Okay so I'd love to hear other ideas in the comments and I'm sure many other people are having the same problem. Almost every engagement I get into lately has been getting 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th partied. I think we have 5 acceptable solutions but we could come up with more if we put our minds together. A. This is unbearably necessary: Reduce the distance that shots and explosions can be heard from, especially snipers and airstrike ultimates. I don't like that I can tell what guns the people in Bunker are using from swamps while I hear bangalore's ultimate going off in Spotted Lake.B. This ones a bit far fetched but I think it might work perfectly, along with some substantial volume reduction: Make it so that as soon as a squad gets wiped, any team that did damage to them gets their shields and health instantly restored, but remains knocked down if they were.C. Downed players can use healing items but remain down so that when they get revived they are at full shield and health. They can't use their knockdown shield while healing and are therefore vulnerable to thirsting.D. Barrel stabilizers also act as silencersE. Reduced revive time

@afishthatvapes Spotted the guy that made 95% of his kills with 3rd parties.People like you make the game s**t.

@kellanammann I've replied to your other post about this, you can read that thread here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Feedback/3rd-Party/td-p/9194810/page/2The only other thing I have left to say, is that I personally think you have to be within at least 50-80 meters to even see ability ultimates, as everyone knows where Lifeline, Bangalore, and Gibraltar drops their things, and where Crypto ults, etc. Gun sounds should also be reduced to less than 100 or so meters, snipers can be a little louder, but we shouldn't hear fighting from where Slum Lakes was, when we're in containment or even in the bunker.Also, you'll think that with less things to render on our side of things, we might even have less lag issues as the server doesn't have to tell our games everything. Someone once turned up a sound setting (by a method not provided by the game), and you can hear every healing item, abilities, weapon reload, drops, player knocks, etc. being played at once. All these sounds are just quiet unless you're "near" them. No wonder why we have sound problems as well. They don't even have a proper play distance, they're just global with the volume tuned for each player. This was found out around like season 5 or 6. Don't know if they fixed it already.

This is a battle royale. Third partying is a strategy. Don't get into an engagement unless you know you can finish it quickly and get the armor swap, otherwise be the third partier. The game is third partying and map rotating. It's the best strategy if your goal is to win, which is the point of the game. To survive and become the champion. What you guys seem to want is that whenever you engage a team, no one in the entire map is allowed to engage you and must wait for you two to get out of battle. The thing is, that's not how battle royale games work. Maybe you just don't like this game mode and should play a game with Deathmatch instead where there are two teams instead of 30.

@kellanammann I would suggest a few thing as well.I can basically fully agree with Point A.About Point B...mhhh it COULD work. But maybe not. Maybe what they should do instead is implement the auto heal feature. So automatic heal starts after 7s maybe you could do it in a way where the heal accelerates the longer you don't take damage. So it starts at the speed at which it was going in the flashpoint LTM but as the time during which you don't take damage increases it gets faster. This would also help prevent 3rd parties at least to some extent because you could just run away and over time you heal and eventually you are fully healed the wannabe 3rd party now faces a fully healed squad again. It would also maybe bring more spice into close combat fights because you no longer drain your heal items when you fight people over greater ranges.Additionally they could also introduce silencers to further reduce the range at which shots are heard. But maybe this would also go too far when combined with Point A.

@afishthatvapeslol what a stupid comment. It really is cowards like you that call it a "sTrAtEgY" that ruin this game. Obviously if it works so well then something needs to be done to reduce it. That's the whole point you dipstick. I want a fighting chance against the third party, not the removal of 3rd partying. I actually enjoy fighting teams one after the other I just want a fighting chance if my shield is cracked and both my teammates are down. You can't always shield swap either. What about long range engagements? Obviously cowards like you are gonna continue to hide and wait for the best time to easily wipe what's left of a squad no matter what because you're terrified of a fair 3v3 or 2v2 fight lmfao, but the rate at which it happens desperately needs to be reduced, and 90% of players with actual balls would agree. A fighting chance also needs to be given to the victims of 3rd parties. I'm not asking for an advantage over 3rd parties, I'm asking for cowards like you to not be given an absolute landslide of an advantage. And it doesn't matter how quick you wipe a squad because every pathfinder and octane within a half mile are gonna be there to crap on what's left of you in 10 seconds anyway. Even if this change is made, how much is it gonna help when both your teammates are knocked and a full team of woosies like you comes through? Barely if at all. Enjoy your pitiful, undeserved wins you absolute invertebrate.

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18 Replies

Midnight9746
Hero+
5 years ago
@kellanammann I've replied to your other post about this, you can read that thread here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Feedback/3rd-Party/td-p/9194810/page/2

The only other thing I have left to say, is that I personally think you have to be within at least 50-80 meters to even see ability ultimates, as everyone knows where Lifeline, Bangalore, and Gibraltar drops their things, and where Crypto ults, etc. Gun sounds should also be reduced to less than 100 or so meters, snipers can be a little louder, but we shouldn't hear fighting from where Slum Lakes was, when we're in containment or even in the bunker.

