The recent trend in playing Apex Legends is to use mouse and keyboard to play the game on consoles. However, Respawn has already confirmed that they do not condone this practice.
This topic has appeared on many online discussion threads about competitive events of Apex Legends. The developer of the game has said that it is working on a way to investigate if players are using keyboard and mouse to play its free-2-play battle royale title.
Jay Frechette ( the community manager of Apex Legends) stated that Respawn's stance on the matter is that the studio does not condone it. He also added that it is working on a way to detect which Apex players are doing it. The team is in the process of testing it internally. They will update us with the progress of this task as well as how they will address these players.
But the developer did not explain why it does not condone this practice, nor tell us about what would happen to the players detected of using M/K to play Apex Legends on a console.
Respawn dealing with cheaters
Recently, Respawn also detailed on how it plans to deal with the cheater problem that has been running rampant in the game of late. It is working on an auto-ban tech to filter out cheaters - kind of like what PUBG Corp has been discussing recently. Respawn has also increased its efforts and resources to adapt to the new type of cheats. Most interestingly, this effort from Respawn includes a new matchmaking system that will match spammers and cheaters together in a game, which is a pretty creative approach to the problem if you think about it.