The first ring should have a long time so people can fight and loot. But every ring after that needs to be much shorter like 1-1.5 minutes tops
There is currently too much downtime in the middle rings because of how long the countdown takes (i think its 3 minutes) and people just camp and wait to the next ring which is very boring
So the game must force people to move so we can get to the action quicker.
There are 2 problems with your argument
1. Sniping is part of shooting so that counts in what im saying, the average player likes to shoot whether its snipe or shotgun or whatever they like to fight. If you cant find anyone there is no one to snipe in the first place so it doesnt really matter your playstyle the problem is the ring
2. You contradict yourself in your own post. On one hand "many like to snipe" according to you, and yet "sniper rifles are not being picked up that often" which means that sniping is not that popular. So which one is it?
Its actually very easy to understand, if sniping is not rewarding or extremely difficult to do due to ring moving too fast people will not do it as often.
Another example, I like to win and I like to snipe, if I win 1 out of 10 times with a sniper riffle and 5/10 with an automatic riffle I would probably use an automatic riffle more often than not.
Matches already last around 20-22 mins, how much shorter do you want them to be? By your logic you can just drop everyone in one room full of guns, instant gratification no strategy just shoot em up rinse and repeat. I wonder which ver. of the game will have higher replayability. . .
People need to learn how to play the game that Respawn have designed.
This is not Cod (thank god). People need to learn how to be patient. Respawn also need to remove the hot drop so people don't all flock to it. Then the players might actually spread out around the map. This will happen over time (I hope) and people will realise they can't play like the streamers they watch.
By the end of round 1, my games normally have 10 squads left lol. But hot dropping is how you play apparently. Nobody can even wait on the drop ship for more than 30 seconds.
I enjoy Apex the way it's designed. I don't want it morphed into another generic "fast paced" shooter that end's up being chaos (the constant re-voting of Nuketown on Cod still gives me nightmares). Tiny map, no strats just utter chaos. Go play that for mindless fast paced action.
It's the first time that I see someone talk about the ring in this game. IMO the ring time is fine the way it is, like people said before, it gives times for tactical approaches and less rushing, also there is time to loot and ress teammates. Right now if you want to rush people you can just run around the map or go towards the gunfire, I would recommend picking Bloodhound. But you can also camp at a specific point, it is also a valid strategy. Also you can get punished in both cases, if u just run around without checking ur surroundings you might be caught up in a open field without cover by people that were camping, also if you are camping your gear might be worse than others and its easier to lock you up and surround you once spotted. As long as you don't cheat and don't use exploits, use the strategy that you like.
Yes thank you there is too large of a spectrum as you mentioned from very fast paced games to completely dead and finding no one and too often its the latter which is why we need a change
The current gameplay is tactical? Wait till you hear a firefight and zerg to it as fast as possible? With how fast you can move, including things like the redeploys, I don't get why the rings take so long to move in. Even if they were cut in half you would have to position so poorly to die or take a significant amount of damage to it.
