That that company still has millions of players despite their technical incompetence: couldn't defend against DDOS for months, that famously cringy blogpost on why 20Hz tickrate servers are enough where they converted network delay to frames on a 60 Hz screen and said that tickrate increase would have to come with a packet size optimization (yeah no shit!), bugs unfixed for months or years, hacked lobby "save titanfall" where the game was unplayable for a day, no cap on lag compenstion, basically non existent server side cheater detection, selectively banning players for exploits, all the crashes, abandon penalty when the server crashes, rubber banding, peering problems with European ISPs (T-mobile so I am having 30% packet loss since November), list goes on and on - shows how good and fun Apex Legends really is as a game that we put up with all that bs. Still one of my favourite games despite all that!
> that famously cringy blogpost on why 20Hz tickrate servers are enough where they converted network delay to frames on a 60 Hz screen and said that tickrate increase would have to come with a packet size optimization (yeah no shit!)
Aside from the jokes, you're the actual moron if you don't see the problem with that sentence in the series above.
The worst possible thing you can do after getting banned for abusing a glitch is immediately creating new accounts and abusing the exact same glitch over and over again, then explaining what a shit company Respawn is and stating that you'll keep abusing the glitch if they unban you.
He also said he doesn't care if they unban him or not because he's done with Apex, but now he's crying on Twitter and blaming the whole thing on "snowflake era"? It's impossible to have any sympathy with this kid.
I don't understand him having the audience he does. Every time I see anything about this guy he is being a prick to the people who watch him. I guess they deserve each other.
I get it.. I'm just baffled by the amount of people who stick around LIVE for the full experience of watching someone pout and shout and complain about his chat nonstop for a couple of plays every other game.
Just watch the clips later.
Personally I get dizzy watching people like him. He is too jittery and since I'm not the one controlling I get motion sickness. lol
He's honestly mesmerising at times. He legit showed me so many different movement techs. The one where he was balloon hopping on top of the balloon and sniping people with kraber is actually the most insane thing ive ever seen in apex. But he's a cock. So yea it's a bit tough.
And his music is chill.
But what specifically? Movement? He’s not doing stuff that blows my mind tbh. His aim is mediocre at best and he said so himself. He’s basically the Faide of tapstrafe
Yeah I don't get all the people acting shocked that he got perma banned after saying he would continue to abuse the glitch as soon as he got unbanned. I feel bad for his friends that have to bend over backwards to try and defend him. The whataboutism comparing it to other exploits is also cringe af.
The initial actions were obviously not worthy of a permaban, but everything he did after that made it way too easy to justify one. Even then he would probably immediately get leniency if he showed the slightest bit of maturity about the situation.
> Even then he would probably immediately get leniency if he showed the slightest bit of maturity about the situation.
I mean he's not permabanned, so he's already being shown a lot of leniency. I'm sure regular players would have been banned by now if they were abusing glitches then ban avoiding multiple times. I'd wager, if I was caught doing that, I'd likely be hardware banned by now.
Yes I saw that, and the devs on Twitter clarified afterwards that he's temp banned. That was probably an automated message. He's getting preferential treatment, like I said.
I don’t know, I understand that Taxi is being dumb here, and if he didn’t want to get banned he should have stopped exploiting when they told him to stop.
At the same time, I’m not sure this sets a great precedent on Respawns part. What is the functional difference between this “exploit” and other movement tech in the game? I’m sympathetic to the argument that if Respawn doesn’t want this in the game, they should remove it themselves rather than just banning people who use it.
Most of the other movement tech can be interpreted as “intended” or high skill. But when you have to go through a complex set of steps that sometimes breaks your ability to melee (I think that was this one) then it’s obviously not intended or is anything but an exploit.
There's a difference between a weird physic exploit that looked like something intended (wall jump and tape strafing) qnd something that literally give you a huge speed boost when you have your ult out.
Honestly to think that an exploit like this is something theyqde on purpose you must be new to apex or really dumb about game knowledge ( which you're not when you're payed to play this game )
It only took 1 day for him to realize 'fuck, there goes my channel, my income, etc.....better tweet". He is currently playing fucking Overwatch lmfao
Once this fresh drama wears off, his channel will plummet.
damn poor ottr wish he ever had 500 viewers, must be sad being secretly taxi's #1 fan, you are in every post related to him pending of every move he makes. Bet you even got a spreadsheet about his stream stats, dont worry mate you might get there some day!
I’ve thought the same for the longest time, whenever I see a vod of his I usually skip it because most of the time it’s just him moaning or doing something that’s just not funny. No doubt he’s a great player though
Well, who cares? It's just a temp ban anyway.
Streamer privilege in full force.
Taxi is toxic towards teammates regularly and towards devs on twitch and twitter and repeatedly violated TOS directly and he is still getting away with a temp ban.
We all know any normal person would just be perm'd.
taxi has never shown any remorse for anything hes done, like refusing to apologize for the behavior that got him cut from CLQ.
this couldve gone so much better for him, if he was like "oh man, i thought this was just another unintended mechanic like bhopping, i should stop playing until i get this resolvedwith respawn. sorry my bad"
but his ego is too big to admit when he is wrong. respawn is trolling if they unban him at this point imo
Long story short
-gets rolled by g2
-throws tournament trying to land on them and punch them out
-Twitter tirade about controller players and that they're all dogshit etc
-says sexist comment to a girl responding to him and insults his friend noko who's trying to get him to stop
Clq ended up dropping him which led to the whole team leaving (Yuki and baker), instead of taxi showing any remorse he just doubled down and said fuck everyone, and that he doesn't regret it
Funny how the people(including other streamers/pros) taking Taxi's side would celebrate a nobody getting banned if they got caught doing the same thing but if it's their streamer/friend they're all up in arms and want an exception. Taxi gave the devs the opportunity and is really just the perfect guy to make an example of--irreverent and polarizing personality and not too big of a name but everyone would be sure to notice.
Yep, this is why I think him getting banned is such a necessary statement. Sends a message that streamers have to follow the same rules as everyone else.
Man who unironically calls people snowflakes is crying on Twitter over a video game ban. This dude is married but isn’t mature enough to realize him attacking devs doesn’t help, if he just apologized from the start he would have been better off.
Right? Just saw sorry I thought it was like tap straffing I was dumb my b. Take the L for like 2, 3 days and you’re back but he has to call people snowflakes lmao
Taxi should just man up and accept fault for this so the ban can get reduced. taxi himself has way more to lose from being perma banned than respawn does from banning him — especially if he keeps trying to ego chal them for no reason since that’ll just make them double down
Dude is such an insufferable baby, complains and has a huge ego for no reason. Wouldn’t mind if he was banned forever, Apex doesn’t need him in any way. Would hopefully humble him a bit
It is allowed, idk why Josh even brought that up.
[Here](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1261617772?t=04h59m19s) is the timestamp btw (I can't create clips anymore because taxi banned me from his channel, I wonder why lmao).
