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Tokubetsu
Dec 17, 2007

Love Is Not Enough
Yeah it’s not coming anytime soon if at all.

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blastron
Dec 11, 2007

Don't doodle on it!


I don't think Arena will ever be my main mode, but I'm looking forward to having a way to reliably get into fair fights to work on my movement and aiming fundamentals in a real environment. All the Aim Lab training I do doesn't help if my brain locks up as soon as someone starts shooting at me, and I hope that getting a lot of experience in getting shot at will help that.

Carillon
May 9, 2014






Man I know this is a minority opinion but I'm really hoping they bring back world's end. Switching from Olympus to KC is just painful.

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist

Songbearer
Jul 12, 2007

Insight: Try to discern the fuck they said.


Season's winding to a close so it's my Seasonal Here's How I Did Post:



Best season by far. My aim hasn't especially improved much and teammate Daz can attest that my lifespan definitely hasn't but I think we've been much better at picking our battles and coming out on top when we do. I think the 30/30 is a great gun and it feels very balanced, which is a relief because I figured it was just going to be a bigger longer range Wingman. As it stands it's a G7 that's a bit more forgiving in my hands and it makes a great sidearm for a 301 or LMG - a rifle you can depend upon to deal the damage that you might not land so consistently with other guns, but still nimble enough to be used at shorter ranges without too much hassle.

Speaking of the G7 I gave it some love this season and my attitude towards it has softened a lot. It's definitely rewarding but when your back is against the wall and it's all you have to rely upon up close, I just can't make it work. Also gently caress the ironsights they're awful.

The map changes to Kings Canyon feel great in my opinion, I've had a lot of fun fights around the ship. Inside the ship is a different matter, it's always been a clusterfuck, but the little buildings surrounding it are well designed with lots of different points of ingress that give both attackers and defenders a fair few options. I haven't really spent much time in and around Caustic's takeover but I still miss the old buildings there, they were one of my favourite drop locations :smith:

Explosive holds are neat and cool and I appreciate their inclusion. Lots of desirable loot easily accessible early on but you draw attention to yourself and it can put you in a vulnerable position, but in reality we've never really experienced that much hassle from using them except for the ones that are a bit more obvious and out in the open (Near Bunker town, out in the new Slum Lake etc). Gold mags are great and far less nebulous in their pros compared to barrel stabilisers, I'm sure there've been more than a few fights where my life has been saved by a mag reloading for me when I've panicked and forgotten to take care of it.

Fuse is a rad character who has some really fun abilities, but they're so situational you don't really get to enjoy them that much. Being able to yeet a billion grenades is of course the main draw, but I wish his tactical had more oomph - make the explosions bounce people around to throw off their aim, or maybe apply a concussion slow or something.

Mastiff nerf was much needed and made fighting people up close a lot more fun rather than having all my enjoyment erased in half a second by sweatlords and pad aimers. Horizon needs to be hit with the nerf hammer. Rampart is actually getting to be a bit more useful with her wall buffs but still needs a few new tricks. Octane becoming the new hot poo poo is my jam because I love my speedy boy. Bring back the Prowler you gently caress lords, it's suffered enough - shove the Devotion back in the hole and it's off to the races.

Songbearer fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Apr 24, 2021

TrixR4kids
Jul 29, 2006

LOGIC AND COMMON SENSE? YOU AIN'T GET THAT FROM ME!

Carillon posted:

Man I know this is a minority opinion but I'm really hoping they bring back world's end. Switching from Olympus to KC is just painful.
You’re not in the minority, maybe on here but I think most ppl prefer worlds edge for its balance.

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist
Lol

xtal
Jan 9, 2011

by Fluffdaddy
Can't they just have every map available and chosen randomly for each match? Like every other game? I don't get why they deliberately limit the map variety, especially when there's only 3 to begin with.

ZeusCannon
Nov 5, 2009

BLAAAAAARGH PLEASE KILL ME BLAAAAAAAARGH
Grimey Drawer
It would be cool to have map specific stats. Like k/d on kings canyon or sniper kills on olympus etc.

Just cause it's be fun to know where you play best etc

Cretin90
Apr 10, 2006

TrixR4kids posted:

You’re not in the minority, maybe on here but I think most ppl prefer worlds edge for its balance.

