@AdotLone I am so late with this reply, but I wanted to know what your overall enjoyment of each of the events so far has been. I know it just seems like I'm heckling, but I'm trying to keep an open mind about all these events. But I also wanted to just go through and address your comments too.
1. Didn't enjoy Gold Rush Duos, it was a lot of carrying one person to top 5, or being the only one dealing damage, just to get Krabered at the very end. It all felt very same samey after about 5 matches where the skill level I played at was pushing with Mastiffs and popping headshots with Krabers. I admit, the first 3 matches were fun, but after that (and I played at least 10 I don't remember) it wore off pretty quickly.
2. I never got to see anyone respawn. Didn't enjoy the event. For me it was just squad wipe after squad wipe after squad wipe. No one could disengage fast enough, and my teams definitely didn't let anyone escape. It just felt like normal Apex, and while I guess that's not really a fair criticism, I enjoyed the Winter Express way more than this mode.
3. This one I actually kind of liked. Granted, it did wear off after 2 matches. Personally, I think the most interesting part was actually watching myself move to strafe and dodge bullets. Granted, I also got to see how terrible their netcode with a full perspective of ducking behind cover and still getting hit by rounds.
4. This one I really really wanted to enjoy. But to me the ring is way too slow, and I was kind of let down by the damage the ring itself does. I thought there'd be a higher penalty for damage since they give you 9 minutes to get to the ring, but it seems like the final ring doesn't deal enough damage. At least to me. I've had more hectic matches after fighting 4 squads in a row and then trying to escape from the ring rather than the 7 or 8 matches I played of this event before I buffed out 7k meters.
5&6. They're not out yet, but A&D was one of my favorite events too. I've wanted it to come back too, but my criticism was that they're passing it off as an original event rather than putting A&D, as well as solos, shadowfall, and other community favs into a rotating game mode that's available for everyone to play. People have been asking for that, me included, and yet our wishes fell on deaf ears, and instead we got this event with regurgitated content, but brand new well made skins. My personal criticism of this event is not that we have an event that's just re-used content. But rather, it's very clear at the moment (as Dummie's Big Day hasn't been released) that all the work went into the premium content of the game, rather than spending that effort on fixing issues that are currently very wrong with the game. Netcode, cheaters, a better metric for SBMM, hit-reg, audio, etc. etc. Now don't get me wrong, the skins are gorgeous and obviously they have to make money somehow. But I've been playing since 2 weeks after the game came out, and after a while, it seems like we're getting better and better skins, rather than a better and better quality of game. I still somewhat enjoy the game when I get pockets of high intensity action vs. players of my level or higher, but it's rare, and seeing better skins rather than things I've been directly affected by for seasons is bothersome. I want to really enjoy this game again, and I definitely want it to rise up and create a big boom like it did when it launched.
7 & Ending. I'm still definitely excited for that mode. I've been very curious, and I really hope it's not a total letdown. But as for other ways you can enjoy the game? Why not just break the rules entirely? Take the core strengths of the game, and turn those into ways you can enjoy the game. Take the lore behind it, and make a mode for it. Why not add Titans in a PVE styled event, with Apex movement and gun-play? Why not a tournament mode open to all players, where you start off 1v1 with white shields and a P2020, and you fight in a bracket, earning points as you kill a person which you can spend on upgrading shields, buying attachments, changing your weapon, etc. etc? Why not simply Halo 3 Forge mode it, letting people make makeshift maps of their own, with their own rules and custom gamemodes? It's not about, "How can I keep the theme of this game and incorporate it into all the ideas I have." It's about taking the core strengths of the game, and finding ways to branch them out into versatile, enjoyable, and refreshing experiences. This event is refreshing, at the very least I have been interested in playing Apex throughout the duration of this event. But after playing for so long, and seeing the drastic difference in quality from my start until now, is disheartening to say the least. Why should we settle for just a good game, when this game has the makings of being great?
