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Seasoned Newcomer

4 months ago

New update takes away Champion circle

This is by far my least favorite update ever. I try to take the different different buffs and nerfs and stride. It's part of the game and it's part of making the game go but taking away the champion ...

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eldercitizen

Seasoned Ace

4 months ago

Champion screen was an Apex hallmark.

Used to be nice to see your banner and hear your voice line. I used to get a kick out of being the champion and winning back to back matches. We'll never hear "the champion has been eliminated" again, in Ranked. 😢

Hate to see it go.

Tough.

Midnight9746
Hero+
4 months ago
eldercitizen wrote:
Used to be nice to see your banner and hear your voice line. I used to get a kick out of being the champion and winning back to back matches. We'll never hear "the champion has been eliminated" again, in Ranked.

Ah... its the game's champion screen from the start of the match, (honestly, I didn't even notice it was gone).
- eldercitizen
  Seasoned Ace
  4 months ago
  Well Midnight.... you don't need a champion's screen because you're already a champion. 🏆🏆🏆
  But for us aspiring champions we want our screen back!!! 😡😂
  - Midnight9746
    Hero+
    4 months ago
    eldercitizen wrote:
    Well Midnight.... you don't need a champion's screen because you're already a champion.
    
    eldercitizen Hero*, but I get your point.
    
    eldercitizen wrote:
    But for us aspiring champions we want our screen back!!!
    
    As for the reason, the patch notes basically reads "we don't want players to be discouraged by the stats and badges of the champion squad"
    
    However, this change comes across to me as:
    
    "People complained about getting high ranked and no-life players in their matches, so we're hiding that fact"
    
    Which doing so makes no sense as it removes part of Apex's identity, (being THE champion).
    
    Furthermore, if Respawn makes a new system, it is bound to fail because as anyone who've seen the leaderboards during Ranked Rumble can tell you, players can and will use cheats and/or exploits to climb to the absolute top anyways.
    
    So in short:
    
    Respawn, just put the champion screen back or rework the champion screen to where it hides the player's badges, stats, (and even their banner frames), because then no one will see something like this:
    
    Rather they would see:
    
    and now suddenly, ahhh, a lot less "intimidating", (and also rework the matchmaking and remove badges and stats from those who didn't actually earn them).
    
    I used to think players with hard to get badges and crazy stats were really good, but Respawn had really let the value of these badges and stats go.
    
    Lastly, this removal is as lame as when they "fixed" Wattson's Easter Egg emote, (where Wattson could no longer place the Nessie on her teammate's hitboxes, (which did absolutely nothing to block enemy gun fire and made the emote fun to use)), and even lamer than when they removed the ability to emote while moving, (which yes, was a thing).