Not a fan of the mobile respawn beacons
They take so long and are so loud I'll likely never use one in regular play. I definatley wouldnt waste a backpack slot on one.
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I've only been respawned once by one as not a fan of A&D. As I dropped I could see hordes of enemies streaming towards the respawn point! My poor little BH took so many bullets his gas mask fell off.
I actually found them useful and I kinda like them! Here are ways I'm using MRBs:
1. Use it as a bait: when you want to make enemies come out of their hideout, or when you want to distract them and rotate safer around a cliff.
2. Faster respawn: when you have the high ground or when you know enemy teams are not close or they are busy fighting each other.
3. Respawn in bad circles: when enemy holds or used the only available respawn point and you really want to bring your teammates back.
Of course everything comes with a price and using it is not risk free and I believe
1) if it could respawn automatically, and didn't need you to wait long for its landing and then standing still for activating it
Or
2) if it lands and activates faster than normal respawn beacon, then it would be much more useful
p.s. maybe it gives leavers on casual games a motivation to remain in games a bit longer.
Here’s an idea:
Use multiple beacons before a fight. This allows you to just collect a teammate’s banner and just slap it straight back into the Respawn beacon.
Plus, since it’s so loud, you can attract enemies to third party, hopefully third partying the enemy.
- @Alphabets You are really grasping for something good with these.
It's useful when you have battle on the edge of the ring, you team mate is die with so many death boxes around and time is ticking.
Previously, I have to go nearest beacon and team mate has to comeback and might not have enough time.
Since I was next to ring, no enemy will attack from back and teammate can loot immediately and ready for the next fight. It just took 30 seconds then we all fully equip again.
I like them, except the tend to draw enemy's. (Tip: If you have a big backpack, you can make a wall out of them for cover. Useful in final Ring's.) You can also find one in pubs next to the gold knockdown in the bunker by Salvage.
I agree with you @Alphabets I like the mobile respawn beacons too.
Then again I'm just playing the LTM exclusively atm. I haven't had a enemy team swarm us yet and its looks like it's harder to really locate where the drop ship is and not at the normal location at a respawn beacon.
@Alphabets Randoms still leave though it really doesn't deter them from leaving from my experience. They're just bad player's that doesn't care about ruining / abandoning the team because there friends are not on. the only thing that will change this is a penalty of some sort in Regular Apex mode and LTM's like a XP penalty toward their account level, daily's, Bp challenges and LTM rewards.
