Any chance you're using Discord while player? We've had a few similar reports from players who saw improvement after disabling the Discord overlay specifically. Lmk if that helps at all.
Can confirm that DX12 is required as of the mid-season update. We dove into some of the reasoning as to why we had to move away from supporting both variants with our first comms back around the launch of From the Rift. Some more details are also in our latest patch notes. Keep us posted if this poor performance continues after the initial compiling and we may have some suggestions to help.
From JP Community
Is there a particular reason why skill-based matchmaking is not applied in Mixtape mode?
Can confirm that DX12 is required as of the mid-season update. We tried to give folks as much notice as possible about this change both in and out of game, with our first comms back around the launch of From the Rift. Some more details are also in our latest patch notes. Lmk if your PC supports DX12 and you're unable to get the game to work with the added callouts in the PN.
Have you tried disabling Adaptive Resolution FPS Target in the Video Settings (more specifically, setting it to 0)? If not, give that a whirl and see if it helps at all. This has been flagged internally either way.
From our ZH community:
Since the SBMM mechanism causes matches to become increasingly unbalanced with fewer players, what measures could be taken to bring more people back to play?
From our ZH community:
Why is the match intensity in normal matchmaking noticeably higher than in the ranked?
[11:30AM PT]: Thanks for joining us! Our Matchmaking AMA has now concluded. For those that didn’t get a direct reply, please check out the dev’s replies as there may have been an answer to a similar question.
There were a couple of anti-cheat questions as well. While these were off topic and couldn’t be answered today, we’re looking at hosting an AMA for anti-cheat soon.
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Hey, r/ApexLegends!
This is a big one. We’re going to be diving into your matchmaking questions and feedback. If you need a jumping point, here are our last two matchmaking updates: December 18 and February 5.
We’ll be answering as many Matchmaking related questions as possible tomorrow, Wednesday, March 26, 2025, from 9:30am-11am PT. Drop your questions here ahead of our AMA and tune back for replies when we go live. As always, feedback is also welcome and we’ll be collecting everything to share with the team.
Here’s our Matchmaking team on deck:
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It's a reward on the new player pass prize track. If you go into the passes menu and scroll the the prize track for the new player pass (which he will have assigned ), you'll see an image of what looks like a bot head. That's the unlock. Once he unlocks that level on the prize track, he will unlock all legends in bot royale.
Heads up, legends!
We recently identified two issues that we wanted to give you an update on.
1) On March 11 there was a brief period of time where the Spark Bonus Meter wasn't updating. This has since been fixed, and all players who completed the bonus meter or lost progress on their bonus meter have been granted one Beast of Prey Pack.
2) Additionally, there is an issue where it looks like Beast of Prey Packs do not count towards unlocking Loba's Heirlooms. This is a visual-only bug, and these packs do count towards unlocking her Heirloom.
Please stop with the stupid daily threads such as landing/weapon threads and just stick with the daily discussion threads. Stop trying to stifle justified criticism. Perhaps if the devs were even semi active we wouldn’t need to criticise.
I made a comment on a daily thread around season 5 launch, and I still get flaming direct messages and DMs angry about pathfinder daily. I don't even work on Legends!
EDIT: thanks for the kind words! I meant this comment to be lighthearted, I think it didn't come across too well for that sorry. I love you guys! I've worked on other large games and honestly the Apex community isn't super toxic imo compared to many others. People get excited and passionate and there's occasional jerks but y'all are great <3 :)
Op specified that you can commission her on Instagram
I must've missed it, just watching the video
Thanks! :)
But arent you guys supposed to throw your ideas together, work together and be like "alright i'll take this color set, person 2 does this". How come 5 artists all work on the same color scheme across all legends? And its not just a handful, it wasnt quite literally every second that was blue AND orange, but it was every second that either had blue OR orange in it.
Theres very few recolors that do not have one or the other color as a primary. Which is one of the reasons ppl want pre S1 recolors back, because those werent created by your "color theory" image (if youre speaking about the opposite colors that are seperated like a cake). Airship Assasin is so "prestigous" because it looks like effort went in, not a quick glance at an image to be like "alright, will take blue and orange since thats the exact opposite of each other". Like you did with Wraiths second toothbrush looking recolor.
For example, both R99 recolors of kill switch/outlands avalanche (same base model) are blue and orange, just different shades of them. the only real difference is that theres some green mixed into the latest one, instead of giving something new like a purple or yellow. The recolors were also 2 seasons apart if I remember correctly.
It seems you guys have themes, blue/orange, watermelon etc. and just apply these, instead of going all in for every skin like it was the case with red shift/airship/lifeline bling to name a few.
But I do appreciate the insight, as that explains why theres so few/many recolors of a certain color set.
true true, in the ideal world communication would be perfect, but alas it is not.
People loved Pathfimelon, so that probably contributed
I made pathfimelon too!
Why was there a time from s1-s4 then where every second recolor was blue and orange? If you’re looking for rare colors, also cold and warm colors don’t look that well together.
color theory doesnt agree with you there, as far as lots of blue orange, it is considered a complimentary color set and if 5 different people are all looking at the pool and saying "huh, not enough blue and orange" and all making them at the same time then that can happen. Im willing to bet that you just noticed all the blue and orange ones because there were what 50 recolors released in that time frame, im sure only a handful were actually blue and orange.
Introduce accent color sliders and pat yourself on the back.
thats what the commons are silly <3
If theres more then one guy making recolors do you mind saying what recolors you made? Or is it a group effort?
probably 15-25 people have worked on them, but personally i did watermelon junk pathfinder, purple and gold octane motocross guy, all of the revenant bird recolors/rethemes, i also did the gold and blue leopard spot bloodhound from season 1, and the dinosaur lover wattson from forever ago, wood and gold pathfinder too. Sometimes more than one person will work on the same one, but usually you just go at it yourself.
Hahaha wait goddamn that’s so cool, especially the fact that you replied and explained it
it is my burden, and i must bear it