To start a round in Apex Legends, players queue up and wait for the match to begin. Unlike in Fortnite and other battle royales, there’s no pre-match lobby used while the match starts up. After the match begins, players are placed in the game’s dropship as they wait to drop onto the map below. A prompt flashes on-screen showing how many players are still in the dropship that will decrease as other players drop. It’s an intuitive way of conveying information about where Apex Legends players are dropping.

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The Apex Legends clip shared by Reddit user MasantZA captures an incredibly strange situation. The match loads like normal for the player, who has chosen Pathfinder to play as. Except, instead of the dropship for their match being filled with teammates and opponents, something has gone terribly wrong. The prompt on-screen reads “1 in Dropship” and MasantZA is still in the dropship. In other words, there’s no one else in the match with them.

There’s no further explanation for the situation shown in the video. The Apex Legends player queued into the match normally, loaded into the game, and experienced the glitch. It appears to be a problem on Respawn Entertainment’s side of the equation, with the servers not handling player propagation for the match as intended. In other words, there’s no clear way to recreate this glitch. It’s entirely random.

This isn’t the first or only matchmaking issue in Apex Legends recently. It’s certainly not the most severe. Frustrations over how matchmaking works in Apex Legends even prompted a detailed post from Respawn being shared this past week. The post also confirmed changes being rolled out to matchmaking region by region. It’s possible the ongoing Apex Legends matchmaking issues are due to these changes and the bugs therein.

In positive news, MasantZA did confirm that they received Ranked Points for their match. It may even have set a record for the fastest win in Apex Legends history. It’s a ridiculous glitch, but at the very least it’s entirely harmless. If only every glitch worked out this way. Still, Respawn will hopefully manage to improve the state of Apex Legends matchmaking in the future.

Apex Legends is available now on PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and mobile devices.

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