new game modes! amazing
I love apex legends overall combat system, including movement system, gun play and legends/abilities.
I think this game would attract a larger playerbase and keep current players from hopping games with 2 new game modes. hear me out and please read the whole post. note: I love the current game, but options for a larger variety of modes would make it better!
1) arena style deathmatch. teams fight for a certain amount of kills and start with a default gun or chosen load out and try to control the map and additional loot. first to x kills wins. respawns occur near team, but not in front of enemy after x seconds.
of course capture the flag or controlling a territory could be an alternative or additional part of this game mode. there could be 2 or more teams of x amount of players.
2) elimination round based 'tactical shooting'. buying at the beginning of the round, plant bomb. I think the combat system would make this an amazing concept because it would be much different than valorant, cs or rainbow siege. this game would favor more aggressive play and there would be less 1 tap instant kills because of the damage output of weapons.
An interesting part of the new modes would be the maps associated with each. I trust the team could make a good map or 2. what makes this interesting is the vertical aspects in the game. zips, balloons and climbing. another possibility is to give a simple map builder to the community that could be updated over a long period of time. this could add unlimited content eventuallly.
3) Id love to see a custom game option to practice with friends. right now the training range is cumbersome because you cannot set teams and people randomly die instead of going down without loot crates so you have to constantly pick up new gear.
I think Apex Legends core combat gameplay is enough to stand on it's own. I like the BR mode as it is. the issue that turns off possible new players is the pacing. they might collect loot for 5 minutes then randomly get jumped by a team or 2 and they just want to fight. they aren't experienced enough to adapt after a few games and it gets frustrating. So they quit and play other modern game of choice. Other people have told me they don't like games where they have to collect loot. These people don't know how well made the other aspects of the game are because they never stick around to experience it. I guarantee people who would pick up the game by first playing other modes would eventually dabble in the original BR after accruing enough experience.
New modes would allow existing players to practice new legends and specific weapons. it would be a good warmup before players queue up in BR. moreover new modes would keep the game fresh for veterans.
I'm not asking for ranked modes, although keeping away pro caliber players from noobs would be a good idea. I think a lot of people would love this if they were to try these apex game modes out.
the allocation of staff to complete this wouldn't be that significant, hell if I knew the game engine I could churn out one of these game modes myself in 3 months or less. perhaps opening this up as a contest to the community or getting help from the community in general would help make this happen faster and would ease the weight and workload.
