Friendly fire and fall damage let's try it!

The game has been stalling on an evolution standpoint, it doesnt offer ingenious modes (LTMs, evo shield introduction) like it did in the first 2 years and nothing is changing in the game not even map rotations!

Still no map rotation for 6 weeks of rank!!! That was a good idea for Apex year 1 but doesnt make sens for year 4 at all. Look at all the other games out there how many are having 6 week locked map for rank or something like that?? NONE!! Because it has no need to and is just so BORING! Why would you do that? It was smart when Apex had only 2 maps; let them have a split with #1 and a split with #2. But now that we have 5 maps how does it make sense?

Plus we played thousand of hours on each map why would you think we are ok with playing 6 weeks straight of the same old map exclusively? Shuffle the maps dammit!!!

So I think I was the only one 2 years ago to suggest we should drop with a shield and a pistol... a few weeks later they implemented dropping with a white shield exactly like I suggested. And this week I heard rumors we might be dropping with a P2020 next season. Good good at least we try this! Melee kills were already not much a thing already anyway.

I have another idea , why not try a rank split with Friendly fire 'on' and fall damage. Pros have been saying rank is not supposed to be fun (while actually they have a blast every minute of it) when we complained about not being able to grind anymore with rank 2.0 so in that logic I suggest we have one of two rank split with Friendly fire and fall damage and I even predict I will verily enjoy it, I like the realistic part of gaming.

It would be fun to see the skilled guys that really know how to protect teammates have a blast.

It would also solve the big problem you guys had with Caustic and the pros... caustic gas being too strong at endgames it would now be bad for endgames which means you could buff it like at launch. Also teammates would not have the problem they had before where they couldnt differentiate their teammate's gas from the enemy gas.

I always tought teammates not being affected by any tactical or ultimate from teammate to be totally weird and even ridiculous. LIke runing on thermites, fuse's ring of fire or any other doing absolutely 0 damage, this is ridiculous!!

discussion

19 Replies

Palette24carats
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@Palette24caratsPros keep saying BR rank isnt supposed to be fun (while they have a blast 16 hours a day) so I think we should make Pubs more fun, let's get it out of the classic form it is right now.

How about we choose a complete loadout of our choice before we drop in pubs?? Pubs is meant to be fun then tweak it dammit!!

Also stop removing high interest POIs... it was perfect for pubs to have fun! So make pubs start at ring #3 let it be a 10 minute max BR game with our favorite loadout. Even better if we could personalize our loadout BEFORE launching the pubs mode... let us have anything we want exactly as we want it! Would be fun!
It would also be the perfect timing to separate Pubs stats from Rank stats definitely. Those two have nothing in common and should not be mixed together.
Also I have been asking for over a year to have legend specific stats so we can evaluate which legends we do better with.
OldTreeCreeper
Hero+
3 years ago
@Palette24carats I like the idea of friendly fire, it would certainly take things to the next level in intensity. It might be better to start with a ltm to see how it goes
PeterN_UK
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
Friendly fire...not sure about that.
History proves it entices trolling.
COD and Battlefield hardcore mode
Rainbow Siege
Even if there was a timer penalty. Bound to be people who are on last game of the night and just want to annoy someone before bed. Best way to create game mechanics is imagine the worst things a player can do to team mates to intentionally throw their game.
Fall damage would nerf some chraracters that they can only use their ability to land on higher ground or take damage/die if they land back to same ground level i.e. Horizon, Pathfinder, Octaner
Palette24carats
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@PeterN_UK I don't think tthey wouuld do that in rank... nobody wants to lose a teammate in rank there is huge penalties.

They could remove fall damage for the metal legs, for the space suit momma and just put it very high like 20 feet for fall damage.
PeterN_UK
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@Palette24carats Would also mean they would have to re-work jump towers landing or remove entirely.

Not practical but for humour I suddenly imagined parachutes/wing suits, fish in the barrel target mid air.
hayhor
Hero
3 years ago
@Palette24caratsNo thanks on friendly fire or fall damage. Friendly fire breeds trolling of teammates. Fall damage leads to too many weird scenarios. Can you turn on your fall pack to slow? How does initial drop work? There are no parachutes and I hate that mechanic in warzone and don't want it in Apex. How does horizon work when she comes from height? What about when a path grapples really high and lands?
Teammates are affected by other abilities. I have bad fuses and bangalores that slow and stun me all the time.
OldTreeCreeper
Hero+
3 years ago
@hayhor I'm not sure it would lead to trolling, any more so that the current situation of dc.
Kyldenar
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
I'm all for friendly fire if only because then maybe Octanes will stop running in front of my shots.
PAIN IS THE ONLY TEACHER!
So, let it be pain.
BigMacAttack8u
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
This could be exploited, so how can we fix that?
does friendly fire give you damage? It shouldn’t, otherwise that would be very bad. Should have give 0 damage? No, then there would be those that would just sabotage. I suggest bounce back, all damage done to a teammate is also done to you. Of course as an ltm first.
OldTreeCreeper
Hero+
3 years ago
@BigMacAttack8u or twice the damage to you, would at least address the sabotage in some meaningful way.