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5 years ago

First Week Impressions

So! It's been about one week for Season 7, how's everyone feeling about it? I'm leaving my impressions here, mostly for my own benefit. 

What I Liked:

- New character is interesting, lots of combat potential. 

- R99 has returned as a weapon, and with it, all the low skill newbie complaints that it's OP. 

- New map is visually interesting and I can actually see. 

- Trident allows for easy rotations and for the most part works properly.

- They hired someone to be their communication manager, and hopefully we'll have more consistent comms from the developers. With that comes the hope of more beneficial changes for the betterment of Apex. 

- New map is third party heaven, lots of action, all the time.

What I Dislike:

- New character abilities are visually overstimulating IMO, too many moving air wisps, not enough clarity.

- R99 has returned as a weapon, and with it, all the low skill newbie complaints that it's OP.

- New map suffers from poor loot distribution, enhanced by the large amount of empty open ground with nothing in it. All the loot is centered in condensed POIs, which are often heavily disputed. A strange snowballing problem, where if I can't get off the ground early, I most likely won't be able to get off at all. 

- Trident allows for easy third parties early / mid-game, most of my matches end with my squad being third partied after winning our original engagement, regardless of whether we drop into a popular POI or somewhere off in the distance. Being starved for loot makes us easy targets.

- Lighting in some areas isn't perfect, specifically in Rift and dimly lit indoor areas. 

- Audio is still not working properly.

- SBMM is still not working properly.

- Server stability and performance are still lacking.

Verdict: Overall, more of the same from Apex. A sometimes genuinely frustrating experience when I tryhard matches, and an otherwise dull experience when I just play to grind out objectives. No changes to SBMM means despite how hard I try I'll still lose games because my teammates have worms in their brain, and the lack of solos still leaves much to be desired. Losing fights to longstanding issues such as audio and hit-reg have become the norm, but at the very least footsteps kind of work. 5/5, wouldn't recommend.  

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