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Jack B Nimble
Dec 25, 2007


Soiled Meat
There's also the idea that you're going to get better at Apex by dropping hot and fighting immediately much faster than if you drop alone, spend ten minutes aimlessly looting, then meet your first squad (who probably already won a hot drop).

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Rodney The Yam II
Mar 3, 2007




Hot take: I love all the maps

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


Lava Siphon is an infinitely better drop than Fragment. If you ever get jumpmaster on WE and want to drop hot but don't want to die instantly in Fragment then go there. If you win at Siphon you can go to Fragment next and clean up.

Tokubetsu
Dec 18, 2007

Love Is Not Enough

Rodney The Yam II posted:

Hot take: I love all the maps

I kinda do too, I don't even really hate World's Edge its just I play primarily solo with randoms so I'm Roy Batty in Blade Runner giving the tears in rain monologue when it comes to how much I've dropped Fragment. I am fully over it.

Kings Canyon gets the worst rep imo. The whole thing is brutal and fast now with giant death zones so its hilarious to me that streamers/pros hate it when thats the exact kinda action they're always asking for on WE/Olympus and now BM.

err
Apr 11, 2005

The dopamine hits different if you end up surviving fragment

Bottom Liner
Feb 15, 2006


a specific vein of lasagna

You're a good person

Jack B Nimble
Dec 25, 2007


Soiled Meat
Now you can give 'em the old nugglecluggle!

Abroham Lincoln
Sep 19, 2011

Note to self: This one's the good one



Ironically Fuse is very high tier for dropping Fragment when you have to use your Q to fight off people trying to punch you to death because nobody has a gun

Tokubetsu
Dec 18, 2007

Love Is Not Enough
knuckle cluster is strong and useful all the time but when everyone's flailing around with white armor its down right deadly

Bottom Liner
Feb 15, 2006


a specific vein of lasagna
My highest damage game was Fuse with teammates feeding me nades all game and shooting my guns very little. He's just a riot.

YoshiOfYellow
Aug 21, 2015

Voted #1 Babysitter in Mushroom Kingdom

I haven't really gotten used to lobbing long range nades and clusters yet but it's definitely satisfying. Knuckle cluster is nice to launch on downed enemies to deny revives too I've found.

highme
May 25, 2001


I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!


long range Arc sticks are so much fun

Ramie
Mar 2, 2021

having half an inventory full of grenades going up against the last 2 squads in a small ring is some of the most fun you can have in this game

Knight2m
Jul 26, 2002

Touchdown Steelers


catgirlgenius posted:

having half an inventory full of grenades going up against the last 2 squads in a small ring is some of the most fun you can have in this game

Fuse posted:

 "Never met a problem a dibutyl phthalate compound explosive couldn't fix."

YoshiOfYellow
Aug 21, 2015

Voted #1 Babysitter in Mushroom Kingdom

This is my new personal best. I'm really beginning to love Knuckle Cluster.



And then in the apex pack I got afterwards I was rewarded with this, which I suppose answers the question of who I oughta go for next.

durrneez
Feb 20, 2013

I like fish. I like to eat fish. I like to brush fish with a fish hairbrush. Do you like fish too?

wyoming posted:

Anyway, best lore, kissing lore:

:swoon:

:eyepop:

Ra Ra Rasputin
Apr 2, 2011
Fuse can just end some final fights with a none stop barrage of a full inventory of arc stars and the right positioning.

I don't see much Newcastle played ever, mobility characters can just wrap around his walls.

You didn't list it but you might want to consider unlocking Ash, in my option a top 5 character, maybe top 3.

If you have the attention to check the map now and then her passive will show deathboxes which is a absolutely HUGE information advantage in a battle royale, you can tell when fights ended, where they happened, how quickly that area of the map is depopulating and in a pinch you can head over to resupply on some death boxes or mark the boxes to find which direction the killers went, Ash can provide more critical map info then most recon classes.

Q is similar to Fuse, shoot it in a direction and screw over someone and mark them as a perfect target for grenade spam.

Ult is a great reposition tool for either bugging out of a bad position or quickly getting on top of a squad when you have the advantage.

Ra Ra Rasputin fucked around with this message at 07:33 on Nov 12, 2022

egg tats
Apr 3, 2010
a bit of a more situational fusetip for YoshiOfYellow : If a wattson has her ult up, you can stop throwing your grenades at her you're just wasting them.

this post sponsored by a fuse in the game I had just solo-queued as watson who wasted about 10 knuckle clusters, a dozen+ assorted grenades, and his ultimate while trying to dislodge me from a mid-tier sniper's nest (I'm not great at snipin :smith:)

melon cat
Jan 21, 2010

Nap Ghost

Jack B Nimble posted:

There's also the idea that you're going to get better at Apex by dropping hot and fighting immediately much faster than if you drop alone, spend ten minutes aimlessly looting, then meet your first squad (who probably already won a hot drop).

the key here is to relinquish jumpmaster, ping a location anyway, and when your team doesn't go there solo drop someplace else then DC once you get waxed by a full squad then repeat this until you've ruined at least 30 more games for other solo qs.

melon cat fucked around with this message at 06:12 on Jan 10, 2024

Minorkos
Feb 20, 2010

if only there was a gamemode where you could put all the "i want instant action NOW" people so they wouldn't pollute the BR queue like maybe control or gun game hmmm no better do another 15 seasons of arena taking up 2 queue options in the main menu instead

Bottom Liner
Feb 15, 2006


a specific vein of lasagna

Minorkos posted:

if only there was a gamemode where you could put all the "i want instant action NOW" people so they wouldn't pollute the BR queue like maybe control or gun game hmmm no better do another 15 seasons of arena taking up 2 queue options in the main menu instead

Those modes had zero impact on the fragment drop + die crowd

Evil Kit
May 29, 2013

I'm viable ladies.


