Let's discuss ARENA
Preview of the ARENA: What do you think guys ?
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Copying my thoughts here from the other thread:
This new game mode is going to be huge. So many things that we could expect
- Getting fighting experience is not more restricted to hot dropping in the battle royal, or requires long looting times. Players will be able to spend much more time actually fighting with this mode.
- That also means that hot dropping may become less common.
CRAFTING
- Crafting weapons and items is really nice. I do like the decision to reset the weapon every round. That means that you'll be more likely to switch and are not bound by earlier decisions.
- Crafting the tactical and ultimate is also wild. Hopefully, they will not start on cooldown, since the mode seems very fast-paced.
- Timing the tactical and ultimate to be effective will become challenging.
I do hope that players do not leave the match. As with every small gamemode in every game, if 1 player leaves, than the match will be lopsided. They didn't speak about compensation (more credits given) or people filling in. I wonder wether this will be tackled in the future.
TEAM COORDINATION
- If you have a lifeline, that could prove very efficient. Lifeline can call in a care package, meaning that the other players do not have to spend as much credits to buy meds. Also Lifelines tactical does this.
- Some passives will be much easier to use than others. Fuse will not be able to throw any grenades if you don't buy them.
- Can your teammates see what weapons you choose? For example to coordinate ammo sharing
I fully expect Ash to be the announcer!
MAPS
- It is really good that they make maps specifically for Arenas, allowing them to be very crafty with things like the phase runner.
- Every new may for the battle royal mode will probably also give a new map to the arena mode!
My problem with snipers in the battle royal mode is that you can down someone, but they will just revive behind cover and you'll have no way of killing them off from afar. Now in arenas, if you anyone, it will be a game-changer. Your team will more likely push. Thus, I expect hard-hitting long-range weapons to be more viable.
Also, there is no mention of AMMO in the blog. How will they handle this? Will you get a certain amount like in the Winter Express train mode? I think that would be the fairest.
"Ranked mode for the arenas mode will not arrive with the new mode but rather in the next season/s.
They made 2 maps just for the mode that we saw in the trailer, Party Crasher and Phase Runner.
The battle royale maps in the arenas mode will rotate every 2 weeks. These are Artiller (KC), Thermal Station (WE), and Golden Gardens (Olympus)."
I'm really hyped for this mode. Lately I've been wanting to play Overwatch because I'm really tired of BRs and sometimes find the mode too long.
If I have to buy for tactical abilities, I wish they would give Octane like 5 stims instead of 1.
They didn't mention anything about the RING. I assume there's always a ring CLOSING !
- @Cheese9Man I assume some abilities will be cheaper, kinda like how Valorant does.
@asukojo wrote:They didn't mention anything about the RING. I assume there's always a ring CLOSING !
Why should there be a ring in a 3 V 3?
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@Lord_Scorpion34 wrote:Why should there be a ring in a 3 V 3?
To prevent extreme turtling/matches going too long. You'll be able to see the final ring location from the start of a round so you can plan around it
- @EA_David I didn't think the areas were gonna be big enough to need a ring.
@Lord_Scorpion34You did not have a look at the ‘arena info’ details did you sir 😈
Or remember campers in even the last ring in normal apex or else you wouldn’t have asked that question 😈 xD
Without an offense, I am really afraid of the leavers in the random match.
(3vs3? 4 points win? Cool!!)
You know, even in the LTM they will appear, they will join and leave repeatedly...
Sorry for being saulty.
Maybe I am a little bit tired today. 😢
@Sati_Sati Would be cool if we could solo queue arena though, would be some pretty intense training lol. 😛
- @MandatoryIDtag You likely can, but like sati said, I’ve said it also. Either in this thread or in @asukojo’s other thread that I just know ppl will leave.
I’ve played multiple 3v3 and 4v4 where if a team’s losing, ppl just either up and leave or go afk... when that happens, you can still win but chances are reduced dramatically... examples are Rainbow Six Siege, Paladins, Apex, Titanfall 1 and 2... but the worst has to be Rogue Company... my golly...
Apex will be no different. If there’s a leaver’s penalty, ppl will just go afk just like they do in ranked in other game, if not, they’ll just leave. @Koochi-Q Yeah rogue was horrendous for leavers, I got pretty tired of it lol.
You're both correct that arenas will likely be exactly the same lol. 😛
- @MandatoryIDtag I played it for 3 days or something on and off... Don’t think I got more than 7 hours in that game xD.
Dropped it altogether, just like my buddies did after 3 games xD. 30 bucks down the drain ☹️
Played couple games with @GH0STEDbyME afterwards too once but yea... same opinion xD. It was a swell game to be played tho. It just wasn’t there for me.
That good asian with her weapon that makes the R99 look like an RE45... cause that weapon fired fast and hit hard xD. But the recoil xD. If you forgot it, it hit weird. 3 v 3, if one member is not filled, or one member leave, team totally screwed then all will leave.
To avoid this:
1. Make sure team member is filled (Respawn responsibility).
2. Leaver get 3-5 minute time out.
3. Automatic respawn after 30 seconds so player can keep engage or having ability to purchase this.
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