Battle Armor Event Discussion

Apex PC - In my personal opinion, the mode doesn't feel right (For me). It might be early for me to care about something like at all anyways. See to me i would like to be in the action all the time, even if i die. I just want to play. I don't care about, skins, lore and/or story, session marketing etc. I just want to shoot. Anything you'll can do to make it so i can be in more battles is a plus (in my opinion).

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Purple armor starting off is completely bad for the game. Fights went on too long to the point you run out of heals. The person you killed has no shield heal items either. Just a guaranteed purple swap switch isn't really helpful. 

So far, White Armor and Blue Armor were somewhat more balanced because people actually healed and bodies had healing items. Just people with White Armor died too fast. Blue Armor was in between. People either died fast or managed to stall and heal with their blue armor. 

Not a fan of Purple Only Armor.

EVO is the way and I have a feeling EVO will be the best one. 

Another reason why I hated Purple Armor was the fact that I did the damage but failed to kill or knock the person. My teammate would steal the kill from me and their own damage would be low. Example of a match.

1. Me with 3 kills 1400+ damage
2. Random 1 with 1 kill and 200+ damage
3. Random 2 with 2 kills and 300+ damage

See what I mean? Did the damage but failed to get the kills. This should have been 6 kills for me but couldn't do it. Purple Armor let people get away from dying too much.

EVO would be more rewarding, the damage would pay off and I would down people more often and get Red EVO much faster. 

And for the love of god. Give us two shield cells already. That was another issue why Purple Armor was so bad. 

You shouldn't spawn with anything in a BR mode. Just because COD Crapzone did it, doesn't mean Apex does. Apex needs to keep being Apex. Fun Open Sandbox. Great abilities, Fun movement and amazing shooting mechanics.

You can add or change shields so everyone is the same or what not, but adding items can have a very bad effect on your playerbase. Make players move around to get items like healing or ammo. Making people spawn in with weapons items, just makes campers, does Apex really need those? No.

Also, could you try to make more abilities for high skill players? 

So having played all the armor events here are my thoughts.

White armor felt satisfying because of lower ttk but can become frustrating on the receiving end, plus doesnt feel like apex

Blue armor was the sweet spot

Purple armor is too much health for early game especially when you dont have the resources, feels like it's too much overall throughout the game

Evo shield i wasn't a fan , majority of the game going against everyone having red armor is waaaaay to much maybe if it took a bit longer like before to upgrade but still.

Final thoughts

the event overall did relieve the frustration on drop.

I enjoyed it but also missed that excitement when you you find that better armor and fights being different because a team has different armor types.

I think something like this should maybe be introduced in the future because it's those initial drops that cause that frustration and people quitting. Even though they still quit when dropping with purples so I dont know.

I think maybe everyone drops with white armor (but still have all armors types on the ground even white for an armor swap), 2 syringes and even 2 cells to recover enough to get back into a fight. P2020 is also nice, still sucks when someone gets a better gun but a least its something.

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To be honest, this event has shown me more reasons against spawning with equipment than reasons for it.

At first glance, no significant changes happen. But the whole experience of the start changes.

• First of all, one big change is the pace in which you engage in combat. Without any equipment, it wasn't as hectic as it is now in this event. Combat can happen the second you land, and that takes a lot of the breathing time away. And most of the time you die before you actually properly participate in the game. And that is what really sucks.
• It encourages hunters to take down squads instantly, rather than going for a loot hunt. At the same time, it discourages players with a lack of skill or those who just want to focus on survival to really participate.
• Looting loses a bit of value in the beginning. Battle Royale has always been about looting first before being able to properly engage. With starting equipment, your main focus lies on one of two things: Running away if people are nearby, or take out those nearby people instantly. Eitherway, it's frustrating.

And don't get me wrong, it encourages skilled players to be more predatory, and rewards effort with victory. But at the same time, it takes away enjoyment for less capable ones. And I personally can already say: It's more frustrating for a considerable part of the player base. Sure, it already was frustrating with Melee. But at least you could escape most of the time. Guns however can reach you as long as there are no obstacles in the way.

You can see how I have mostly complained about guns. That's because spawning in with two syringes and a piece of armor isn't as bad. It actually is good because it takes away the absolute need for finding healing objects as soon as you can. And that is on the other hand a good thing. Spawning with two syringes and maybe some scrap armor with 25 shield would be good. Not Evo shield, just a tier below white body armor.

Quite frankly, yes, while this game mode still retains equalized chances, it takes away a lot of Apex's core ingredients.

As an occasional event: Sure. No one has to necessarily participate on that. As a permanent potential addition, I would honestly find it bad.

What needs to be done is when you respawn, you should also have ammo. It's not fun spawning in with a p2020 and getting destroyed with no way to defend yourself.

Blue = sweet spot and loved it. 

Evo = Everyone pokes for red armor and fights then take forever in the end just like purple. Was awful. 

Maybe do blue and incorporate the evo shield as a drop. Would then make sense for a risk/reward situation..

I feel this would be perfect.