Aim down sights at every opportunity you can and aim for the shoulders/head area for the most consistency. you also need to lead your shots in a lot of cases (especially with the Peacekeeper). It's all skill, damage in this game is NEVER random. Every shotgun has a consistent spread with a specific pattern, peacekeeper has a star shape, Mastiff has a horizontal line, and the Mozambique has a triangle. Only the Mozambique and Mastiff spread get more accurate with aiming down sights. sorry to have a thesis pop up suddenly, but If you want to get better with shotguns this is something you want to know. Hope this helps, gl
This gameplay is soo crisp. That it surprises me on how much difficulty the journey to masters gave you. I think you need to play a good entry fragger with an edge comp and play with the same confidence.
Hey GamingMerchant I just got a PC and am switching to play Apex from the PS5 somehow my 165hz system can't get past 60FPS. I see you rocking that sweet 240 can you do a apex settings video? As a new PC player I have no idea how the settings are affecting me.
That's some of the most beautiful gameplay of apex legends that I've seen in a long time, can't wait to see Alter being picked up by other great players
When you're in a deathbox menu and you try to take an item while your backpack is full, a small version of your backpack will be shown (then whichever item you left-click on will be replaced) I don't know if this is known by most people but- You can press right-click to drop an item even if it's a stack (like dragging off a stack of bullets to the edge of the UI).
really nice to use alter to grab people behind cover, especially when theyre low/healing. dunno if people will eventually adjust, but as of right now people are super confused when they get yoinked through a wall.
Hi I don't know if you'll see this comment but I have a question. I watched of yours with how you use mouse wheel up on Rampart to take her walls down, and I've been using that keybind ever since, but with Alter if I to just slightly scroll wheel up to tap strafe I basically get rid of my ult. If you still use that keybind, how did you fix it?
Funnest bug I’ve had with season 21. If your Valk and your flying in the air with passive and u go through a ulter ultimate, u can no longer fly the rest of the game :)
In the first game you did some serious work with the mastiff but in the second game switch to the PK.. any reason for that?? Also was wondering why you never grabbed the blue PK!? 🤨😤😄😄
I’ve noticed this in your streams as well, but 5:17 - 5:22 is a perfect example of it. You are a pretty good player mechanically, dude. Your movement and decision making was pretty great in the game I timestamped(haven’t seen the rest yet). But at 5:17 you got into a closeup 1v1 and started completely whiffing your shots. Luckily in this instance, you still won the fight. But I’ve seen it so many times where you were killing it all game, maybe take out 2 people playing in a full squad, you’re still healthy, then while fighting the last player (especially up close. Almost exclusively up close) you just can’t track them and end up dying. I really think if you lowered your sense some that it’d make a big difference for you in close quarter fights. I don’t think you have any issue when it’s medium to long range. You don’t have to adjust the crosshairs nearly as drastically when fighting at distance. But up close you have to move the mouse quite a bit, and I think with your sense being so high, it is causing inaccuracy. If you watch the clips when you do die like that, most of the time you’re moving your mouse to track a player juking, but because the semse is what it is, it’s overshooting. Then you have to overcompensate to bring it back to line up another shot, and it just repeats. Anyways. Sorry for the pointless drawn out comment. I’ve been bored and just smoked a joint. Lol
I want to get better at apex but it feels like no matter how hard I try I just end up being the worst shooter I've been playing since season 0 and I'm still no good and I have no friends and everyone hates playing with me so thanks I enjoy watching your videos even if Ill never be as good as you
Cheaters are untouchable and now I have proofs. I posted a clip of two-player teaming in solo and now I'm getting a week ban for calling a player "cheater". I've lost all my faith in this game. It's corrupted, rotten to the core, and there is no safety for legit players. We are abandoned. In less than 24h I've already collected multiple images of players cheating in this mode..I give up..
If you feel like you're not doing good. Practice in the firing range on the targets, not the dummies. Use the Longbow with a 2X scope and practice hitting the center of the targets. Swap to another target every time you hit the center. Start slow then go faster as you get more accurate. It takes some time to get used to it but it will significantly help your reaction aim!
Hey, u can void nexus while knocked, idk if this is a one time glitch but I was knocked and the void nexus open portal option appeared and when I pressed it, it activated the portal
@@lukaskavalek5591 I am assuming he is referring to how he glided into the wall; on controller you would sail past the wall except for the possibility you're playing Horizon.
