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Apex Legends |OT| You kill me, you're better. I kill you, I'm better.
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That's not it. I love games that feature seemingly out of whack balance not because I enjoy dunking/being dunked on, but because such games tend to create extremely intense moments. A perfectly balanced game, on the other hand, is almost completely predictable and incredibly boring. I want there to be shit guns in Apex Legends. I want to have those moments where I'm shooting a P2020 at someone a million times and they just won't go down but I'm still hoping they're bad enough for me to finish them before their squad mates arrive to save them. That's fun to me.
Pretty sure sliding down a hill also works, IIRC.
I feel like they need to tone down the drop rate of Peacemaker or at least some items.
I found a gold helmet or vest when I landed as floor loot. That is way too much unearned power. I also think they should drop the frequency of purple and even blue armour, though this might have a negative effect on the health economy since it would mean most enemies are at 150 HP while some are at 175 or 200, which would be too often.
At the very least, helmets should be harder to find at blue and purple and gold, just because they are permanent and reduce damage significantly in an already spongey game
I found a gold helmet or vest when I landed as floor loot. That is way too much unearned power. I also think they should drop the frequency of purple and even blue armour, though this might have a negative effect on the health economy since it would mean most enemies are at 150 HP while some are at 175 or 200, which would be too often.
At the very least, helmets should be harder to find at blue and purple and gold, just because they are permanent and reduce damage significantly in an already spongey game
Ugh. I hate this. I'd rather have a mixed pool of good and bad players. New and veterans. To me, the randomness of it all is what makes this all good fun. If loot can be random, so can the players.
I like meeting new people, or people WAAAAAY better than me so I can learn from them. I also like getting killed as that is also a learning experience.
No matchmaking please.
Well, I mean, presumably there'll be two modes. One with SBMM and the one we have now.
I'd rather get matched with people around my skill level and then watch videos of high level play. That's how I learn.
Yup on Xbox here and can confirm this bug. If you wanna pick Mirage or Caustic, just set them as featured in the main menu and when you hop in a game don't pick any character.
so how are most solo players enjoying this game? i've never played br games because i didn't have the patience for soloing and i never wanted to play team based because i don't like being mic'd up. does the ping system help a lot for silent solo play?
Um yeah no thanks. Mozambique is everywhere too so is the Wingman, Prowler, Hemlok and many other weapons. You found a gold item? Well that's good and that's how it should be. You won't find a Mastiff or Kraber unless you risked it and went to loot a care package or picked it up from a dead enemy. Many many times I drop in good places and I just find ammo, optics and attachments with no guns at all. High gear isn't always infront of your face whenever you drop or atleast that's what I experienced. Really the game is fine as it is
This game was made like if it was meant for players with nobody to squad up with. The ping system is simple yet revolutionary! Jump in you'll have a blast!
I dont mind a matchmaking system, but modes will have the issue of being diluted.
Ideally we have Squads, Duos, and Solos to get all the regular modes of BR in. Presumably they add in some fun LTMs but theyd rotate.
I think making a ranked mode a limited time event would be better. Something like 1 weekend out of a month where maybe those with wins can enter only. I know that idea was suggested for Fortnite-- a Winners mode that presumably has players who are somewhat competent at the game.
I think the game is fine without matchmaking because FPS skills are varied enough that players can outplay better players.
I would have liked matchmaking in Fortnite just because the building mechanics were so stupidly impossible to learn in a match. If you got someone who was good, you just almost never had a chance to get as good, outside of spamming like hell and hoping u got lucky.
I shouldnt be able to find a gold item so easily IMO. The gold items allow me to heal super fast and stuff like that feels way too good of an advantage early game. I think all gold items should be a air drop and somewhat earned/risked for.
And regarding weapons, I think the game needs better weapon spawns as finding a bunch of ammo and attachments and no weapons happens too often. I think opening a crate and finding 3 helmets is just annoying. Unlike other BR games, I find myself running without weapons more frequently at the start in this game.
I think Fortnite did it right by having chests be RNG, but always guaranteeing a weapon, no matter how crappy it is.
A slightly off shot or a distant shot with the 'bique will only give 10-20 hit points. Considering the dynamics of fights in this game, you're bound to miss one shot.
One fudged punch is guaranteed 30 hit points.
I don't know what Respawn were thinking when they made that gun. It's like they wanted it to be a meme within its game.
I'm surprised there aren't more people talking about the cheating in this game. Came across several people using aimbots in the past week. Saw a clip posted on reddit of a streamer using an aimbot. Thought I was crazy at first.
Got my first victory ever, in any BR, and it was with randoms. Almost impossible in any other BR game, this game is so fucking good my god.
It's true that once there's more modes, there can't be more than one of each.
I think either making solo, duos, squads ranked and then have the fun modes be unranked would be how I'd prefer it.
If not that, then I'd prefer squads and maybe duos stay ranked with solos being unranked.
This game is a million times better when you de-train the part of your mind that wants it to be Titanfall BR for no reason instead of realizing Respawn just launched a new IP that's basically their take on Overwatch in BR format. Their only misstep was pitching it as a Titanfall game via having it set in the same universe. Based on what I've played so far I'm confused as to why it couldn't be a completely new IP. But it's still fantastic when judged on its own merits and delivers some of the best gameplay you could want from a team based and/or BR shooter.
