The Inflation of Movement Abilities
Since the introduction of Ash's "Blink", Apex seems to have entered a cycle of massive buffs followed by minor incremental nerfs, leading to an overall acceleration of character speed. Undoubtedly, ...
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"My Caustic is definitely dead. Hitbox, no movement"
My biggest fear is that they will realize the truth of what you've said, and their reaction will not be to tone down the speed. It will be to give Caustic a motion gimmick just like everyone else.
Exactly.
Even Fuse, whose strengths were originally area denial and suppression, is now flying around using his explosions. Seeing this trend has made me feel a deep sense of crisis."
So: Obviously I keep coming across Axle in matches because every squad has one now. There is no escaping her. And I've had some time to observe her, observe how other players react to her, and to try and sort out my own coping mechanisms.
The conclusion I'm coming to is that the real problem isn't that she's fast. It's that she makes her entire squad fast. And sometimes people on other squads as well. It's exactly like playing Wildcard and coming upon an entire squad of Octanes. That's what drove me out of Wildcard. I encountered that nonsense exactly once and I never went back. Now I'm playing bots, where no live players other than myself should even be, and all I have to do now to spot the live enemies is look for the pink dots or the pink streaks. There is no more circumspection in this game. There is no more jockeying for position. There is no more thinking about how to handle the next engagement. It just happens and it happens as soon as an Axle sees you. One individual player, such as myself, might be able to react quickly enough to reset the terms of engagement, but my squadmates can't react that quickly, and so far at least, they never seem to want the reset. They want to engage and die. Axle is another nail in the coffin for mid-range play, and another nail in the coffin for any opponent with less than perfect accuracy. I don't know if they realized in design that this would be the outcome, but that's all this game is now: hyperactive close-range engagement. Get a fistful of Ritalin or go home.
And one more thing: It means something that we're all here talking about her tactical. And ONLY about her tactical. I've only seen her ultimate in use once so far and it seems pretty useless from what I saw. So another part of the problem is that her true superpower isn't an ultimate with a long cooldown. It's a tactical that can be endlessly reused. Every 18 seconds, and that gets shorter if she finds a cooldown hop up. And she will. Everyone does. Because it makes everything faster and all Respawn seems to care about anymore is whether or not they can use hyperactivity as the lure to pull children out of the finally failing Fortnite. Good luck with that, Respawn.
Well stated. Dealing with one individual moving at light speed is one thing; successfully engaging three is impossible.
Axle’s tactical can have up to three placed at once, but when you factor in the sheer number of other Axles from different squads, the battlefield becomes pure chaos. It’s like a meteor shower of players sliding and soaring everywhere; you get downed before you can even register what’s happening.
Even if someone were using cheats, they’d blend right in. It’s a dream come true for boosting services and cheaters.
"It’s a dream come true for boosting services and cheaters."
One step forward, ten steps back.
Recon my friend, this goes back to my 5 Types Theory.
This character is a direct result of the Churn finally starting to decimate the Type 2s and working it's way into Type 1s. I can't recall the last time I saw YouTube feed me an Apex Video, or stream. Haven't seen it on Twitch frontpage in a while. All the streamers that show in my Discovery Tab on Bluesky are all talking Nintendo single player games.They can't stop the churn, because it comes for ALL online games. Guild Wars 2 is starting to look sad, and they just pushed a new expansion with new classes recently. They have been going for 12 years, but the churn is starting to hit it as well, and they have a robust PvE experience.
Apex has nothing like that. The Titanfall players that were hoping for Titanfall 3 are all gone, because EA admitted that it will never happen. No reason to stay. Nothing about the game is consistent, the character "Lore" is a joke, and the "plot" even thinner than rice paper.
I haven't played since the Gundam event (I love Gundam which is why I fell for it, I regret that choice). After it, I uninstalled. Before that, I hadn't played since just before Sparrow was introduced.
Nothing I see about this season sounds appealing. This Type 5 is gone.It pains me to say it, but you're missing nothing except the on-going series of **bleep** slaps that Respawn loves so dearly to deal out to their players.
And, in the interest of being the guy who lights a candle instead of cursing the darkness, I'll lay out a quick snapshot of the direction this game should be taking:
- End secondaries.
- Get a grip on the cheaters.
- Stop mistakenly believing that the novelty players crave is in new legends, new weapons, or re-worked abilities. It's in expanding the portfolio of game types. Right now every single mode in this game is some form of player vs. player. Does anyone even care whether it's two- or three-man teams? Ranked or unranked? Elimination or deathmatch? It's time for a social hub. It's time for genuine PvE. It's time for a map editor. It's time for story and lore. It's time for custom games anyone can start or join without being able to get 29 other players together on their own. It's time for the store to allow people to sell back and trade. It's time to get players interested in the community and not just in some flashy new gimmick they think might make them invincible for a season. It's time for long-term thinking and balance, and an end to short-term desperation.
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