Yeah Altar is great dude, nice cool abilities completely different, new playstyle, can do new cool different plays. I like her, shes cool, really strong too. I don’t think she’s unbalanced, I think altar is just perfect the way she is. Apex just needs to work on the stability of their servers tho, I got perfect internet working perfectly and I still get lag and frame skipping when I play Apex. Solos is also pretty cool
We need a ban wave now. People are blatantly teaming in solo. I'm gonna upload a clip in the next hours of two Horizon not fighting each other and coordinataly pushing me(and others). We need to ban this players. It's ridiculous that things like this keep happening but they always get away with it.
@@Thegamingmerchant oh you answered, I'm honoured. I hope to one day be at least as good to not find myself in those 10 first killed when faced against players like you. Or at least to not get killed by someone using my own grenade against me, thou no wait I wouldn't even hit you with that grenade in the first place XD
Her pick rate seems quite high (normal for a new release) but it is mostly un unranked/bronze and browsing through streams I have seen very very few people playing her (other than yourself and a couple of others). Why do you think this is? She seems to be fun and strong, are people dismissing her too early or is it just the case of comp ppl just prefering to play the same thing theyve played for ages
I actually despise this game these days whenever I play it, but whenever I see Merchant's smooth gameplay it convinces me to give it another try. Awful mistake ofc, this game is still absolutely painful to play for any length of time.
Watching players like TGM makes me wish that I'd started playing online and multiplayer games earlier in life. Cause, I'm decent sure, but my first online game was Halo 4 and I'm almost 30 for context. I can't seem to do those whip shots. Hip-fire is near impossible for me to stick with. I think I'm decent with positioning. My movement is ok. But my aim is so bad/inconsistent. Sometimes I'll pop off and then I'll change NOTHING and be horrible for the next 2 weeks.
Tactical. I completed it in mixtape. Lol didn't even realize I had until I got back to the lobby and it was finished 😅 that's the one that worried me the most. But yes create tac portal, go through, kill/knock enemy, go back through same portal before it disappears and you're done 😅
Thank you😊 @@ladybat7497It worries me the most too since it's the last thing left lol. I thought I did it with the tactical but game so no apparently so imma keep trying then.
Man I have been having the dumbest sbmm since launch the highest rank ive ever gone to was diamond 1 and every person ive been goin against this season has either the masters badge or pred bad with the 20 kill badge i came back just for the new season but Im probably leaving again now
Bro like 30 min ago I was playing solos, and there’s 2 people sitting on the outer edge of the storm, not shooting at each other, they know damn well the other is where they are and don’t shoot each other, but as soon as I walk into their line of sights, both shoot at me with a 3030 and a triple take. That’s gotta be teaming right?
I was so excited to have a Chinese speaking legend so I can finally understand a foreign legend, but she speaks cantonese (50 million speakers) Not mandarin (1 billion+ speakers)😭
@@connorschramm oh, my bad. I can't tell the difference. You know how it is, us Americans don't know any other language but English. We got a terrible education system for language building
Bro already has more kills on alter then I do on my main 😭
It’s easy to forget how few kills most people have. Most have under 10k lifetime
I have like 3.5k on my main and this man drops almost 1k in 24 hours 😂
@@ovalfps my career is 4453 but I have 120 days on the game 😭☠️
Don’t sound like yo main 😂
@@rubrtt that’s actually not bad that’s like 40 kills a day every single day
2:57 brothers getting chased so hard hes makin sounds 😂😭🙏
Ayoooo ☠️☠️☠️☠️
Oh silly me, It appears I made a merchant mess in my trousers
Hahahahaha
Sometime I forget how good the gaming merchant is
I like how your mastiff hits for 44 while mine hits for 11 point blank to the face
Only time its 44 is if the player is 40 yards out and heals by the time you get there. 11's all day at close range.
Bruh i got hit for 77 with that biyach
Skill issue
Aim down sights at every opportunity you can and aim for the shoulders/head area for the most consistency. you also need to lead your shots in a lot of cases (especially with the Peacekeeper). It's all skill, damage in this game is NEVER random.
Every shotgun has a consistent spread with a specific pattern, peacekeeper has a star shape, Mastiff has a horizontal line, and the Mozambique has a triangle. Only the Mozambique and Mastiff spread get more accurate with aiming down sights.
sorry to have a thesis pop up suddenly, but If you want to get better with shotguns this is something you want to know.
Hope this helps, gl
@@andross2058pk has choke
Her ult is really useful in mixtap(specifically control) since it stays even after death you can use it to get back to the fight faster.
I worked so hard to get 707 ballistic kills in one season last season and you’ve already almost beat it in less than 2 days 😂
That's because he never has recoil at all jus beaming every time smh something ain't right
@@kingkellz4077experience maybe?