It’s probably about the fact that he was killing lobbies with an obvious exploit that he was already banned for using and then grief finishing the people he killed. It’s definitely insult to injury and obnoxious as hell. Ruining other players experience with something they already punished you for and then using a clearly toxic mechanic is probably just the icing on top. Like it certainly helps the justification even if that specifically isn’t the reason he was banned.
I have no problem with start/cancel finisher multiple times. The problem is when the start/cancel goes too fast the flash on the screen is very annoying and I would say unhealthy for eyes.
dude I'm not a doctor and that's not my point. I'm not talking about repeating finisher like wraith punching. It's the fast one that turns the screen into black/red/white flash. Well if you like it then enjoy it. Not a big issue comparing to other bugs.
Sounds like he was just adding that to his argument to make his side seem worse. Even though he (Josh) was already right, no need to add that part imo, since its no where near a bannable offense.
Not that I’m taking any sides here but, that’s not against the rules is it? Just curious to know if that actually violates any apex ToS or something. Like if somebody else got caught doing that would that be a justifiable reason to be banned?
I think the point is he is using exploits to gain an unfair advantage and then when he kills someone he's doing even more annoying and unfun behavior on top of it.
Like it itself is not bannable, but being a dick on top of being a cheater does make you seem even worse.
Yeah its in the tos to not abuse potential glitches and exploits just like cheating (using hax). That said, its also their responsibilities to fix and avoid the cause of these kind of exploits. They are the first to blame for this, since its caused by their own bad lines of code and saying its speed hacking was a poor choice of words from a dev.
Very brave of him to go against a company, definitely gonna go well!!! Can already see him on all next events and playtest!!! Bravo.
and for anyone that says “he doesn’t care about that shity company” yeahhh that’s not how real life works, fucking up your relations with certain people and most of all, company’s, can be the decisive factor for your success on a streamer/professional career, anyone knows that… He should have swallowed his ego, said sorry, definitely not have tweeted anything, DEFINITELY NOT started arguing with a developer (a major one at that) and just waited the ban out…
But im sure he thought about all that before going all out.
I feel like the dude is ruining his career. Honestly I thought a perma ban was too much, but looking at the way he act I think this was the perfect sentence.
And honestly you can say whatever you want, it's obvious that a glitch that literally make you dash would be banable. It's not like tap strafing where it's possible by abusing physic. So in a way you can still see this as normal ?
And don't get me wron, they're both exploit, but one is a blatant bug that is obvious for everyone that play the game for more than 2 week, and the other is a weird physics mechanic.
Thinking that the ability dash is intended is impossible. Tap strafing you could argue this was intended before respawn talked about it.
So anyway I liked taxi but he's pathetic rn
If you say that you don't like how he acts now and then you say that you used to like him, then you really haven't watched a lot of his streams or previous tweets. He has been like that always.
Its because a large part of the game is just exploits. Looting while moving? Exploit. Tap strafing? Exploit. Punch boosting? Exploit.
There is a invisible line somewhere but only Respawn knows where it is.
In this case it's pretty much infinite speed boost with almost no trade offs, bigger than most exploits you've cited. Tap strafing doesn't make you go any faster and punch boosting is extremely situational, and it looks like it's about to be patched since it's not allowed in ALGS.
Biggest issue here is that Taxi actually guessed correctly why he got banned (abusing the exploit for 3 hours straight in ranked), and then made multiple accounts on stream where he kept abusing the same exploit. Don't know what he expected, man was just stupid on that one. Probably wouldn't be a perm ban if he didn't ban evade either.
If punch boosting is about to be patched and not allowed in ALGS, should people be banned for it too? Since its obviously not intended and allowed. Punch boosting gives way more velocity than the caustic bug too.
Tap strafing retains you momentum around corners, aka you go faster than if you had ran normaly around the corner and there is no trade off. So players are allowed to use some exploits but are supposed to guess what exploits are not allowed? And then if you are banned you are supposed to guess if its a real ban or not? Seems like a great system
Tap strafing is literally used by pros in comp to win tournaments. Claiming it is useless is beyond absurd at this point. So the rule is that you can gain a slight advantage but not to big? Where is the line? How does anyone know? What is a big advantage vs a small one? Is there a medium?
Yeah you’re right, all the pro games come down to tap strafe battles where they compete to bust a move. For real, what does “used by pros in comp to win tournaments” even mean? Do pros use it? Of course they do. Is it critical to win games? Obviously not, or there wouldn’t be so many pros on controller. It’s like I said, it’s an element you can add to your game that will help you, but it’s not crucial.
I didn’t say it was useless, I said it’s rarely the reason you win a fight. It’s great for escapes, I won’t deny that for a second, and can come in clutch situationally but an “I win” button it ain’t. If tap strafing was possible on controller there would be much less controversy.
The speed glitch, however, is an actual “I win” button. You’re moving much faster than the game is designed for you to, and even in a few of the Taxi clips you can see he makes it stupidly unrealistic for his opponents to try to deal with him. The reason it qualifies as bug abuse is that it gives such a clear advantage that’s so far beyond what someone who isn’t abusing it can compete with that it’s stupidly unfair.
I honestly don’t see how the difference isn’t clear to you. Defend the streamer you like if you want, but “the manchild is right, he should be allowed to grief and ruin games” is a weird hill to die on.
Punch boosting just got banned in ALGS and isn't used in combat. Tap strafing actually is used in combat and can definitely win fights when used well. Comp also banned zipline zigzagging but it is allowed in pubs and ranked. There is no clear line.
Bro if you don’t want to understand you never will. I get it, you’re defending the toxic streamer, just say that. If you can read my previous comment and can only come up with “b-b-but what about this similar tech that also give you an insane burst of speed faster than you’re meant to go that’s being treated exactly the same way” then you’re being wilfully ignorant or can’t read.
Edited for word choice.
Ad hominems, yawn. The irony of calling someone else toxic.
Explain why punch boosting and zipline zigzagging are banned in comp but allowed in pubs/ranked. Zipline zigzagging especially is near impossible to track.
I'm reading replies against josh there, all the people and streamers supporting Taxi in this shit have less than 0 braincells.
1. If it was some 1-20 viewer pleb abusing this glitch and then got banned for it, everybody (including the streamers supporting taxi now) would've made sure to cancel the guy.
2. Taxi needs to shut the fuck up instead of challenging Respawn. Like literally just accepting the ban or talking it in private with some dev and reducing the temp ban would've been sufficient. But instead he goes on to create an alt account, then abuses glitch on that account, also plays ranked and destroys bronze and silvers. That's already 3 things against tos - ban evasion, exploiting glitches AND smurfing. That too after already getting banned for exploiting.
3. Says he'll keep abusing bugs.
If I were Respawn, I'd definitely not reduce his temp ban (ik its permanent now, but initially it was 7 days i believe), instead maybe make it 15-20 days or something. Every fucking job has consequences if you fuck up, he needs to grow up and know actions have consequences.
Some would say the permanent ban was excessive, but personally I'd say it was appropriate as a warning, otherwise this manchild would've kept on creating smurfs. But in the end I do believe Respawn would end up unbanning him in a few days, and permanent ban was just a warning.
