What was the reason?

@Daze623 I’m wondering that myself…do they plan to keep this change. I feel like I’m constantly running from zone. Eventually, I’m going to have to get a new controller because my right toggle will get worn out.

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At the risk of sounding cynical, I'm sure it will boil down to what nickmercs and aceu and timmy have to say. And while I don't know what any of them have to say on this specific subject, I would assume that streamers prefer anything that makes the game faster because that makes streams more exciting.

@Daze623 It is really odd. If you drop in a corner and ring is opposite corner it gets pretty messy.

@reconzero tbh it has an opposite effect. A lot of people still land at the edge of the map they just choose not to fight anymore cause of the ring chagnes.

@Daze623 As if Respawn wants to promote hotdropping with how fast the ring closes. If you drop safely at the corners, you’ll be running for 5-10mins. LOL.

@Daze623 I believe it was the ranked scene who encouraged them to change it. The ring did not do much damage in lower closers. People was able to rat inside the ring to advance in placement. With heat shields being a thing it made sitting inside the ring that much easier with hardly any downsides due to the low amount of damage it did and how small of an area they had to escape it easily.

@E9ine_AC by ranked scene you mean the high level rank that stomps everyone and is usually in a premade? Cause us lesser beings had no issues like that before and made the game actually fun. It's so dumb that they opted for a ring damage increase immediately instead of making the aim knock while inside the ring more punishing. They literally had one gamemode where they increased the ring damage and they found out how volatile it is to mess with the ring damage. It's also a really bad timing that they did this on an already smaller map like KC. I really hope they revert it.