April 2020 - last edited April 2020
Hello Respawn, great job sofar love this game, once I played this I knew I would never touch Fortnite again!
I am very invested in this game and its continual improvement therefore here is some food for thought:
1. Your ping system is awesome, I imagine being linked to EA enabled you to get the tech from Battlefield? In any case it could be better, imagine if when holding R1(or relevant button on other platforms) if we could press left or right on the d-pad just like we press triangle for quips and when we press left it presents options to ask for a specific weapon like 'looking for a peacekeeper' and when you press right it presents options like some of the ones we already have and stuff like 'where are they(enemies)? That would be phenomenal!!
2. The level system should be scrapped as it is currently punitive: right now my loot situation is this - whenever I get craft metals I always spend them on the crap stuff which means I now have all of the crap stuff meaning when I get an Apex pack my chances of getting good stuff are marginally better. For me this is great. Because my loot pool is now smaller I'm also getting many more Crafting metals.Great. Thing is though I've also bought quite alot of packs to get to this position but consider this: my wife is now Lvl 495 and only buys the odd thing. Why is this a problem? Well, from lvl 300 onwards you get packs every 5 lvls, once you get to 500 that's your lot, no more packs. So if you're like my wife and don't spend as much money then once you get to 500 unless you wait for next seasons battlepass you are getting nothing for your effort: a fancy badge isn't much of an incentive to max out Is it? Imagine being lvl 495 and my wife doesn't even have an heirloom yet!!! I think maybe there should be no level cap and then spread out apex packs indefinitely I mean if people are playing the game so much they get to 500 and beyond then why shouldn't they still get packs? It's not like they haven't grafted for it!!
3. Gibraltar - lots of players may disagree here but I feel like Gibraltar is broken, I dread fighting them. He has a gun shield and is fortified to have 10% more health and has a dome AND has devastating mortar strikes!! Really!!?? I find 9 times out of ten if I'm face on to a Gibby I'm dead. Early game this is a nightmare dependant on what you pick up after landing and late game a Gibby with a maxed evo shield and a gun shield for example is just ridiculous!! Now I know we can say well just aim for the head but come on, are average players gonna consistently hit those? No, and if they are then they aren't average are they? I also understand Gibby has his thing just as the other characters do but I just feel he's not so much a tank but more an AT-ST!! I dunno what to suggest really I know the health on the gun shield has been tweaked what about making the gun shield slightly smaller to give attackers a fair chance at getting those melon poppers in??
4. Last one, save load outs for skins for different characters, I'm talking more in terms of weapons here e.g for when I play Bloodhound I can arrange it so when I pick up the Longbow it has the Artur charm on it but if I'm lifeline I have a specific load out for her where the same longbow would instead have the lifeline droid charm, know what I mean? At present some of the skins and some of the charms seem pointless and quite adhoc depending on who your playing as at the time.
Anyway that's it for now, I hope you will consider these points at length as well as the rest of the community and as said before good job sofar keep it coming!
Cheers 🥂