Also, you'll think that with less things to render on our side of things, we might even have less lag issues as the server doesn't have to tell our games everything. Someone once turned up a sound setting (by a method not provided by the game), and you can hear every healing item, abilities, weapon reload, drops, player knocks, etc. being played at once. All these sounds are just quiet unless you're "near" them. No wonder why we have sound problems as well. They don't even have a proper play distance, they're just global with the volume tuned for each player. This was found out around like season 5 or 6. Don't know if they fixed it already.
afishthatvapes
5 years ago
This is a battle royale. Third partying is a strategy. Don't get into an engagement unless you know you can finish it quickly and get the armor swap, otherwise be the third partier. The game is third partying and map rotating. It's the best strategy if your goal is to win, which is the point of the game. To survive and become the champion.
What you guys seem to want is that whenever you engage a team, no one in the entire map is allowed to engage you and must wait for you two to get out of battle. The thing is, that's not how battle royale games work. Maybe you just don't like this game mode and should play a game with Deathmatch instead where there are two teams instead of 30.
Zero-Loot5
5 years ago
@kellanammann I would suggest a few thing as well.
I can basically fully agree with Point A.
About Point B...mhhh it COULD work. But maybe not. Maybe what they should do instead is implement the auto heal feature. So automatic heal starts after 7s maybe you could do it in a way where the heal accelerates the longer you don't take damage. So it starts at the speed at which it was going in the flashpoint LTM but as the time during which you don't take damage increases it gets faster. This would also help prevent 3rd parties at least to some extent because you could just run away and over time you heal and eventually you are fully healed the wannabe 3rd party now faces a fully healed squad again. It would also maybe bring more spice into close combat fights because you no longer drain your heal items when you fight people over greater ranges.

Additionally they could also introduce silencers to further reduce the range at which shots are heard. But maybe this would also go too far when combined with Point A.
Zero-Loot5
5 years ago
@afishthatvapes Spotted the guy that made 95% of his kills with 3rd parties.
People like you make the game s**t.
E9ine_AC
Hero+
5 years ago
@kellanammann Apex Legends has thrived on third party fights from the start of this game. Its a very aggressive game when you hear shots we run to it. by the sounds of it you are wanting the game to add easy mode for players.

Unlike Fortnite and COD Apex has yet to cator to the smaller players making them better by adding or removing things to make 1 set of people happy.

What you want is for them to govern engagement. Sorry but just not how this game works. As for the noise you ever been on a battle field? A real one? Those noises can be heard for miles. There is nothing wrong being able to hear gun fire from even 500 meters away. They are guns after all with big booms.

But adding in these features is catering to lower skilled players who cant and wont engage in third party.
kellanammann
5 years ago
@afishthatvapeslol what a stupid comment. It really is cowards like you that call it a "sTrAtEgY" that ruin this game. Obviously if it works so well then something needs to be done to reduce it. That's the whole point you dipstick. I want a fighting chance against the third party, not the removal of 3rd partying. I actually enjoy fighting teams one after the other I just want a fighting chance if my shield is cracked and both my teammates are down. You can't always shield swap either. What about long range engagements? Obviously cowards like you are gonna continue to hide and wait for the best time to easily wipe what's left of a squad no matter what because you're terrified of a fair 3v3 or 2v2 fight lmfao, but the rate at which it happens desperately needs to be reduced, and 90% of players with actual balls would agree. A fighting chance also needs to be given to the victims of 3rd parties. I'm not asking for an advantage over 3rd parties, I'm asking for cowards like you to not be given an absolute landslide of an advantage. And it doesn't matter how quick you wipe a squad because every pathfinder and octane within a half mile are gonna be there to crap on what's left of you in 10 seconds anyway. Even if this change is made, how much is it gonna help when both your teammates are knocked and a full team of woosies like you comes through? Barely if at all. Enjoy your pitiful, undeserved wins you absolute invertebrate.
E9ine_AC
Hero+
5 years ago
@AddSolosRespawn So you saying only good players should get kills? Not the bad player who out played someone for not thinking ahead of exit plan re entry plan incase things get bad? Instead its the bad players fault the good player died?

Dont call players trash either def when they have killed you..... You sound like a entitled little brat who dies in third party and yells at his monitor for not leaving sooner or thinking ahead. Not the bad players fault the "good" player cant think.
BlinkxzAi
5 years ago
@kellanammann 3rd Partying can be avoided if you're playing as a premade and competent, but if you’re playing with randoms it’s unavoidable one of your braindead teammate looting in the open while they have 5% health is gonna get caught out.
Lygerk_p
5 years ago
@kellanammann They claimed to have fixed it. You didn't notice the smaller round one ring that looks like a round two ring?
MrGameNfit
5 years ago
@Zero-Loot5 agreed