 9 Mar 2019 at 10:23

MissChief said:
Mastiff is only available as a late game supply drop. AFAIK no gold weapon will ever be found 'in the wild'

I really should start getting into the habit of recording my games too.

Exaggerating to make a point.

just Scott · 9 Mar 2019 at 11:25

Mastiff and Kraber = loot drop only (Lifeline ult excluded)

Golden weapons are obtained from high loot areas marked with a blue circle at the start of the game, although not guaranteed, and from golden loot robots.

Golden weapons have all the attachments already and they can't be changed. You can find golden guns outside of the hot zone but it's very rare.

atomic7431 · 9 Mar 2019 at 12:14

wow i see 355k have now been banned via the anticheat system, thats unreal.

mid_gen · 9 Mar 2019 at 12:41

I had the gold Peacekeeper from a loot tick last week. Didn't get a kill with, the charge time on it threw me off!

Minusorange · 9 Mar 2019 at 12:52

atomic7431 said:
wow i see 355k have now been banned via the anticheat system, thats unreal.

Yet players like this go undetected

over 3,000 kills

So that 355k is only a fraction of the amount of actual cheaters

Bobie8 · 9 Mar 2019 at 13:43

Minusorange said:
Yet players like this go undetected

So that 355k is only a fraction of the amount of actual cheaters

Considering theres no built in report function and the game has been out just over a month I'd say its ok.
Don't get me wrong I would like all cheaters gone but the only options are more invasive anti cheat software
or some kind of AI that watches the games in real time or studies a replay that can figure out who's legit and who's hacking.

Spils · 9 Mar 2019 at 14:03

Nice playing with Andy and NutNut last night. As everyones talking about gold weapons, I came across the gold wingman last night for the first time. It was in a gold robot. Gave it one of the lads I was playing with so no idea how it performs.

Prefer a r301 and eva 8 combo any day of the week.

atomic7431 · 9 Mar 2019 at 14:29

Minusorange said:
Yet players like this go undetected

over 3,000 kills

So that 355k is only a fraction of the amount of actual cheaters

yeah thats not good, was it reported?

jonneymendoza · 9 Mar 2019 at 14:54

Minusorange said:
Yet players like this go undetected

over 3,000 kills

So that 355k is only a fraction of the amount of actual cheaters

Maybe only people in here don't cheat and rest do lol

phatboy · 9 Mar 2019 at 14:57

Had my first go at this a few nights back. I really do not likely BR games over, Fortnite and especially PUBG were just not really any fun for me

playing this in a squad with 2 work colleagues I found myself really enjoying myself despite being cannon fodder a lot of the time lol

Donnie Fisher · 9 Mar 2019 at 15:04

Maybe when identified as cheaters (by hardware /Mac address possibly ) rather than banning them and them just signing up under a new name, they should be sorted out on match connections to cheaters only matches / servers. That way they don't see they've been caught as such... And it's more managed, and a bit of own medicine served.

Edit: apparently they did that with titanfall

I'm now wishing there was a way to play the map solo so you could explore and learn it and practise a little.

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Zefan · 9 Mar 2019 at 15:12

Donnie Fisher said:
(by hardware /Mac address possibly )

Isn't quite that easy. MAC addresses are used for communication between devices on the same LAN. They aren't used for an end to end connection across a layer 3 network (the Internet), IPs are. Even if they were, changing one's MAC is child's play at this point, Windows 10 even has built in MAC address randomisation now.

The stealth ban is a good idea, although there would likely be telltale ways of working it out through looking at the network traffic. It may be enough to discourage people from bothering though.

All I know is, cheating can't be that common because I can still get wins despite being pretty terrible

Minusorange · 9 Mar 2019 at 15:25

Zefan said:
All I know is, cheating can't be that common because I can still get wins despite being pretty terrible

It's not common in terms of %, say around 5% of population will use a cheat, but when you look at hard numbers 5% of 50million players is 2.5million players who cheat which is basically an entire city of a well developed nation or an entire very small nation

Smok3y · 9 Mar 2019 at 15:34

Minusorange said:
It's not common in terms of %, say around 5% of population will use a cheat, but when you look at hard numbers 5% of 50million players is 2.5million players who cheat which is basically an entire city of a well developed nation or an entire very small nation

How many of that 2.5mill will be chyna numba 1s?

Xire · 9 Mar 2019 at 17:13

Been getting so many crashes to desktop since the new patch :| dunno whats up.

AndyCr15 · 9 Mar 2019 at 17:20

Minusorange said:
It's not common in terms of %, say around 5% of population will use a cheat

I doubt it can even be close to that. 5% is 1 in 20. 1 in 20 squads is cheating... that would mean you'd be playing against one every game... no?

Zefan · 9 Mar 2019 at 17:26

AndyCr15 said:
I doubt it can even be close to that. 5% is 1 in 20. 1 in 20 squads is cheating... that would mean you'd be playing against one every game... no?

Yeah, it's got to be more like just under 1%, given that Respawn have banned 355,000 players as of yesterday and the player count is now beyond 50mil.