A cruel Apex Legends bug is dropping players into matches alone

(Figure credit: Respawn)

A particularly mean Apex Legends bug is mistakenly dropping players into trios, duos, and even Arena matches without any teammates when the "Fill Teammates" box is checked before matchmaking. After threesome drops into Olympus all away my lonesome, I'm starting to think the game hates me.

Respawn is aware of the consequence, though no word yet on when a localisation testament be deployed. Responding to a Reddit post about the bug's persistence, Respawn comms theater director Ryan Rigley expressed frustration that it's still popping up following planned fixes.

"Graven image I hate this bug. We shipped close to fixes with the season update that we thought would get it. Just gonna have to take some other shot at it."

Players front started experiencing accidental solo drops non long after the "Fill Teammates" push button was introduced in March's Chaos Possibility event update. Taken players have a quite a little of theories about what is causing the bug you said it it might be avoided, but even reports from those who have repeatedly encountered the bug since Exhibit aren't very consistent.

For instance, Reddit user Uncredited1's get is whol over the place, but does seem to happen on a wheel. "I only play trios. The first three or four games, I am alone or with one teammate. Later that, I get a cram full team for about 5 or six games. And so the cycle repeats. It fluctuates, sound days and bad, but it does not seem to matter what hour it is."

Until a solution is eventually found, we're pretty much out of fate. What makes the squad fill bug so frustrating is that you can't notice it's on early and so retreat of matchmaking. You only know that you've been shoot with IT once matchmaking has carry its course, altogether players have loaded in, and you're finally greeted with a lonely character choose screen.

On the glistening side, this is the perfect opportunity for me to throw off into hot zones with nothing to lose and finally get good at Apex's shooting.

J. P. Morgan has been writing for PC Gamer since 2018, first as a freelancer and presently as a staff writer. He has also appeared on Polygon, Kotaku, Fanbyte, and PCGamesN. Before freelancing, he spent most of high schoo school and all of college writing at small play sites that didn't pay him. He's very happy to have a real job now. Morgan is a beat author following the latest and greatest shooters and the communities that play them. He also writes generalized news, reviews, features, the occasional guidebook, and bad jokes in Slack. Twist his arm, and He'll even write about a boring scheme secret plan. Please don't, though.