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3 years ago

Where is the actual gameplay besides looting?

When I play an FPS game, I just want to shoot other players and develop my combat skills. In Apex, however, I find that I am spending all of my time waiting for a game to start, waiting to land, loo...

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reconzero

Seasoned Ace

3 years ago

@Tad844 "I just want the devs to stick to the fast paced fps game that apex is."

Sorry, not seeing that at all. The thing I personally like about battle royale is the flexibility it offers the player - it can be any kind of game you want it to be - fast or slow, hot or cold, shooter or looter. If you try to make it all one way and not the other then suddenly it's just Call of Duty with a different aesthetic. Or so says me.

hayhor

Hero

3 years ago

@reconzero But this is the issue with the new ranked. Theyve made it so you need to play it slow. Fighting before top 8 is dumb so you loot for 15 minutes before fighting.

Tad844
3 years ago
@hayhor You can't do that because once you get to top 8, everyone will be with red shields and full loot waitting to 3rd party someone. Unless you get really lucky by 3rd partying someone yourself then you aren't going to win a fair 3v3 against similar skilled opponents with better loot/shields than you.
You need to fight at the start until you have enough loot to last you to endgame.
- hayhor
  Hero
  3 years ago
  @Tad844 You are better than me and most people so you probably win more of those early fights. Today I played some ranked with friends. Dropped fish farms almost every game, looted it then went to the armory. We typically were all purple with great loot without fighting. The only non fish farms drops were to barometer contested which we won the fights. I gained a pretty good amount of RP.
  
  All of this was only silver but with the demotion stuff there were tons of diamonds in the lobbies.
Cro_Pittt
3 years ago
@hayhor I mean you can fight because most of randoms want to do so, but problem is they don't stop after the first fight. Instead of going into last zone after getting 2-3 kp they keep pushing every fight and of course the risk of dying will dramatically increase.
reconzero
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@hayhor I would have said that any player with any kind of attention span would have been playing that way all along... assuming they care more about bumping up their win rate instead of their kill rate. These players put their personal playstyle ahead of the game objective, which is fine, but when the developer comes along and says it's time to start rewarding people for winning instead of just playing, I would have thought that would bring out players' competitive spirit. Instead it's shown up their complete inability to understand the game's real objective or adapt to changing circumstances in any meaningful way.

Wow, that was harsh. Assume that I believe everything I just said, but bring the tone down by about 80%.
- hayhor
  Hero
  3 years ago
  @reconzero It's apex. It's a good study on logic. 🤣