Starting today Always Be Closing will be live, for the 20th and 21st. The ring starts coming and it won't stop coming. Avoid massive damage by flying and running.

@EA_David Just wanted to point out how this title looks like someone ranting about abusive forum mods lol

Play some rounds:1. Definetly the most sweaty LTM, full of third party actions, especially when you land near ring in town.2. Near the final ring, feel like scrim, it is chaotic. After long time, my heart beat faster than ussual, used to be flat (aka normal) when play this game 🙂3. Team mate stick together more in this mode, since they know they can't survive wondering around.

Honestly, don't have any criticisms of this game mode. The ring speed feels fine and I like how it decreases the duration of each match. There is more action and less sitting around waiting for a fight which is really nice. It is a little more chaotic, but it feels balanced.The only frustrating thing that happened was I landed far from final ring location on drop (my bad) going for the train and after 10 seconds from landing the ring spawned on top of me and didn't give me any chance to run out of it as it killed me in 3 ticks. But I quickly learned from that mistake.

Love this mode, I'd also be perfectly fine if this is default ring for other playlist. All in all it sets the match to a good pace for every type of players, especially team based play, put them shortcomings under magnifier, people learn from mistakes quick while before they may get by either being good or lucky. I've seen high K/D streamers having a bad time because they need their teammates more than ever.1. Loot goblins should learn their lesson you don't need to clean every house and crate to be battle ready. 2. Lone wolves who drop alone and wandering far off team perimeter are guaranteed a bad game at any stage, so much worse than other playlist after a few matches everyone learned to stay close to each other.3. Knowing when to disengage from a lose-lose sticky fight, some players have the mentality of having to down and kill every opponent they see, the map will clean them up.4. Early campers are forced to go out and test the water, both offense and defense teams at choke points can not camp for long. Even if campers hold their ground and downed pushing squad, often there is no time to loot leaving them at great disadvantage for rest of the game. 5. Sweaty apes at before final circle more likely to lose, at that stage the pace actually changed to scrim like approach.

This one's very intense. It's fun until the final ring,when it becomes too chaotic. For me at least, winning is mostly a matter of luck at this point, as it's very difficult to try building any strategy with random teammates, especially when there's such a high pressure. Made it to top 2 a couple of times but then lost the crawling competition 🙂Also, with so many players raining nades, bullets and abilities, the servers seem to get affected. They become sluggish, throwing many prediction errors, sometimes even shutting down with internal errors. I've had grenade and Gibby ult failures (heard voice confirmation, seen animation and initiation sound, but nothing else except me getting downed in the rain of bullets after a few seconds. I'm wondering if lag exploiters have an advantage in this mode...

Always Be Closing Discussion thread

50 Replies

Gabrielmojo26
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
This is hopefully going to be a synchronized chaotic snafu, can't wait to get off work! lol
asukojo
6 years ago
I haven't try, just watching streamers, looks full of actions and sweaty, especially at the end.
MandatoryIDtag
6 years ago
@Gabrielmojo26 hehe i just got home and ate so i'm ready to go. Should be decent!
-BiA-Pesqez
6 years ago
Nothing wrong with the game mode, I’m sure it could be fun if it wasn’t for all the cheaters. Played 7 rounds, cheaters vs cheaters in all of them.

When will this be adressed?
randplayer2
6 years ago
The only thing I have to complain about this gamemode is the lack of skill in playing as Wraith.
If I'm out there working my * of and killing everyone else, I don't want to lose to a Wraith that has done nothing but sit in a corner and teleport her way to victory.
Happend trice now. Although I have 2 wins so far.
8/10 - Wraith meta to OP.
Flashshark1980
6 years ago
That is the first gamemode that doesn't suck!
I think many players will like it, because the match duration is shorter!
For me personally the looting time is a little bit too short.
If the ring closes ~20% slower it would be perfect to me.
Another thing I do not like is to show the final position of the ring.
If it's shown it should be moving or jumping.
But I would prefer if it's not shown at all...
Gabrielmojo26
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
@Flashshark1980 I think showing the ring pre-launch adds to strategy. Do you want to jump near and battle it out to the detriment of very little loot, jump far and loot as much as you can, fortify Wattson, Caustic, third party, come in for the clutch....Oh man, so many options!

P.S. I'm still at work lolol
RazviC00L
6 years ago
I wish the mode went with the dictionary meaning of the word ALWAYS. Literally a normal game with a little bit of a faster ring, wow, so interesting.
MandatoryIDtag
6 years ago
Wraith meta?
CAUSTIC META.
E9ine_AC
Hero+
6 years ago
this game mode is very boring. Also not fair across the board. By this i mean i main wraith most days. I ran same exact distance as my team members i get registered for 557 meters. My friends who was on bang and octane mind you we actually ran same distance they was just there faster inded up with over 2k run meters. What is the deal here? How is it bang and octance can more then double the meter run then wraith even in my void runs hardly registered the meter runs. Yet bang and octane my team members hit 2300 to be exact. Something is bugged.