TTK has removed strategy from apex
S24 TTK has really ruined any possible "competitive" nature to ranked. Ranked hasn't particularly felt competitive in a while unfortunately, but this season it is amplfied the issue. In pubs its fine...
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How do you feel that it has removed strategy from the game?
I can see it being reasoned that if you get jumped that you can barely react to it and it's practically a guaranteed lost gunfight.
But wouldn't that be a problem if you are applying old strategies where the TTK was higher?
Wouldn't it be considered a new strategy to play in a way that you do not get jumped like that?
As with the game changing, the strategies used in said game should likely change as well.
Personally I've been enjoying it and fights still work out decently fine when using cover and rotating properly.
Walking out in the open usually results in being beamed to death, but I don't think that's a bad thing.
I can agree with all of that. In theory. And it's a mindset I've tried to execute since forever, regardless of the changing fads from season to season.
But I still think it's ironic that these changes, designed so I was told to make engagements faster, easier, and "more fun" (whatever that means), are in fact forcing any player of modest skill to get more cautious and avoid engagement if they don't want to get instakilled. I'm sure there are good ways for this game to promote engagement.. may even promote aggression... without having it take a form where a game that always appeared to have a lot of cheating, now appears to have even more. I'm not saying that it actually has more cheating, but engagements in this game were already often hard to read, and now that they're faster it just looks and feels like "aimbot" at every turn. Not, I would say, a good look or feel for a game that already struggled with that problem.
Well I'm currently in masters/pred lobbies since I'm in gold/plat and since teams are taking insanely aggressive fights early as TTK is so high it rewards hyper aggressive play. It has been pretty common in these lobbies for a while but the TTK has increased lobby aggression massively. I think the problem has been ongoing for a long time in that ranked is no where near a good judgement of the state of competitive apex - which it should be. Other games you can hop on ranked play high skill games which emulate as close as possible to the competitive experience. Ranked has never reslly felt like that minus a few seasons.
I think apex works much better than other shooters on that rotation and positioning was so much more important. When half the lobby is dead by zone 1 neither of these matter hence strategy is gone. If you want to play zone and rotate you'll have no KP as it'll be unlikely you'll find teams playing zone right now it'd more than people stumble into zone rather than people playing it now. So sure +80 when you're in lower ranks is whatever like top 5 2-3 KP sure, but when it's going to get later into the season and you get plat diamond + you'll be forced to fight early too then intensifying the issue of lobbies dying early.
