This and SBMM is the reason everyone is not playing apex. This game is not fun anymore. I am on console, and you are either getting teamed against or going against top 100 preds there is no in between anymore. When you have to play for 3 or 4 hours just to get 1 good game then it's time to move on to something else.

EA got their anticheat from dollar tree

Its amazing how everytime a game says "We upgraded our Anti-Cheat!" the cheats get more absurd and more obvious. Its almost like cheaters feel challenged.

Smurfs and cheaters are why I finally uninstalled this game unfortunately. This was my all time favorite game too so it really sucks

The only way to avoid cheaters at this point is the Firing Range

As a software engineer, I'd like to put my 2 cents here. This is just an opinion - roughly half my friends work, or USED TO work at game dev studios (some at big AAA names), so I have some insight on what's going on in that industry (from a dev's perspective), but I know nobody who's working for Respawn. I just hear what's the word in other studios. And what's happening is this: As everyone knows, these past few years, many people in IT have been laid off. As a matter of fact, it has become a popular thing to fire those pesky, overpaid, lazy dudes! By that I mean that stakeholders like it. They hand out bonuses for if - Elon Musk did it at Twitter, so it MUST be a good thing, right? Now, the reason I've never worked in the game industry and probably never will is because I work for money. I'm very good in my trade, but for me, software development is a trade, and being good in it is the way I can make more money. It's my main motivator. Game devs are different. Almost every game dev I know is passionate about their jobs. They work long hours for subpar pay, but usually they're very happy about MAKING GAMES. And the thing with passion and enthusiasm is that it's very easy to quench the flames - for example, by laying off members of the team. The team working at Respawn was already doing an admirable job at keeping the game functional, seeing that they've already lost many old devs who made Titanfall - game engines ARE A MESS usually, and if you fire, let's say, 5-10% of a team which was already stretched thin (and the game is actually doing VERY WELL financially so there shouldn't be a financial reason to fire people from that team), you'll crush morale. It's pretty cr.ppy, working at a place after a wave of layoffs, even if you were spared - not only is your workload now larger, but suddenly John who new how XY used to work is not there anymore, NATURALLY, the only documentation was written on the backside of a pizza box 3 years ago, even if you tried, you couldn't hit the deadlines... and you never know when will the next a-hole fly to your office in their fancy private jet to tell you and your remaining mates that you're, like, way too lazy and expensive to keep around so start packing. And they'll get a bonus for "cutting costs". So people will start getting by with the bare minimum of effort in their job - half of them will be busy trying to find a new gig somewhere else, half of them will be just depressed and low on morale. It may not be immediately noticeable for upper management, but the output of the team will be very low. This is way more evident with online games where content tends to change rapidly, as things'll fall apart way faster if nobody cares (and games in general require constant maintenance to stay functional, due to generally having a very low code quality - mostly it's just patches upon patches). So I very much doubt that Respawn will do anything about the cheaters in the immediate future.

I keep saying it, hold back your money from the game until they improve things, nobody listens lol. Companies listen to what the money does. Especially EA

Ranked? I've seen em there, but ive also seen them in the LTM's. I've had half of the TDM and Lockdown lobbies filled w\ bots and a handfull of player's. It's all so tiresome.

Oh my god, Jankz doesn't usually cuss much, so when they grabbed the Kraber and he just went "Son of a bitch..." it caught me SO off guard XD

This also explains press in pubs. They’re fed up with the cheating in ranked and move to pubs. Then your average player is getting annihilated, wondering “Why the hell are there so many sweats in my lobby?!?!” Cheaters cause a chain reaction of misery.

That last sentence was hilarious! “I’m sure they are doing something about it”. Haha I’ve been hoping that for several seasons but it just gets worse.

"After the ALGS we fixed the system and improved the anti-cheat in the game" Yeaaaah my BALLZ

18:36 first time I’ve heard Jankz cuss in a LONG TIME

Apex Rank has no meaning.

I used to think I was safe on console, but this past week has been eye opening. It’s sad that people find fun out of that.

I just started playing ranked. There are cheaters even in rookie lobbies with macros, smurfing, hacking is crazy. It is definitely not fun at any level, especially as casual player who tries to enjoy some downtime.

I was playing a pub match this morning, and I was cooking. 3.3k damage with 7 teams left and out of no where I get one clipped like it was no one's business. I stayed and watched play. this man wasn't even aiming he was hip firing from like 100 meters away.

Its funny because this game is what.... 5 years old and Respawn / EA has hardly done anything about the cheating problem the entire time the game has been out. Will they do something now suddenly because we complain more about it? Probably not.

It's the fact they also celebrate when they win like they are that good at the game..sad as fuk ..this game will be dead on pc soon..

