Any solution to stop hot dropping in apex?
Sooxfar and Jankz had a good discussion on their recent video on what Respawn should do with Fragment. I agree with them that whatever you replace it with, people will still drop there (in pubs) sinc...
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@Cheese9Man I see no reason that the player base shouldn't grasp this one by the horns. Its not really respawns issue or responsibility. The loot pool isn't great in frag imo. If enough players show their discontent with the frag hotdrop, then change can be brought about by player action.
What I suggest is immediately in the drop ship, go solo drop, if not jm. If frag hot droppers are going straight to frag, let them off. They won't usually last long. I'd go somewhere else collect a decent load out and have a go.
The dead giveaway is they don't ping a location. If they do ping frag, you don't have to join them.
If they ping another location or just go to another location, then its easy to join them. Ping your own location too.
If enough players do this then the message will get across to frag hot droppers that they are just dropping to die quick. If that happens every game they'll soon tire of it, although I suspect it may take a while for the message to get across to some.
I don’t think hotdroping will ever go away, if they change up a POI, it will just migrate elsewhere.
“Where there’s a will, there’s a way.”
I think the best Respawn can do is influence players to hotdrop in a new area, by making the old POI’s less exciting, & making new ones more exciting/newly updated.
Also speaking of which, this is why when playing public lobbies I tend to avoid Estates on Olympus, as much as possible…
Chaos Incarnate, thats what I call Estates… land with at least 4 other squads, can’t find a weapon in time, so I have to resort to summoning my inner Chi. Become a Ninja. 😉
- @SILVERisSORRY Those are nice karate chops and flying kicks. LOL!
- @Cheese9Man lol I try… you should see what I can really do when I’m playing LOBA. 😉
I go full on Ninja every chance I get, i’m still working on perfecting drop kicking people out of the sky, when playing VALKYRIE 😉Don't know why I can't watch Silver's ninja video, but it's literally just the size of a thumbnail with play and mute symbols covering it.
@Cheese9Man one possible solution is Respawn could put all the twit tv's together in their own cohort. That way they could look for their hotdrop content with themselves.
Just had another one as jm go to frag, in fairness they pinged it a nano second before they jumped. So I disengaged and floated away to a nice spot to collect some loot. They lasted the prerequisite 10 seconds before valiantly dying. I just had time to utter the "surprise" quip and they were gone. 😛
@SILVERisSORRY you need to ul your videos to YouTube and put them into your post here. The forum video facility leaves a lot to be desired.
- @OldTreeCreeper Okay, thank you. I was going to ask about that, as that was the 1st time I’ve ever linked a video clip.
@pandareno1999 Same here, much prefer the former. 😉
@SILVERisSORRY If I've gotta go somewhere stupidly hot, I'll take streamer building over estates every day. It's the worst.
