How does this horrific, god awful map keep slipping into the ranked rotation. Like dawg, just make the ranked rotation kings canyon, world's edge, olympus and be done with it.
I promise you. Having 3 GOOD maps, instead of 2 good maps and one dog water one, is okay to do. No one will be angry.
I don't understand why people hate Storm Point so much, so what exactly is the issue with the map?
Its size. The size is absolutely ridiculous and also the spiders. That's more of a personal thing tho due to my arachnaphobia, but even if you took out the spiders the map is still horrid. Half of any game on storm point is me and my friends running around for minutes seeing absolutely no one and not even hearing anything because the map is THAT big.
This map does not fit apex's 60 player count. If apex had more players? Sure. But it doesn't (for some reason) so it just doesn't work.
Storm point is fine. If you are so bothered about finding people right away you do realise you can see where people are dropping and drop close by or hot? Right?
Yes? You do understand that the problem of not finding people is the mid - late game. I can land hot drop, fight at the start, cool! I'll see no one for the next 5-10 minutes.
I'll see no one for the next 5-10 minutes.
I have the same issue, (but its with every map), so I'm not quite sure how Storm Point is a bad map, (besides having to deal with the spiders).
"Half of any game on storm point is me and my friends running around for minutes seeing absolutely no one and not even hearing anything because the map is THAT big."
At this point I've LOST COUNT of the number of legends with a scan ability, not to mention that all recon legends can use scanners on the map. Add in the grab cannons and the tridents and if you're wandering around the map for "5 to 10" looking for a fight then that's on you. There are so many ways to make this map small. Just pick one.
The other maps are much smaller and that issue isn't as big of a problem because I can most likely hear fights happening on any other map and go to those fights. I don't even hear gunfights on storm point because the map is THAT big.
I shouldn't HAVE to use recon map scans because the map design is so god awful and physically doesn't fit with the small 60 player count per game this game has. Also "legends with a scan ability" mean nothing because every scan ability is within a range to the point where, we would already either know they are there or be in the fight in general.
"I shouldn't HAVE to..." is a slippery slope. There are a lot of things I never had to do in the early years of this game that I'd prefer not to have to do now. But here we are. You work with what you have.
"the map design is so god awful and physically doesn't fit with the small 60 player count" Strictly eye of the beholder here. I've got so used to the newer, larger maps that now I feel like I'm choking when I play Olympus. But then again, I like a good mid-range poke and that's very easy to get going on Storm Point. Or it WAS easy to get going on Storm Point before they took the only viable weapon in the entire game and put it in a care package. But I digress.
I can only speak for myself here, but in my experience you can a) memorize the path of the drop ship and b) watch people jump, and then you pretty much know where everyone is and where they're going to go. And if you listen for the circle signals then you pretty much know when they're going as well. I have to admit that this level of predictability exists more in lower skill lobbies than it does in ranked diamond matches, but there's still some truth to it as you go up the ladder. I've always used this knowledge to avoid enemies until the circle makes them unavoidable, but there's no reason why you couldn't use it for the exact opposite purpose. If I can NOT find them consistently until I have second place then I bet you could use it consistently to find fights at virtually any point in the match. They may well be multi-squad pile ups, but beggars can't choose.
That sounds like a you issue. If you're running for an extended period of time and not getting a fight you're landing too safe. I've had maybe 3 games on storm point where I didn't have a fight until late game, but the numbers were dropping consistently. If you want fights on storm point drop in popular POI's. Command, Pylon, Ceto, and storm catcher are slaughter fests most games.
