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Wingmannedbro's avatar
5 years ago

Apex is the runt of the litter

CoD Warzone released on March 10.

Nearly 2 months after release, it still has huge concurrent playerbase and daily viewcounts on twitch upwards of 200K. It's safe to say that Warzone has proved the naysayers wrong who said the game would be dead in 2 weeks give or take, myself included.

Warzone quickly added solo's, had an alternative mode on launch, and Infinity Ward didn't throw feedback on the game in the trash, they made it so you can carry 8 shieldplates instead of the previous cap of 5, etc.

It shows what it can do for a game when they take the concerns from players to heart.

The result is clear, a battle royale isn't doomed to die after it's first hype month, why can't Respawn well over a year after launch just take that for what it is?

Apex has turned into the runt of the litter, despite being very obviously a superior game to FN and Warzone in key aspects, but suffers from a desperate adherence to a largely failing design philosophy, BR players aren't MOBA players, and it's time to add solo's and just use the Dummies from the LTM, it's a game, where there's a will there's a way.

Why can't respawn just be more like every other studio?

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  • NaRnIaaa's avatar
    NaRnIaaa
    5 years ago

    @Pretzelnutcake"Were you around for the first solos mode?" i was and yes, there were rats who teamed up BECAUSE ea/respawn didn't ban them despite the fact that teaming up was forbidden, in a clean game, solos vs other solos and premades vs premades = fair

  • @NaRnIaaa There's no way of detecting these people though, sure you can send a video showing the banner of some of them but what about the rest? Ban people based off random reports that may or may not be true?
  • I more or less agree with the OP.  I don't think Apex has truly progressed the way many felt like it would this time last year.  Season 2 was a nice progression with significant map changes, the two best town takeovers in Octane's Gauntlet and the Labs, and a lot of cool stuff added for the first time to the battle pass.  Season 3 did give us a whole new map.  Season 4 didn't really add much other than minimal map changes to WE.

    So what did people expect to happen?  There was a lot of talk this time last year about new game modes that could be added, PvE content, even Titans or some direct tie in to Titanfall 2.  None of that really happened.  To me, the fact Warzone added Plunder mode is huge.  Plunder is a fun change of pace to the BR.  It allows players to shift gears and have fun exploring that huge map.  They can do so without worrying about a circle shrinking or someone rolling up on them and sending them back to the lobby because they decided to stop and look at something.

    I'm hoping this Quest mode is Respawn coming around to the idea that there's so much more potential to this game than just being a standard BR.  Even FN has a full single player and co-op experience.

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