Battle Armor Event Discussion

I love the concept of this event, and I hope it causes real changes in the Apex game experience all around. I have said since the beginning that the randomness and variety of armor have been a disaster for the quality and fairness of gameplay. It creates many scenarios where skill is completely negated by RNG and the opponents' sheer luck of finding better armor which gives them the upper hand to win a fight. This is one thing that Call of Duty Warzone got right, everybody has the same armor, so gunfights are won by better skills/tactics instead of better luck.

I would love to see Apex adopt a new strategy of starting everybody off with white armor and completely removing it from the loot table. The armor spawn rates would then be equally distributed across the spawn rates of all the other armors.

I'm looking forward to this, but everyone should also start with a level 1 helmet, backpack and knockdown shield. 

These items should all be removed from the loot pool as well. 

The only gameplay change this will have is you lose the ability to armor swap in the middle of a fight unless you used quickly do it with a death box or dropped armor out of someone's death box. This is skill to do however. 

I am looking forward to the EVO Armor only event to be honest. 

Can't wait to see what happens to the Gold Armor as I truly believe it will be nerfed in Season 5 or have a new ability and found as a rare drop. The rest of the golden items are balanced although I sometimes wish the Self Revive was 6 seconds from 8.

Event is LIVE right now, starting with white shield...give it a try ! 

@Koochi-Q You didn't read the patch note ?  Only in WE because they don't to experiement this on rank (KC).

Hello everyone,

Idea is great. Kills the RNG side of game - someone gets a shield + a gun yet you loot 5x cells. 

My opinion is that it should be just an modified version of EVO shield. Everyone starts with that. Raise the cap of damage needed to upgrade it, example 100 - 125 for the first upgrade.

It would be reward system for people who fight and don't camp till 3-4 teams are left. Of course all others shield should spawn and you can swap or you can play with your own starting shield. If you have skill and you fight you can get sure path of upgraded shield. 

Maybe something along the lines can be added that if you swap starting shield it would be reset to rank 0 again or when you swap it it lowers by -1 rank and again you have to do damage to raise it up back so it is not permanent if you do 2 good fights at start of game and you walk around with red EVO shield. 

Enjoying the mode. If you drop in a spot with hammer points, you're unstoppable on the drop, which is fun.  If they made white shields and p2020 on drop permanent, they might need to make hammerpoint harder to obtain or get rid of it and make p2020 a trash drop weapon that you need to get rid of as soon as you can.

@Koochi-Q 

Played about 9 or 10 matches today. Was really hectic at the beginning of one match because I dropped on hammer point rounds and decimated everybody.

P.S I am new to the forums.