Season 21 pred badge will forever be a mark of shame

It’s very true🤣.. these cheaters are colluding together now. It’s like a new type of don’t get caught system lol.. bet they have some type of tag to where they know who’s apart of the cheating brotherhood 😭. And that rev, if you watch it closely.. you can see that pull on the gun directing to that player is so strong man

That's so funny I've definitely died to young breezy before and I thought it was suspect but I only watched for 2 minutes and saw the potato movement and assumed that he just hit a nice one clip with the havoc

the whole sentence of ''when you die to a cheater and you spectate them they die to another cheater'' is wild what even is this game

Its funny when itemp gets mad his brummy accent comes out xx

EA: “There’s probably a solution to alleviate all these problems but we won’t try to find them” *RAISES BATTLE PASS BY 10$*

I completely quit playing multiplayers because of the cheating problem. It's in every game. I used to hop on Apex just to spectate. It gave me and my viewers some pretty good laughs sometimes. We got to see a cheater using walls, chasing a team, but being a cheater... He obviously didn't know the map at all. He got like 100 feet away from them, jumped over a wall that was separating them, and didn't realize.... there's a pretty big gap. 🤣🤣🤣 Down he went.

Not just ranked..... pubs also.

Idk why I’m getting recommended this video a whole month later, but the new season is fireee and cheating isn’t as bad rn🔥🔥🔥

12:35 It went from being fun to being a kill everyone challenge in hitman, front row seats to a horror movie massacre.

This is called addiction. Something frustrates you and you continue that activity just causing yourself stress. I dropped this game months ago and not coming back

THERES MULTIPLE PEOPLE WHO CHEATED BEFORE CURRENTLY IN PRO LEAGUE. THEYRE EVERYWHERE EVEN IN COMP

This is a normal experience in Singapore, Taiwan, Tokyo, Hong Kong server Ranked for last 3 seasons. Now they are brave enough to infest the ranked in west servers. This is like cancers. It just keeps spreading.

I have been playing since day one and I'm even seeing them in the ltm matches like control gun game and solos.its wild

Jesus, it is so disgusting. 5-6 EA Execs bag 60 million in 2024 and fired 400+ people while the game gets worse with blatant cheaters and they will still make bank next week with gamers still buying the “event” next Tuesday.

The amount of cheaters is crazy. Unfortunately most people run into a few but once you get into higher ranks its absurd theres more then 1 in every game, take last season into example when over 60% of players in masters rank got banned

Cheaters in console too man. So many unnatural situations were the enemy should not know where I'm at but they do and kill me. Console wall hacks is a thing and its ridiculous how bad it is

been getting squads that team up in every match on ranked. Ridiculous game

Canonically accurate Revenant lol

My concern is how these players make it this far into the ranks or even their account.

Imagine playing controller on PC and still needing cheats to hit your shots. That's next level sadness.

I feel really sad in games nowadays but I have now switched from PVP games to PVE the joy of being able to play a game with friends and not have to worry about cheating is amazing great

Same reason I left cod. The higher in the ranks you got the more infested it became. Wasn’t even worth the grind anymore

Theres so many cheaters that are becoming a new way of content

We went from playing to watching gameplays to seeing our favorite youtubers watching cheaters gameplays because it is so infested that it cannot be played, incredible

Ive found over the last year or so, when you get a lot of cheaters in pubs, play ranked. And visaversa. They seem to always practice on pubs at around the same time or rank up all at the same time.

😂 hahaha so this is jankz way of telling apex to fix their game lol I swear

I’ve had that Young Breezy guy in my pub game once and I had him on my team and I had asked them how they even knew where the enemies were they were WAY too confident in how they pushed with NO intel

You know it's serious, because Janz actually cursed.😂😂 My guy dropped the B word with conviction.

Nothing new. Cheating has been such a very large issue the last month/s for all multiplayer games that ALL of their major content creators can’t ignore it anymore. Look at Apex, look at Overwatch, look at CoD, and that’s just SMALL examples.

The devotion clip at 18:50 is the most painful to watch

Im an OG gamer I was top lobby in COD my whole life until cheaters came out, I dint get slower, I didnt get worse, they didnt get better, they just started cheating and it is so obvious right now! I got to experience real quality competitive gaming against other good players that this generation will never get to experience.

The Apex community been asking for a better anti cheat system since season 1, but ea thinks charging two season passes is better than fixing the game

My respect for jankz after this vid is high asf

Stuff so bad bro had to a pull a”in my five years of teaching”

How in 2024 have companies not developed a full proof cheat detection system, blows my mind

Damn....haven't heard anybody call anything greasy in Apex since they first added the second version of King's Canyon.

Died to that twitter kid and spectated and he tried to act like he wasn’t cheating like a day ago. Ran into the pathy named gurl and a full three stack of cheaters. Respawn not being able to get this under control is gonna be the death of this game.

