WE is boring now
Drop to frag or spend the entire round looting bored out of your mind. Every single match I play it's down to 5-8 squads by the time ring 2 starts closing. If you drop any place but Frag you're lucky...
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@DarthValtrex Multiple drop ships can be unfair. If your drop ship starts over a poor loot area or a place you hate, you can't compete for many other places, because other teams can have a lot of advantage dropping from closer ships. You'd be dead before touching the ground if trying to land there, as the enemy would be already on the ground and weaponized and you wouldn't even know how many they are and where they've landed.
A simpler alternative to multiple drop ships would be to make the droppers invisible and silent above a certain altitude. Still, this would be too much randomness at the beginning of the match, and players dying quickly after landing would angrily and rightfully blame the game for it.
A simpler alternative to multiple drop ships would be to make the droppers invisible and silent above a certain altitude. Still, this would be too much randomness at the beginning of the match, and players dying quickly after landing would angrily and rightfully blame the game for it.
@DoYaSeeMe I suppose, but.. So long as the drop ships pass over high tier loot areas I don't see what the issue would be. They would have to remove the gold items at places like Waterfall and remove the hot drop zone.
But if it spread out the squads more and dealt with rounds being over in the first 8-10 minutes wouldn't that be a benefit? I think it would be worth testing out in a LTM and see the community response. I'm sure the people the love the frag drops with 10+ squads would complain a bit.
Difficult position to be in as a dev. I don't mind some rounds that are over in 10 minutes but it's starting to be almost every round of PUBS everyone is dropping to Estates/Waterfall or the Frag area of WE. The only place where you get people spreading across the map is in Ranked and that's because they want to try and make top 5 placement for RP.
If they wanted to give players the opportunity to have hot drops like Frag occasionally, then just have the drop ships fly in an X pattern and meet at the center of the map at the same time. People who desire a hot drop with 10+ squads could still get it occasionally but it would not be every round. The rounds in which the ships take some what different paths would force teams to spread out over the map simply because not everyone can drop to the same location and make it there at the same time.
But if it spread out the squads more and dealt with rounds being over in the first 8-10 minutes wouldn't that be a benefit? I think it would be worth testing out in a LTM and see the community response. I'm sure the people the love the frag drops with 10+ squads would complain a bit.
Difficult position to be in as a dev. I don't mind some rounds that are over in 10 minutes but it's starting to be almost every round of PUBS everyone is dropping to Estates/Waterfall or the Frag area of WE. The only place where you get people spreading across the map is in Ranked and that's because they want to try and make top 5 placement for RP.
If they wanted to give players the opportunity to have hot drops like Frag occasionally, then just have the drop ships fly in an X pattern and meet at the center of the map at the same time. People who desire a hot drop with 10+ squads could still get it occasionally but it would not be every round. The rounds in which the ships take some what different paths would force teams to spread out over the map simply because not everyone can drop to the same location and make it there at the same time.
I still like World's Edge.
But I like Olympus better.
The return of World's Edge to me just points out that Apex learned from World's Edge and made their new map better. And WE is a lesson learned from King's Canyon. If every new map is an improvement at this rate, I think things are good for the game.
Original World's Edge was better than current WE though. Whether with Mirage voyage, and/or Bloodhound cave, it's WE prior to season 6 I think that is the best version of that map.
- @KelRiever Good point, I guess I just wish more squads would go to other places than Frag. I think they have shown that they learn from each previous season. KC final rendition was absolutely perfect for the map that it was. Sure I would miss skull town occasionally but it the overall play of the map had improved IMO from each season.
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