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Apex Legends is a hero based Battle Royale made by Respawn Entertainment - the same guys that made the awesome Titanfall 1 & Titanfall 2 games.
While this game doesn't have the wall running of it's predecessors (yet???) it does inherit great gun play, beautiful environments and smooth mobility, you can still climb most hurdles. Out of all the BR's I've played, including Fortnite, this game runs AMAZING.
This game is Free to Play - only cosmetics are purchasable but you can earn them all freely in game just by playing. Each hero has 3 abilities. A passive, an active on a short cool down and an ultimate on a long cool down.
Runs on the Source Engine but you wouldn't know it unless you did your research. I'm not used to basically playing a MOBA hero in a BR but it works.
Winning is all dependent on communication because you can't drop by yourself - you go in teams of 3. My first game nobody had a mic so our coordination was terrible. Died about half way through.
2nd time playing my team had mics and we all coordinated our abilities awesomely and ended up winning.
I secured our win with a really awesome ability on my hero - he can drop shields and call in an airstrike. So I dropped this big dome shield on top of my team and called in the airstrike at the same time and murdered the other 3 teams because the circle had shrunk so small that they couldn't avoid the attack. It earned me MVP of the match as well =p
So yeah tons of fun so far!
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Looks like a pretty cool game, i'm guessing the link for the game is this? + Show Spoiler +
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The game is really fun and they have a bunch of neat mechanics like being able to move and shield yourself when you are down. Which means your team mates can use you for cover while they deal with your murderer. It is a neat idea that takes some of the punch out of sniper rifles and long range combat if the other team is on point and protecting each other. Like Titan Fall, there is just a lot of smart stuff in this game. And it uses all the Titan Fall weapons(no smart pistol, aka trash gun, RIP), which are all great. Even the god damn triple tap.
Just remember, sliding is faster than running because you got a rocket strapped to your butt.
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It has it's moments, I have played a few games but Battle Royale type game just aren't my thing. Wish they had a King of the Hill type battles. It doesn't help that there is only 3 useful characters out of the 8.
Giant Bomb:
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Will give this a try this weekend.
I'm pretty bad at BR Shooters in general. Got some Top 10 finishes at PUBG and Fortnite but no chicken dinner for me. Is there some sort of MMR and how good is solo Q? I hate to be playing against some Shroud level players :/
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I'm unsure if there is MMR or any kind of rank tracking. They have not said as such but knowing how EA likes to track EVERYTHING - I bet they do.
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All EA games have some match making systems with hidden MMR. Titan Fall was pretty good at not matching you with completely savage players. Though that game was also uniquely savage because it was so god damn fast. This one will likely have something under the hood as well. Though considering how important team mates are, it will be interesting to see how that aspect factors into people's rank.
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This game seems okay. I probably prefer Blackout slightly more because this game feels pretty barren from the reduced player count. Would love a solo option but this game is obviously designed for squads so eh.
It's okay, I'm probably just getting bored of BR games in general.
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So when you hit lvl 50 you no longer get crates. Hopefully it's a bug, or we may have just hit/found the catch in this f2p game.
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On February 06 2019 08:44 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: It doesn't help that there is only 3 useful characters out of the 8. Did your magic 8ball tell you that?
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Not my type of game, seems boring to me.
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On February 07 2019 20:09 iXphobos wrote:Show nested quote +On February 06 2019 08:44 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: It doesn't help that there is only 3 useful characters out of the 8. Did your magic 8ball tell you that?
One can call in artillery strikes, & bubble shield. The other can heal, the last can go invisible.
The rest are pretty much mechanical in nature. Play a few games and 9 times out of 10 they are the same 3 chars chosen.
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The tracker is super useful and can tell you if someone was in the area and how long it was since they were there. The zip line is super good too.
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On February 07 2019 23:01 Plansix wrote: The tracker is super useful and can tell you if someone was in the area and how long it was since they were there. The zip line is super good too.
Except the chars super is one that anybody can use. I could argue that should be the case for the unique skill.
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On February 08 2019 00:42 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:Show nested quote +On February 07 2019 23:01 Plansix wrote: The tracker is super useful and can tell you if someone was in the area and how long it was since they were there. The zip line is super good too. Except the chars super is one that anybody can use. Are you talking about the zip line super or the bloodhound super? Both are very good. I have had great luck with all of the characters so far.
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Anybody wanna play? ChairmanRay on Origin.
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Pretty fun game, got 3 wins in around 50 games or so. Have some performance problems at 1440p though. When looking at different areas fps can vary from 50-130, this is with lowest possible settings. Hopefully they can work on optimization, but it's source engine and big area so not sure how much they can do.
A lot depends on teammates though when playing pubs, something which is a lesser factor in other BRs with solo modes.
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On February 07 2019 19:30 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: So when you hit lvl 50 you no longer get crates. Hopefully it's a bug, or we may have just hit/found the catch in this f2p game. How is that a catch? its still free to play and lootboxes dont matter at all. and even so they still give you a shitload of them for free until level 50.....thats not a catch, mate.
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On February 07 2019 19:30 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: So when you hit lvl 50 you no longer get crates. Hopefully it's a bug, or we may have just hit/found the catch in this f2p game. You get 45 loot boxes over the first 100 levels all free. if you want to keep getting rewards beyond level 100 you'll probably have to buy a battle pass. https://www.shacknews.com/article/109807/apex-packs-microtransations-and-loot-boxes-apex-legends
https://www.pcgamer.com/what-to-expect-from-the-apex-legends-season-1-battle-pass/ 4 "seasons" over the next year... each with a "Battle Pass" assigned to them. Expect this to be the same revenue model as Fortnite. It'll be $10 USD per season. .. so we're talking $40/year.
i've made pessimistic assumptions with 0 loot boxes after level 100 and the battle pass costing $10 USD. Even with me taking the 'negative side' where EA/Respawn is unclear ... the revenue model still seems reasonable to me.
over all, it seems reasonable to me.
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yo! i've been playing this game since day one... add me i have no friends playing AL atm T.T my EA id is PPPATHFINDER
i'm really noob tho, so u will have to carry me ^_^!
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