After you reach Level 100
We all remember the exciting feeling about your first level up, with your first pack. Then you get less and less packs as your level get higher. Just now, like lots of you, I reached 100, and your badge no longer show your level but a arrow indicating you already reached 100, and why would it be like this ? You see, from level 1 - level 100 there is a climbing up feeling, you are achieving something, a number, showing how long you've been play. Then after reaching 100, to me it simply feels like there is no more climbing, no matter how many 18,000 XP you get, it is always the same thing, just 600 red points that had almost no use at all, yes I have more than 60000 red points that seems like some kind of inflated currency from Zimbabwe that worth nothing. So, hello ? Respawn ? Can you hear me ? If there is still anyone alive there from Respawn, then please try to feel this. This thing is annoying, because in award-winning title of Overwatch, they have neatly designed different badges up to level 3000, yet in Apex, after you played a month, you get this forever meaningless cycle of 18000 XP with 600 red points forever accummulating that is only useable when there is a weekly special item that you just happend to have the required legendary skin so you could use them as token to get a limited special version of legendary skin. It is like 168 hours, 1 week, for 2 special skins, and I don't how many weeks, how many months, even years that I will finally have the chance to spend some red points to get a special skin.
( This very important improved badge design that could make a smoother feeling for everyone to keep playing update, I imagine it could be out with the v1.1.2 update ? )
Basic Social Funcion
This game has no basic social function designed to fit many player's need. If you want to add someone as friend, you cannot do that in the game. You have to use this very strange and ugly function of switching to Origin then do the adding friend thing. If there is someone you want to report, then it seems Respawn wasn't ready and wasn't willing yet to handle lots of reports from the very large 25,000,000 players base. I guess it is kind of like Jim Carrey in Bruce Almighty that get letters from everyone on this planet to handle. Actually, if it is me, then I wouldn't say I'd like to investigate each report as well. I mean I can't imagine there will be human doing every report investigation. It is year 2019 now, should have a smart solution. As the most common violation, which is hacking is by using the third party software to alter configuration, then there could simply be an auto detection. All hacking report simply go to an auto detection system, the system will see if there is anything funny about this reported player's data log.
( This very sweet basic social function design of adding and reporting recent players, , I imagine it could be out with the v1.2.0 update ? Or after v2.0 if with a complete new main menu design? )
In-game Report Design
The In-game report menu design should be like:
Cheating
Spamming
Harassment
with Cheating have the submenu multiple choice options
Shot me with No Line of Sight
Aimbot
Move at incrediable speed
Unusual Recoil
and Harassment have this submenu multiple choice options
Voice Chat Harassment
Text Harassment
ID Harassment
To me, who met lots of Chinese players, I do have this issue with those player's ID, there will be Chinese ID which means " I am your daddy " or something really funny and tastless ( which are also very likely to be cheater ) .
( Actually there is a fellow country man who made post just a few days ago in this forum, whose ID means ( **** U stupid noob )
( I believe by having certain regulation on ID names could help certain players to achieve a healthier life )
( This better in-game report menu design, , I imagine it could be out with the v1.1.3 update ? )
Game Mode
There start to have this funny feeling about Apex's main menu, with the increasing number of requests to have multiple play modes available just like other FPS especially Battle Royale titles.
( A exciting new game mode, I imagine this will be out with a new main menu in the v2.0 update ? )
Data Center
What is the point of having to wait for 30 seconds to have the " Data Center " Appear so that the player could choose the lowest Ping server to have a proper game ? Don't all of you think it could be far better to have the data center right appear after your first double " Esc " pressed ? Is it because it takes 30 seconds to test out the status of all servers ? If that is the case then I might accept the current design, but still that doesn't mean I like it.
( If there could be an improvement on the time taken to be able to choose your server, then I imagine it will be out in the update v.1.1.2 as well ? )
A Current Conclusion
Apex instantly got 25,000,000 players when released. The microtransactions are quite well. Respawn think it is doing ok, but I guess that didn't satisfy the greedy EA, so EA asked them to release the Season 1 Battle Pass as fast as possible and just to ignore the other important fundamental stuffs like function, game modes, and design. And now you know how a substantial amount in this player base is start to feel - pretty much a dead end ATM.
So these are the 4 issues I have with this game.
And if you also have any of the above, join in and say something to EA, so that they know how their promising title need to be improved.