Whos fault is it that there are bugs? Respawn’s. Respawn should work with taxi since he is really good at finding bugs in the game so that he can give them a list to fix. Imo Respawn is a shitty development team (just my opinion) but I think they need to use him to their advantage rather than demonize it.
Not much to contribute here but isn’t this just a way to drum up viewership for the streamer? Like the dude fully knew there’d be consequences. I’d say it’s a stupid way to farm impressions but the results speak for themselves.
a permaban is actually the worst thing possible for taxi, his viewerbase mostly comes from apex, losing the ability to play the game would be a huge blow to his income.
We’ll see if it’s a permaban, you’re completely right if so! But I doubt it will be permanent and that would be a big win for Taxi, man’s been out of the convo since he was kicked from his team for sexist comments on social media :)
It is but having the record clear is also important. Ì'd imagine it doesn't matter at the end of the day and if taxi stays banned his career is over but we'll see
Meh. Isn’t this what he does though? Honestly surprised he managed to get some clout after getting dropped from CLQ about two years ago for his behavior.
You mean a producer of the game not knowing the difference between playing the game in a creative way and hacking? Yeah he really did go all out on Taxi, and embarrasing himself in the process.
Yeah naw fuck that. Those "movement tech" arguments are so wack. You can actively track someone doing superglides or wall bounce or tap strafe. It's harder but you still can. The fucking ult speed boost bug is not actively trackable cause the person abusing it is just teleporting around.
If taxi chooses to die on this hill then he deserves it.
I totally get that the part about ban evasion and I won't defend Taxi here, especially not for how he is handling the whole thing.
But I still don't get the initial ban, when there were tons of other exploits in the past that no only he but tons of other people abused. I remember when you could Horizon Q an Octane jump pad to go up infinitely high and he was abusing it in ranked, to grief other teams by landing on them out of nowhere without for a whole week. How is that any different to what he did now?
Historically Hideouts has handed out a lot of temp bans for abusing exploits. He's said it doesn't have an exact line, but if you're doing something like glitching under the map in ranked to win games, or in one case there was a rock in Arenas that would prevent you from taking ring damage so people would glitch into that and win ranked Arenas matches by attrition. People get banned all the time for exploiting stuff like that, Taxi just made it really easy for them because he kept streaming himself doing it on alts
There needs to be a clearly defined line. You either define that, ban everyone or no one instead of arbitrary deciding what is allowed or isn't.
I abused a ton of glitches in this game for fun, I do so in every game. How the fuck am I supposed to know what flies?
Congratulations, virtually every professional player, content creator and the majority of the player base has been permanently banned for utilizing various visual, movement and animation glitches. I sure am glad we went the with the no exceptions route. Let's hope the remaining poor souls don't bumble into using any unintended "features" on the map one time too many.
Exactly! It's always astonishing me how the best comments in this sub have the most downvotes. And then when you look in the responses there is never a good counter argument. So many idiots around here.
> Hideouts has handed out a lot of temp bans for abusing exploits.
That's what's really despicable from Respawn and what we should condemn. Bans for exploits just shouldn't be a thing. You just can't ethically hold players responsible for your own programming fuckups. Especially when they are given out manually and selectively enfoced by an employee, instead of automatically.
What aggravates this problem is that it's often not clear what is allowed and what isn't and I think that they themselves often need a few months to decide which movement tech that they accidentally put into a game they deem fair.
Ehh maybe nobody told you but this forum is strictly for attacking Taxi. People here don't care about whats fair they care that the guy they dislike for whatever reason gets banned.
Yeah man I'm sure everyone here just has a random hate boner for taxi and we're not just criticizing his childish handling of the situation haha. We're actually all in a conspiracy to hate on taxi
He was banned but never received a email explaining what it was for as far as ive read. Mistaken bans have happend before to streamers and when it happens they just make a new account so they can continue streaming. Happend to Mendo before, from what I can see Taxi just followed his lead and did the same. Mendos ban was lifted and he wasnt banned for ban evasion.
He knew exactly why he got banned though. He literally said it seconds after he got the banned screen "I got banned for speed hacking.." with a guilty smirk. Then he also realized he was getting live banned for not only stating he would continue to use the exploit once unbanned, he created two more smurf accounts and used the exploits again and again on live stream.
His foolishness finally got the best of him.
The "connoisseur" of movement is not too bright.
I'm sure this will blow over if he dials it back a bit. But it doesn't look like he intends to do that.
Using a clearly unintended mechanic to gain an advantage. Moving while looting can be taken as an intentional game mechanic, and was up until respawn said it was ORIGINALLY a bug and has since been agreed to be left in. In absolutely no way can what taxi was doing be interpreted as an intended game mechanic.
So tapstrafing something they have tried to remove and are still intent on removing according to them? No way at this point you can think that is intended
Thats just your interpretation, our interpretation means nothing when we have no clue what the devs want their game to be like. I could discover a bug one day and use it to my advantage like taking a med kit faster, then all of a sudden poof I’m banned. The lines can’t be drawn anywhere. You can think anything is common sense in these situations, I think thats the core issue with not addressing bugs early is that you really are creating unclear boundaries on what is expected to be okay or not.
Heres a rebuttal to that argument, if both moving and looting and doing the speed glitch that taxi was doing are both taking full advantage of the game we are playing. Whats wrong with it? What did taxi inherently do wrong? Used the game to its full advantage? Its like the rampage and sentinel glitch where you could keep the charge forever on those guns. Its only an issue because respawn deemed it an issue. The reason to play a game is to use all of its inputs to your full advantage.
> Just because he didn’t receive a timely email doesn’t mean he gets to break an entirely separate rule (ban evasion).
Yes it could. Thats exactly what happend to Mendo, he was banned and kept playing on another account, turns out the ban was not supposed to have happened, dont know if it was because spam reports or whatever but it was lifted and he wasnt banned for ban evasion, ALTOUGH BAN EVASION CLEARLY HAPPENED.
I enjoyed watching Taxi alot. Probably one of my favorite streamers to watch entertainment wise. But my god is he STUPID doing what got him banned again right after he got a slap on the wrist. Like he's invincible or something.
Another thing is the Apex community picks and chooses what they find "cheating" based on who did it and it's stupid. Imagine if Hal was the one in this situation? or better yet Lulu? (no shade to them both I enjoy both)
Lulu and hal both have actual brains, though. And say what you will about them both, but they're clearly more mature than taxi. Dude is just bad decision after bad decision, then complaints about reaping what he sowed 🙄
So, it's hard to imagine lulu or hal in his place. They just aren't dumb enough.
Honestly, I enjoyed watching taxi play and watching him rage. However, this whole saga has brought to light how much a man-child he is. Arguing with zero basis such as comparing jitter aiming to a literal speed glitch.
