Visible health bars & low TTK
I genuinely believe adding visible health bars and ruining the TTK has taken away a lot of what made Apex and the fights great and interesting to play or watch. Season 21 was the last time we played before health bars, then the low TTK happened in Season 24. No surprise the game has been on a steady decline since S21... The fights are way too fast now and the teamfighting/legend dynamics were completely changed when everyone just pushes everything super fast with low HP because they know exactly how low they are, and with health bars, know exactly where they are or what direction they're trying to evade to. The game is way too one-dimensional now. The game just isn't as interesting anymore because the fights aren't nearly as back-and-forth as they used to be. Also it's increasingly harder to balance all the weapons/legends to be viable when everyone dies so quickly and the fights end so fast now. I know this is copy/pasted from my other countless other comments about these changes since they were added over a year ago, but I don't know how else to make my point. I've repeated my point of view over and over, but nothing is being done and the playerbase and viewership keeps declining... I just want my favorite game to return to its former greatness. Here is a summary of why the two biggest core gameplay issues plaguing the game are visible health bars and low TTK: Health bars: - Gives free tracking and awareness - letting players see exactly where weakened enemies move, even through foliage or visual clutter. - Makes 3rd partying way easier since you instantly know who’s low and safe to push. - Removes the fog of war: no more guessing HP, no more deception via shield swaps, no more hiding HP weakness by using shield cells/batteries to re-peek. - Makes certain legends and abilities (Seer tac, Bloodhound, Mirage ult, etc.) far less valuable. - Encourages nonstop aping and movement legends - if you ever peek with flesh, everyone knows and full-sends. - Subconsciously affects split-second decisions at every level of play. - Makes tracking and aiming easier because players now have giant bars floating over them. Low TTK: - Erases mid-fight depth, teamfight dancing, clutch potential, and outplays. - Punishes solos and flanks - one tick of damage reveals your exact location and HP, and you’re basically out of the fight. - Leads to instant knocks → quick 2v3s with little chance for recovery. - Reduces the value of defensive or slower legends. - Shrinks the margin for error so much that taking even minor damage forces you to hide and heal instead of fighting back. Combined, HP bars + low TTK: - Creates cheap, fast kills, shallow fights, and overly aggressive playstyles. - Removes most of what made old Apex dynamic, skill-expressive, and balanced. - Makes movement less valuable and tracking easier. - Turns fights into linear one-dimensional “see flesh/red HP bar → push instantly” scenarios. Overall: Apex played best and was at its peak in the seasons before visible HP bars were added. Removing them—and/or raising the TTK—would restore much of the original depth and fun that made us all like the game. Here are some of my previous comments that have received positive reactions, showing that I'm not the only one that see's what's currently wrong with the game, go back and read people's replies to these as well: 1 - comment in the competitive apex sub on a comment lamenting about the lack of viewership/engagement in the eSports/pro scene now 2 - replying to a comment in the recent dev AMA that's concerned about the game's direction towards movement with low TTK 3 - the issue with the Support meta the season before they lowered the TTK was because they removed the only counters to support utility then swung too hard the other way and blanket buffed literally every weapons' damage, removed helmets, and Red EVO rather than just bringing the counters back. 4 - heavily upvoted post during the Support meta questioning why counters to Support were removed 5 - heavily upvoted post just days after health bars were added 6 - highly commented post complaining about low TTK not long after it was added 7 - highly upvoted comment linking my clip asking everyone's favorite iiTzTimmy on his opinion on health bars 8 - example 1 of seeing your target through things you shouldn't be able to because of health bars 9 - example 2 10 - everyone's favorite aceu getting instantly knocked then sarcastically praising the low TTK change comparing it to Warzone, why do you think he stopped playing? 11 - a comment where people agree that health bars are arguably the worst change they ever made 12 - a comment to the devs in their recent AMA on legend balance 13 - a comment where I pasted a lot of my other smaller comments about this topic 14 - a comment where people agree that low TTK lowered the skill ceiling too much 15 - upvoted comment on a post lamenting about how hard it is to play immobile legends now 16 - upvoted comment the season after the Support meta agreeing that buffing every weapon/lowering TTK was a mistake, lots of good discussion in this whole post 17 - upvoted reply on a comment from a returning player who doesn't understand why the fights are so fast now
