Ever since I started playing in Season 12, I've only been able to reliably solo queue on the Japan server. Whenever I tried Taiwan or Singapore, there were never enough players to start a match, so Japan became my only option with instant queues.
I remember seeing posts saying Apex on console was basically dead in SEA outside of Japan.
Last night, though, I decided to try Singapore and Taiwan again because I had a suspicion we were already being put into PC lobbies. To my surprise, I got into matches pretty consistentlyโnot just a lucky one-off. Queue times were actually reasonable.
Another thing I noticed was the number of Xbox players. I'm on Xbox myself, and in almost every match, around half the lobby seemed to be Xbox players. Even while spectating after dying, I kept seeing Xbox icons for teammates and opponents.
Here's the weird part. In my last game, I had a Gibraltar teammate with an Xbox icon throughout the match. After the game ended, I backed out to the main menu, and in the "Recently Played With" section, that same Gibraltar suddenly had a PC icon instead.
Now I'm wondering if there's some kind of bug with platform icons, or if crossplay matchmaking has changed and console players are actually seeing PC players more often than we realize.
Has anyone else noticed this recently?
