October 2019 - last edited October 2019
Give shadows 100hp or remove the purple and golden armors and helmets. Its quite impossible to kill a guy with gold or purple if your shadow teammates abandon the round...
October 2019 - last edited October 2019
I just hope that Respawn doesn't read this * forum because it would make them hate their "customers". * cry babies. If you don't cry that you have to pay for cosmetics for this otherwise 100% free game, you cry because it's too hard because it won't let you win all the time. Geez.
And btw, to answer the topic: I've only played this mode 3 times and won as legend 2 of those and lost the third because I missed the evacuation I.e my fault. The only reason why legends doesn't win every single time is because it's hard to cooperate with 9 strangers. You lose because top 10 tries to camp the evacuation zone too early and gets picked off one by one. A 20 shadows vs 10 legends will always favor the legends
October 2019 - last edited October 2019
Did the Legends get a buff or Shadows a nerf yesterday? I kept having to hit Legends 3 times as a Shadow to kill them. Kept downing them instead of outright killing them, and they weren't wearing gold armor.
Also noticed that if you are a Shadow and you get killed after the Legends are down to 10, it won't let you respawn, so a lot of players probably leave at that point instead of watching the next few minutes instead of playing. Last night we finished with 19 total players in one match, but the numbers significantly dropped off after the Final 10.
I've only escaped once so far, which seems about right.
EDIT: I just realized this is wrong. If you are a Legend and get killed during the Final 10 evac period, you can't respawn, but as a Shadow, you keep respawning until the Evac Ship flies away. So, I think the original complaint about people quitting because they don't want to play as Shadows is looking 100% correct now.
October 2019
The problem right now is, that it's virtually impossible to win as shadows.
Killed legends usually insta leave after getting killed.
So right now, when the round comes to an end, there usually are about 10 legends left and 6-10ish shadows.
And not the "wanted" 10 legends vs 25 shadows.
So it's impossible to win against legends with an average skill.
Way to solve:
Penalty for leavers after getting killed just like in ranked mode.
This will keep the players in game as shadows.
October 2019
October 2019
or make shadows fun to play. *'s boring af and you can jog on if you want me to play as a shadow outside doing the challenges lmao
October 2019
But if you want to have fun it has to be balanced, maybe there are people that don't take this mode seriously, but if you want to get every reward of this game mode you have to escape 25 times atleast. Which is almost impossible to do because of the unfair shadow's advantage. They have it to easy compared to the legends.
October 2019
We aren't quiter about everything, i love this mode and i enjoy it, but after playing it we see things that maybe we can change to improve it and make the game mode more enjoyable to every player. In my my case after playing like 25 matches of this game just won 1 time lol
October 2019 - last edited October 2019
Selfish self promotion inbound: https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Extensive-Nightfall-guide/m-p/8328493#M48486
Read my guide on how to win as a legend. Did it with multiple consecutive wins ^.^
For anyone saying shadows are too overpowered... yea right... if you can’t 1v1 a shadow, you’re just bad at shooting, hearing and/or anticipating cause they’re weak as hell. Multiple shadows attacking is a different point but again, that’s the point, they need you on that side so balanced shadows would make no sense.
For others saying it’s hard to win as a shadow; no it’s not. I’ve seen teams win with 10 shadows. It’s based on how good your team is at ‘communicating’ and how perceptive they are. If there are 3 legends left and for some reason 10 shadows leave the vicinity of the dropship to hunt them down only to let 3 guard the ship, yup, legends gonna win. But if you disperse 7-10 (depending on the amount of shadows) and leave at least 7 just looking right on the circle, chances will go way up.
October 2019 - last edited October 2019
Just because you enjoy it yourself doesn’t mean no one else is allowed to NOT enjoy it lol.
All things can be fun, AND BALANCED.
I myself enjoyed the mode, but after hours on end of gameplay, I learned Pathfinder is the only way to play the mode almost 100% successfully as a Legend (Pathfinders are honestly capable of just instantly winning the mode with competence) and life as a Shadow is both somehow hilariously overpowered and underpowered at the exact same time. It’s fun, but it’s not perfect, and can always be better.
A fun game mode that doesn’t work doesn’t stay fun for long, and it’s still worth being balanced.
If Apex neglected balance just because it was fun, it would’ve died on the first two months.