New Season, New Energy Weapons...

Update.

Arsenals now upgrade you to level one trash instead of level two... what's a word that's not trash but also not great? Well, that. So they really have gone out of their way to prevent people from wanting to hot drop on an arsenal. More Respawn social engineering. Admittedly, players are so bad that I can understand how hard it must be to resist the urge to force them to play smarter... but Respawn, you need to resist. You need to build a neutral map, neutral weapons, neutral mechanics, and let the players decide how to use them. Even when they do it wrong. Which is a lot.

How this ties into energy weapons: The only important piece of kit for an energy weapon (now) is an extended mag. Your first visit to an energy arsenal will not get you a usable mag. Level two, should you find one, or get to a second arsenal, is still not enough. When it's all I have I'll use it, but as soon as my gun freezes up... I quit. It's a shooter, Respawn, not a stand around and waiter.

So my entire world now revolves around getting to a level three mag. Sometimes you find one. Mostly you don't, and it's even harder now because of this season's loot pool devaluation. By the time you get to a level three mag you will find that you've also got to THE END OF THE MATCH. So even if you get the kit you need, there's not much left for you to do with it. Sure, the win is nice, but essentially the dev is forcing energy weapon users to camp or hide or wait out the entire match. Because if you try to engage with a level two mag... you'll only survive if your teammates are there to wipe your butt for you. Hey, maybe that was the whole point all along? To get "bad" solo players to stick with their team???

Swing and a miss, Respawn. Swing. Miss.

The only achievement the devs managed is that with their modifications they basically force players to stop using the newly changed weapons. I played around 20 matches and I don’t even look at the energy‑weapon side anymore, even though in previous seasons I started liking them again — because my favorite Hemlok was modified so badly that I stopped using it.

Basically, every one of my favorite weapons has been changed by the devs to the point where I don’t use them anymore. There are fewer and fewer weapons left to choose from.

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. 

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.