These are all very welcome changes to the current style of the battle pass! Looking forward to see it all unveiled. Might get me to hop back in.
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Details on Apex Legends - Season 2 Battle Pass
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Challenges will be huge to get me into the game again, having progression beyond win really gives more life to the game.
Cant really complain if they keep adding new char every 3 months.
Top 5 (15?) only? What the fuck? I do that all the time and I know I'm not that sweaty. This should be top 3 instead (9)
I mean, that's a whopping 15 people left. You can do this by just going someplace and hiding for a few minutes.
Even though it isn't true matchmaking, this is a step in the right direction
Quality of players should still improve. Just think about the amount of people who drop in highly contested areas and are sent back to the lobby within the first minute or two of a match.
Jumping in on this.
I want to avoid playing with randoms that I can't understand who always seem to yell or have bad mics. I want to be able to play alone as my friends (when they played) always grouped up together and I couldn't play with them (if it was a 4 squad it'd be different) and even when I could play with a friend it was almost always just one person meaning it'd be us two and then a random and that isn't as fun as a full squad of friends.
I want to be able to just hope in by myself play my best and have some fun like I can in PUBG or Fortnite. The pinging and respawning are fantastic things for multiplayer and are super good but you still have to play (in my case anyway) with randoms who I don't want to play with, I wanted to play with my friends but that didn't happen because of the 3 player squads.
Not good enough. Content is one thing but whoever their MTX head is, they're being absurdly stubborn about prices on stuff.
Saying you can craft 1(!!!) Legendary item after an entire Battle Pass is so miserly its unreal. If they don't halve the price on buying Legendary stuff I don't know what they expect going forward for their revenue. £15.99 is insanity.
Saying you can craft 1(!!!) Legendary item after an entire Battle Pass is so miserly its unreal. If they don't halve the price on buying Legendary stuff I don't know what they expect going forward for their revenue. £15.99 is insanity.
For sure. It was interesting seeing some reddit posts claiming it's "not that bad" and the breakdown was like 1.5 hours a day. A DAY. And if you "miss" a day it continues to compound. This is not how I should be thinking about your game.
That said, it looks like they've learned their lesson at least a bit. We'll see what the requirements specifically turn out to be but on the surface things look better.
I think having more of those evolving badges should help appease the hardcore people (like the win 1/5/10/20? games with each character). It's a cool thing they can put on their banners and something to "grind" towards even if the BP is done more quickly.
I hope the daily/weekly challenges aren't anything too distracting. It would be very unfortunate if I jump into a match only to find that one or more of my teammates are less interested in winning than they are about doing some dumb challenge. I like the system they have in place now where you get bonus XP for playing different legends. I think Respawn just needs to decrease the amount of XP per level and maybe increase they XP payouts a bit. Adding challenges to such a team focused game has me very worried.
I think these challenges are going to be more around "kill x # with this gun or this legend" over "zipline over someone's head and wave"
That sounds sooooooo much better already. The battlepass being loaded with filler badge icons and banner things was awful, it already had one that tracked every level which made them super redundant.
I am really curious what kind of challenges they add. Fortnite lets you do a bunch of dumb stuff but I can't see much from Apex aside from using x weapon or landing in certain spots.
I am really curious what kind of challenges they add. Fortnite lets you do a bunch of dumb stuff but I can't see much from Apex aside from using x weapon or landing in certain spots.
My favorite ways to play all BR games are solo queue. Apex has the best gameplay of all the BR games so I would die for a solo que
I hope the challenges don't affect gameplay too much, it's one of the things I absolutely despised about Fortnite's. Just a whole bunch of people dropping in X location to do dumb shit for challenges which ruined the fun as they'd only enter games for challenges and not to actually play.
They've said in the past that every season would add at least one new hero IIRC
I was really really hoping they'd reduce the grind, and it looks like they've done just that.
Nice one. If it's much better now I might buy the Pass.
Edit: £16 for ONE skin is still madness though.
Nice one. If it's much better now I might buy the Pass.
Edit: £16 for ONE skin is still madness though.
