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Waistlessaxe's avatar
5 years ago

Evo Shields (specifically red)

As much as I absolutely hate the Evo shields and wish we had the old shields back, I see that’ll likely never happen getting the old ones back. You can craft 100 damage off Evo shields for every 45 crafting materials. I still see tons of reds even when purple takes 750 damage. So something needs to be done about them. I have five ideas either 1. For every shield upgrade it costs 45 on the first, 55 on the next 65 on the next and so on. 2. Instead of it taking 100 points of damage off have it take 50 points. 3. Take away the 5 bars and bring it down to 4 unless you’re willing to give purple shields 5 bars. The old shield meta purple and gold had the same and no shield especially red should have a 5th unless you’re willing to do the same to a purple. 4. Make the damage requirement from a purple to red 950 damage instead of 750 damage. 5. Take away the damage requirement from purple to red completely. No more 750 damage until red because the red shields like the power weapons in the prowler, peacekeeper and kraber will be a care package only shield. Red weapons and gear belong in a care package. Thought reds weren’t supposed to be common? Yet I’ve seen them countless times in rounds 1 and 2 where squads are stacked with them. All they do is snipe and or stack up crafting materials and farm for it. They are too easy to acquire and I myself have managed this multiple times showing people how easy it is. It’s not even hard to get and a shield with 5 bars should not be that easy to get. 

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  • Theres nothing wrong with the current shield system in fact i would go as far as saying its much better than the shields we had before the evos. The red shield is not that hard to get but that doesnt make it op i agree maybe it should cost more to take the 100 damage from your current shield or maybe make it so that you only get 50 damage instead of 100 but making a purple shield have 5 slots instead of 4 makes the red shield completely useless. The shields are pretty balanced where they are, in fact apex probably has the most balanced shield system ive seen in a battle royale

  • Waistlessaxe's avatar
    Waistlessaxe
    5 years ago

    My whole point to this is to make them not so easy to get especially in rounds 1 and 2. I’ve had games where I couldn’t find teams and I’ve got blue and no nearby replicators then round 2 hits and first squad I find is decked out in red. That’s where the problem comes in, now rounds 3 and on fine just not in the early game. I honestly think a shield that gives 5 bars should honestly be a care package shield. That way people have purple are on a more level playing field which may also incline people to actually grab more gold shields. Now I see a lot of care packages unopened and if red evos are added to them people may go to them more often. I just feel red evos are on the same level as the kraber, prowler and peacekeeper. 

  • LordloshBang's avatar
    LordloshBang
    5 years ago

    Sorry but i totally disagree with the OP. The Evo armor are the best new thing that come to the game. Nothing come even close to its.

    Current system is absolutely perfect. The TTK in the game is perfect as well. Its in the middle to be fair. Its not low, but not high as well.

    If you have good aim, the TTK feel fast and satisfying.

    Now on to the Evos:

    To get fully Evoled Red from naked, you need to do exactly 1300 damage, and this is without swappning armors here and there.

    The damage is high enough.

    As far as the crafting machine, you are wasting huge time on this machine to waste it on your Armor.

    I pretty much never use it to Evolve armors. First its a huge risk, cause you are going to be naked for a period of time, and you pretty much not taking the right stuffs from the crafting machine.

    The only time i`m using and wasting time on the Crafting machine is to get Bats and Backpack if i totally lacs them.

    I guess there is a play if you camping and hiding like rat from 1 point to another to just use the machine to upgrade your EVO. But you get like 100 materials, and you can get just 200 points/damage into your armor .... You got to do a lot of ratting, you know .... Crafting materials are not on everywhere on the map.


    As far as Snipers goes, good luck with that. I guess there is a play to that too, but its terrible boring, and you will not get better at the game with that play. And still you have to do a lot of camping to get that Red Evo ...

    Another thing is that Purple are not that common as before, at least i don`t find many of them.

    And next thing is the constant swap of armors, as everyone with skill is doing.

    And Ring level 1-2-3-4-5 has nothing to do with anything. A lot of games can end up pretty quick.

    I barely encounter people with Evo early or middle in the game. Mostly very late. But if people have it early, that mean they hot drop or fight a lot for it.

    And this is the cool stuff with the Evo Armor, they are tied to your skills and if you are landing your shots, and you are awarded for that. 


    As far as removing the Red ones, and lowering the HP, this is a bad move. They already try something similar and it didn`t pays off. Its good for them to not play with TTK anymore.

  • @Waistlessaxe I don’t think the crafting system is the reason there are so many reds available, between the r-99, volt, spitfire, mastiff, triple take, etc its rather easy to rack up the damage quickly and with all of the third partying and shield swaps I constantly see myself swapping for someone else’s shields with a lower damage requirement til the next upgrade
  • I find it cute that anyone believes they’re not OP lol. They’re all over the place especially in the early game. They need to be harder to get or put in a care package. Tough pill to swallow I get it but red shield belongs in the same loot pool as red weapons in the care package. 

  • LordloshBang's avatar
    LordloshBang
    5 years ago

    @Waistlessaxe wrote:

    I find it cute that anyone believes they’re not OP lol. They’re all over the place especially in the early game. They need to be harder to get or put in a care package. Tough pill to swallow I get it but red shield belongs in the same loot pool as red weapons in the care package. 


    What in the blue hell mean OP? Its equal for everyone. Its not like some weapon or ability is OP.

    From the frustration you obviously have i got to think you hate them, cause people farm damage, because they actually playing the game, and you are playing slowly, non aggressive, and when you met a team you are still blue/purple and they have Red, and you get angry by it.

    No one gives them the Red EVO, they earned it, by fighting, doing damage, and be in a tough situation, and taking risks.

    Red EVO is something you have to earn.

    And if you play skillful and with a pace, and swap armor often, and don`t spend 5 minutes to look which one have +5 damage more, so you can swap to it, and then heals it, and lose significant amount of time, you ain`t got EVO that fast.

    Armors atm is perfectly fine as it is.

    Again Evo Armor atm is rewarding skills, if the guy have early red Evo, that just mean he was in a lot of battle and earn it. 1300 damage is equal to 5-6 kills most of the time, sometimes more, sometimes a bit less. And this is without swapping armors.


    And its not like i`m not playing the game and don`t know at what time most people are running with Red Evos. So many games is finishing where neither me or my opponents have Red Evo at the final 2-3 squads.

    Saying people have it super early is a big big stretch.