April 2019
Hello. I have around 300 hours in this game, lvl 100 and 99 battle pass. I have a fair understanding of the game by now. Here is my 5 cents:
First of all, I love Apex and played it every day since it came out. Of course, it is not without its own faults, and naturally, we tend to focus on the negative, especially when it prevails. Here is my attempt for “constructive” feedback.
1 – “E button” or action button to open doors AND execute. How many times did I kill someone by the door and instead of opening the door I wound up dead doing the execution. I do not believe it is very hard to segregate execution and interact commands.
2 – Kill Cam. Although hacker report function is available, hackers see when you are spectating them and most likely (apart from complete blatant idiots) will not continue with the aimbots when you are watching them. Moreover, they often intentionally do nothing. Having a kill cam can at least enable you to see how you instantly got lasered wearing a gold armor in the first place rather than watching a guy who does not appear to know his north from the south with 30 kills and an Alternator.
3 – Cost! This is a big one, for me, I simply cannot understand how someone can charge ~$20 for a p2020 skin even if legendary. Expansions cost that much for some games and here we are buying a SKIN, just a single skin. Granted, of course, no one forces me to, and I did buy a wingman skin. I’d love to buy more, I would buy a lot more, but $20 is very very hard to justify paying for one skin. This goes along with the fact we get very little packs later in the levels and no packs starting from lvl 100. The whole system is a bit greedy and naïve. Almost every TTV has a wraith knife but somehow I don’t believe they bought 500 packs to get it or were all so lucky to get one. I hear they got them as a promotional item so that their viewers will be more likely to buy more packs? Marketing and legal, sure, but unethical in my opinion.
4 – Content. As indicated by the developers, there will be fewer releases of new content but it will be quality content. Unfortunately, we cannot avoid comparing Apex to every other BR, and Fortnite, as a good example, sort of set a benchmark of what “content” should look like. Without becoming overly too negative here, and trying to stay as unbiased as I can, I would simply love to see “anything” at this point. Even octane seems like oldschool by now. Someone will call me greedy and “never enough”, and you may just as well, but the majority of people would agree with me.
5 – Battle Pass. I’m sure there has been enough heat generated regarding this matter. I shall say no more. Just please make a better battle pass next time. I was very excited to get a lifeline intro at level 96 (pun intended).
6 – Loot. Often I land in skull town and zoom solo through one of the 4 wings to end up with 5 scopes, 3 stabilizers, no gun and a gangbang consisting of wingman warriors on the other end. RNG and all that but maybe a little more guns “equally” spread out (one gun per room for example) can work?
7 – Server lag and hackers. I know they are working on it, although I still encounter both, not as much server lag now but there is still a prowling army of hackers. I’ve been adding them to my friends now, after reporting of course, to see when they get banned. Some still come online.
8 – Crafting materials? What is that? It is never enough for what I want (after 300 hours) (im talking legendary 1200) and the thousands that I do have of another type aren’t used for anything overly exciting.
9 – Game mode. I’d love to see more training capabilities. Maybe a deathmatch. Maybe a solo que. I want more practice with guns other than shooting square boxes with no attachments on my guns.
I still like Apex and will continue playing keeping my hopes up. Great game, great potential, great fundamentals, just need to build on it now in an ethical and slightly faster way.
April 2019
Good constructive feedback, thanks for this!
I will share my opinion on the points made
1. A different button for executions is indeed needed. Creates a lot of confusion and can mean your death.
2. I would also like to be able to spectate my teammates after I get eliminated. It takes way to long to get into the spectate mode.
3. I don't like loot boxes because I never get what I like most. Instead if I could buy crafting parts, then I would probably pay for it. 20 euro for >>1<< skin is too much for me.
4. Changes in the map would also be nice! Gives more variety
5. I like working towards something, but at the rate I am earning levels, I would get certain "kills in season 1" badges pretty late... Also the upgraded badges should be updated automatically and thus not count as reward. Also, can we have more finishers? :D
6. I don't mind the loot. Maybe needs some tweaks but I really don't know.
7. Server lagg is a bigger issue than hackers IMO. Approximately 1 of 10 matches I get a slomo server
8. Crafting materials should be put forward more as a regular reward and should have ways to obtain them outside of the lootboxes
9. I think the game is fun with squads of 3. Maybe they could try some modes out in the future. An improved training mode with all legends and attachments would be nice as well.
April 2019
/Blueberry has asked me a question below in my duplicated (my fault) post on this forum.
"Thank you for taking time out to write this constructive post of yours! 300 hours is a lot of game time, thanks for being a huge fan too!
A lot of the topics you brought up are indeed some areas of the game the team is aware of and also common discussions here in the forums. What would be your top 4 out of those 9 you listed?
/Blueberry"
Thank you, Blueberry, for your question. If I had to pick 4 I would pick the following:
7 - Servers stability / less hackers
4 - New content
3 - Reduced costs in the store
9 - New game mode
Infrastructure and stability is always a priority followed by good content and I'm willing to pay for it (hopefully reduced price as well).
Thanks,
April 2019
@MadBabushka wrote:
1 – “E button” or action button to open doors AND execute. How many times did I kill someone by the door and instead of opening the door I wound up dead doing the execution. I do not believe it is very hard to segregate execution and interact commands.
But then we won't get epic moments like this
April 2019 - last edited April 2019
Loved this game, but now it's just hopeless. No improvements, no matchmaking, poor rewards, can't choose your preferred legend if someone else pick first (which is idiotic), and so forth. Also, in one game I spent 13 mins (!!!!!) looking for a stupid armour. How is that even possible???? Ammo should also be abundant and even respawn after a while. Another issue that is just nonsense, is how a legend with no armor can beat to death an opponent WITH armor and a hemlok firing rounds. It's bonkers. Hitting is way too powerful compared to guns. It's ridiculous .
Also I would like the rewards more biased towards the legends you use the most. How fun is it to get a legendary reward for a legend with 0 kills, and that you never use? If anything, it's irritating.
April 2019 - last edited April 2019
Consider the game ends at around 15 mins time, spend 13 mins to look for armor is interesting , is it the golden armor ?
Btw, This is how the game design:
Crafting metal: after level 100, it's no longer free. You earn it via gambling.
Legend point: it's the free and you can earn it
Apex Coin : the main currency in the game. U pay for that using real money.
They give free stuff until level 100. After 100, we need to pay / or just play if u don't care about skins.
April 2019
My personal best is a win at 13 mins. Average is 20-22. I found absolutely anything but armor. I've read others complain about the same.
April 2019
April 2019
Yeah, right. You are too much, too.
April 2019
@DYSPROssium wrote:5. [...] Also the upgraded badges should be updated automatically and thus not count as reward.
This wrecks me every time. It’s literally a fake reward seeing as the one you had before was updating in real time up to the point you unlocked the next one anyway... *fumes*