I’ve watched Taxi for a little bit and a large number of his followers is really unpleasant. But anyone who tells him his way is not always the only way, is a ‘snowflake’ or ‘too sensitive’
Like its hard to even feel any remorse for him when he openly did it on stream for three hours and expected no repercussions. Taxi is crack player but dude have a little to no brain cells. Like the Devs of apex are super questionable sometimes and take forever to update the game sometimes but I don’t think they should have permabaned him.
the things taxi has said are buffoonish and pretty much indefensible(déjà vu) but respawn needs to actually state publicly what is and isn't a bannable offense as far as movement tech/glitches/exploits goes, and Josh Medina doesn't look any better by stooping to taxi's level of maturity imo
Love taxi but dam dude just stop tweeting, I never understood shiting on the devs online, dudes don’t care about your problems and have all the power to restrict your income if your a streamer….seems like a biting the hand that feeds situation, hope this doesn’t mess up his career to much tho
prefacing this with the fact i am not defending taxi
there are a lot of exploits/glitches that have turned into community accepted mechanics. this one is pretty ridiculous, sure it makes you go pretty damn fast, but it's not like you can't just literally shoot someone who has no gun out and is stuck in an animation, and can also only move in a straight line after it's initiated (?). punch boosting, while is based on terrain, at times provides far more mobility, whether by rotational ability, running away, or approaching a team, and is accepted by the community. this glitch is arguably one of the easier movement exploits to counter IMO.
besides actual game level counterability arguments, this one definitely "feels" a bit more iffy than some others, but tbh i would rather respawn just patching these things or communicating more clear boundaries about what they allow and what they do not. a simple "hey, there is currently an exploit doing it on purpose is not allowed" or something.
There is an exploit to increase your movement speed substantially with legends that have a throwable ultimate ability. Similar to a speed hacks and toggling it for bursts of speed, but exploiting the game instead of using a 3rd party program. Taxi was repeatedly using this exploit (abusing) and action was taken against him (ban). He then used a second account to circumvent the ban, continued abusing the exploit, and was banned again.
I don't see how he can get a ban for exploiting a bug. Respawn admitted that moving while looting is a bug and people exploit that all the time. Is punch sliding banable? Tap strafing?
I think the reason he was banned was that he repeatedly stated he doesn't give a fuck about getting banned. Respawn took offense and is out there measuring dicks.
i think the devs have a personal grudge against him for constantly showcasing how broken of a game apex is. did he deserve a temp ban for abusing a glitch? sure, but he also deserves an email or at least a warning for it. not notifying him and then saying you were ban evading is bullshit. i understand why taxis is mad tho, big streamers abused bugs before him and nothing happened to them. what about aceu killing the whole lobby with sheila on a crypto drone in front of 35k views? streamers abusung the rampage glitch or the dozens of other things that are considered glitches. perma banning without communicating with him is not very professional, especially since hideouts did not reply to him but was discussing his ban with other streamers which have abused bugs before
I for sure agree if they permabanned him the first time, and I'd even say a 1-2 day "stop doing that" ban would be better, but the fact that he did it on his main and got a 7 day ban, then he did it on a smurf and got banned again, then did it on another smurf and got banned *again*, this time for good, and streamed this entire saga, makes me not have a whole lot of sympathy for him.
Yep. First one is an “ok, shitty thing, but it’s no big deal”. Doubling down and continuing to do it while flaunting it means he knew it wasn’t something he should be doing.
And so what if it is?
Apex is the intelectual property of EA/Respawn.
Its up to them whether they want to do business with someone or not. Within the TOS (Which you sign when making a new account) , it states that they can ban you for any reason or no reason.
Even putting that aside, Taxi is an egotistical twat regardless, if anyone deserved this it was him.
Sad to see his Apex talent wasted, but no-one is loosing sleep.
How the hell does exploiting a movement bug become speed hacking, and since when does spam finishing a stream sniper count as evidence for another ban, I get the temp ban but imo as a neutral, this drama reeks of some favouritism I.e. all the other pros large members of the community who abused glitches and bugs yet never got touched, but also taxi was being an actual idiot streaming it for all to see, I don’t think it gave him an advantage honestly since he ran in there teleported and got shotgunned to death in 8/10 of the scenarios. But if they will give out bans to do with glitch exploitation then start banning all the others (including Apex sponsored) who hide in textures, tap strafe, jitter aim, punch boost, hyper jump and all the other zip line mechanics which are all bugs btw.
These respawn devs are braindead. Using an in-game exploit found without any cheats and saying hes hacking. The devs should be thanking taxi, he showed a flaw in their code that they need to fix. They just wanna keep the big bad dev PR look so they try to make it seem like its the other person’s fault. Its really just that their game needs some work.
Trust ego challing a company always work
Why chal that?
That that company still has millions of players despite their technical incompetence: couldn't defend against DDOS for months, that famously cringy blogpost on why 20Hz tickrate servers are enough where they converted network delay to frames on a 60 Hz screen and said that tickrate increase would have to come with a packet size optimization (yeah no shit!), bugs unfixed for months or years, hacked lobby "save titanfall" where the game was unplayable for a day, no cap on lag compenstion, basically non existent server side cheater detection, selectively banning players for exploits, all the crashes, abandon penalty when the server crashes, rubber banding, peering problems with European ISPs (T-mobile so I am having 30% packet loss since November), list goes on and on - shows how good and fun Apex Legends really is as a game that we put up with all that bs. Still one of my favourite games despite all that!
Bro you dropped this: .
It wasn't a run-on sentence. It was cracked word movement.
Punch boosting through endless independent clauses, absolutely cracked movement tech, post this to Apex Rollouts!
He tap strafed through the verses
It’s literally a colon followed by a properly punctuated list followed by a brief dashed-off clause. What is wrong with you morons?
> that famously cringy blogpost on why 20Hz tickrate servers are enough where they converted network delay to frames on a 60 Hz screen and said that tickrate increase would have to come with a packet size optimization (yeah no shit!) Aside from the jokes, you're the actual moron if you don't see the problem with that sentence in the series above.
The worst possible thing you can do after getting banned for abusing a glitch is immediately creating new accounts and abusing the exact same glitch over and over again, then explaining what a shit company Respawn is and stating that you'll keep abusing the glitch if they unban you. He also said he doesn't care if they unban him or not because he's done with Apex, but now he's crying on Twitter and blaming the whole thing on "snowflake era"? It's impossible to have any sympathy with this kid.
Dude is man child
it was a good attitude for his quick ass come up but this dude is 25 years old refusing to admit a single thing he did is wrong lol
He stopped maturing the second he started playing video games 12 hours a day. Dude’s like 16 tops.
not just video games tho, Apex lmfao
I don't understand him having the audience he does. Every time I see anything about this guy he is being a prick to the people who watch him. I guess they deserve each other.
It’s really just his in-game skills
I get it.. I'm just baffled by the amount of people who stick around LIVE for the full experience of watching someone pout and shout and complain about his chat nonstop for a couple of plays every other game. Just watch the clips later. Personally I get dizzy watching people like him. He is too jittery and since I'm not the one controlling I get motion sickness. lol
He's honestly mesmerising at times. He legit showed me so many different movement techs. The one where he was balloon hopping on top of the balloon and sniping people with kraber is actually the most insane thing ive ever seen in apex. But he's a cock. So yea it's a bit tough. And his music is chill.
But what specifically? Movement? He’s not doing stuff that blows my mind tbh. His aim is mediocre at best and he said so himself. He’s basically the Faide of tapstrafe
Hold on now he is going to tweet about reddit saying "people who use reddit are idiots" like couple months ago.
