Control LTM Feedback Megathread

The teams need to be of equal skill fighting other teams of equal skill. The current design is flawed. This mode  could be so fun but Respawn refusing to do skill-based matchmaking for a capture point mode is flabbergasting to say the least. 

Hello Respawn,

I'm not sure if you'll read this, but if you do, I want you know that I thoroughly enjoy the Control Point mode. In addition to be a super fun team deathmatch (and basically the team rumble version for Apex), this mode is also the perfect way for me to warm up for Battle Royale as well as practicing new characters as well.

I hope we can see a scenario where we get Control Point as a permanent mode someday. If you guys can, I know for sure I wouldn't bounce around between Apex and some of your other competitor's games.

Thanks 🙂

My feedback after mostly just playing this mode the last week:

• Out of the 3 maps, I only enjoy the Olympus one. (because it is linear and not a triangle)
  • Worlds Edge: B is too open --> you can attack A and C from B directly. Rotation / spawning in lava is not optimal, too many roof campers
  • Storm Point: same as above, you can grief both points from top directly, B point too small
• Capping a point while timer ticks should stop the lockout.
• Let us swap weapon slots in the selection screen
• More PTFO encouragement / rewards
• NO purple / gold shields
• FIX the spawn position

After quite a lot of games it feels like Control essentially boils down to "who has the most master players". The amount of times a single (squad) of master player(s) dominated the entire game was astonishing and demoralising.

Especially when those masters start spawn killing.

Having (what seems like) unbalanced teams feels ome of the biggest problems with control (and all of Apex to be honest).

When Control comes into game I never play anything else. Any other game, any other mode, nothing. I cant even watch my favorite YouTube videos before I go to sleep because I just cant get enough of it. I WISH IT WAS PERMANENT THING really. I just wish I could play this a bit more often before I go to sleep for ever. :D Im getting so much better in game and so quick, it is like a dream. Apex is very hard game and Battle Royale just isnt enough fighting to get good. Arenas are just too competitive and sweaty so I cant really enjoy it. This Control is just chill and intense fights all match long at the same time, its perfect.

New map (Lava Siphon) is the best map ever, maybe Wattson is a bit overpowered there, but its because noone thinks of playing Crypto and EMP those fences out of the way so yeah, Wattson is okay if she can be countered.

Control could be even Ranked because why not ? If Overwatch 6v6 can be Ranked why 9v9 Apex couldnt ? 🙂

I hate seeing people complaining about unballanced teams, you can still have good fun if your team dont leave because Apex isnt Overwatch. Please dont complain, we want this mode to be permanent.

Its not great. HALO does it bettet!

Ladies and Gentlemen, some of my ideas to improve Control. Take these with a grain of salt as I am not an expert

-Big Brother

I don't know why this keeps happening but for most matches in control, I often found that a third of the team or even just a couple of players were doing extraordinarily well while the others did notably less well. This needs to be fixed because not only does it not improve players, it also can cause team wipes depending on the skill of the big brother in question. 

-Care packages and armor reduction

This one sounds balanced because an equal amount of them land on each side. However if one team is destroying the other then the CP weapons and gold armor land in the hands of the enemy which makes the chance of recovery even worse. This can be fixed by providing gold weapons instead of CP weapons and removing gold (and purple) armor from the care package and limiting purple to lifeline packages.

-Mobile Respawn Beacons

I think this is pretty straightforward, these either do nothing or act as a major nuisance as the enemy team floods the point, making defense even more difficult. My suggestion as replacement is a temporary fourth point to not only take flak off B but also to act as kind of a mobile respawn beacon while ensuring a much greater impact on the battle and temporary so that teams aren't spread too far apart.

-People joining an existing match

They should not be getting purple gear. I think instead they could start with purple weapons, I think these don't have as much impact as armor and since these people join usually quickly after a match starts it sill has some good effect.

There are probably more but these are the ones at the top of my head.