@@kingkellz4077 - MnK
@kingkellz4077 Bro, his job is literally playing Apex, obvcourse he is going to be that good 🤣 if he was cheating he would be pred every season 🤣
It’s the solos mode. I’m not a high kill type of player but you can easily drop a lot in solos.
The 🐐 has uploaded
This gameplay is soo crisp. That it surprises me on how much difficulty the journey to masters gave you. I think you need to play a good entry fragger with an edge comp and play with the same confidence.
I haven't watched your channel in what feels like years man. I'm glad to see you're still uploading and have a fanbase.
That portal phase to the jump pad amd then 2 slugs from the mastiff was sick dude!!!
Very helpful, thanks compadre!
Hey GamingMerchant I just got a PC and am switching to play Apex from the PS5 somehow my 165hz system can't get past 60FPS. I see you rocking that sweet 240 can you do a apex settings video? As a new PC player I have no idea how the settings are affecting me.
That's some of the most beautiful gameplay of apex legends that I've seen in a long time, can't wait to see Alter being picked up by other great players
When you're in a deathbox menu and you try to take an item while your backpack is full, a small version of your backpack will be shown (then whichever item you left-click on will be replaced)
I don't know if this is known by most people but-
You can press right-click to drop an item even if it's a stack (like dragging off a stack of bullets to the edge of the UI).
Damn those armor swaps were good
Bro ur nuts at the game i didnt realised lol ur insanly good 👏 mastiff demon
What are your Pc specs my dude I guess I’ve never thought about that while watching your gameplay. Everything looks sooo smooth!
bruh those armor swaps 🔥
TGM reminded me of that Arab meme: brother eeuuuuuuugh, brother euughhhhhhh” 😂😂😂😂
idk if you saw my message on your livestream about your dpi but this is a night and day difference. you're a beamin demon today! good on ya
I lowered my sens recently, thank you !
That arc star play was craaazy 😂
really nice to use alter to grab people behind cover, especially when theyre low/healing. dunno if people will eventually adjust, but as of right now people are super confused when they get yoinked through a wall.
Hi I don't know if you'll see this comment but I have a question. I watched of yours with how you use mouse wheel up on Rampart to take her walls down, and I've been using that keybind ever since, but with Alter if I to just slightly scroll wheel up to tap strafe I basically get rid of my ult.
If you still use that keybind, how did you fix it?
unfortunately the only way is to remove the keybind because rampart wall pick up is the same keybind as alter's ult pick up :(
0:56 very sick play!
Movement ✅
Funnest bug I’ve had with season 21. If your Valk and your flying in the air with passive and u go through a ulter ultimate, u can no longer fly the rest of the game :)
what are your keybinds cus i'm new to kbm and am trying to get used to it.
I noticed in a kill replay that I shot a grenade out of someone's hand, and it damaged them, was that always a thing?
In the first game you did some serious work with the mastiff but in the second game switch to the PK.. any reason for that?? Also was wondering why you never grabbed the blue PK!? 🤨😤😄😄
My brain child... The evolution of video games blows my mind
Yeah their fun, but fill with in game purchases now 😢
If my math is correct you’re getting 28 kills an hour🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓(love your vids, doing any customs soon?)
I’ve noticed this in your streams as well, but 5:17 - 5:22 is a perfect example of it. You are a pretty good player mechanically, dude. Your movement and decision making was pretty great in the game I timestamped(haven’t seen the rest yet). But at 5:17 you got into a closeup 1v1 and started completely whiffing your shots. Luckily in this instance, you still won the fight. But I’ve seen it so many times where you were killing it all game, maybe take out 2 people playing in a full squad, you’re still healthy, then while fighting the last player (especially up close. Almost exclusively up close) you just can’t track them and end up dying. I really think if you lowered your sense some that it’d make a big difference for you in close quarter fights. I don’t think you have any issue when it’s medium to long range. You don’t have to adjust the crosshairs nearly as drastically when fighting at distance. But up close you have to move the mouse quite a bit, and I think with your sense being so high, it is causing inaccuracy. If you watch the clips when you do die like that, most of the time you’re moving your mouse to track a player juking, but because the semse is what it is, it’s overshooting. Then you have to overcompensate to bring it back to line up another shot, and it just repeats. Anyways. Sorry for the pointless drawn out comment. I’ve been bored and just smoked a joint. Lol
I want to get better at apex but it feels like no matter how hard I try I just end up being the worst shooter I've been playing since season 0 and I'm still no good and I have no friends and everyone hates playing with me so thanks I enjoy watching your videos even if Ill never be as good as you
Amazing you could hit any shot with all those shiny bald Wraith heads glaring in your eyes
Cheaters are untouchable and now I have proofs. I posted a clip of two-player teaming in solo and now I'm getting a week ban for calling a player "cheater". I've lost all my faith in this game. It's corrupted, rotten to the core, and there is no safety for legit players. We are abandoned. In less than 24h I've already collected multiple images of players cheating in this mode..I give up..