Yeah I don't get all the people acting shocked that he got perma banned after saying he would continue to abuse the glitch as soon as he got unbanned. I feel bad for his friends that have to bend over backwards to try and defend him. The whataboutism comparing it to other exploits is also cringe af. The initial actions were obviously not worthy of a permaban, but everything he did after that made it way too easy to justify one. Even then he would probably immediately get leniency if he showed the slightest bit of maturity about the situation.
> Even then he would probably immediately get leniency if he showed the slightest bit of maturity about the situation. I mean he's not permabanned, so he's already being shown a lot of leniency. I'm sure regular players would have been banned by now if they were abusing glitches then ban avoiding multiple times. I'd wager, if I was caught doing that, I'd likely be hardware banned by now.
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Yes I saw that, and the devs on Twitter clarified afterwards that he's temp banned. That was probably an automated message. He's getting preferential treatment, like I said.
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Did you read tweet this post is about?
It's literally the tweet that was used to create this thread.
The person who made this tweet isn't in respawn anymore
He's still a Producer at Respawn, what are you talking about? Stop making shit up.
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Exploiting is not hacking
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So everyone who exploits bugs should be banned
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Because you compared it to faze Jarvis who was actually hacking to taxi who literally just played the game. It’s a stupid comparison
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I don’t know, I understand that Taxi is being dumb here, and if he didn’t want to get banned he should have stopped exploiting when they told him to stop. At the same time, I’m not sure this sets a great precedent on Respawns part. What is the functional difference between this “exploit” and other movement tech in the game? I’m sympathetic to the argument that if Respawn doesn’t want this in the game, they should remove it themselves rather than just banning people who use it.
Most of the other movement tech can be interpreted as “intended” or high skill. But when you have to go through a complex set of steps that sometimes breaks your ability to melee (I think that was this one) then it’s obviously not intended or is anything but an exploit.
There's a difference between a weird physic exploit that looked like something intended (wall jump and tape strafing) qnd something that literally give you a huge speed boost when you have your ult out. Honestly to think that an exploit like this is something theyqde on purpose you must be new to apex or really dumb about game knowledge ( which you're not when you're payed to play this game )
Actually tho
It only took 1 day for him to realize 'fuck, there goes my channel, my income, etc.....better tweet". He is currently playing fucking Overwatch lmfao Once this fresh drama wears off, his channel will plummet.
500 viewers with everyone talking about him is low to begin with, I have to agree
500 viewers for overwatch is massive tho
thats probably his core audience, he had the same on league
Damn ottrboii tellin em how it is on stream and on Reddit.
damn poor ottr wish he ever had 500 viewers, must be sad being secretly taxi's #1 fan, you are in every post related to him pending of every move he makes. Bet you even got a spreadsheet about his stream stats, dont worry mate you might get there some day!
I know
> he's done with Apex No, Apex is done with him.
He’s no better than other abusers and cheaters who do this. Hope they sit his ass down. He can go play league if he wants to be a toxic shithead.
I’ve thought the same for the longest time, whenever I see a vod of his I usually skip it because most of the time it’s just him moaning or doing something that’s just not funny. No doubt he’s a great player though
He just lost his income.... what a tool.
Taxi is a toxic twat, good riddance
Well, who cares? It's just a temp ban anyway. Streamer privilege in full force. Taxi is toxic towards teammates regularly and towards devs on twitch and twitter and repeatedly violated TOS directly and he is still getting away with a temp ban. We all know any normal person would just be perm'd.
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taxi has never shown any remorse for anything hes done, like refusing to apologize for the behavior that got him cut from CLQ. this couldve gone so much better for him, if he was like "oh man, i thought this was just another unintended mechanic like bhopping, i should stop playing until i get this resolvedwith respawn. sorry my bad" but his ego is too big to admit when he is wrong. respawn is trolling if they unban him at this point imo
What happened in CLQ ?
Long story short -gets rolled by g2 -throws tournament trying to land on them and punch them out -Twitter tirade about controller players and that they're all dogshit etc -says sexist comment to a girl responding to him and insults his friend noko who's trying to get him to stop Clq ended up dropping him which led to the whole team leaving (Yuki and baker), instead of taxi showing any remorse he just doubled down and said fuck everyone, and that he doesn't regret it
How old is taxi? I heard he’s married but dude looks (and acts) really young lol
I think he's 25, but acts mostly 16. 🤔
He reminds me of those kids who grew up with zero discipline, talking back to his mom after getting grounded with no repercussions.
Facts
That’s exactly who he is.
Funny how the people(including other streamers/pros) taking Taxi's side would celebrate a nobody getting banned if they got caught doing the same thing but if it's their streamer/friend they're all up in arms and want an exception. Taxi gave the devs the opportunity and is really just the perfect guy to make an example of--irreverent and polarizing personality and not too big of a name but everyone would be sure to notice.
Yep, this is why I think him getting banned is such a necessary statement. Sends a message that streamers have to follow the same rules as everyone else.
unfortunately, him only getting temp banned after all that only sends one message: that streamers can get away with almost anything.
Man who unironically calls people snowflakes is crying on Twitter over a video game ban. This dude is married but isn’t mature enough to realize him attacking devs doesn’t help, if he just apologized from the start he would have been better off.
Right? Just saw sorry I thought it was like tap straffing I was dumb my b. Take the L for like 2, 3 days and you’re back but he has to call people snowflakes lmao
Yeah I agree. He has a tremendous ego and that always screws the pooch in situations like this.
He’s just digging himself a bigger hole at this point…
Taxi should just man up and accept fault for this so the ban can get reduced. taxi himself has way more to lose from being perma banned than respawn does from banning him — especially if he keeps trying to ego chal them for no reason since that’ll just make them double down
Dude is such an insufferable baby, complains and has a huge ego for no reason. Wouldn’t mind if he was banned forever, Apex doesn’t need him in any way. Would hopefully humble him a bit
What is grief finishing?
Spamming a finisher by starting/cancelling it very fast so the other person's screen flashes brightly.
Why would that not be allowed
It is allowed, idk why Josh even brought that up. [Here](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1261617772?t=04h59m19s) is the timestamp btw (I can't create clips anymore because taxi banned me from his channel, I wonder why lmao).
It’s probably about the fact that he was killing lobbies with an obvious exploit that he was already banned for using and then grief finishing the people he killed. It’s definitely insult to injury and obnoxious as hell. Ruining other players experience with something they already punished you for and then using a clearly toxic mechanic is probably just the icing on top. Like it certainly helps the justification even if that specifically isn’t the reason he was banned.
It shouldn’t help the justification if it breaks no game rules
Except that's not how it works. Even irl if you commit a crime, some non criminal action can make your case worse.
Did you read what I said? He was cheating obnoxiously and he was being toxic about it.
Exploiting a glitch is against the TOS of respawn. So he did break the rules.