And if this does well enough to get development rolling on another Titanfall, it seems unlikely it won't have a BR mode as well.
And if this does well enough to get development rolling on another Titanfall, it seems unlikely it won't have a BR mode as well.
I don't think it was a misstep at all to set it in the TF universe. People got over the fact that it wasn't straight Titanfall pretty quickly and it benefits from the guns, sliding system, and general aesthetic of that universe.
Can anyone explain health/damage numbers to me? I assumed people have 100 health, so if you shoot them and white damage comes up - you should down them once you do 100 or more damage? I did around 150 white damage on someone in 3 shots and they were still alive.
What am I missing? Their armour was broken as well.
What am I missing? Their armour was broken as well.
I will pick fists/jumping kicks over the mozambique any day of the week.
Titanfall 2 didn't bomb, but it didn't hold a large playerbase, and it tapered off fairly quickly after the first year.
Also, I'm searching for it right now, but I recall Respawn's reps explicitly stating one of the key reasons for the lack of SBMM was because of the lower playerbase. When PS4 had a playerbase of 10k-ish, PC was looking at around 2500, and dropping fast.
Wouldn't it make more sense that you'd want to be matched with people NOT around your skill level?
I'd much rather I get the chance to run into shroud than never meeting him due to matchmaking saying " nah, you're not even close to his level". I'd want to be killed by him. If that makes sense.
I know that if you don't return to the lobby you get full Xp.
I don't think anyone cares about wall running or Titans missing in this. And the best overall feature of Titanfall was the snappy shooting mechanics which this 100% has. I don't miss wall running or double jump at all and I'm a big Titanfall fan.
Finally got my first back-to-back wins, 5 kills then 13, both with randoms.
Don't use anything newer than 417.71
The color of the damage reflects the level of shielding. Red damage is unshielded, White T1 shield, Blue T2, etc...
Is the game screwed right now on PC? Constant lag and hitching even in the character screen, restarted the game, restarted origin, etc...
Sweet.
Most I got was playing solo (8 kills).
I don't get very far duo tho for some reason. I actually do worse. It's like my performance goes down. I'm actually ashamed of myself.
I'm partial to Nozambique
Though I do appreciate the comparison to one of gamings best worst guns.
It was a misstep in the sense that it took a minute for Titanfall fans to be ok with that, and the "Titanfall with no titans" perception is still something AL has to fight against even now to some extent. It'll boil over because the game is just that good, but I still haven't seen a compelling reason for why it needs to be set in the same universe instead of tailoring a unique sci-fi premise around its gameplay. Maybe the story in the next Titanfall game will address this though.
Not so sure about nobody caring about that (there was definitely some uproar on this board alone until everyone started playing it) and I'm gonna have to disagree that wall runnning/platforming and titans aren't just as important to that series as its responsive controls and classy shooting mechanics. But again, the fact that there's very little negative feedback in reaction to the game AL actually is speaks volumes about its quality at the end of the day.
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This is how I feel. I think the squad format is perfect, and I don't mind if that means some bad games here and there. The great games make up for that and more, and I've had some absolutely brilliant games with pure random with no mics.
Just give me more content, keep everything else about the structure of the game the same.
Plus all the top guys ranked at the top would literally go up against each other game after game.
Man, no luck today with drops. Every round has been the same, I land and the only guns I encounter for the first 5 minutes are the p2020 and the Mozambique...these are not effective when it feels like everyone else grabs an r301 or spitfire
1st match of the day got the dub. My 10yo had 8 kills 12yo had 5 kills over 1500 damage each. I had 124 damage no kills lmao. Died twice and spectate for last circle haha. Man I suck.
100 base HP. A white armor bumps them up to 150, blue to 175 and purple to the full 200.
Each "pip" of armor is 25 hp. So you need to do a minimum of 150 to knock someone who has white armor on. One HP less and they get away.
When their armor breaks it makes a sound and visual effect. After that your hit markers are red meaning they have no protection and you're drilling into the final 100 hp.
For those once in a chance moments, I don't think it's worth it when a lot of my matches end up with my team being killed by people clearly way more skilled than we are and so we never had a real chance in the first place. People with 1 kill get matched with people with 500 kills. It just doesn't make it fun. I've had friends ask for a skill based matchmaking because there would be times the game would just seem really unbalanced with who it put us up against and it seemed more like a waste of time for them.
And in those moments, I can usually get to the top 5 squads from the get-go, but the people left have gotten there from getting kills while my team scavenged and waited and only fought if we were forced to. I think we'd be more willing to get into firefights if it were more fair with its matchmaking.
I dunno I just don't see why they'd add matchmaking when none of the other battle royale games have it. You'd probably alienate a lot of people in adding it, since a lot of people like the fact that anything can happen. I feel like Fortnite's solution of having more casual modes and occasional ranked/tournament modes is better to solve the problems of the game being difficult to get into and people wanting a bit more of a higher level experience.
Ahhhh shit that explains it.
Thanks (and everyone else who replied :) )
In this thread and from searching a bit online, it seems like PUBG uses a form of skill based matchmaking. It's just hidden.
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