1. Caustic town transport is impossible and map is imbalanced for control: other maps you can take trident and move from A to C in a second, in this map you can almost never attack enemy base as it is too far. One of the bases has significant advantage over the other one2. Balancing the matchmaking seems to be an issue, since the release of the mode in late March, I couldn't get more than 2 wins in control mode, I mean can't losing every control match be blamed on me, right? shouldn't teams and match making gets double checked?The control map in the Strom point was the most balanced control map in my opinion

I disagree with #1...The problem is they just need more permanent movement gimmicks at spots. As it stands right now you need to select Pathfinder or Octane first in order to build these pathways that allow you to move from A to C faster. Then you can play any character without the slow pace feel. All you need is 2 ziplines or pads and you can get those within your first 2 deaths. Here are 2 of my favorite zipline pathways in a couple of angles when coming from A...And one from C...

It's crazy how much just a couple players can ruin a match for everyone on your team in a 9v9 game mode. I played a game today where two players on the enemy team each had more kills than all the other players in the lobby combined. It was miserable, and as I suggested, confounding that a mere two players could cause such drastic imbalance. Contrast with yesterday, I had a match with 14 kills, top in the lobby. What is this matchmaker even doing?

@AlphabetsAdditionally, I’m confident that Respawn has taken measures to stop high ELO accounts from entering lower lobbies in Control.I spent about 2 hours swinging directly off the map in control with no kills or damage— so I amassed a huge amount of deaths each game, for many many games in a row. This had absolutely no impact on my lobbies. I continued to exclusively get Masters and Preds as teammates and opponents.Heray for experiments! Lol.

@AlphabetsSome Control matchmaking facts:1) The matchmaking is super aggressive if you’re playing on a high ELO (BR account). My first (and every match there after) match pitted me against all 4k 20 bomb players. Literally everyone in my lobby is Master and up, or sporting the 4k 20, even my teammates.2) On my TEST account, I have 200+ BR games played and 0 damage and 0 kills. Playing Control on this mode put me against super low ELO players. After dropping an insane amount of kills (54), my immediate next game placed me in the same lobbies that I’m playing in on my actual account. This is good, as it stops people from smurfing in a consistent manner. So Control indeed has totally separate SBMM than BR for everyone except high ELO BR accounts.

Two problems I found in the new Control mode

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hayhor
Hero
4 years ago
@CCbathwater I need to confess something. The other day I was playing control. The score was like 54 to 55 but I spawned next to a care package that had both a gold r9 and a kraber. I went straight to the top of waterfall and never left it. I shot lots of people with my kraber. Those people then kept pushing me but I killed them all with my r9. We lost by like 10%. I felt bad. Then the end screen popped and I had 20% more objective points than both teammates and felt less selfish. 🤣
CCbathwater
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
And I go try again, in the hope it'll be better now. Wrong! It isn't. I still fail to see what good giving a 20 minute penalty will do, as I'm currently just afc'ing to avoid the 20 minutes. Well, the game says 10 minutes, which in Apex time means 20 apparently. But my useless 7 teammates still play without my services, so a leaver penalty doesn't solve ****. What would solve it? A proper sbmm, perhaps?
And when someone already left 1 second into the game, why am I forced to stay in the game anyway? Ridiculous.
CCbathwater
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
Wth is Fuse even in Control? Just played him because someone took Lifeline, and stayed afc all game btw. I literally had the knuckle-cluster all the time, just firing at enemies, or denying them access at the big sliding doors to B, ruining a Rampart's setup, etc.. It was fun, sure, but wth is that even?
hayhor
Hero
4 years ago
@CCbathwater Certain legends are a lot more powerful in control. Why I cringe when I get a loba or lifeline as a teammate. No offense to you.
CCbathwater
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@hayhor But without a Lifeline, where the **** do you get amour? I was just running around with blue all game. Why don't armour rank up along with your tier?

Oh, and Respawn, stop the gun-thing everytime you rank up your tier. I was in the middle of a fight and then my gun did that stupid thing and I died.
hayhor
Hero
4 years ago
@CCbathwaterI get armor by killing those with it. When they die it drops on the ground. Almost everyone on the map is blue so it doesn't make much difference anyway. As caustic I can take more damage. 😈

What gun thing? I've never noticed. Does it stop firing when it upgrades?
CCbathwater
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@hayhor But without me, apparently there's hardly any purple or gold. When I'm Lifeline there's so much purple and gold going around.

It switches or pulls out one, or whatever it does, some animation, but it's annoying and got me killed.
pandareno1999
Hero+
4 years ago
Weapons are automatically mantled when you upgrade. It's a very unfortunate mechanic. The positive flip side is that if you have a red tier weapon, the ammo will be renewed. Tier up by making some krab kills, and you'll get a fresh krab!

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