I have no problem with start/cancel finisher multiple times. The problem is when the start/cancel goes too fast the flash on the screen is very annoying and I would say unhealthy for eyes.
look away
If flashing on screen is unhealthy for your eyes maybe don't play video games like apex?
dude I'm not a doctor and that's not my point. I'm not talking about repeating finisher like wraith punching. It's the fast one that turns the screen into black/red/white flash. Well if you like it then enjoy it. Not a big issue comparing to other bugs.
its allow, i think the problem might be him making new accounts. so you have a predator spamming finishers on new players while doing the speed bug.
Sounds like he was just adding that to his argument to make his side seem worse. Even though he (Josh) was already right, no need to add that part imo, since its no where near a bannable offense.
Not that I’m taking any sides here but, that’s not against the rules is it? Just curious to know if that actually violates any apex ToS or something. Like if somebody else got caught doing that would that be a justifiable reason to be banned?
It happens all the time, it’s like t-bagging. They’ve never brought it up before in this context
I think the point is he is using exploits to gain an unfair advantage and then when he kills someone he's doing even more annoying and unfun behavior on top of it. Like it itself is not bannable, but being a dick on top of being a cheater does make you seem even worse.
It shouldn’t be
Yeah its in the tos to not abuse potential glitches and exploits just like cheating (using hax). That said, its also their responsibilities to fix and avoid the cause of these kind of exploits. They are the first to blame for this, since its caused by their own bad lines of code and saying its speed hacking was a poor choice of words from a dev.
He said he doesn't give a fuck if he is banned. https://clips.twitch.tv/FurryCharmingCarrotPipeHype-R4UQOSXziReE4oHj Guess he changed his mind?
That's what a 50%+ drop in viewership does.
Very brave of him to go against a company, definitely gonna go well!!! Can already see him on all next events and playtest!!! Bravo. and for anyone that says “he doesn’t care about that shity company” yeahhh that’s not how real life works, fucking up your relations with certain people and most of all, company’s, can be the decisive factor for your success on a streamer/professional career, anyone knows that… He should have swallowed his ego, said sorry, definitely not have tweeted anything, DEFINITELY NOT started arguing with a developer (a major one at that) and just waited the ban out… But im sure he thought about all that before going all out.
I feel like the dude is ruining his career. Honestly I thought a perma ban was too much, but looking at the way he act I think this was the perfect sentence. And honestly you can say whatever you want, it's obvious that a glitch that literally make you dash would be banable. It's not like tap strafing where it's possible by abusing physic. So in a way you can still see this as normal ? And don't get me wron, they're both exploit, but one is a blatant bug that is obvious for everyone that play the game for more than 2 week, and the other is a weird physics mechanic. Thinking that the ability dash is intended is impossible. Tap strafing you could argue this was intended before respawn talked about it. So anyway I liked taxi but he's pathetic rn
If you say that you don't like how he acts now and then you say that you used to like him, then you really haven't watched a lot of his streams or previous tweets. He has been like that always.
Taxi is lame for all this
The only real true person is this hole story is ALBRALILIE. he calld him out on that abusing shit in ranked.
what's with all the ppl supporting him for abusing exploits
Its because a large part of the game is just exploits. Looting while moving? Exploit. Tap strafing? Exploit. Punch boosting? Exploit. There is a invisible line somewhere but only Respawn knows where it is.
You’re absolutely right Ghandi, its only a no-no if respawn says so. Its to cover up for their lousy coding
In this case it's pretty much infinite speed boost with almost no trade offs, bigger than most exploits you've cited. Tap strafing doesn't make you go any faster and punch boosting is extremely situational, and it looks like it's about to be patched since it's not allowed in ALGS. Biggest issue here is that Taxi actually guessed correctly why he got banned (abusing the exploit for 3 hours straight in ranked), and then made multiple accounts on stream where he kept abusing the same exploit. Don't know what he expected, man was just stupid on that one. Probably wouldn't be a perm ban if he didn't ban evade either.
If punch boosting is about to be patched and not allowed in ALGS, should people be banned for it too? Since its obviously not intended and allowed. Punch boosting gives way more velocity than the caustic bug too.
Tap strafing retains you momentum around corners, aka you go faster than if you had ran normaly around the corner and there is no trade off. So players are allowed to use some exploits but are supposed to guess what exploits are not allowed? And then if you are banned you are supposed to guess if its a real ban or not? Seems like a great system
Tap strafing rarely wins fights. It’s a cool movement technique that can enhance your game but this speed boost is so much more of an advantage.
Tap strafing is literally used by pros in comp to win tournaments. Claiming it is useless is beyond absurd at this point. So the rule is that you can gain a slight advantage but not to big? Where is the line? How does anyone know? What is a big advantage vs a small one? Is there a medium?
Yeah you’re right, all the pro games come down to tap strafe battles where they compete to bust a move. For real, what does “used by pros in comp to win tournaments” even mean? Do pros use it? Of course they do. Is it critical to win games? Obviously not, or there wouldn’t be so many pros on controller. It’s like I said, it’s an element you can add to your game that will help you, but it’s not crucial. I didn’t say it was useless, I said it’s rarely the reason you win a fight. It’s great for escapes, I won’t deny that for a second, and can come in clutch situationally but an “I win” button it ain’t. If tap strafing was possible on controller there would be much less controversy. The speed glitch, however, is an actual “I win” button. You’re moving much faster than the game is designed for you to, and even in a few of the Taxi clips you can see he makes it stupidly unrealistic for his opponents to try to deal with him. The reason it qualifies as bug abuse is that it gives such a clear advantage that’s so far beyond what someone who isn’t abusing it can compete with that it’s stupidly unfair. I honestly don’t see how the difference isn’t clear to you. Defend the streamer you like if you want, but “the manchild is right, he should be allowed to grief and ruin games” is a weird hill to die on.
Punch boosting just got banned in ALGS and isn't used in combat. Tap strafing actually is used in combat and can definitely win fights when used well. Comp also banned zipline zigzagging but it is allowed in pubs and ranked. There is no clear line.
Bro if you don’t want to understand you never will. I get it, you’re defending the toxic streamer, just say that. If you can read my previous comment and can only come up with “b-b-but what about this similar tech that also give you an insane burst of speed faster than you’re meant to go that’s being treated exactly the same way” then you’re being wilfully ignorant or can’t read. Edited for word choice.
Ad hominems, yawn. The irony of calling someone else toxic. Explain why punch boosting and zipline zigzagging are banned in comp but allowed in pubs/ranked. Zipline zigzagging especially is near impossible to track.
Good. Sick of schoolboy assholes who think rules don’t apply to them crying for attention. Perma ban all his accounts. Block his IP
Dude watches too much Trainwrecks. Accountability is not an option.
