Olympus is ABSOLUTE GARBAGE!
Sorry to say, but I've played since release. There's been a lot of bad moments and content droughts in Apex before and that's okay. There's been time's when I've wanted to Quit before I now own every Octane skin ever and heirloom, because I enjoyed the game for a long time, even the bad times (sometimes) Now I was super-hyped for Season 7, and then... First few match grew into a lot, because of "FIRST BLOOD" every match Then days went by, and it got better. Here's the problem: -No Loot -WAY TOO OPEN Area's -Bad building Designs -Bugs Too easy to move around part of the map, while the other take's too long -3rd Parties more often -Unbalanced High verses Low ground Just overall bad Map design, Jump-pads can't get to some area's, and it's to open to backup or push. I've never died so much and often in just barely a week of playing Trident's need a different design than being on the ground, I believe they should be more for flight. (Don't Fall off the map so much or bump into things) Plus no need for Octane or Path < Trident Honestly; just start Season 7 back over, or something. Go back to Season 6 and will player's work on doing the Season 7 battle pass. Remove Olympus and just start over. It's the Worst map and Season so far. I can't believe I was so hyped. To get garbage. This actually might be the best idea too, just remove Olympus for now and bring it back in a week or two after you fixed everything Respawn. This still allows Season 8 to be released before Feb. 4th And everything kind of stays on schedule.
World's edge makes me not want to play.
I am a rather new player, and I only started playing since two months ago. Before I was playing s8 only KC and Olympus, and I was having a blast. Then the new season came out and whenever I am forced to play world's edge because of the rotation I cannot seem to have fun anymore. The loot is ok on this map, but the design is frustrating. People are just camping everywhere, and whenever I show my head I get ten bows and four charge rifles shot at me instantly. Squads are encouraged to camp and wait, while I thought that apex legends was all about activity and high tempo engagements. Many places in WE are just way too open and large. A whole set of movement options (slides etc) are made for this game, but worlds edge just makes these so much less relevant. Repositioning feels impossible sometimes unless you have a valkyrie on your team. It seems like having a valkyrie is essential in this map. Having high ground is also very important and valkyrie gives this for free. She basically makes other character useless in comparison while playing on this map. I would very much like to just play KC and Olympus and never see WE again. I only want to play Apex Legends half of the time when WE is not in the rotation.
Hotdropping is the root of most problems, including the ring complaints.
I will say it outright, Hotdropping is the root of most problems in Apex: Hotdropping gets people so caught up in the chaos that they don't fear the ring Hotdropping turns skill into RNG of getting a gun Hotdropping turns teamplay into a gaggle of chickens running around with no heads Hotdropping halves lobbies in the first ring Hotdropping leads to cautious teams never seeing a fight until the very end of the match Hotdropping leads to nearly half the lobby dying before they have even had a chance to play the game Hotdropping leads to teams that don't bother to stick together even after the hotdrop Hotdropping leads to solo-droppers and impatient teammates who just rush off alone because half the lobby is already dead and they want a fight (but wont play arenas?) Hotdropping leads to unrecoverable teamates and instant-quitting Hotdropping leads to not only ratting, but for people to hate on ratting Hotdropping turns a battle royal, into crummy worse than arenas experience for the vast majority of the teams that will die in the hotdrop. Hotdropping leads to bad tactical mindsets and awareness, like the "just press w and delete them" mindset devoid of positioning sense. Hotdropping devalues the purpose of placement when getting to 10/20 just consists of not hot dropping. As much as it is a truly clunky solution, they should really test the idea of force-dropping teams into specific zones rather than the dropship flight path. That way you can spread out teams across the map and ensure more actual fights rather than one sided slaughter of people with no guns or ammo. It was always RNG what you would find or where you would be in relation to the first ring, so removing the choice of drop site really does not harm anything. Also there are some people out there who so clearly have never visited some parts of the map because the only hot-drop who could use a bit of map sense from the experience.
Map Selection instead of Rotation
I love the idea of all the maps being available. However, the rotation system is just not reasonable. Players do not want to wait an hour to play the map that they enjoy. We should be able to simply select our map, and the 60-90 minute timers is kind of ridiculous. Players don't have time to adjust to the map they're playing, and it's like your first game of the day all over again. We can pick duos or trios. Why can't we choose our map? This just isn't what the community was asking for and it's not efficient. You're going to get lots of complaints about this, please, please fix it soon. Instead of players just getting excited when their favorite comes around, they're literally logging off the game until it arrives again. This is not a timing game that people are going to play for long, and soon players will stop playing the game entirely. I'm already to the point where I almost don't want to play apex anymore.
Spiders on the new map triggering arachnophobia
Im really enjoying the new update and map for Apex but I had to stop playing last night due to the spiders that have been included. I've had people to tell me to just avoid them but that's not really a solution considering they're dotted all over the map and sometimes out in the open or in useful rotation points - not to mention if there's a team fight near one. The visual characteristics of the spiders in the update have made it so they seriously set off my arachnophobia to the point where I have to take my hands off the mouse and keyboard and recoil when they appear on my screen, making it so I can no longer play the game. I like the mechanics that the prowler nests bring in to the game but considering Arachnophobia is one of the most common phobias out there, did one of the nests really have to be spiders? Im hoping there will be an accessibility setting to swap the models of the spiders to something else client-side, or just replace the spiders with almost anything else because until either of those things happen, a lot of people with arachnophobia simply cannot play the game now.
Training Mode Improvements (Suggestions)
Hi there! Absolutely loving the game, so here is my 2 cents on the training mode as i currently still use csgo training maps too warm up but the recoil and spray patterns are different so i would prefer to use this one hehe. - The training mode is a great idea however i would LOVE to be able to skip the first part and go straight to the gun range - Being able to select which legend i use in the training mode whether it be selecting them before entering the mode or have a legend selector in the training mode. - Different kinds of training modes such as "Movement training (Agility course?) Weapons training (Gun range and grenade indicator range) Awareness training (Bots shoot from afar and you need to spot where they come from) - Being able to play against some bots in a small area, even 1 bot that moves faster and has the same hit boxes as the legends so you can practice your shooting more accurately on similar targets. - Being able to create and share your own training maps (Kinda like a steam workshop thing) These are just off the top of my head but again only suggestions that hopefully a good idea may sprout from :3