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reconzero
Seasoned Ace
20 hours ago

New Season, New Energy Weapons...

To quote the dev,  they "took a big swing" with energy weapons this season.

Here's how it went for me in my first match. I picked up my volt and tripletake from an arsenal... that I had to wait for... and noticed immediately that they're self-charging. Cool. Got into my first mid-range poke and noticed that the game kept auto switching me to my volt without me choosing it manually. After switching back several times in frustration I finally realized that the game was switching me to a weapon that wasn't OUT OF AMMO. I kept switching back anyway. And waiting to get enough charge to use the gun. Now, I don't know if the devs actually play the game, but in Apex tenths of a second can often make a difference. Sometimes THE difference. And there I was sitting on top of my rock in the perfect position to do untold amounts of damage, get downs, maybe even a kill, MAYBE even a wipe. But no. I'm WAITING for my gun to recharge.

I quit that match as soon as I realized that I would have to ROTATE before I would be able to start unrestricted shooting again.

So here I am no longer able to shoot a gun at will because of some new mechanic which is seemingly designed to PREVENT ME FROM PLAYING THE GAME.

WHAT WERE YOU THINKING????????

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2 Replies

  • GHXLZYY's avatar
    GHXLZYY
    Newcomer
    20 hours ago

    i am yet to play ranked in the new season but from what i saw in the patch notes i knew the enery ammo change would essentially nerf energy weapons into the ground. and when i loaded up into the firing range for a brief moment my suspicions were true the changes make the weapons almost unusable. only 2-4 extra mags is not nearly enough when before people would usually hold 2-4 extra STACKS of ammo, the regen is not nearly enough for actual fights in apex, so i proposed a mechanic involving shields cells. idk if you can click on my profile and find the post i made about it but me personally i dont think its a half bad mechanic.

  • NickBeam27's avatar
    NickBeam27
    Seasoned Ace
    4 hours ago

    Same... I always enjoy the volt and triple take combo... I grabbed them both and within seconds I realized that Respawn just made the game so energy weapons can no longer be used viably in a shooter game. 

    So lets recap - first the brain dead Dev working on weapons, takes away an OG weapon since launch (Re-45) that their company sold skins for about 6 years for - turned it into a ramp up burst energy pistol which is just madness in itself, instead of making a new energy pistol. Uses the words "it muddies the design around the r99" - only you... not a single Dev working on this game prior to you, ever thought that was an issue... just you. 

    Then you make energy weapons completely useless - all of them. All that time and work the Dev's before you put into energy weapons, just for you to spit on them and destroy them in one false swoop. 

    Well done Respawn team. Fire your weapons Dev please. 

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