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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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  • @xMaxrayx 

    Yep, you're right about that. 

    In burst mode you have full control of the weapon, you sacrifice auto fire for and incredibly steady aim with a high damage output. 

    I like your comment about the Wingman / Mastiff and I have never really thought of that play style. I'm not very good with the Wingman so maybe that is why I don't use it. 

    My opinion on the care package is that the loot that gets put inside of it takes it away from being on the floor. Each season there is a weapon that goes in there that is someones favourite gun. 

    Here are my ideas... 

    Idea 1: 

    Make 'care package only' weapons, so introduce a new SMG, LMG, AR and Shotgun into the game (maybe not that many but you get my point) and have these guns as the CP weapons that NEVER will come out. That way the PK can come back to floor loot and so can the Prowler. 

    Idea 2: 

    Keep the current process but make it so that the guns in the CP can still be found on the floor. What I mean by this is that if the CP weapons are, Prowler, PK and Kraber. Then allow the Prowler and PK to come out to floor loot but have different versions of it inside of the CP but just buff them to be a much better version. That way the floor loot isn't so limited and we still get to play with every gun. 

    I think having the R-99 in the CP was great personally, I rarely every used it but when it did it was such a shredder. It had nearly no recoil and was so good for the end game or the build up towards the end game. I also think that the PK has been in there way too long and think it is time for it to come out but again because I can't think of any other weapons that should go in there... I think its time we have a new addition to the game. 

  • Another thing I hate about this new map because it's so terribly designed is how there are holes in the floor everywhere... the amount of times I have died from falling off the map is insane.

  • I was doing well first few days. Was getting a few more wins and kills than I normally do but the past few days it's back to normal again and getting destroyed most games lol

  • @Koochi-Q I'm trying to find it but I can't seem to, a developer said it on Reddit and I've been scrolling through dev responses for like 10-20 minutes now and can't find it. 

    But basically the point was, "Hey we'd rather release Legends underpowered upon release, being careful with what they do and the numbers behind it, because we don't want to release someone that's massively over-powered on launch, then rush to nerf it, miss the mark and over-nerf, and then struggle to get them back up to a healthy spot."

    Which makes sense to me. The problem is that their slow development leaves people in the dirt for a pretty long while, and even when they do buff someone (like Loba) they might take it back because it's too strong. (Like Loba's recent buff.) 

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  • asukojo's avatar
    asukojo
    5 years ago

    Give Credit When it's Due :

    1. MAP is awesome

    2. Trident is excellent, succesfully transportation with no hiccup, no stuck, no jam, no murder, no suicide, that is impressive.

    Disaster to avoid:

    1. Battle Pass.

       

    Lesson learn: 

    1. Stop changing what has been working flawelessly every season, work on something else. 

        We sick of this emergency meeting  & fire-drill every season.

    In summary:

    Season-7 is the greatest season in 2020 IF they keep the BP as before, but they ruin it.

  • Koochi-Q's avatar
    Koochi-Q
    5 years ago
    @pastaclown Yea exactly so luckily I wasn’t going crazy. As long as I didn’t dream it up I’m satisfied. I do get that they want to have a lower equipped legend and buff ‘em but it’s as you said. They take too long and the character loses its fervor in ppl.

    Ohhh well as of now I like her even as she is. If they make her better, well yawdee!

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