Season 26 Is Killing Apex: Broken Audio, No Duos, and Bad Changes
Lots of people seem rather annoyed by Season 26, I do too. Instead of focusing on things people have talked about, saying things that are clearly real problems, they went and screwed with the entire way Apex Legends works. Things that I personally dislike about the new changes include sound changes where I canāt tell where enemies are even when using optimized audio settings on $300 7.1 spatial audio headphones. Removing Duos mode was expected but what were you thinking? Wildcard trios is childish and dumb. Let me pick one friend to play with so I donāt have to pair with some random third player who loots poorly and calls us trash after dying. They completely ignored real issues with Mythics. People have been complaining about the rarity of Mythic shards, and they havenāt fixed it or made them less rare. Now Mythic weapons cost lots of shards, which means no normal player will want to grind that hard without reward. Regarding the audio problem, what did you think was cool about making it sound like teammates are whispering right next to your ear? I donāt care about light ammo notifications when Iām getting shot at and canāt hear where enemies are. I canāt even hear footsteps behind me or tell where gunshots come from. Pings are mostly silent now, and I canāt turn off dialogue because some things are important and missing them could cost the game. I propose you add a voting system in-game where people can post ideas they want to add and if there are enough upvotes, try it out, get feedback, and keep it if itās popular. Otherwise, remove it. People can also vote to remove disliked features. This would give the player base more control and prevent changes like āRespawn added weird, immersion-breaking audio rework, removed Duos, and shoved in a goofy power-up mode no one asked for,ā and players saying āWhy?ā while Respawn says āTrust the process.ā Or things like āDo you want Duos back next week?ā, āShould Wildcard mode stay in rotation?ā, and āDid the audio changes improve your experience?ā This would generally lead to a better overall game experience. Players arenāt happy with your changes ā please listen. You can still make money on cosmetics and listen to the community about what really matters. For context, here is my entire conversation with ChatGPT about these issues summarized: Season 26 removed Duos and replaced it with Wildcard trios, which players hate. Audio changes broke directional audio, footsteps, and made it hard to locate enemies even with expensive headphones. New character dialogue audio makes teammates sound like theyāre right next to you, drowning out real cues. Pings are silent or confusing. Players want a voting system to influence game updates. Respawn focuses too much on cosmetics and less on core gameplay and community feedback. I hope you seriously consider this feedback.
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