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...
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@pastaclownPeople complaining about the 99 are not low skill. Season 6 had a nice balance of weapon usage. Some people had a volt, others had a prowler, others ran a shot gun.
Now we are back to the vast majority of people using the 99. It's not as bad as season 5, but some rounds CQC is nothing but 99's. It's rather annoying if you have a volt, kill a squad and all they have is light and heavy while you're left with 50 rounds of energy. But there is 600+ rounds of light ammo in the 3 death boxes and maybe some heavy..
- @DarthValtrex Oh Darth please do not mention the Prowler, I miss it so much.
I'm probably one of the only players that preferred it in burst than auto haha!@pastaclown Nothings changed for me really.
My only really gripe with apex pre S7 was the audio....and that's still a goddamn mess so yeah.
I like the map, especially now I've adjusted to the ease of rotation and identified the areas that are gonna be a crapshoot.
Weapon balance is fine, r99 is just the same beast as before, but its varied the smg meta up slightly so I don't mind.
Horizon, no real complaints other than the lack of real pressure the Ult creates, would like to see an increased pull with a reduced total hp of newt as a fair compromise.
@DarthValtrex You misunderstand, posts about there being a lack of weapon usage variety due to R99 being back in the loot pool are valid complaints. Even the developer agrees that R99 caused a lack of variety in weapon usage, and simply put R99 in pool again for this season to see how it stacked up usage wise vs. the Volt. Some drastic changes are necessary for the R99 to not only remain in the loot pool, but also for every other weapon to remain competitive against it.
What I was referring to, were all the past season frequent "R99 is OP plz nerf got lasered from 10000 meters away its too strong" posts made by Novice level forum users who conveniently forget that if it's really that OP, then they should also be able to do the killing and lasering.
@EdwardDLuffy They put the Prowler in the care package for this season, and it really is pretty stupid that your weekly objective is basically "Pray to RNGeesus for a Prowler AND the ability to survive to loot a CP without hiding in a corner." As for the ulti, it's really really blinding for both parties. I typically just tend to use it as a zoning tool since I can't hit anything inside of it, my eyes are old and don't function as well as they should. Oh well, I'll live.
@Koochi-Q I should probably change the criteria from "Good / Bad" to "Like / Dislike" so I come off less of, "I'm a stuck up fart hurr durr" to "Here's what I liked / dislike!". Thanks Kooch, and I read your thoughts on Horizon. They might buff her later, I think the character designer said they're more willing to release Legends underpowered rather than over, but they've got a tendency to really let characters stagnate AND on the occasion they buff stuff it's usually way too much.
@hayhor glad to hear it! Any updates on your cosplay hammer?
@MassiveVernon Yup, like I said, great game, new season is just more of the same.
@rockyboy1998 I know I put "third party heaven" in the "good", and then complained about third partying in the "bad", and honestly it's a double-edged sword for me. It's really genuinely fun when you've got enough stuff / not quite enough stuff and fight off multiple squads to be the victor. It's also pretty much just annoying when you've got literally nothing, kill off one squad, and now you've got to fight another wearing white armor and 2 shield cells vs. purple armored enemies who've looted 3 areas with no resistance. Hopefully audio gets fixed soon, but we've been waaaaaaaiting. I've actually run into 4 cheaters so far in PUBs, reported them and moved on with my day, no real loss there.
- @pastaclown Well I think it might be balancing out slightly in the medium skill lobbies. We shall see if the appeal of the 99 stays, it being back has that shiny new toy appeal, which could fade if other guns are competitive with it.
I have done alright with the volt vs 99, the Wingman it depends on the range. If the player is on top of me I stand no chance. But if there is a bit of range and they miss at least some bullets I can typically compete.they should add volt in CP instead of prowler.
because prowler is burst gun and volt like r99 is track based gun.
- @pastaclown Nah no updates. Still working on the kids this is a great xmas present for dad angle 🤣
- @pastaclown Pretty decent summary haha.
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