Vantage has an out-of-balance ability kit
I have been playing Vantage quite a bit lately to see how she plays, and then tried playing Alter. And it is more than evident that some characters have extremely out-of-balance ability kits. This means that of the two abilities that a character has, one is significantly more powerful than the other. With Vantage the issue is that her ultimate sniper does too little damage, while her jump ability is too effective as an escape tool. Vantage tactical bat jump I recommended removing the ability to send out the bat and immediately jump after it with Vantage. It is too easy to quickly escape dangerous firefights with this ability. Changing it so you first have to send out the bat and then have to hold the jump button separately ensures it takes Vantage a bit more time to jump and rewards Vantage players for pre-placing the bat. It effectively makes Vantage more unique from someone like pathfinder by adding an element of thinking and planning ahead. Vantage ultimate sniper I recommend increasing the damage on the first shot to 65, and the damage on marked targets double that, so 130. This means if you get hit twice by a Vantage ultimate and you have purple armour, you will suffer 195 damage, but will not be downed. This change would simply make the sniper do a bit more damage without crossing a new break point (break point = number of hits to kill) which is pretty important with high single shot damage weapons. I know its unrelated, but Alter’s ultimate doesn’t feel very powerful. The removal of allowing downed people to teleport to the ultimate portal feels like it has made her ultimate useless. There’s absolutely no point in having a teleport fallback in a game in which you constantly have to move up to keep up with the ring.
THERE WAS NO CONFUSION ABOUT THE SUPERSONIC EVENT ENDING @ RSPN_JAX
Whoever had the guts to write out that email about the Supersonic event ending being “confusing” for certain people is CRAZY. How about take the real approach, THAT YOU LIED TO EVERYONE. Dont post on your website the WHOLE EVENT is going to END ON THE 16th of DECEMBER. IF ITS NOT GOING TO END. Tired of these deceiving market ploys to hit quotas before the year is over. Grow up and stick to what you say you’re going to do?It’s so annoying
Let me start by saying Apex Legends is just annoying to play. I have over 1500 hours playing time and for some reason I still get sh## on every game. I bought an Xbox controller with the dpads over a year ago and it helped me feel faster, but now it’s like every game has predator or master players. I got to the point where Im reporting people all the time. It’s not even fun because the only chance I have to win a fight is to snipe or to have a teammate who is one of those predator players. I don’t even write reviews, so you can tell how bad I hate playing this game now. Even wildcard I get teammates that have over 2000 damage in the first few minutes of the game while to me it doesn’t make sense how the second I shoot someone I’m getting clapped from the back. Even if I start shooting from height and I’m head glitching and my enemy isn’t even aware I’m there, he still turns and takes all of my shield to where I can’t even poke my head out . It’s just annoying
doesn't run Apex Legends On STEAM DECK
Because my computer is very old, I bought a Steam Deck to play games like Hogwarts Legacy, Horizon Forbidden West, and Avatar, relying on Steam for that purpose. Apex Legends was among the games I couldn't play, but was sure I could. Not being able to play a game that's even playable on Nintendo Switch on Steam's own console is really disappointing. I want a solution to this as soon as possible. I'm very happy with the device, but not being able to play the game I've spent the most hours on is truly frustrating. I've played this game for 672 hours on Steam and spent a lot of money on it. It's my most played game. I hope you'll look into this.
Mirage - WILDCARD
Mirage should lose his passive ability of invisibility. Controller characters don't have overhealing shields in the ring, and characters like Wraith, Octane (and others in the same group) don't have overhealing HP and shields when knocked down. So why is Mirage invisible in this mode? I'd add that when there are three of them, it's better to just leave the match, because playing then is no fun at all. Do something about this.