The snare on hit has to go!

@MekaDeth555  Yup. The worse time this happens is when you're trying to either flee from an engagement you cannot win or when you land and enemies get the weapons before you so you need to flee to find a weapon somewhere else. This stupid idea to slow you down when hit by bullets further punishes you.

"Here, you have no way to fight back against your assailant, let's also just remove any of your chances of survival by crippling you for no reason at all"

Worse design decision I'v ever seen in a FPS from a triple A title. When you have that bs plus how netcode favors the shooter at all times (even Pieces of S lagging with 300+ ping from 3rd world countries shooting you around corners), it can make the game EXTREMELY frustrating.

Ok you start running and have someone shoot you. (You can wear a bulletproof vest) if you can continue to run with out staggering or completely falling over I will accept your argument 

@LuckyCanuckLuke  Did you just tried to bring a realism argument in a game where you can heal from a shotgun blast to the face, or where you jetpack down like you're in a  wingsuit, or where there's no gravity/fall damage, or where magical rings hurt you because reasons, or where bullets have the velocity and drop of a pellet gun, or where a crazy lady hears voices that let her know she's about to be shot and said crazy lady can open up magical portals, or where after you die a magical clone of yourself is brought back in the ring if your teamates bring your banner to a special magical machine?!

You're right this game isn't 100% realism like Arma but nobody claimed it was. 

I do believe however that even in fantastical situations players want mechanics that make logical sense based on how things work in real life. So for instance in a  shooter where there are crazy abilities the players still want guns to work how guns work, The devs also want this because they very closely modeled the guns off of real guns. 

This is why you hear complaints about things like bullet drop being too severe or peacekeeper range being too extreme because it defies our expectations of how actual guns work 

Indeed, this game is not only "not 100% realism", it's actually one of the least realistic FPS game. I'm not sure what you're trying to say with your last line. Shotguns are and will always be deadly even at ridiculously long range (people hunt geese flying dozens of meters in the sky with shotguns to name one example) but if games made their weapons strickly like they are IRL, NOBODY would bother using anything but LMGs or shotguns in fast pace FPS games because a single bullet/pellet would be enough to either kill or injure the player enough his character would be incapacitated. The reason it's not like that is for "balance" and "fun".

Balance >>>>>> realism.

Which brings us exactly to my point, the only times being slowed down from a bullet happens is when you're trying to flee either because you need to get some cover or because you're weaponless. In both situation, the shooter (which is already dealing damage to his target) is already at a significant advantage (which is fine at this point) but it is further emphasized with a snare/slow which is ridiculous. It's just too much. Add on top of that how the garbage netcode (reminder: it's been proven it is the WORSE of any triple A title from all mainstream FPS titles tested) further rewards the shooter, even moreso if he's lagging from a 3rd world country, and you have a gigantic mess on your hands and that's exactly what Apex is.

There's a reason no slow (or your character being crippled for example) is applied when you are shot in any mainstream pvp shooter title : fortnite, overwatch (excluding abilities), BF titles, COD titles, etc. because it's a frustrating mechanism. It's ok in a faceoff as it doesn't change much to the fight, but when you're trying to flee, you should be able to disengage with every character, not just octane or pathfinder using their abilities. 

Otherwise, while we're at it, I want my target to have his accuracy crippled if I land bullets (I mean, try aiming while bullets make contact with your body), I want everybody to run slower depending on the amount of items carrying and how hurt they are, I want gravity damage, etc. etc. It never ends. 

As for your example with hunting geese, yes those shots can take down a bird. The effective range of birdshot is a 40 inch spread at 40 yards. that shot will not put down anything larger than a bird, would do limited damage, and that animal is likely to survive. If you are talking buckshot which is more akin to what these guns would be shooting your effective range for a reliable kill is 35 yards you can shoot 50-75 yards but you are unlikely to make a killing shot. 

The TTK in this game is high, removing the sprint interrupt from heavy weapons would increase the TTK. That would be a bad thing IMO.

@LuckyCanuckLuke> I agree.

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@LuckyCanuckLuke wrote:
There's a reason no slow (or your character being crippled for example) is applied when you are shot in any mainstream pvp shooter title : fortnite, overwatch (excluding abilities), BF titles, COD titles, etc. because it's a frustrating mechanism.

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I understand your pain, but all games you mentioned are completely different. None of them has so small characters (hitboxes), long TTK (on average) and so fast movement speed. None. In addition, this only applies to heavy weapons - those with lowest firerate, so it somehow make sense. Well, at least to me.

@TSF_VindictiV 

Since this game is not realistic, which I agree on.. Why is it bullets hurt me? I mean, this is based of fantasy, why can't I just be a bullet sponge and never take damage?

The answer, because no matter how unrealistic a game is, there needs to be SOME aspect of reality entwined in it.. So a bullet slowing you down a bit is completely acceptable in this game.. 

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@LuckyCanuckLuke wrote:

The TTK in this game is high, removing the sprint interrupt from heavy weapons would increase the TTK. That would be a bad thing IMO.

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The TTK would only increase for those that are bad at tracking. This mechanic is nothing more than catering to bad players that can't track.

Team Fortress 2, Overwatch and Paladins have relatively high TTK but do not have this silly mechanic and no one in those games are asking for it.

The major selling point of this game is that it's a fast paced, movement based game. This mechanic contradicts that. Therefore I do not believe that it belongs in this game. 

If they remove the speed reduction on getting hit, then you would need to nerf the healing aspect of the game because it would be too easy to run away and heal back up.