Name | Nicholas Kolcheff |
Age | 31 |
Date Of Birth | 21/11/1990 |
Nationality | United States |
Ethnicity | American |
Aliases | Nickmercs |
Team | FaZe Clan |
Twitch Followers | 6.5M |
Who is Nickmercs?
Nicholas Kolcheff, better known as Nickmercs is an American professional gamer, streamer, and content creator.
Nicholas began his career as a professional Gears of War player who had numerous confrontations with Ninja due to trash talking. Following his success in Gears of War, he started streaming in 2010 and created a YouTube channel in 2011. At that time his content mostly revolved around Call of Duty and Outlast.
In 2018, he became a content creator for the organization known as 100 Thieves and streamed battle royale games such as Fortnite. A year later, in 2019, he left 100 Thieves and soon after joined the FaZe Clan.
Today, Nickmercs is a well-known name within the gaming community and his Twitch channel has gained more than 6.5 million followers.
Nickmercs Apex Legends Settings
Apex Legends is a game that offers players many customization options which they can use to tailor the gameplay experience to their personal preferences, however, with so many options, players can easily find themselves overwhelmed. This is why it may be easier to copy the settings from one of the pros and then tailor them to your personal needs from there.
Nickmercs Gameplay Settings
Nickmercs’ gameplay settings are highly customized to fit his preferences and right off the bat we can see that he has his Interact Prompt Style set to “Compact”. This greatly reduces the displayed item information and reduces visual clutter. A very common choice among professional players. Besides that, most of his options are turned on, and he has his Jetpack Control set to “Toggle” which is not as common among professionals compared to the previous setting we mentioned.
Interact Prompt Style | Compact |
Button Hints | On |
Crosshair Damage Feedback | X w/Shield Icon |
Damage Numbers | Stacking |
Ping Opacity | Faded |
Obituaries | On |
Minimap Rotation | On |
Weapon Auto-Cycle on Empty | On |
Auto Sprint | On |
Double Tap Sprint | Off |
Jetpack Control | Toggle |
Incoming Damage Feedback | 3D |
Taking Damage Closes Deathbox or Drafting Menu | Off |
Hop-Up-Pop-Up | On |
Streamer Mode | Killer Only |
Anonymous Mode | Enabled |
Usage Sharing | Disabled |
Performance Display | On |
Club Invites | Disabled |
Reticle | Custom |
Nickmercs Apex Legends Controller Settings
Most professional Apex Legends players choose to customize their controller settings to fit their personal preferences and playing style, and Nickmercs is no exception. While NIckmercs had the help of the various Apex Legends pros when he was customizing his controls, he advises players to tinker with their settings and find what works best for them individually.
Button Layout | Customized |
Stick Layout | Default |
Interact/Reload Button | Tap to use and reload |
Crouch Button | Toggle |
Aim Button | Hold |
Survival Slot Button | On |
Trigger Deadzones | Moderate |
Nickmercs Movement / Aiming
When it comes to his movement and aiming settings, Nickmercs has his look sensitivity set to high, while he chooses to keep his ADS look sensitivity set to the default value of 3. His other settings are set to his personal preferences
Look Sensitivity | 4 High |
Look Sensitivity (ADS) | 3 |
Per Optic Settings | On |
Response Curve | Classic |
Look Deadzone | Small |
Movement Deadzone | Small |
Inverted Look | Off |
Vibration | Off |
Nickmercs Apex Legends Video Settings
Just like many other professional first-person shooter players, Nickmercs optimizes his Apex Legends video settings to squeeze out higher framerates and better performance at the cost of visual fidelity. Aside from his FOV being set to the max, all of his other video settings are set as low as possible.
Display Mode | Full-Screen | Full screen maximizes frame rates |
Aspect Ratio | 16:9 | |
Resolution | 1920 x 1080 | |
Field Of View (FOV) | 110 | Using a higher FOV setting provides better visibility. |
FOV Ability Scaling | Enabled | This disables the added FOV whenever Bloodhound or Octane uses their abilities. |
Sprint View Shake | Minimal | Keeps the normal amount of screen shake during sprinting |
V-Sync | Disabled | |
NVidia Reflex | Enabled + Boost | |
Adaptive Resolution FPS Target | 0 | |
Anti-aliasing | None | |
Texture Streaming Budget | Very Low (2GB VRAM) | |
Texture Filtering | Bilinear | |
Ambient Occlusion Quality | Disabled |
Nickmercs Gaming PC Setup
Nickmercs is a famous professional streamer and content creator which means that he needs a powerful PC to do what he does. His gaming PC features some of the best components available on the market including an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X processor, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card, and 64GB of DDR4 HyperX Predator RGB memory.
CPU | AMD Ryzen 9 5950X |
Graphics Card | Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 |
Memory | HyperX Predator RGB 64GB |
Power Supply | Unknown |
Wrapping Up
Now you know the settings Nickmercs is using to dominate in Apex Legends. Give these settings a go to see if they suit your play style.
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