I hate to agree but I must. You could probably make a limited time mode that was just "Fragment Death Match 24/7" and people would get bored with it and stop playing it.

Relyssa
Jul 29, 2012

Evil Kit posted:

I hate to agree but I must. You could probably make a limited time mode that was just "Fragment Death Match 24/7" and people would get bored with it and stop playing it.

Honestly the terminal octane brains would probably never tire of it.

Minorkos
Feb 20, 2010

i am a terminal octane brain and that is exactly the gamemode i long for

i am actually a little disappointed if i survive the first 3 minutes of hot drop brawling

ErKeL
Jun 18, 2013
They should just go ham with the npcs like it was in Titanfall. Faceless grunts everywhere so even when I'm getting throttled by a true legend I can still feel like a king flying through the map with a kill count in the hundreds. No downtime even after the melee at fragment so I'm still getting my dopamine hit.

melon cat
Jan 21, 2010

Nap Ghost

Relyssa posted:

Honestly the terminal octane brains would probably never tire of it.

Especially if they simulated a constant environment where Octanes can solo push against a full squad to their heart’s content as is traditional with Octane mains

Jack B Nimble
Dec 25, 2007


Soiled Meat
I did/do want an endless respawning FFA mode for both warm up and endless mechanical polish.

Like, I'd put on some music, zone out, and just shoot. I'm not going to do that in a normal game even arena, because you lose environmental awareness; but in a meaningless death match mode it doesn't matter.

Let it be overwatch style where people can drop in during match making but also let me just join into that at will.

Megaman's Jockstrap
Jul 16, 2000

Cruising the information superhighway
You guys want Titanfall 3 Pilot vs Pilot mode. It was very popular, I think the third or fourth most popular mode after Attrition/Titan v Titan and possibly CTF?

Tokubetsu
Dec 18, 2007

Love Is Not Enough
Yeah there was a sizable portion of the population that only cared about/played pilot vs pilot. Even now with northstar mod the most popular servers are PvP.

Relyssa
Jul 29, 2012

Jack B Nimble posted:

I did/do want an endless respawning FFA mode for both warm up and endless mechanical polish.

Like, I'd put on some music, zone out, and just shoot. I'm not going to do that in a normal game even arena, because you lose environmental awareness; but in a meaningless death match mode it doesn't matter.

Let it be overwatch style where people can drop in during match making but also let me just join into that at will.

Yes please. Literally all I want from the game.

Isomermaid
Dec 3, 2019

Swish swish, like a fish

Jack B Nimble posted:

I did/do want an endless respawning FFA mode for both warm up and endless mechanical polish.

Like, I'd put on some music, zone out, and just shoot. I'm not going to do that in a normal game even arena, because you lose environmental awareness; but in a meaningless death match mode it doesn't matter.

Let it be overwatch style where people can drop in during match making but also let me just join into that at will.

This, plus if you camp in one place for more than a certain amount of time it spawns a ring bubble

YoshiOfYellow
Aug 21, 2015

Voted #1 Babysitter in Mushroom Kingdom

I wonder if they'll ever bring back Solos. I've gotten into the groove of playing with random people using the robust ping system but it'd be nice to be able to chill out solo without queueing into a disadvantage by going solo in Duos queue.

Hackan Slash
May 31, 2007
Hit it until it's not a problem anymore
They will probably never bring back solos. They only did it once in like season 1 and then made a post on how they didn't like what it did to the game.

Edit: here's an article talking about it https://www.eurogamer.net/apex-legends-was-negatively-impacted-by-solos-says-respawn

YoshiOfYellow
Aug 21, 2015

Voted #1 Babysitter in Mushroom Kingdom

Ah. Unfortunate but I can respect the decision from a game design standpoint.

Rubellavator
Aug 16, 2007

Megaman's Jockstrap posted:

You guys want Titanfall 3 Pilot vs Pilot mode. It was very popular, I think the third or fourth most popular mode after Attrition/Titan v Titan and possibly CTF?


Tokubetsu posted:

Yeah there was a sizable portion of the population that only cared about/played pilot vs pilot. Even now with northstar mod the most popular servers are PvP.

I know the pug scene was heavily into PvP but I could never get a matchmade game of PvP last time I tried, everything was attrition. I really didn't enjoy the titan combat near as much as the pilot combat so that mode made a lot of sense to me.

Daztek
Jun 2, 2006



https://twitter.com/Respawn/status/1592273888792424449

runchild
May 26, 2010

420 smoke 🎨artisanal🍑 melange erryday

https://twitter.com/playapex/status/1593290504409604097

Evil Kit
May 29, 2013

I'm viable ladies.


Huh, they actually released a prime gaming skin that looks good.

runchild
May 26, 2010

420 smoke 🎨artisanal🍑 melange erryday

There’s been half a dozen or so really really good ones and most of the rest range from fine to pretty good. There’s only a few that are really bad.

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YoshiOfYellow
Aug 21, 2015

Voted #1 Babysitter in Mushroom Kingdom

I ended up saying gently caress it and got the Champion Edition because I've already put 50 hours into this time black hole so they've earned it. Having a bigger roster to play with has been super great.

I'm coming up on 12k funbux again and I'm really split between getting Seer or Catalyst. I know Seer is the more meta pick and I love his heartbeat sonar. But Catalyst is also pretty cool with the spike traps and stuff. Plus I got shiny BP stuff for her.

Decisions are hard.

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