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jnub64's avatar
5 years ago

Revive/banner collect separate button

It would be very nice for the revive/banner collect interaction to have a separate button dedicated to it, at least on mouse and keyboard.  As is, having it on regular interact presents a few problems.  For starters, performing a revive on a downed teammate in front of a door can be very powerful, as it blocks the door, negating entry.  Unfortunately, when doing a door revive it is very easy to open the door by accident, which will negate the benefit of the door revive entirely, which forces you to close it.  While performing this there's the additional chance that you actually do perform the revive, something that you definitely do not want to do whilst the door is open.  If revive were set to the same key as, say, alternate interact, this problem would be mitigated, as regular interact would be used to close the door and alternate interact would be used to perform the revive.  The second major issue comes from when a teammate is fully dead.  Armor swapping is a large part of the game and the best players will consistently do it.  However, it is currently unadvisable to attempt an armor swap on a downed teammate, since the first time you touch the box it will lock you into a two second "banner grab" animation in which you cannot shoot or loot the box.  This can be incredibly frustrating in a game of seconds such as Apex.  I personally have died several times to this two second buffer, being unable to armor swap in front of an enemy and having them burn me down while I can't shoot my gun.  I propose that there be a separate key for picking up banners (alternate interact, just like the revive suggestion from before?) so that you can loot your teammate's deathbox without grabbing their banner and thus becoming vulnerable whilst stuck in the banner grab animation.

I hope these suggestions are properly regarded and taken into account as I think they would greatly improve the quality of the game.

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  • @jnub64Its an issue for controller players too, honestly more of an issue than it is for mouse and keyboard players because you can at least click R to reload but I will be mid gunfight and hit X to reload and end up starting a finisher on somebody or this one game it was in the final 2 and I was either in a 1 v 2 or 1 v 3 I don’t remember but I tried to reload and ended up latching onto this random zipline a pathfinder made at some point straight into the storm and even though I jumped off instantly I still ended up dying lol

    I really just wish they would add auto retrieve banners into the game permanently, that way its one less action to declutter the interact button but also it would reward the players who actually stay instead of instantly rage quitting because currently even if you wait your banner can still go inactive wasting everyones time and makes the person who just clutched that 1 v2 or 1 v 3 forced to solo for the rest of the game...

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