Well, cheaters are still out. Only 1 today, but had 3+ yesterday. I've pretty much gone from trying to win to just playing the game for enjoyment. You can do everything right then have Emmett M4 60 clip blast you with headshots through a wall instantly killing you. I don't nearly put in the effort into this game I did PUBG or Apex. Especially with the Gulag and respawn options. Just fuckin' do it to it.
Been playing with the shield lately. It's an awesome countermeasure to sniper teams and slows the TTK down to a fucking crawl. Want to outplay your opponents? Shield up!
Here's an example of some of the shit my friends and I've been doing instead of go-harding with fucking M4's and AX50's and heartbeat monitors and all that stupid meta bullshit:
This game will never be "competitive" or an esport. It's just rife with cheaters and RNG and all sorts of poor game design choices right now. UAV's? Fine. Make them 10k. Heartbeat sensors? Give them a timer or remove them. Gas circles? They CANNOT end up on mountains/zone borders/THE TOP OF FUCKING STADIUM (had 3 of these in one day). Loadouts aren't the issue, it's the garbage required weapons and perks that are the issue. Everyone has cold blood. Everyone in solos has ghost. Everyone has a sniper because it's the only viable way to fight snipers. They really aren't leaving much room for fun and innovation and variety. You're at a disadvantage not running the best TTK weapon with lowest recoil and highest mag (M4) and the hardest hitting Sniper. The only other options are good SMG's (M7) which are essentially better close quarters M4's and RPG's which you have to have to do what?
Defeat the autobot army. This is the BIGGEST issue for solos right now. You already have to run a bunch of shit to even the playing field with the other sweaties and THEN you have to deal with an absolute fucking fleet of vehicles because they're near indestructible with hitboxes twice as big as the vehicles themselves. Watch some of the good players play solos and they'll be wrecking it until they have to leave cover and then 4 vehicles swarm them and they just can't defend themselves. They need to do something. PUBG got it right where vehicles were used for transport and anything else they'd get disabled or shredded. Blackout vehicles weren't that bad either. It was hard as fuck to hit people with the ATVs and the truck was big and slow and easily dodged. The gunner humvee was at the end of my Blackout tenure, but even those I took care of fairly easily. They need to make it so they're easier to kill the driver OR disable the vehicle AND they need to make it so the vehicle hits you and just does X amount of damage and bumps you away. Make it 50 damage, 75 damage, whatever. You can't have the game determined by whose car has the most hp left or who didn't waste their C4 yet.
Overall I'd say it's fun a lot of the time, but I think Apex gives me the control over combat I'd much rather prefer. I can be in a field, get shot a lot, and then react and be able to play it out. In this game you open the wrong door and you're dead. Sometimes the circles pushes and I look at the open field ahead of me and the 7 glinting scopes in the hills surround me and just think "why am I doing this?" But hey, at least it's a free game.