Let's discuss ARENA
Preview of the ARENA:
What do you think guys ?
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- @asukojo Never played GW myself. I agree arena with just 3v3 is lame. Live Fire is 6v6 I think in TitanFall 2. It's also round based like COD Search and Destroy or CS Go:
- 1 minute rounds
- flag in the middle of the map
- win a round by eliminating the other team or holding the flag when the timer runs out.
It was fast paced as you'd expect from TitanFall. With just 1 minute and the flag to consider, camping was never much of an option. Patch note is out guys, let's READ : https://www.ea.com/games/apex-legends/news/introducing-arenas
What do you think ?
- @asukojo I found it well-written. But it’s not really anything new so it would be weird if they completely threw the whole rule book aside to make it their own.
3v3, 3 rounds if you’re lucky, 7 if you’re not. Prematch loadout selection that you can upgrade on your own accord at 5 maps at a time with carepackage at the end.
Seems straightforward enough.
IF and I mean IF this runs well, I’m guessing this was why this season was such a bugridden mess XD. So Respawn, here’s to hoping you guys will have a smooth one cause this update actually seems like one I can really enjoy...
@hayhor, you already know she’s mine! xD. @GH0STEDbyME you too! xD 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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