675 is wild. Just saw someone hit 3k. It amazes me how committed people are, i struggle to get ANYWHERE near in a whole season 😭
I love watching someone die and see the same name in the deathlog 30 seconds later when they drop right back on top of him
My favorite thing about her is that her ult can teleport down teammates from any location or position back to the ult
That mastiff is hitting!!!
Which server do you play on
Alter's ultimate is just tactical insertion from cod via over a decade ago.
12:00 had no clue that you could open a box from that far away
it's alter's passive and if you get close to it it automatically switches so it doesn;t use the passive
If you feel like you're not doing good. Practice in the firing range on the targets, not the dummies. Use the Longbow with a 2X scope and practice hitting the center of the targets. Swap to another target every time you hit the center. Start slow then go faster as you get more accurate. It takes some time to get used to it but it will significantly help your reaction aim!
Why use the longbow? Just use the guns you're comfortable with
Hey, u can void nexus while knocked, idk if this is a one time glitch but I was knocked and the void nexus open portal option appeared and when I pressed it, it activated the portal
I want to know if her Ult is good for rotations; or, what the best strategies are for her Ult
i feel like the little ohase after her portals ruins her abit … i’ve noticed i get more utility when it bugs out and instantly throws me through
18:48 that wall jump and movement is something I wish I had holy
Control player. That's cheating I can't do that
@@coolhawk2003 It's just walljump, anyone can do that no matter the input. Git gud
@@coolhawk2003 are you stupid
@@lukaskavalek5591 I am assuming he is referring to how he glided into the wall; on controller you would sail past the wall except for the possibility you're playing Horizon.
1:53 merchant with movement.. sheesh
Yeah Altar is great dude, nice cool abilities completely different, new playstyle, can do new cool different plays. I like her, shes cool, really strong too. I don’t think she’s unbalanced, I think altar is just perfect the way she is. Apex just needs to work on the stability of their servers tho, I got perfect internet working perfectly and I still get lag and frame skipping when I play Apex. Solos is also pretty cool
We need a ban wave now. People are blatantly teaming in solo. I'm gonna upload a clip in the next hours of two Horizon not fighting each other and coordinataly pushing me(and others). We need to ban this players. It's ridiculous that things like this keep happening but they always get away with it.
I team, don’t let them know my secret though, a wee bit of betrayal feeds me free kills to my ‘team’
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the first 2 minutes of this video reminded me that i am very mediocre at this game
Make dumb push and down then TP to the totem, thats how everyone should play this character 😂
Solos is a big W, hoping it becomes permanent
I was outplaying a ton of Alters yesterday with gas 😈
Solos day one on virginia servers was insanely sweaty 😅😅
Damn 24 hours of apex is crazy I don’t even want to play for 10 minutes
5:15 plays like that get me killed in my game lol.
7:28 which arcstart kill? The one from when you phased and guy died? It counted from what I've seen.
yes you're right! Later when editing I realized i did get the kill for the arc star
@@Thegamingmerchant oh you answered, I'm honoured.
I hope to one day be at least as good to not find myself in those 10 first killed when faced against players like you.
Or at least to not get killed by someone using my own grenade against me, thou no wait I wouldn't even hit you with that grenade in the first place XD
How tough is it to get the 3k is it tougher then a normal one or easier ?
Solos are brutal… 😳🤣
Hey Gaming Merchant any tips on how to get the 20 in solos? I’ve been getting 12s and 15s but I just can’t seem to get it.
me too! everyone dies too fast, guess it's just down to playing more and getting lucky
I don’t think you can earn the badge though? Cause it’s not br.
@@LazyHitman1993 they added a new 20 bomb badge which is specifically for solos
@@Thegamingmerchant Thanks, I will try harder to get lucky 🍀
@@Thegamingmerchant is it harder than normal 20 kill badge?
Apex seceral seasons break. The armour perk system and alter have made me pick the game back up. Things are looking up for apex again rn.
bro has more kills on alter than i have on all my legends combined 😭
did u download the game
last week?
