Use Replicating Materials to "buy-back" Teammates

@671BattlemageNo. You can find respawn beacons and some times even buy them. This is not CoD.

You left out the Gulag.  😬

@Schaapje1987Did you even read the post? He is talking about expired banner cards not mobile respawn beacons... this is honestly a great idea but at the same time I don’t see it working out 90% of the time because most randoms would just leave as soon as they are knocked or their card expired

@671Battlemage@TheApexLegendNub If the banner is lost because you didn't pick it up in time and with his idea you would be able to "activate" it again, thus allowing for a respawn with beacons or standard beacon.

As he said it himself, sometimes you simply aren't able to get it because players are still there. It's risk vs. reward. But now you can just run away, wait for time out and buy it back. That's just utterly ridiculous, and it beat one of the purposes in-game.

@Schaapje1987I'm not sure what "purpose" you think this feature idea is ruining.

I did address why the "perma-death" aspect of the game exists in my opinion if that's what u are getting at.

And I also explained how to implement it into the game in the last part of the post to avoid the "just hide and buy them back strat"

150mat-250mat is not a small amount so the living teammates would have to move between different parts of the map to get the amount to actually do it unless they already had set amount in their pocket.

It will also make use of the materials that people pick up too many materials on the days when the weapon upgrades in the Rep. aren't their favorite.

I like the Apex right now

If a team member dies and can be purchased with points, the team members can throw him away and run away and play again if one person is defeated, but the opponent's stance or the playing time of the game is longer and it is not APEX-like.

If a teammate is knocked down, you have to stick quickly and fight to save him, or sneak in and get his beacon.
If you keep reviving, at the end of the game there will be countless players fighting in a narrow ring.

I will be honest... I have no idea what kind of point you were trying to get across.

I already made a point to address the concern of "making respawning 'too easy"" for players by stating how much work and coordination it would take to bring back an expired teammate banner.

That included a VERY HIGH REPLICATING COST for the teammate banner to be made and also having to actually wait for the banner to time out before replicating even becomes an option.

I see a common counter arguement being made about how players can just "go and get the banner before it times out" which as stated previously is sometimes IMPOSSIBLE to do without risking the entire team. The traditional "grab and run" method would be the faster and cost efficient way of bringing back a teammate, since it costs 0 material to do so. This option I am proposing acts as remedy for the situations where a teammates deathbox is in a severely compromised position where if you attempted to recover the banner, the player attempting the rescue ends becoming dead themselves. The only other option for the team as a whole would be to actually abandon the dead player for their banner to expire. That is a situation absouslely NO ONE likes to go through; no one likes watching their alive teammates run away as their own banner slowly ticks to expiration.

This feature is not meant to replace the traditional method of recovery if that what you are concerned about it doing.

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COMMON SCENARIO

Lets say that after you and your squad drop hot and take out one squad, but a 3rd party takes out one of your teammates, forcing the survivors to retreat. As the 3rd party squad is looting the death boxes of the fallen, you and your last squad mate weigh out your options about what is the next move to make now that you are both down a teammate. 

The traditional options usually go as:

-Attempt a 2v3 against a squad with the best gear in the area in a "all or nothing" fight to recover the teammate banner before the timer expires.

-Cut your losses and get to safety with who is left and let their teammate expire out of the game. 

As player of this game since Season 0, I can assure you that the majority of players will pick the latter option, since the former is takes a considerable amount of skill, coordination and luck to get out alright. 

With my Replicator option added, this now adds a 3rd option for the survivors that will give them a reason to look out for areas with materials and fresh supplies. 

In this scenario, the REPLICATE TEAMMATE BANNER option will cost the survivors lets say 300 Materials (each). Now unless there about 8 Material Pods on your drop to just make another banner ready to go, the survivors will now have to search the map to gather the materials to bring their teammates back into the fight. Now instead of walking around the map as a perma "2 man trio squad" waiting for a bad fight to happen, successful material gatherings in each area they can manage to get through will bring them closer to having a full squad again, despite the fatal encounter they endured minutes ago.

This will reward players who are knowledgeable and skilled enough to make good decisions while going around the map with expired teammates.

This alternative scenario is much more preferable than having to actively force a win out of every encounter 2v3's endlessly with no hope of getting a teammate again.

And please note this "Recovery by Replicating" option would be by no means an easy task for a Trio of 2 members to pull off without caution. Searching areas for materials with just 2 out of the members would never be without risk.