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Apex Legends' TDM should adopt this common League of Legends feature

Apex Legends' Revelry update has improved Respawn Entertainment's battle royale shooter immensely, however, this FPS' new Team Deathmatch mode is still suffering from a quitting problem - despite the fact that Apex Legends' Team Deathmatch got a speedy and vital update just days after it was released. This quitting problem isn't just a pain in the Ash, though - it's actually ruining the mode for quite a few of you. However, Riot Games' MOBA League of Legends could just hold the solution - or one solution to this problem. All Apex Legends needs to do is introduce a 'Vote to Surrender' system.

Now, we know what you're thinking - and we whole-heartedly agree. No one wants to surrender in Apex Legends, or any game for that matter. But, voting to end the game early is surely an improvement on spending the remainder of a match battling against an opposing team with twice as many members.

Well, we know it can be easier to overturn a handicap and win in Apex Legends compared to League of Legends, and there are often leaving penalties applied in LoL. but it's really all about numbers. Whether you're playing one of the best competitive FPS games out there or not, you're going to have a tough time of things if you're a player down on your team.

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Apex Legends' Team Deathmatch still needs this key feature

Apex Legends' Team Deathmatch mode has been available for around a week now and it's proving to be a popular way for this battle royale players' to kick back and enjoy some Apex Legends action without the stresses of an ever-closing circle - and any of the annoyance that comes with looting. However, that doesn't mean this alternative game mode is perfect; in fact, it's far from it. Apex Legends' Team Deathmatch still needs a key feature almost every other one of the best competitive FPS games has: lobby backfilling.

If you're wondering what this is, and why it's important that it's missing from Apex Legends' Team Deathmatch mode, allow us to explain.

Apex Legends' Team Deathmatch mode has a quitting problem. Initially, this iteration of TDM was round-based; without any leave penalties, if one team was losing badly in round one, they would leave and unbalance the teams even further going into the second round. Unexpectedly, Respawn Entertainment did implement some changes where Apex Legends' Team Deathmatch got a speedy and vital update - essentially removing the round-based scoring in favour of a traditional one-round system.

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Apex Legends Season 16 pick rates show shocking Pathfinder-led meta

Despite lacking a new addition to the roster, Apex Legends' Revelry update really has been a game changer for Respawn Entertainment's battle royale shooter. There's a new assault rifle challenging the existing weapon meta, a new LTM for players to kick-back in, and the revitalised legend class system seems to be delivering on promises to add more weight to squad compositions. However, Respawn also introduced a series of legend meta changes; the Apex Legends Season 16 pick rates - after just one week - are already showing just how impactful these alterations have been. Pathfinder, for one, is leading the new meta.

For quite some time, before the Season 16 update, clambering up the Apex Legends ranks has been best-achieved by a select few that sit atop everyone's Apex Legends tier list - ours included. For months, for example, characters like Horizon were dominant and always a reliable pick when jumping into a battle royale match on Storm Point or Kings Canyon.

However, times are changing and Respawn Entertainment has introduced a number of changes that are already having a huge impact on Apex Legends, just one week after the new season dropped - and the latest set of Apex Legends patch notes came into effect.

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Apex Legend just hit a new all-time high player count thanks to Team Deathmatch

Apex Legends has just hit a new all-time-high for concurrent players, beating its previous record by 100,000 players.

As spotted by Kotaku, Apex Legends seems to be doing very well for itself. That's because, as recorded by SteamDB, the battle royale has reached a massive new peak of players all active in the game simultaneously, currently sitting at a peak of 624,473 players (it was 610,433 at the time of Kotaku's report, so obviously it went even higher than first spotted). That's an increase of more than 100,000, as the game's previous record was roughly 510,000, which the game hit last August.

A big part of the reasoning behind the player count soaring so high is the recent introduction of the game's 16th season, Revelry. In particular, players seem to be very happy about the addition of a new mode that many have wanted for a long time: Team Deathmatch. A classic mode that brings players back into the fray constantly, team deathmatch replaced the slightly contentious Arenas mode.