Community AdminGreetings legends. Check out the details for the upcoming LTM, Town Takeover, Fight Night collection event, and more in the main post here:
We also have a new devstream:
Let us know what you think below!
I like bug fix: the Mirage decoy make foot steps sound...it's gonna be good bambozle.
Currently when I use my ultimate, I better not move since enemy can spot the real one from my foot steps.
Good bug fix.
Thoughts:
-Multiple times Daniel Z Klien on Reddit has said they don't really get good data from LTMs as a way to influence the standard Apex modes, so I guess they're trying to solve that problem by making the LTM part of Standard Apex. Odd.
-Pathfinder Town Takeover, great, great, an area that's melee only, a super janky feature that doesn't function as well as it should is being advertised as a new event instead of, you know, making a new event. Guess they got tired of recycling old events, but couldn't be bothered to actually make a new one. It's a collection event too, so it's kind of obvious where the effort got put into.
-Gibralter Heirloom is nice.
-Loot MRVNs, oh boy another useless gimmick. Loot Ticks 2.0. How exciting. (/s)
-Rampart Buff doesn't solve her core issue, which is that every part of her kit is slow to deploy. Walls get destroyed immediately, set-up time for minigun is too long, spin-up time for minigun is too long, amped shield takes too long to deploy on top of the fact that walls can be insta-destroyed. Hayhor will be happy with the Caustic buff.
-Mastiff changes say to me, "We're spreading out the 3rd and 4th pellets to +/- (plus or minus) 10 (10 what is beyond me) off the center, to make 3-4 pellet hits on a target happen at a closer distance than before. AKA, Mastiff effective range got decreased." Respawn saw the countless threads of, "We're struggling to hit at close range with multiple pellets of the Mastiff" and went, "Struggle no more! Now you have to get even closer! Buy our 18 dollar skins!"
QoL Changes:
-Ulti-Accels and the "Mark All As Seen" are not things to praise Respawn for which is 100% due to their tardiness. 7 Seasons we've waited for those changes. 2 basic features which have been asked for since the game came out, happened 683+ DAYS LATER. These are basic QoL changes that should've shipped when the game was released, but just didn't, and we got to wait a whopping 683 DAYS for them to be released. I probably could've learned from scratch how to do that myself in the same time it took them to do this.
-So instead of allowing people to ping locations on the map normally even while dead, Respawn came up with this complicated system that measures time to use vs. ring location vs. closest / "safest" beacon. At this point I feel like if I asked Respawn to boil pasta, they'd somehow create an MSR (Molten Salt Reactor) a type of Nuclear Fission Reactor to boil the ocean to skip salting the water.
Bug Fixes:
-Mirage's DECOYS got footstep audio before ACTUAL PLAYERS. And people say he's the worst Legend. Ha!
@hayhor Math is a little wrong, but the point is still valid. One Hemlok round to the head is 39 damage, for a whopping total of 117 damage should all 3 hit the head.
New Hemlok math is as follows:
20 Damage to body, multiplied by a 1.75x headshot modifier = 35 damage x 3 = 105 damage total should all 3 hit. AKA, not much difference. You have a much narrower window to down someone through headshots should you miss one or two rounds, but with how accurate the Hemlok is, it's really not a problem.
A much better nerf would be to knock Hemlok damage down to 15 per round, 45 per burst, and reduce headshot multiplier to 1.6. That brings Hemlok headshot burst from 117/105 down to 72, requiring someone to land 9 rounds perfectly on the head while not touching the accuracy, keeping the Hemlok as a very viable accurate mid-ranged AR.
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