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Rising Novice

1 month ago

Not a fan of all the changes

Apex is just getting ridiculous. You work so hard to get good at a game just for them to change it it just seems pointless. On top of all that the only real character I play with is Caustic and t...

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reconzero

Seasoned Ace

1 month ago

I can't decide if they think old players leave no matter what so they have to try appealing to new players... or if they think the only way to retain old players is to mix things up enough to make them feel like they're playing a new game. I'd say they're failing either way. For the first ten or fifteen seasons this game "evolved" very slowly - changes, whether I liked them or not, seemed thought through and not game-breaking. These days it's just "how do we make it faster without regard for balance or continuity?" The culmination, so far, being Wildcard. Which I played a lot in its first season. Then the cheaters and smurfs moved in, but that wasn't the real problem. The real problem was a proliferation of mobility legends, many of whom got buffs to make them too powerful, and then the mode added speed boost and wall running on top of it all. Until it got to the point where the final three was just Octane and Ash times nine, and you couldn't even see anyone. They just blurred around the map until only one player was left standing. So I went back to trios and never looked back. They took away duos. They made ranked unplayable in a lot of different ways, but fixed drops was the nail in the coffin. Then they created Wildcard and then they made that unplayable by the second season. All that's left is trios, and frankly there are a LOT of problems there as well. I guess now I just wait for a return of OG Kings. Though they'll probably find some way to ruin that too.

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New Ace

1 month ago

There's probably nothing worse in Wildcard than 3stack Mirage, where each of them wears the same skin... Even three Caustics can be pushed away from a building, but when you have 3x Mirages who use their ultimate at the same time, it's better to just leave the game. It's just not fun.

The "Wildcard" mode itself is a good idea, but there are some features that ruin the game's overall feel. Like the recent mythical R99 or now the swords. These are weapons that have no countermeasures. Charged sword kill me in two hits... XD

Furthermore, charging it near enemies works better than Crypto's ultimate, because it removes the entire shield, not 50 points (like Crypto's). This is so OP that I can't understand why it was implemented and what its purpose is.

reconzero
Seasoned Ace
1 month ago
I agree 100% that the concept of Wildcard is a good one, even though I spent entire seasons ranting about LTMs with free and unlimited respawns. No, I've definitely come to see the benefit - although I still have to say that I don't want them in the main game. And I'm pretty sure they're coming. Maybe not this season, maybe not next season, but at some point... they're coming.
Yeah, Wildcard seems great on paper, but as always, the devil is in the details. I never encountered a Mirage three stack, but my reaction would have been instantaneous: QUIT. I left before the over-powered weaponry became a thing. If the motion proliferation hadn't driven me out then the weapons definitely would have.
And I get it. It's supposed to be an "anything goes" format where kids can just rack up easy stats. Sure. I guess. Problem is they've taken it far enough that I'm pretty sure I'm not the only player they've driven out of the hopper. The more they amp things up then the more they polarize "winners" and "losers." And suddenly the losers get fed up and leave and there's nobody left but a small pack of sweat-soaked Adderall junkies on some kind of perpetual repeat loop. Yet another Solos, another buster sword, another quads. Another good idea ruined by poor execution. Trying to pull in some kid who was always going to flake off back to Fortnite no matter what Respawn came up with to try to lure them in. Wait a minute... a dev who doesn't understand their core audience or what should be the immutable features of their own gameplay? If I had a buck for every time THAT happened....