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CompleatBeet's avatar
CompleatBeet
5 years ago

How to fix the Energy Weapon problem

If somebody from Respawn Entertainment or EA reads this, please make sure it's implemented into Apex Legends.

- Make Energy Ammo rarer than Sniper Ammo

- Energy Ammo guns are rarer than guns on other ammunition types

- Rampart's Modded Loader passive no longer has an increased magazine capacity on LMGS

- However it should still have the ability to decrease reload time and should have a new ability that grants higher DPB

- Reduce the magazine size of the Devotion LMG from 36 - 32

- Increase horizontal and vertical recoil for the Devotion moderately

- Reduce the effect of barrel stabilisers on a Devotion slightly so it's dependent on barrel mods

- Skullpiercer Rifling should be Level 3

- Turbocharger should be the only Level 4 hop-up attachment and only 5 should spawn every game

- Nerf the Extended Energy Magazine's maximum capacity increase

Boom. Problem solved without vaulting or making the Devotion a Care Package gun.

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6 Replies

  • Peri_Longbow_pl's avatar
    Peri_Longbow_pl
    5 years ago
    @CompleatBeet I'm against this solution. I win matches without energy weapons, no problem.

    With your suggestions, you basically make energy redundant, no one will use it and you end up with a new meta you'll make a thread about to nerf it. Then what?
  • kungfuik3nny04's avatar
    kungfuik3nny04
    5 years ago

    I agree with adding recoil and reducing the magazine sizes,but making energy weapons harder to find doesn't solve anything in my opinion. Instead I would nerf the damage by 2-3 damage per bullet.

  • Irres169's avatar
    Irres169
    5 years ago

    Making Ammo rarer just makes the entire class of energy weapons not worth carrying.

    It is only the Devotion that is broken and needs to be brought down seriously in it's damage numbers.

  • nebwise's avatar
    nebwise
    5 years ago

    Energy weapon rarity does seem to be imbalanced. I'm seeing drops with four or five volts or havocs in the same location. The loot distribution appears to be too random, and thus really clumpy. I see a lot of bins with no guns, and many  containing three or more of the same item (such as a blue evo). Combined with new shield rules, season 6 is less tactical and more frag-fest. It's become a game of chance, and that's not why I signed up to play.

  • CompleatBeet's avatar
    CompleatBeet
    5 years ago

    @Peri_Longbow_plz The Devotion is OP as floor loot. So is the HAVOC with a Turbocharger and Purple Extended Magazine. If they don't want to nerf the guns in power, they should make them rare.

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