6 years ago
Landing with a weapon
I would like to have a test platform of having legends landing with some type of weapon. I have landed and opened 5 plus weapons caches aka pill boxes and have come up with no weapons. Maybe my legen...
I dont think that letting people start with a ranged weapon, even a P2020 or Mozambique, will "solve" anything. People would just start shooting like crazy at everything that moves and the early game would probably just feel even more random and RNG. At least now, only enemies right next to you can damage you. Imagine the frustration if you land alone at a bin and start spamming e to open it and 2-3 random enemies "randomly" choose you as their target and you die instantly from getting hit by three Mozambique blasts at the same time.
I mean, the main issue is that people like to jump hot, i.e. to few loot spawns location per player in the area. I do it all the time because I think its the most fun way to play the game, at least up to Diamond. If you hate the RNG with the loot early game, then you could always either drop real safe or pay attention to enemy teams drop trajectory and drop accordingly.
If dive trails from other teams reliably showed up, avoiding contested drops would certainly be a good strategy.
I've lost count of the number of times I've had squads magic out of thin air upon landing after a carefully observed descent.
Yeah Ive experienced that too sometimes but when it happens, its at least always teams that are behind you. I cant say if its a bug or if it just me who miss them when I look around because they are too far behind and above me. I usually just look at the nearby enemy teams trail trajectory when we still are quite far up in the air just to try to predict what general direction they are going for.