New Players Guide To Understanding Apex
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@E9ine_AC For players new to Apex, when dropping from the drop ship at the start of a match, you can "swoop" repeatedly in order to maintain a faster flight speed and cover more distance. I get an alarming amount of randoms, that seemingly don't know this, and just fly in a straight line at a slow speed.
In my opinion, the dolphin dive during the drop should be taught in the tutorial.
@Cheese9Man The whole tutorial needs overhauling. 😛
It's useless.
- @Cheese9Man Nah it is a skill people need to figure out. It helps you beat them to the spot.
@Cheese9Manhonestly I still don't get the mechanics of the jump in the game.
Ok dolphin dive gave me an opportunity to drop very far, almost 2x as far as I did before realizing this mechanic.
Yet the thing about how people who drop first but say 1000m from the spot beat me to the point when I instead drop straight down / max speed from the ship with lesser distance to the point is still a mystery same as crazy last moment acceleration (when you are almost dead stop, but suddenly manage to cover a major distance in the point of interest e.g. diving closer to Gaiser but managing to go all the way to the tunnels from an almost dead stop, which actually is not possible from taking the actual Gaiser jump when in game), bouncing and sliding on the map...
If someone can explain that I would be very grateful 🙂 as I don't get it after 1500h in the game.@Eshshshss because while you're waiting to leave the ship, they're already on the decline towards the ground, likely using said dolphin technique to optimise speed and distance so it does still work it quicker.
That being said anybody dropping from 1000m out will never get there before you lol, 450 is the optimum. 😛
- @MandatoryIDtag yes, but when you compare speeds, ship is much faster than any dive, so even though we can compare the situation with the right triangle where the first team takes the shortest route (hypotenuse) while I travel both sides, the speed of the ship and my max drop speed (you can't drop with constant max speed in dolphin as far as I know) should greatly outway the longer route that I am taking, yet game constantly proves me wrong on that one.
Example case - yesterday shop was going from East to West across Kings Canyon. My goal was to land at Crashsite (top floor). I dropped around the level of Containment, maybe a bit later to get ~90 degree angle and mentioned 450-600m distance. Yet upon landing I realized that 2!!! teams that dropped around Broken relay was already landing with me... like HOW?!
Picture for illustration, ignore in game player pointer (just a random image I found online of the map) - my route green, enemy route orange: https://prnt.sc/1wqgsv5
- @Eshshshss It totally depends on how the ship is traveling. Plus you don't want to drop where you are max speed. 450m seems to be the sweet spot and you'll notice you aren't totally max. You are close but it seems that the little time it takes the ship to travel further to get you to max is not worth it.
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