May 2019 - last edited May 2019
I'm sure most of you have heard this, but you can just camp outside the ring as lifeline and pop meds until the enemies die. A pretty efficent strategy, but really boring. You can brag to your friends how you have won so many games by covering in fear in some corner, doing nothing and waiting till you're the last one left. Yay.
Edit: As it turns out, alot of people actually haven't encountered this strategy before, so here, a quick video showing what kind of play I'm talking about:
https://www.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/aw0pks/lifeline_legendary_backpack_20_medkits_win/
Keep in mind that he didn't do that for a short while either. He had already used 15 medkits before he even started recording.
So here's how this strategy could be patched out of the game:
Some pros of this idea:
And there, how to patch out the most annoying strategy in the game without affecting the gameplay experience of others at all.
May 2019 - last edited May 2019
I don't know what to say without offending here ...
Okay lets try it this way, this is not fortnite which means if you camp outside and take damage while the opponent camp circle and takes none nothing can stop either side from pushing the other ... so just because you got a good warm spot in the circle that you wonna camp you can't force the game to change its mechanics so the one that has to push and not camp is your enemy instead of you ... so please just because it happened to you once don't come angry and push such none sense
May 2019 - last edited May 2019
I'm sorry, but I thought the whole point of the ring closing in this game is to bring people closer together so they could fight?
And then you have people hiding on the other side of the map as Lifeline, spamming health drones and medkits for 20 minutes so they could win without actually having to fight.
Kind of goes against the whole point of the game, don't you think?
May 2019 - last edited May 2019
In a recent check in information was released about "piggy-backing" and measures which may be taken against players who don't properly participate in the match.
I'm not saying that the behaviour you describe would necessarily be in this category, but anyone doing it may want to consider what was said:
"PIGGY-BACKING
Piggy-backing is when a player drafts off other players in the squad to carry them to a good position and level up faster but doesn't actually participate in the match [meaning they never collect a weapon, fire a shot, don’t deal any damage, etc]
We had been seeing some feedback from players around this and have been doing some internal investigations looking at game data to understand how many of the matches being played are affected by this behavior.
After looking at the data and internal discussions, we’ve decided that in the future we’ll start instituting temp bans for players that exhibit piggy-backing behavior and extreme cases could lead to a permanent ban. This change will not be immediate but wanted to give a heads up to players so you can adjust that behavior."
May 2019
May 2019 - last edited May 2019
That's the thing. You don't have to.
Just have your teammates gather enough medkits, phoenix kits or syringes for you, find some cozy spot near the edges of the third ring, and start spamming healing drones and medkits when the ring closes in on you.
And when the final round closes the ring completely, the other team starts to slowly die. And unless if they have Lifeline and a whole bunch of medkits, you automatically win, since they have no way of knowing where you're hiding.
And if they do have Lifeline, it will be a competition of who has the most healing items, which will be you, since your squad spent the entire game looking for medkits.
It is so stupid and overpowered at the same time, which is why I recommended this patch.
And I'm not the only one to get annoyed by this either. Here, dug some other posts for you:
https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Feedback/Lifeline-endgame-healing-outside-ring/m-p/7646614#M9430
https://www.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/aq0rpw/can_someone_stay_outside_the_ring_for_3/
https://www.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/apwhu6/you_should_not_be_able_to_outheal_the_final/
https://www.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/b5ih52/lifeline_winning_with_healing_spam_this_should/
Aand here, some people bragging about doing it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/aw0pks/lifeline_legendary_backpack_20_medkits_win/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr_D-yUkA7g&ab_channel=niitq
May 2019
While inventive, I agree, it's a degenerate strategy that's not fun for anyone involved.
However I definitely wouldn't want either Lifeline's Q ability, or passive heal altered.
A better solution would be to have damage outside the circle ramp up the longer you're outside, and the further outside you are; up to 2 or 3 times the current value.
That'd be sufficient to nullify Lifeline abuse, without impacting the normal instances of being outside the circle.
May 2019
doesn't have to be that complicated to patch out........just have her health drone "short out" outside the ring.....
May 2019
@DrenMadre wrote:doesn't have to be that complicated to patch out........just have her health drone "short out" outside the ring.....
That'd have an impact upon current normal legitimate play.
May 2019
@TheJumpingJawa wrote:
@DrenMadre wrote:doesn't have to be that complicated to patch out........just have her health drone "short out" outside the ring.....
That'd have an impact upon current normal legitimate play.
True.....maybe only 3rd ring on, 4th ring.....?
if you want to be nitpicky....what's not legitimate about lifeline camping for the win, nothing in the rules to win besides "be last one standing"
don't get me wrong, it's a * way to win......