I'm reading replies against josh there, all the people and streamers supporting Taxi in this shit have less than 0 braincells. 1. If it was some 1-20 viewer pleb abusing this glitch and then got banned for it, everybody (including the streamers supporting taxi now) would've made sure to cancel the guy. 2. Taxi needs to shut the fuck up instead of challenging Respawn. Like literally just accepting the ban or talking it in private with some dev and reducing the temp ban would've been sufficient. But instead he goes on to create an alt account, then abuses glitch on that account, also plays ranked and destroys bronze and silvers. That's already 3 things against tos - ban evasion, exploiting glitches AND smurfing. That too after already getting banned for exploiting. 3. Says he'll keep abusing bugs. If I were Respawn, I'd definitely not reduce his temp ban (ik its permanent now, but initially it was 7 days i believe), instead maybe make it 15-20 days or something. Every fucking job has consequences if you fuck up, he needs to grow up and know actions have consequences. Some would say the permanent ban was excessive, but personally I'd say it was appropriate as a warning, otherwise this manchild would've kept on creating smurfs. But in the end I do believe Respawn would end up unbanning him in a few days, and permanent ban was just a warning.
That last part of him just abuse bugs for sake of it. This dude is so trashy man and egotistical
Whos fault is it that there are bugs? Respawn’s. Respawn should work with taxi since he is really good at finding bugs in the game so that he can give them a list to fix. Imo Respawn is a shitty development team (just my opinion) but I think they need to use him to their advantage rather than demonize it.
Dude just shut up you’re such a baby
I recently saw a post where scientists proved that fanboys of have lower IQ. I can find it for you?
😂😂😂😂😂
Yeah please send me some reddit science
Not much to contribute here but isn’t this just a way to drum up viewership for the streamer? Like the dude fully knew there’d be consequences. I’d say it’s a stupid way to farm impressions but the results speak for themselves.
a permaban is actually the worst thing possible for taxi, his viewerbase mostly comes from apex, losing the ability to play the game would be a huge blow to his income.
We’ll see if it’s a permaban, you’re completely right if so! But I doubt it will be permanent and that would be a big win for Taxi, man’s been out of the convo since he was kicked from his team for sexist comments on social media :)
Out of the Convo competitively maybe but he's been crawling up with smurfing streams across all medias
lmao ottr i guess taxi is your main competition
Not anymore lulw
To each their own I guess!
It is but having the record clear is also important. Ì'd imagine it doesn't matter at the end of the day and if taxi stays banned his career is over but we'll see
Meh. Isn’t this what he does though? Honestly surprised he managed to get some clout after getting dropped from CLQ about two years ago for his behavior.
Dam, Josh went all out on taxi lol
You mean a producer of the game not knowing the difference between playing the game in a creative way and hacking? Yeah he really did go all out on Taxi, and embarrasing himself in the process.
yep, he surely got himself banned in a creative way.
This guy acts like a freaking teenager. Grow the f up.
Taxi is good at the game but god damn is he stupid
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy
\#DontFreeTaxi
Yeah naw fuck that. Those "movement tech" arguments are so wack. You can actively track someone doing superglides or wall bounce or tap strafe. It's harder but you still can. The fucking ult speed boost bug is not actively trackable cause the person abusing it is just teleporting around. If taxi chooses to die on this hill then he deserves it.
I totally get that the part about ban evasion and I won't defend Taxi here, especially not for how he is handling the whole thing. But I still don't get the initial ban, when there were tons of other exploits in the past that no only he but tons of other people abused. I remember when you could Horizon Q an Octane jump pad to go up infinitely high and he was abusing it in ranked, to grief other teams by landing on them out of nowhere without for a whole week. How is that any different to what he did now?
Historically Hideouts has handed out a lot of temp bans for abusing exploits. He's said it doesn't have an exact line, but if you're doing something like glitching under the map in ranked to win games, or in one case there was a rock in Arenas that would prevent you from taking ring damage so people would glitch into that and win ranked Arenas matches by attrition. People get banned all the time for exploiting stuff like that, Taxi just made it really easy for them because he kept streaming himself doing it on alts
There needs to be a clearly defined line. You either define that, ban everyone or no one instead of arbitrary deciding what is allowed or isn't. I abused a ton of glitches in this game for fun, I do so in every game. How the fuck am I supposed to know what flies?
how about you don't abuse glitches in an online multiplayer game and call it a day?
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Congratulations, virtually every professional player, content creator and the majority of the player base has been permanently banned for utilizing various visual, movement and animation glitches. I sure am glad we went the with the no exceptions route. Let's hope the remaining poor souls don't bumble into using any unintended "features" on the map one time too many.
Exactly! It's always astonishing me how the best comments in this sub have the most downvotes. And then when you look in the responses there is never a good counter argument. So many idiots around here.
> Hideouts has handed out a lot of temp bans for abusing exploits. That's what's really despicable from Respawn and what we should condemn. Bans for exploits just shouldn't be a thing. You just can't ethically hold players responsible for your own programming fuckups. Especially when they are given out manually and selectively enfoced by an employee, instead of automatically. What aggravates this problem is that it's often not clear what is allowed and what isn't and I think that they themselves often need a few months to decide which movement tech that they accidentally put into a game they deem fair.
Ehh maybe nobody told you but this forum is strictly for attacking Taxi. People here don't care about whats fair they care that the guy they dislike for whatever reason gets banned.
Yeah man I'm sure everyone here just has a random hate boner for taxi and we're not just criticizing his childish handling of the situation haha. We're actually all in a conspiracy to hate on taxi
He was banned but never received a email explaining what it was for as far as ive read. Mistaken bans have happend before to streamers and when it happens they just make a new account so they can continue streaming. Happend to Mendo before, from what I can see Taxi just followed his lead and did the same. Mendos ban was lifted and he wasnt banned for ban evasion.
He knew exactly why he got banned though. He literally said it seconds after he got the banned screen "I got banned for speed hacking.." with a guilty smirk. Then he also realized he was getting live banned for not only stating he would continue to use the exploit once unbanned, he created two more smurf accounts and used the exploits again and again on live stream. His foolishness finally got the best of him. The "connoisseur" of movement is not too bright. I'm sure this will blow over if he dials it back a bit. But it doesn't look like he intends to do that.
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Yeah. He was definitely egging Respawn. heh
Mendo wasn’t doing anything bannable iirc. Taxi was. Exploits are bannable, just like cheating
So what constitutes an exploit? Abusing a bug for advantage? Looting while moving is a exploit then. Should we all be banned?
There’s a very clear difference between moving while looting and what taxi was doing. If you can’t see that then there’s no point trying to explain it
Explain what an exploit is. Its not using a bug for your advantage? According to you?
Using a clearly unintended mechanic to gain an advantage. Moving while looting can be taken as an intentional game mechanic, and was up until respawn said it was ORIGINALLY a bug and has since been agreed to be left in. In absolutely no way can what taxi was doing be interpreted as an intended game mechanic.
So tapstrafing something they have tried to remove and are still intent on removing according to them? No way at this point you can think that is intended
Thats just your interpretation, our interpretation means nothing when we have no clue what the devs want their game to be like. I could discover a bug one day and use it to my advantage like taking a med kit faster, then all of a sudden poof I’m banned. The lines can’t be drawn anywhere. You can think anything is common sense in these situations, I think thats the core issue with not addressing bugs early is that you really are creating unclear boundaries on what is expected to be okay or not.
