Three Strikes should be permanent.
This game mode has brought me back to playing apex, it’s insanely fun and in my opinion should be a permanent game mode!
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@DaleFox2012
"I've not seen any negative comments about 3 strikes mode..."
Then allow me to be the first. Just "played" my first three matches in 3 Strikes. First match loaded up with only one other teammate. Teammate hot dropped, got vaporized, and quit. Then I quit. Second match loaded up with only one other teammate. Teammate hot dropped, got vaporized, and quit. Then I quit. Third match loaded up with TWO teammates. Promising, or so I thought. Jump Master chose a drop that looked like it might not be a dumpster fire. Only one other squad followed us in. That squad instantly vaporized both of my teammates. At that point I'm wondering why I would continue playing when I could just quit and re-queue. Which is what I did. In regular BR.
So in that farce of a game type people behave even worse than they do in normal BR - including myself - so bad that I never even got a chance to see what it looks like when you use a strike. Or get a strike. Or get struck out or whatever it is. People just run for the door.
And the three strike mechanic, as far as I can see, is there to allow the same handful of high-calibre three stacks to keep killing the same mediocre players over and over AND OVER again. Is a 20 kill even relevant anymore in a game type where 57 players can be killed three times each in a single match? This whole thing seems to me like a gift for the streamers. I can't understand why everyone ("everyone?") is so excited by this.
"I've not seen any negative comments about 3 strikes mode..."
Then allow me to be the first. Just "played" my first three matches in 3 Strikes. First match loaded up with only one other teammate. Teammate hot dropped, got vaporized, and quit. Then I quit. Second match loaded up with only one other teammate. Teammate hot dropped, got vaporized, and quit. Then I quit. Third match loaded up with TWO teammates. Promising, or so I thought. Jump Master chose a drop that looked like it might not be a dumpster fire. Only one other squad followed us in. That squad instantly vaporized both of my teammates. At that point I'm wondering why I would continue playing when I could just quit and re-queue. Which is what I did. In regular BR.
So in that farce of a game type people behave even worse than they do in normal BR - including myself - so bad that I never even got a chance to see what it looks like when you use a strike. Or get a strike. Or get struck out or whatever it is. People just run for the door.
And the three strike mechanic, as far as I can see, is there to allow the same handful of high-calibre three stacks to keep killing the same mediocre players over and over AND OVER again. Is a 20 kill even relevant anymore in a game type where 57 players can be killed three times each in a single match? This whole thing seems to me like a gift for the streamers. I can't understand why everyone ("everyone?") is so excited by this.
@reconzeroThree strikes gives you a few good things. Firstly, it offers you chances at revenge. In Battlefield, I actually enjoyed hunting down that guy that just killed me 3 times in a row. BR robs you of that and leaves you feeling horrible when you get obliterated. In Three Strikes, at least you can vent that rage. Secondly, it ensures a ridiculous end game every time. We know that Respawn things that hectic end games are the "ultimate Apex experience" so this fits right in. I don't agree with them, but they've made no bones about it with how they've approached Ranked.
On the downside, it just exaggerates how horrible the matchmaking is. Instead of getting destroyed by a 3 stack in milliseconds once, now you have the joy of that 3 times in one match. The current meta of revive legends (LL, NC, Mirage) also turns a lot of the fights into a "res off" where everybody just revives teammates with no regard for anything else. While hectic, that can be annoying after a while.
All said, I think it is more good than bad.
- @HappyHourSumwur
"Three strikes gives you a few good things. Firstly, it offers you chances at revenge."
I love that you love this. I despise the entire idea. Once somebody puts me down then I can't get away from that fast enough. Away from that player, away from the match, sometimes even from the game for the rest of the night. Funny how people can look at the exact same thing and see it in completely different ways.
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