20:47 how'd you get the 3k normal badge!? I did 2.9k damage and didn't get any normal badge!?
WHAT. XD i bet that is something i can get on one season..... idk? damn.
Damn, isn't she the most satisfying legend ever
Her pick rate seems quite high (normal for a new release) but it is mostly un unranked/bronze and browsing through streams I have seen very very few people playing her (other than yourself and a couple of others). Why do you think this is? She seems to be fun and strong, are people dismissing her too early or is it just the case of comp ppl just prefering to play the same thing theyve played for ages
she's a fun pub legend but lacks real meaningful utility for comp imo
@@Thegamingmerchant thanks for the quick response! appreciate you and your content
why are deathboxes glowing and have wings? i havent been on apex for a while now
I find her difficult to play but I haven’t played a lot of apex recently and her kit is a niche one to learn I think…
Solo is really fun
I actually despise this game these days whenever I play it, but whenever I see Merchant's smooth gameplay it convinces me to give it another try. Awful mistake ofc, this game is still absolutely painful to play for any length of time.
Maybe ur trash
Watching players like TGM makes me wish that I'd started playing online and multiplayer games earlier in life. Cause, I'm decent sure, but my first online game was Halo 4 and I'm almost 30 for context. I can't seem to do those whip shots. Hip-fire is near impossible for me to stick with. I think I'm decent with positioning. My movement is ok. But my aim is so bad/inconsistent. Sometimes I'll pop off and then I'll change NOTHING and be horrible for the next 2 weeks.
yeah they surely fix that arc star trick
I wonder is Watson ult can cancel alters tactical
Damn, first valk ult got nerfed then got stolen by evac, and now even the passive flyby detection.
How so?
Question for her challenges the last one with the portal is that for her ultimate or for her tactical?
Tactical. I completed it in mixtape. Lol didn't even realize I had until I got back to the lobby and it was finished 😅 that's the one that worried me the most. But yes create tac portal, go through, kill/knock enemy, go back through same portal before it disappears and you're done 😅
Thank you😊 @@ladybat7497It worries me the most too since it's the last thing left lol. I thought I did it with the tactical but game so no apparently so imma keep trying then.
Bro, already got 600 kills and I don’t even got the legend yet like I still need coins
Now u got to get 4200
Great gameplay but wy did you buy the WORST COSMETIC IN THE GAME it looks like a test item until you spend even more money on it
Are those "subtitles" done with AI?
So what exactly does her left ability on purple do? The unlimited ult or whatever? I’ve messed around with it and I don’t understand it ahaha
Void Nexus stays in place for 2 minutes. With the perk, you can keep it there Forever. That is in cAse it takes you more than 2 minutes to retreat
Man I have been having the dumbest sbmm since launch the highest rank ive ever gone to was diamond 1 and every person ive been goin against this season has either the masters badge or pred bad with the 20 kill badge i came back just for the new season but Im probably leaving again now
Seems like a skill issue
It really weird see you pull out a heirlooms with nothing on it lol
Solos are intense Idk if its because im out of practice or of ots just sweatier
how are you so good im so bad damn :(
Bro like 30 min ago I was playing solos, and there’s 2 people sitting on the outer edge of the storm, not shooting at each other, they know damn well the other is where they are and don’t shoot each other, but as soon as I walk into their line of sights, both shoot at me with a 3030 and a triple take. That’s gotta be teaming right?
5:14 - well, that was awkward.
I havent aeen her hitbox but her ability seems s tier
They need to add a Bing chilling reference to Alter since she speaks Mandarin. It'd be funny
I was so excited to have a Chinese speaking legend so I can finally understand a foreign legend, but she speaks cantonese (50 million speakers) Not mandarin (1 billion+ speakers)😭
@@connorschramm oh, my bad. I can't tell the difference. You know how it is, us Americans don't know any other language but English. We got a terrible education system for language building
Bro got almost as many kills in 1 day that I have with my main since he came out.......in season 1
So you can throw stars thu the portal?
You’re behind the #1 alter they have 1000+ kills already 😭
In contrast, I quit Apex and I have never been happier.
Ar alter pasiv can pick up friends tags?
I know I’m trash but seeing gaming merchant get 669 kills in 24 hrs is a whole new level of
The first few minutes…
W
I literally died to number 1 alter yesterday 3 times
i learned a lot too. i learned that there are sooo many AIMBOTTER NO RECOIL CHEATERS
3:18 😂 no digas mamadas
Did a 3700 damage game with her. Really wanted my badge :(