Apex Legends Developer Hints at Changes for Solo Queue

Apex Legends developer Eric Hewitt assured a fan that Respawn Entertainment had ideas for changing the solo queue experience in Twitter direct messages exchanged Friday.

With the permanent addition of duos to Apex Legends coming in the The Old Ways lore event April 7, the only possible player-count permutation unavailable to players is a solo mode. Solo players are forced to queue to team up with other random players. Those random players may be of a different skill level, or may choose not to communicate, potentially making the solo player's experience more frustrating than that of players who queue together.

Apex Legends subreddit user u/apex123456 sent a message to Hewitt, telling him, "Honestly, the only issue left in this game is the fact solo queueing [his] very hard for the above average player."

Hewitt answered a minute later.

"We have some ideas, but thank you for the kind words," he wrote.

Hewitt did not share any details about what the changes might turn out to be.

Once it starts, The Old Ways lore event will run through April 21.