Better than last season, but that's not really saying anything at all. The new map was great, Ash is not nearly as bad as Seer, but still has reveal meta and teleport to high ground abilities. Ranked is a steady level of atrocious. All in all, though, a positive.
Still hasn't stopped me from moving on, though. Lucky for Apex, there's a lot of dumb out there in video game land. Speaking of, tried Smite for MOBAs, and it is SUPER dumb...but, having said that, is just a superior mechanical and team based game, if an entirely different kind of game. I hear the community is toxic too, but I don't care, I'm probably uninstalling it namely because the characters look so stupid. Particularly the things they add like Transformers and Avatar cartoon characters. I have no problem with these things normally but they don't belong in Smite...well honestly, it's a cartoon show now. Fortnite has turned everyone onto the idea, apparently, that you need everything from military guys, to Thanos, to a banana to make your game appealing (pun intended :P )
And then there's Warframe, which I have not bothered doing PvP with yet, because I hear bad things. Nevertheless, since Respawn apparently does not like to produce good games like another Titanfall, anymore, and get way more money from gamblers, it's not bad for a totes free single player and co-op. I had to get used to the aesthetic, but at least it is consistent.
I don't really think that the BR world has an answer for Apex, and that's why they've benefitted. Sort of like Apex isn't really a good game, it's just better than the other bad options. Media wise, Apex is still spot on, with incredible videos, and an aesthetic that is great. It's just that the game is not good, and you spend far more time loading it up and playing parts that are unentertaining, than the actual parts that are worth it. Total pigeon pecking for seeds kind of mentality.
Nothing really to do with Apex until the season ends, and I play it for yucks now. Again, every once in a while I get a seed, there was a good game won this morning with great team mates. It just, you know, took hours of suffering to get that 20 minutes of fun. I know Respawn won't change, or won't change fast enough (at their best), it'll be new character, reveal meta and vertical meta, some godawful map change, and some lame purchase stuff events coming next season. At least Stories from the Outlands is good, I might have to watch it again on Youtewbs.