I'm just happy I spent my entire teenage years enjoying video games and didn't have to deal with these garbage cheaters, it's so bad I don't even really game anymore tbh

pretty happy that lifeline got krabered by "exodia the forbidden one" lmao

1 month later and nothing changed, sad to 53k people putting an overwhelming negative review on Steam

They are everywhere, solos, ranked mixtape, its so tiresome. This used to be a fun game. I remember season 15 if I found a cheater I would report them and they would get banned while I was spectating them.

It's as if cheating needs to be treated as Macro level theft from everyone in every lobby they play in.

Is it too expensive to hire the guys who make cheats and assign them to counter this?

This is why the first 2 seasons were the best. Will probably never play this game again, the integrity of it is broken. Worst part is, I noticed this many, many seasons ago. Maybe I was just unlucky.

Now you guys get to experience the shit we asia server has been experiencing for over the year hahhaa

I have never understood the appeal of cheating. If I was bad at a game and wanted to get better I practiced. These people are so sad.

This game was at its best when it first came out and cross play was not implemented. I remember I went on a 11 win streak before cross play existed after it was added into the game I was barely able to win a game anymore. The skill gap was ridiculous it went from fun to frustrating very fast.

Honestly, if 40k people viewed this, all 40k just need to stop playing ranked. That way EA actually does something

@7:24 😂😂😂😂😂 "THIS IS A TOP PRED" 🤬

I swear I’ve seen that cheater revenant. The cheating is out of control! This season’s lobbies are insane.

I love how as soon as you die, "this guys cheating"

I stopped playing a few seasons ago when I would be just about to rank up and then here comes a flying trident with an aimbotting horizon…. Keep in mind this was 3 seasons ago… cheaters are why I don’t play apex anymore it completely ruins the experience

I don't play ranked anymore. Nothing fun about it these days.

I stopped playing this game for a year now. I'M NOW STRESS FREE. hahaha

I know this is off of the "cheating topic," but at 8:35 jankz just did a really cool havoc effect just by spectating.

My friend asked why idc about masters/pred badges anymore. Season 12 and this absurd cheating situation is why

this ranked season has been ridiculous.

this is why I literally don't play any new online games anymore. They are plagued with cheaters, all of them. Apex was one of the last I played, I had a steady friend I played with. We won so much I wondered if he was cheating... He always had so much info somehow. they are literally everywhere, if they aren't against you, they are with you. I hate cheaters. I'm done with online games.

I gave up on Apex last season after constant Match making and cheating issues. It sucks because this was the first true shooter I played regularly online but it just gets too exhausting to try and play this game knowing that a cheater or a smurfing 3 stack is going to ruin your game. I still come back to watch you and other Apex creators and to see this still not only be an issue but getting worse saddens me.

i am so happy cheaters took over

be optimistic all you want, the cheater problem ain't going anywhere

If I die I’m not finna be salty and spectate 😂

Imagine being so bad at a game that you ruin other people's experience. Smdh, karma will meet up with them sooner or later. It's always so funny how terrible they are once they turn off those cheats.

the plot thickens ..something to think about... what if other gaming makers pay people to do this to boost there game and stop people from playing this game

I actually love spectating cheaters videos

Yeah, I've been playing since before seasons were a thing, took a few breaks here and there, but never uninstalled Apex during those breaks. All this BS lately had me uninstall for the first time, ever. Maybe I'll play again if they get a handle on this. I'm already bad, I don't need to be playing against cheaters!

Sweats getting sweat on. Just desserts. 🙏🏼

So I just got a pc and have been considering switching over from Xbox. But I love playing on controller - are the lobbies so bad that it’d probably be better to just stay on console?

Now you know how the rest of us playing TF2 and Counter Strike have felt for years. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I mean the fact spin2win hasn't been banned is wild...

The solution is simple Integrate cheats into the game

+they dont check the official apex discord at all, over the last 5 days i saw 7+ people promoting boosts and cheats, messages weren't deleted for over 1 hour

I was the kind of person who only hopped on to play ranked, now I basically only play mixtape and quads

Pubs too I got 3 people banned in a single match of gun run too

I don't even blame cheaters anymore, people just want to play the game and have fun, not get dominated by sweats... Sweats and cheaters have ruined gaming.

"If you ain't cheatin you ain't tryin" -Apex Legends

ya it's a really sad day, I can't play apex solo anymore and even with the squad it's brutal between bad matchmaking and cheaters... Looking for a new game, and apex was probably the best game ever for so long... :(

This is why I've been stepping back from apex trying to find something new to play but I miss the mobility

That’s crazy to see how many people aren’t paying this game anymore due to cheaters. I feel like I haven’t had this problem (maybe i have who knows) but I also don’t play ranked I just hop on to run around and have fun, catch a couple dubs. It makes me sad that the apex loving community is facing these problems I hope you all (see the fixes you’d like and) come back soon, the games await

At this point i’m convinced that Apex security is just a molded potato plugged into an outlet