Utility Items in Apex
I've seen lots of people talk about where Apex could expand to, and what some things they could potentially do in the future are. Something I'd be really interested in seeing are some utility-type items you could find as loot around the map or in care packages.
I'm defining Utility-type items as things that can change gameplay up that aren't just plain weapons or body armour.
Some things I think would be cool or that I've heard other people mention are:
- Grenades
- Smoke grenades
- Flashbang-style grenades
- Movement-impairing freeze/glue grenades
- Random teleport grenade that scatters anyone hit around a small radius around it
- Place-able Stuff
- Barricades, maybe like knock-down shield type barriers with a durability on them, that increases with tier, that block bullets and movement.
- Mines
- General Traps
- Something to reinforce doors so they take more hits to break/don't open with a wingman/peacekeeper
- Attachments
- Silencers
- Flash-hiders
I think adding more stuff to vary up play style and give people more options would be neat. What are people's thoughts on stuff like this? What are your own ideas? This is just a brainstorm so feel free to throw up even crazy ideas (like a random teleportation grenade?!) they don't have to be feasible or particularly practical. I'm curious what crazy things people can think of, and I'd love to know what people think of what I've said - where you'd have to be careful and what you'd pay attention to when balancing - like with a smoke grenade, you'd have to make sure it didn't make Bangalore obsolete and that digital-threats/bloodhounds weren't too strong.
