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BLUE9FACE9KING9
New Traveler
7 days ago

I can't wait for this Season to be over

It's actually impressive.  I thought I was miserable fighting the support meta last season.  PSHHH. That was a breeze.  The assault meta, with the recent wraith update is a nightmare.  My brain is overstimulated at this point.  For context, I main Wattson (in dire need of a buff), and trying to follow Ash dash, the ballistic ULT, the wraith void spam.  Understand, in order to set a trap, I have to look down, click twice from left to. right, and look back up to fight.  Im dead by that point.  All the other legends can hit their tactical once, and keep fighting.  And never mind Wattson has less traps than other control legends, but the developers thought it was necessary to give legends the ability to avoid the traps all together.  Explain to me why, you allow legends to move in the middle of the air after hitting the jump cannon?  How is that possible from the scientific stance of it?  Explain to me how if Wattson sets her fence on a zip next to a ledge, a legend can stand on the ledge and shoot out the traps without getting zapped....  If you want to make Wattson the weakest legend, or give her the biggest disadvantages, fine.  But give Wattson a chance at least!  One of these days I'm going to give a detail analysis of all the ways every legend counters Wattson.  But to be honest the developers should know, they just hate control legends I think.   Their target audience now is people with attention deficiencies that have to keep moving faster.  The faster you move now is all that matters.  Don't worry about ring rotation, counters to legends, POI.  Just press your tactical and shoot.  And thats where we are.

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  • Blekerodo's avatar
    Blekerodo
    Seasoned Veteran
    5 days ago

    It's not about giving everyone a huge boost every season.

    Even if they boost controllers in s25, for example, and boost support again in s26, for example, and it's powerful again, those boosts from s25 will cease to matter.

    Why can't we get a general balance for all characters, and if you see that a character is too weak, THEN YOU JUST GENTLY BOOSTER THEM AND OBSERVE HOW IT IS IN PRACTICE?

    Why does every boost have to be so sick that you don't want to play? What's the point?

    Playing like this, our favorite legends will be good on average once every 4-5 seasons. Cool, isn't it?

    God, what would I give to turn back time and play this game from the early seasons... I would 1000 times rather look for that **bleep**ty personal shield on the ground than run after that nasty Ash with NO way to catch up with her (just one example, I could list dozens of similar ones).

    Since the introduction of health bars this game has just started to fall apart. I don't know if anyone can stop these sick changes.

  • SoloDemoting's avatar
    SoloDemoting
    Seasoned Newcomer
    6 days ago

    Yeah they need to buff everyone. Idk why they only make one class OP at a time. The 2x heal for supports was too much, maybe like 1.5x heal for small meds?

    but when it comes to control, that 25 extra HP is negligible compared to the other classes. They need FAR more than that to be viable in ranked or pubs. 

  • Blekerodo's avatar
    Blekerodo
    Seasoned Veteran
    6 days ago

    For many seasons Horizon and Pathinder were too strong.

    Why do they NEVER learn from their mistakes?

    20-30% of people who play only Ash now immediately attack you when you mention how broken this season is. It's a shame that people don't look to the future at all, that such a change will cause more negative than positive things over time.

    As I mentioned before, thinking is an increasingly bigger problem for most here.

    And yes - I've never seen such a messed up overall balance across all legends (even during a season where support was the meta.)

    What's the point of this game if you want to play your favorite character who will be insanely buffed by Respawn in one season and then be unplayable or completely broken in the next 5? Is this the Apex you all want? Really? Congratulations on your intelligence (to those who think everything is fine).

  • bladeoftin11's avatar
    bladeoftin11
    Seasoned Newcomer
    6 days ago

    I completely agree with you especially as a Wattson Main myself. But you also need to understand that these characters play entirely differently. Like you mentioning Wattson being one of the weakest legends; this is only the case if you use her incorrectly. She's incredibly strong in buildings. Obviously in the open Legends like Ash are going to thrive against her... That being said you are entirely correct I don't know what the devs are thinking but ever since conduit they've been making broken legends/reworks and putting them in the complete wrong class. Like let's not sit here and act like Ash isn't a complete skirmisher. The fact that she's been giving assault abilities on top of her very much skirmisher like tactical and ultimate is crazy. I'm really sick of respawn just turning everyone into a skirmisher. It's also crazy that the Devs see ash sitting at a well above 20% pick rate and they put out the most mediocre soft nerf ever. I can't wait until after this season. The only issue is I guarantee they're just going to release some other broken meta that 30% of the player base  hops on overnight. I'm generally just sick of meta chasers and the devs that work at respawn because of their idiotic logic. This season has been the worst ever as far as being completely imbalanced. It doesn't matter if you're playing ranked or pubs every squad you fight has a annoying ash that needs to go. This wasn't what Apex was intended to be, If it was they would only be a couple of legends to chose from. One of my favorite things about Apex was getting into a multitude of diverse fights because of the numerous amount of characters with completely unique abilities. It feels like that's slowly getting completely stripped away because the game currently has a insane balancing issue. Hopefully they get rid of having two dashes or completely nerf that cool down because right now The current state of the game is fried. No legend should be above a 20% pick rate. 

  • Blekerodo's avatar
    Blekerodo
    Seasoned Veteran
    6 days ago

    20x Ash on the map and have a great time.

    The game was killed for 90 days.

  • Absolutely. 100%. Spot. On.

    This season is pretty tragic, and that's saying something after the last one. And the one before that. Come to think of it, I can't remember the last time they did a new season and I was happy or excited about the changes. Now, as you said, it's all about hyperactivity. Probably because it makes it harder to tell if people are really cheating or not. Fun fact: they mostly are.

    I feel your pain on the subject of legend class. I'm a Valk, and while I can't complain about having started weak, all the buffs everyone else gets certainly make you feel weak. Though I heard that recon will be the next class to get "the treatment," so I guess I have that to look forward to. I'm sure they'll get to control eventually if you can just stick it out a few more seasons....

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