Yeah, definitely in the minority on here, but I also really miss worlds edge. It’s far more suited to my playstyle than the 28 Days Later zombie charging of the entire lobby on Olympus when you make any noise.

tote up a bags
Jun 8, 2006

die stoats die

xtal posted:

Can't they just have every map available and chosen randomly for each match? Like every other game? I don't get why they deliberately limit the map variety, especially when there's only 3 to begin with.

Literally this forever, "retiring" one map is dumb just rotate through all of them

dogstile
May 1, 2012

fucking clocks
how do they work?

Cretin90 posted:

Yeah, definitely in the minority on here, but I also really miss worlds edge. It’s far more suited to my playstyle than the 28 Days Later zombie charging of the entire lobby on Olympus when you make any noise.

I mean, the only difference is that in worlds edge 18 of the 20 squads kill eachother in Fragment and Sorting, so your downtime is trying to find the other squad.

Daztek
Jun 2, 2006



https://twitter.com/PlayApex/status/1386334290015834112

6 minutes long

Chard
Aug 24, 2010




the idea that deathmatch mode is "beyond battle royale" is funny as heck

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017

Intriguing.

xtal posted:

Can't they just have every map available and chosen randomly for each match? Like every other game? I don't get why they deliberately limit the map variety, especially when there's only 3 to begin with.

If it's strictly a random select (instead of a timed rotation where it's clear what the current map is), then every single match will have at least 2-3 squads drop out immediately because it's not their tryhard map.

runchild
May 25, 2010

420 smoke 🎨artisanal🍑 melange erryday

Looks like Olympus has some visitors, up in the western sky.

TrixR4kids
Jul 29, 2006

LOGIC AND COMMON SENSE? YOU AIN'T GET THAT FROM ME!

xtal posted:

Can't they just have every map available and chosen randomly for each match? Like every other game? I don't get why they deliberately limit the map variety, especially when there's only 3 to begin with.

Yeah, probably. Idk what the deal is with removing worlds edge for as long as it has been honestly. Even if they’re reworking it they still have it available for tournaments and private lobbies.

TrixR4kids
Jul 29, 2006

LOGIC AND COMMON SENSE? YOU AIN'T GET THAT FROM ME!

dogstile posted:

I mean, the only difference is that in worlds edge 18 of the 20 squads kill eachother in Fragment and Sorting, so your downtime is trying to find the other squad.
You basically just described Olympus too though, what you describe here is not like exclusive to any one map. Even on KC most ppl just drop at whatever the hot drop near the ship is.

Honestly it’s more of a pubs issue than anything (and even in plat/diamond ranked you have the braindead hard stuck ppl playing like pubs).

E: double post my bad

MarshyMcFly
Aug 16, 2012

Chard posted:

the idea that deathmatch mode is "beyond battle royale" is funny as heck

I think they mean go beyond the battle royal game already established in apex legends. Not any kind of ground breaking death match mode.

repiv
Aug 13, 2009

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChZaqqoNg-0

Daztek
Jun 2, 2006



https://www.ea.com/games/apex-legends/news/introducing-arenas

Arena article

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017

Intriguing.
I was looking forward to a deathmatch-style mode, 3v3 takes a little bit of wind out of my sail, but I'll definitely give it a fair shake.

Daztek
Jun 2, 2006



https://twitter.com/ggpedroperes/status/1386697184679276544

Thread with a bunch of info

wa27
Jan 14, 2007

Another season with no Prowler? :negative:

Overminty
Mar 16, 2010

You may wonder what I am doing while reading your posts..

Low profile is out according to that thread.

Huh.

The Diddler
Jun 22, 2006


wa27 posted:

Another season with no Prowler? :negative:

Definitely don't love that my favorite gun will continue to be unobtainable. Adding *another* shotgun to the floor doesn't seem fun, but whatevs.

Megaman's Jockstrap
Jul 16, 2000

Cruising the information superhighway

The Diddler posted:

Definitely don't love that my favorite gun will continue to be unobtainable. Adding *another* shotgun to the floor doesn't seem fun, but whatevs.

It's bad too because Peacekeeper and Mastiff are very very similar to each other.

Boxman
Sep 27, 2004

Big fan of :frog:


Megaman's Jockstrap posted:

It's bad too because Peacekeeper and Mastiff are very very similar to each other.

