Holo-Day Bash

welp the new game mode absolutely sucks. Even worse than the halloween event from this year. Feels like fighting a constant stream of 3rd parties along with getting teamed and lasered upon, and getting boxed in by gas traps to the point I can't move. I don't know what the deal is but last year's Winter Express certainly looked better. This one is an utter disapointment and clearly symbolizes Apex dying within next year of 2021. Great job game developers, another useless game mode wasted. 

Sorry for such a negative post btw, but when I tried it, it really was disappointing.

@hayhor I played as just one game tonight. Think I preferred last year's setup, but time will tell. 

@hayhor I had a good time with it last year, but not this year. Whatever they've done to the audio it's genuinely atrocious. I can't hear anybody jumping off from the ships after respawning, I'll see the trails but never hear the sound. This leads to very frustrating rounds where someone literally lands behind me and shoots me dead but I never heard them land, and I know they just landed cause I turn around and see the little smoke cloud dissipating. 

Love this mode. It’s even better than last year’s. I like it better than the new Halloween mode, which was miles ahead of last year’s. This is my favorite event mode. 

Did I mention I love this mode?

This events basically just a caustic playground lol.

I literally just control the front cart of the train and tear the enemy apart from there.

Shame it isn't counting stats, I'd be getting the big bois total kill count up nicely lol. 😛

@hayhor  kitted spitfire/ L star this time lol.

Not the best but if you play to the spitfires strengths you'll still get results. 😛

@hayhor  Straight down the cart it is though, bit of recoil control and you'll beam lol. :D

This is the first season I've played this mode and while it can be fun sometimes, it's really not that great.

So, it's king of the hill, basically, with premade loadouts.  But anyone who knows anything realizes a lot of the loadouts are not equal, especially when coupled with certain character abilities.

A lot of times, you're better off not even trying to board the train, let alone capture it.  You're better off letting it be captured than dying yourself given how long it takes to respawn.  That's bad design.  And I'm not sure it would be that better if everyone started on the train.  It's too small.

I was joking that certain people wanted Apex Legends to occur in a really small room where everybody could punch each other instead of using any strategy at all. This is pretty close to that.

@KelRiever I just cannot get enthused enough about it to play the mode. 

@MandatoryIDtagI think it's a good event for any defensive character. Especially if you can get Rampart dug in with Sheila.

I like the mode but don't understand the hover tanks. They're useless if you can't actually fire them lol.

@OldTreeCreeper Not when there's too much goodness with Olympus going on.  Mind you I still play a bit, just to get the damage goal in points, for badge and then season rewards, but once I hit those, I'll be done.

@KelRiever agreed about olympus, but I seem to be getting a lot of WE at the time of evening I play. Not too worried about the badges and the points for the event seem to be accumulating on their own 😃

@KelRiever youngtree loves the event though. He plays as Bloodhound and had 5 wins in a row on pc this evening. 

@OldTreeCreeper  Excellent!  I think the first day I played I won half the games because Watson’s load out was Volt/Longbow/Arc grenades.

lol!

It was an electric train, filled with fences And the moment someone tried to board they were Volt melted.  And usually if they were trying to throw grenades into the train...and I wasn’t ult-ing? You could find them and take them out while they did it.

it’s good that they rotate the loadouts.  But I feel that volt/arc combo is so good you can pick most any character who has that.  Another combo is Volt/Charge Rifle but I forget the grenade.  It’s just that the Volt is so good in this mode.