Apex Legends bots spotted \u201cratting for XP\u201d in pubs to level up accounts Respawn EntertainmentApex Legends players have started spotting more and more XP bots in their matches, often found in big groups standing together in the corner of a map. When discussing the biggest issues facing Apex Legends, cheating and the use of third-party software will always be a topic the community raises. This is because it directly affects a player\u2019s gameplay experience and takes the competitive integrity out of Respawn\u2019s battle royale, especially in Ranked. However, a problem that often goes under the radar is XP bots as they\u2019re not considered overly harmful. Usually, these scripts will just land a Legend into the map and occasionally melee or shoot to ensure they\u2019re not kicked from a game. Despite this, recently a lot more of them have been spotted and if their numbers continue to rise, it could ruin the balance and flow of matches. XP bot farms spotted in Apex Legends matches During a pubs match, Reddit user Metaphysical ran into four default skin Lifeline\u2019s punching a wall in a group. Despite firing at them and knocking all of them down, none of the enemies fought back or moved. As expected, this left Metaphysical confused, but it turns out the foes were not real players, just bots farming XP to level up accounts. As explained by another user, \u201cthey\u2019re illicit bots ratting for XP so whoever\u2019s running the bot farm can sell the account on the off-chance an heirloom drops in their free packs.\u201d The reason the Lifelines were meleeing was to avoid them from getting kicked from the match, allowing the bots to gain the maximum amount of XP. While it\u2019s possible the bot farm is attempting to unlock an Heirloom, it\u2019s also likely they\u2019re being boosted up to level 20 to play Ranked. Following this, accounts are boosted to a desired rank and then sold off to someone who doesn\u2019t want to earn the RP on their own. Although XP bots do not affect gameplay and often result in a set of free kills to the player that finds them, they still disrupt the balance and flow of a match. It\u2019ll be interesting to see if Respawn cracks down on them in the future, or whether they\u2019d prefer to focus on improving the anti-cheat and eradicating hackers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends bots spotted \u201cratting for XP\u201d in pubs to level up accounts Respawn EntertainmentApex Legends players have started spotting more and more XP bots in their matches, often found in big groups standing together in the corner of a map. When discussing the biggest issues facing Apex Legends, cheating and the use of third-party […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}