And having two sniper rifles in care packages is weird, especially since the TT isn't as good in the endgame as the Kraber.

wa27
Jan 14, 2007

Overminty posted:

Low profile is out according to that thread.

Huh.

That's probably a good thing. It always seemed like a lazy/quick way to balance characters when people started freaking out over hitbox sizes in week 1. There's plenty of ways to buff/nerf a character with their abilities.

Hopefully that means they'll also take away Fortified for fat characters

Yellow Yoshi
Apr 29, 2020

Figure 1: Mario's weird dog
fast shooting sentinel
my time has come

glad to see kings canyon getting shitcanned again, it's nice as a change every now and then in the same way that going to hospital is

MarshyMcFly
Aug 16, 2012

How is dead-eye's tempo going to work with the sentinel? Just a flat fire rate increase?

edit: i guess just a fire rate increase

I don't like a lot of their decisions this season. Hopefully they balance some of these choices with other nerfs/buffs.

MarshyMcFly fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Apr 26, 2021

repiv
Aug 13, 2009

Looks like the mozam is getting another pity buff, at 1:30 in the trailer it has 6 shots

Daztek
Jun 2, 2006



Have a bunch of articles:

Apex’s Legacy season will add 2 new hop-ups for the Bow, 30-30 Repeater, and Sentinel

Apex’s Legacy battle pass challenges will be split between Arena and battle royale, will let fans choose when rerolling

Peacekeeper returns to floor loot, Triple Take moves to care package in Apex Legends’ Legacy update

Olympus map update adds an infested ship between Bonsai Plaza and Orbital Cannon

Apex will add emotes in Legacy update—but you can’t use them to peek

Here’s how Apex’s Arena mode works

Apex will remove Low Profile, adjust Octane stim cost in Legacy patch

World’s Edge will return to Apex Legends as first ranked map in Legacy update

Edit:

Apex’s upcoming Arena mode is a 3-vs-3 duel that avoids pesky RNG and third-partying, ranked coming in the future

Here are all of Valkyrie’s abilities, Apex’s newest legend

Daztek fucked around with this message at 15:48 on Apr 26, 2021

runchild
May 25, 2010

420 smoke 🎨artisanal🍑 melange erryday

Here's the custom countdown. The AI talks about removing Zone 13 (not sure where that is) and Bonsai Hillside, assembling a "Cliff Overlooking Docks", and doing some sort of "sector shift" to Solar Array. And of course the Icarus and it's fleet have brought some new decor home with them.

Other things I noticed:
-Ash refers to the Arena with the crashed Mirage Voyage as a place called "Komma". Apparently not Olympus at all despite the copy-pasted waterfall cliffside, I guess you were right Zesty.
-I was gonna point out the emotes performed during the champion screen but that tweet thread revealed ground emotes are gonna be a thing
-Reactive Devotion skin at about 5:19
-Cheetah Octane, Oni Mask Wraith, and Fox Mask Rampart could be the Battle Pass Legendary skins, but that would be one more legendary character skin than normal.
-Mozambique shows 6 shots available, bringing it back to it's TF|2 magazine size (oops, beaten).

Relyssa
Jul 29, 2012

Very sad that Prowler is still not back, and also sad to be losing the Triple Take but my baby the Peacekeeper is back and all is right with the world again. Very interested in seeing how they do legend balance for the existing low profile crew.

Megaman's Jockstrap
Jul 16, 2000

Cruising the information superhighway
If they want to break Arena in just make one of the fightboxes be Skulltown. Congrats! Your servers melted.

Tormented
Jan 22, 2004

"And the goat shall bear upon itself all their iniquities unto a solitary place..."

wa27 posted:

Another season with no Prowler? :negative:

Came to post that my favorite weapon is still going to be missing!

Overminty
Mar 16, 2010

You may wonder what I am doing while reading your posts..

The peacekeepers been a care package weapon for almost half the lifespan of the game it was time for it to Come Home.

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010

RIP TT

Move over Longbow Larry, Sentinel Sally here I come.

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SteelMentor
Oct 15, 2012

TOXIC

quote:

Triple Take moved to Care Packages

:negative:


They're taking my baby away thread.

Bow looks cool though.


Just realised this means that the Kraber, Gold Longbow AND now Pink Triple Take are in CP's. Gosh dang.

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