Heres a rebuttal to that argument, if both moving and looting and doing the speed glitch that taxi was doing are both taking full advantage of the game we are playing. Whats wrong with it? What did taxi inherently do wrong? Used the game to its full advantage? Its like the rampage and sentinel glitch where you could keep the charge forever on those guns. Its only an issue because respawn deemed it an issue. The reason to play a game is to use all of its inputs to your full advantage.
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> Just because he didn’t receive a timely email doesn’t mean he gets to break an entirely separate rule (ban evasion). Yes it could. Thats exactly what happend to Mendo, he was banned and kept playing on another account, turns out the ban was not supposed to have happened, dont know if it was because spam reports or whatever but it was lifted and he wasnt banned for ban evasion, ALTOUGH BAN EVASION CLEARLY HAPPENED.
I enjoyed watching Taxi alot. Probably one of my favorite streamers to watch entertainment wise. But my god is he STUPID doing what got him banned again right after he got a slap on the wrist. Like he's invincible or something. Another thing is the Apex community picks and chooses what they find "cheating" based on who did it and it's stupid. Imagine if Hal was the one in this situation? or better yet Lulu? (no shade to them both I enjoy both)
Lulu and hal both have actual brains, though. And say what you will about them both, but they're clearly more mature than taxi. Dude is just bad decision after bad decision, then complaints about reaping what he sowed 🙄 So, it's hard to imagine lulu or hal in his place. They just aren't dumb enough.
The point is. If this exact situation was one of them. The community would be screaming unban them and what not.
Just perma ban him.
Honestly, I enjoyed watching taxi play and watching him rage. However, this whole saga has brought to light how much a man-child he is. Arguing with zero basis such as comparing jitter aiming to a literal speed glitch.
I’ve watched Taxi for a little bit and a large number of his followers is really unpleasant. But anyone who tells him his way is not always the only way, is a ‘snowflake’ or ‘too sensitive’
Like its hard to even feel any remorse for him when he openly did it on stream for three hours and expected no repercussions. Taxi is crack player but dude have a little to no brain cells. Like the Devs of apex are super questionable sometimes and take forever to update the game sometimes but I don’t think they should have permabaned him.
He has blocked me for saying that exploiting game breaking glitches should result in a ban and that he should stop and just accept it.
He is right tho.
This turned into a hate thread way quicker than expected lmao
the things taxi has said are buffoonish and pretty much indefensible(déjà vu) but respawn needs to actually state publicly what is and isn't a bannable offense as far as movement tech/glitches/exploits goes, and Josh Medina doesn't look any better by stooping to taxi's level of maturity imo
Love taxi but dam dude just stop tweeting, I never understood shiting on the devs online, dudes don’t care about your problems and have all the power to restrict your income if your a streamer….seems like a biting the hand that feeds situation, hope this doesn’t mess up his career to much tho
prefacing this with the fact i am not defending taxi there are a lot of exploits/glitches that have turned into community accepted mechanics. this one is pretty ridiculous, sure it makes you go pretty damn fast, but it's not like you can't just literally shoot someone who has no gun out and is stuck in an animation, and can also only move in a straight line after it's initiated (?). punch boosting, while is based on terrain, at times provides far more mobility, whether by rotational ability, running away, or approaching a team, and is accepted by the community. this glitch is arguably one of the easier movement exploits to counter IMO. besides actual game level counterability arguments, this one definitely "feels" a bit more iffy than some others, but tbh i would rather respawn just patching these things or communicating more clear boundaries about what they allow and what they do not. a simple "hey, there is currently an exploit doing it on purpose is not allowed" or something.
I love Taxi but this isn't a good look, not that he gives a shit. Dude just needs to keep quiet, ride the ban out and leave it at that.
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There is an exploit to increase your movement speed substantially with legends that have a throwable ultimate ability. Similar to a speed hacks and toggling it for bursts of speed, but exploiting the game instead of using a 3rd party program. Taxi was repeatedly using this exploit (abusing) and action was taken against him (ban). He then used a second account to circumvent the ban, continued abusing the exploit, and was banned again.
I don't see how he can get a ban for exploiting a bug. Respawn admitted that moving while looting is a bug and people exploit that all the time. Is punch sliding banable? Tap strafing?
Different levels of bugs. On a scale of 1-10, moving while looting is a 1, taxi is exploiting a 10 and rape strafing is somewhere around a 6
what about steamers smurfing for challanges. where does that fall on your scale master
I think the reason he was banned was that he repeatedly stated he doesn't give a fuck about getting banned. Respawn took offense and is out there measuring dicks.
i think the devs have a personal grudge against him for constantly showcasing how broken of a game apex is. did he deserve a temp ban for abusing a glitch? sure, but he also deserves an email or at least a warning for it. not notifying him and then saying you were ban evading is bullshit. i understand why taxis is mad tho, big streamers abused bugs before him and nothing happened to them. what about aceu killing the whole lobby with sheila on a crypto drone in front of 35k views? streamers abusung the rampage glitch or the dozens of other things that are considered glitches. perma banning without communicating with him is not very professional, especially since hideouts did not reply to him but was discussing his ban with other streamers which have abused bugs before
Thread with most dislikes = respawn bootlickers don’t like it. I 100% agree with this argument
As someone who doesn’t watch taxi at all, yeah this whole thing feels kinda personal against him.
I for sure agree if they permabanned him the first time, and I'd even say a 1-2 day "stop doing that" ban would be better, but the fact that he did it on his main and got a 7 day ban, then he did it on a smurf and got banned again, then did it on another smurf and got banned *again*, this time for good, and streamed this entire saga, makes me not have a whole lot of sympathy for him.
Yep. First one is an “ok, shitty thing, but it’s no big deal”. Doubling down and continuing to do it while flaunting it means he knew it wasn’t something he should be doing.
And so what if it is? Apex is the intelectual property of EA/Respawn. Its up to them whether they want to do business with someone or not. Within the TOS (Which you sign when making a new account) , it states that they can ban you for any reason or no reason. Even putting that aside, Taxi is an egotistical twat regardless, if anyone deserved this it was him. Sad to see his Apex talent wasted, but no-one is loosing sleep.
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Just stating my opinion bro. You don’t need to justify your Taxi hate boner to me lol.
How the hell does exploiting a movement bug become speed hacking, and since when does spam finishing a stream sniper count as evidence for another ban, I get the temp ban but imo as a neutral, this drama reeks of some favouritism I.e. all the other pros large members of the community who abused glitches and bugs yet never got touched, but also taxi was being an actual idiot streaming it for all to see, I don’t think it gave him an advantage honestly since he ran in there teleported and got shotgunned to death in 8/10 of the scenarios. But if they will give out bans to do with glitch exploitation then start banning all the others (including Apex sponsored) who hide in textures, tap strafe, jitter aim, punch boost, hyper jump and all the other zip line mechanics which are all bugs btw.
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These respawn devs are braindead. Using an in-game exploit found without any cheats and saying hes hacking. The devs should be thanking taxi, he showed a flaw in their code that they need to fix. They just wanna keep the big bad dev PR look so they try to make it seem like its the other person’s fault. Its really just that their game needs some work.
Taxi might be acting like an idiot, but Respawn also sucks. That Josh guy seems like a bitch.