Tonight I have been putting in more time on PC. I vastly prefer how this game handles on PC with M+KB despite the higher skill ceiling.
One thing I noticed tonight is that teammates are bailing nearly every match. I rarely hit the ground with a full 3-person team. Almost every match at least one person quits out before jumping from dropship so I have been playing with 2 person teams.
Everyone wants to play Wraith. The one match I got to pick a legend first I picked Wraith and both of my teammates left the server immediately, even before picking a legend. I have not dropped with a full 3-person team all night.
Respawn needs to address this. Maybe with timers that delay joining another match.
I really hope Respawn puts in a solo mode. I would be 10 times more likely to continue playing if I didn’t have to deal with aholes leaving the sever before match start or screaming gibberish into the mic in a way that I can barely understand.
I’ve actually been surprised how well many of my random teammates work together. In general, people follow waypoints, and point out weapons and ammo. I almost wish there was a way to queue again with a team (let me know if there is!). However, I have run across some idiots who just sprint ahead of the group and don’t wait for everyone to finish looting.
So far, been having a blast with the game. Its like Fortnite without the stupid building. Really wish the tutorial would have run down all the icons on the hud, especially for the weapon types. Nothing worse than charging into a close-combat fight with a semi-auto gun that you thought was auto. Also, the mini SMG and shotguns look just like pistols, which confused me at first.
Games good, played a couple matches… its better than Blackout… guns feel meatier plus the TF2 abilities is cool. But I’m too old for these games, but I hope it succeeds because Titanfall2 was pretty good! Needs 1v1 mode too.
It isn’t going to be Titanfall 3, you know. They are busy with the Star Wars game, this game, from here to end of year they aren’t going to make a new Titanfall entry.
Just a FYI game comes with extra software “EasyAntiCheat” spyware as a windows service, yet there is no mention about it in the installation blurb where you accept to install additions such as DirectX/MSVisualC++ redists etc.
It’s not a big deal for most people, but @instant0 has a few bugaboos and this is one of them.
There was a fight over such anti-cheat programs 10 years or so because they tend to scan memory and things like that in order to find cheats, and there are potential security concerns with allowing software to do that. Since there haven’t been major issues in practice most people don’t care, for others the war is never over!
I just played a match and my team came in #1 and won the match. And by “my team” I mean the one guy on my team that rezzed me and the other guy three times, killed 9 enemies compared to the 0/0 kills me and the other guy got, and carried us the entire way to victory.
After my post above I had a more even experience playing a few more rounds into the evening. Finally I had several rounds where no one quit early and honestly tried to help each other. Even had a few matches where we came in the top 2-3 squads.
The waypoint/marking/ping system is one of the best I have ever seen. One can effectively use it without ever needing to use mics and do quite well as a team.
One’s experience is drastically impacted by the skill and experience of other team members.
I’m actually quite keen on Apex Legends but I’m not sure how long I will stick with it long term. I would’ve much preferred Titanfall 3 but this is quite competent.
I don’t see it pulling players from Fortnite or PUBG but maybe from Blackout and other arcadey newcomers.
Agreed. It’s not a competitor to Fortnite or PUBG for sure. It very much plays like Blackout in terms of movement and shooting, and even the environment appearance is close. (Seriously these building interiors could be copy pasted into either game and you’d never know.) It’s a good F2P option for Blackout.
Played a fair bit last night, there are a couple of things that bothered me.
It’s very “busy” visually. One of the reasons that fortnite works, is because of the simplicity and cartoon nature of the game. It’s very similar to WoW in that way, there isn’t a bunch of ‘stuff’ competing for your attention visually.
I absolutely hate the loot/supply/equip portion of the game, from top to bottom. Having to stop, look, and think about what type of ammo I need to bother to pick up is especially annoying. It’s just the antithesis of what I want to be doing in a fast paced shooter. I’m sure this would get easier with practice, but right now it’s a serious buzz kill.
The shooting is ok, the movement is ok, the game plays fairly well, but the things that bug me about it are fairly serious to me.
There are server-side anti cheats and there are client-side ones. One of them require installation of extra software, that may or may not run as a “always running service” requiring more system permissions than the base game, attempting to hook into other running programs and scan their memory, the other does nothing on the client.
Games like Destiny 2 and Warframe are also online and offer competitive gameplay modes, yet neither of them opted for invasive client side programs, are they infested by people who cheat?
The game installer should mention the fact that it comes with these extra ‘services’ instead of only requiring you to ‘accept’ to install the MS Visual C++ etc redistributables.