So they acknowledge that the battle pass was a terrible grind... But they'll address it during the next battle pass? Why not do something about it now?
Because it's already released and would be highly unfair to those who have already put the work in?
I mean.....you are getting upset because the items you get to play digital dress up on your fake characters aren't to your liking. God forbid the gameplay is actually fun!
I think the Wraith skin and gun skin given to everyone that got to level 15 (which isn't that tough to do) is a bit of a recompense there for people that weren't ready for how grindy it was. They're better skins than the ones that were in the pass previously.
The gameplay is fantastic in my opinion. I couldn't care less about costumes. To each their own though
Would really hate to reduce that "sense of accomplishment" so that the vast majority of users could get more out of the battle pass.
i really hate this demand for new characters so damn often in these games. just ends up getting cluttered and ruining the dynamic. i miss mp shooters were time was spent refining the game as opposed to just slamming tons of new shit into it and breaking the game constantly.
Honestly the grind in Season 1 killed the game for me. But if they're fixing that I might go back!
Hooray! Glad to see that they're listening and finally adapting to very valid criticisms. The final 2 weeks of BP1 sound like what it's needed for weeks now. Looking forward to hearing more about Season 2.
Whilst I wholeheartedly agree on paper the difference is in the modern climate so many games are giving reasons to demand our attention, whether that's free or paid. Apex basically did the opposite - the battle pass is almost actively discouraging players by being so unrewarding.
This is basically what the game should have had a couple months ago, and the kind of update I was waiting for to come back to the game. I love it, but I was feeling burnout with the horrible grind so I temporarily quit for my own sanity and to avoid hating the game. Now I'm ready to jump back next weekend. Hopefully the community didn't get MLG while I was gone, lmao.
Looks like they've learnt some lessons at least. I've got back into Apex in the last few weeks with my buddies and still can't believe just how grindy and tedious the battlepass is. We play 8/9 hours a week (which should be plenty) and think we're all on level 20 or something stupid grinding for that next stat tracker for a character you don't use at the next level.
The core game is great but I seriously felt like I was mugged.
The core game is great but I seriously felt like I was mugged.
Definitely a step in the right direction. Challenges will definitely help with the feeling of progression, but I hope they don't go the Rocket League route and do "Do this while wearing this legendary skin" or whatever. In fact, locking challenges behind the paywall is a bit of a dick move in the first place.
I'd like to see a more steady release of new weapons/characters/maps, but I understand and appreciate that Respawn like to balance their stuff carefully. Apex is in a good place balance-wise right now.
Seems like there are stat trackers that will display your current Elite Queue Streak and either highest streak or total elite queue matches played; I can't remember exactly what I read earlier.
My coworker I always play with was excited about the elite queue and I imagine will want to go into it every time. I'm not particularly hyped up about it, especially since in recent weeks he's gotten really big on hot-dropping Skulltown (and doing that repeatedly seems like a quick way to no longer be in the elite queue). Maybe the gameplay will change a bit in the elite queues though. I saw someone earlier suggest elsewhere that it might see people think a bit more about their position and approach when engaging instead of just rushing to third-party wherever they heard gun shots from, snipers might get even more common, and more.
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I can't believe this games still has crashing issues, it's so dang annoying. The crash I used to get was fixed and I had a blast playing the game, but the update that introduced the battle pass introduced a new crash that prevents me from playing at all, and seemingly has no fix.
I wish the game actually received updates occasionally. I guess partly though I have been spoiled by Fortnite's crunch-fueled weekly updates.
I will happily jump on the second battle pass though, if the game works. The first really did not seem like a good value at all, I was surprised so many of my friends got it.
edit: After checking, it seems the most recent update has patched my issue, hooray!
I wish the game actually received updates occasionally. I guess partly though I have been spoiled by Fortnite's crunch-fueled weekly updates.
I will happily jump on the second battle pass though, if the game works. The first really did not seem like a good value at all, I was surprised so many of my friends got it.
edit: After checking, it seems the most recent update has patched my issue, hooray!
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