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4 years ago

Worlds Edge needs to go

I am going to outline why worlds edge should discontinue in apex legends as a possible ranked candidate and why a King Canyon related map should always take its place. 

Worlds Edge

                     - Reused Singular High point design is reused in zone such as The Epicenter - Harvest - Thermal Station - Sorting Factory - The Train Yard - Skyhook - Fragment but will explain further below 

                     - The wasted poly counter makes me laugh. There must have been at least some kind of effort to add so many poly blocks to this map only the allow little to no access to these buildings. The sky scrapers, or the bulging Sci Fi buildings serve little purpose in adding new terrain to the game and really have become an eyesore knowing in reality its a hollow shell with a cheap skin surrounding it. 

                     - Two Game modes are played on Worlds Edge, You are ether farming without seeing a single team until top 5 where the circle forces you into a still usually long ranged conflict, or you drop where everyone drops in usually 2 or 3 popular zones and roll the dice in if your team decided to third party at the correct time. I don't make judgment based off pro player or streamer abilities, we all suck here usually. But this kind of defeats the purpose of a BR and of even having a map this massive. If you drop in an abandoned location you can travel through multiple zones before ever seeing an open crate or signs of life. 

                     - Third Partying without third partying is the biggest issues on worlds edge. The amount of open view the player has in apex legends on worlds edge is foolish. The weapons in this game are obviously not realistic and should be designed in that way "its apex legends". With that in mind as almost every gun shoots Lasor beams, it doesn't matter what gun you have third partying from 500+ meters is a common factor of apex which is why other BR games suck in my opinion which most have this issue. A sniper rifle is a sniper rifle and should have its uses but the entirety of a map shouldn't be just 1 big sniper location when every gun is a possible sniper rifle in apex legends.  

                     - The distance to fight. By distance to fight I mean the distance required for 1 team to push another team. You die fast in this game. I know some people may say otherwise but for me if you are in the open, you're dead. Positioning is very important in this game but so is the capability to push. Worlds edge handicaps players by using ziplines, Fake Roads and open fields as their main source of connections. Crates, Rocks you can't climb, and horrible stations with 2 open windows and 2 doors are your only option as cover in this map. This also comes in conflict with the absurdly high positioning every monument gives players located there over the fields below.  

                     - This map is honestly just ugly. Worlds edge is a very ugly girl. the building designs are modern boxes, and the view is obscured by seemingly grand canyon like walls that looks like a 15 year old's first attempt at elevation in Unity. The buildings follow usually the same Grey color and locations like The Tree which look great are shadowed by the fact their horrible position. I play this game on the highest possible graphic level and the textures can sometimes make me laugh thinking their in Apex Legends. 

I can go on for what seems forever on why this map is horrible but at some point it will just be me B1tching. King Canyon and maps relating to it are the only option of map design this game should follow. It is cramped, with natural slopes and sniper points that have a limited reach. There are camp spots that are good and some that are bad. The map holds nostalgic value and it feels very apex legends. You have bottle neck locations, valleys and open fields, all in which reward good cover and fast transition between them. I have literally almost quit this game because of worlds edge and FF14 continues to fill my day instead of apex legends. 

I also want to add quickly, games likes Fortnite, Warzone, PubG, ETC are boring and casual games strictly because you can literally do nothing until the top 5. This is a battle royal game, not a loot box opener simulator, and not an MMORPG walking simulator. 

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