Apex Legends - Catch All

As others have said, you need to hot drop. You'll get killed way quicker, but you'll get used to getting into fights and looting quickly. Going 10 minutes without getting into a fight is bad.

Make friends with death, it's your best teacher.

Or maybe it's just not for you. I like it because I suck at shooters, but it's so low stakes.

With it being a BR it would've been more of a surprise if that didn't happen to you. Like MrDevil909 said 'Make friends with death, it's your best teacher.'

I play Titanfall. Death is life!

I'm having problems with the current meta. I yet to team up with anyone i know and playing with pubs have been frustrating. It looks like folks are instigating fights and then running away immediately when teammates show up to help. Multiple matches i've downed 1 or 2 and while reloading or healing getting popped to find out my teammates are like across the map when they were the ones who started the fight.

So much more sniping going on in this new map. Seems to me that the new map is crazy big as well compared to the old maps. Several of the playable characters are less relevant now it seems... maybe I just don't use them properly or I'm not used to the new map yet. Anyone get the pubbie that kills you on purpose when dropping by putting you onto pipe which you can't climb and slide down into an open hole in the map? That is fun...

I played more last night because I'm a masochist. Except in this case I chased down fights instead of hiding for a long time. It was more fun. No clue how to use any of the powers, but the shooting is alright. Not nearly enough ammo, especially compared to TF2 multiplayer.

tundra wrote:

Anyone get the pubbie that kills you on purpose when dropping by putting you onto pipe which you can't climb and slide down into an open hole in the map? That is fun...

You should ALWAYS, take control near the end of the drop not just for reasons like that but even with people you know. There's a few exceptions, but you don't want your whole team looting the same buildings. It's inefficient and wastes time. Time is exceptionally important for the early game. You want to drop next to each other, but not on top of each other.

ranalin wrote:
tundra wrote:

Anyone get the pubbie that kills you on purpose when dropping by putting you onto pipe which you can't climb and slide down into an open hole in the map? That is fun...

You should ALWAYS, take control near the end of the drop not just for reasons like that but even with people you know. There's a few exceptions, but you don't want your whole team looting the same buildings. It's inefficient and wastes time. Time is exceptionally important for the early game. You want to drop next to each other, but not on top of each other.

Yeah, I don't try to kill people, but if I have a teammate that hasn't broken off I will try to drop them off the building I want to go in or I will aim between two buildings and loot that one they don't.

EverythingsTentative wrote:
ranalin wrote:
tundra wrote:

Anyone get the pubbie that kills you on purpose when dropping by putting you onto pipe which you can't climb and slide down into an open hole in the map? That is fun...

You should ALWAYS, take control near the end of the drop not just for reasons like that but even with people you know. There's a few exceptions, but you don't want your whole team looting the same buildings. It's inefficient and wastes time. Time is exceptionally important for the early game. You want to drop next to each other, but not on top of each other.

Yeah, I don't try to kill people, but if I have a teammate that hasn't broken off I will try to drop them off the building I want to go in or I will aim between two buildings and loot that one they don't.

It's only sensible.

Thanks for the advice on chasing down fights instead of avoiding. It's made the game significantly more fun and quicker.

I currently have more wins this season than there have been days in the season. Surely that can't last, but it feels good!

One of the Battlepass challenges I had early on asked me to play Caustic, who I've only played occasionally, and I enjoyed it so much that he might be my main for Season 7. Now I'm sad I didn't buy his Ghostbusters or Santa skins. Here's hoping they don't gouge us on holiday skins in December.

I'm cross posting this in case there's some crossover

So with the latest patch Warzone just allowed private matches.

Anyone who's interested or have friends that would be interested in playing some Warzone with Goodjers and friends speak up. We need a minimum of 23 people for the smallest mode.

Just a reminder that this is cross-play and F2P

ranalin wrote:

I'm cross posting this in case there's some crossover

So with the latest patch Warzone just allowed private matches.

Anyone who's interested or have friends that would be interested in playing some Warzone with Goodjers and friends speak up. We need a minimum of 23 people for the smallest mode.

Just a reminder that this is cross-play and F2P

Warzone and Apex legends cross over maps? Wow I never knew it was possible!

/scurries off

If I only had a terabyte of free space I'll play if yall need a 23rd.

Glad you are finding your footing maverickz.

I don't really have a main right now. I wish there was a random option.

EverythingsTentative wrote:

If I only had a terabyte of free space I'll play if yall need a 23rd.

Glad you are finding your footing maverickz.

I don't really have a main right now. I wish there was a random option.

I think the install for WZ alone is around 120gb. If you have the MW game you're now able to uninstall the sections you don't play.

Some of the dailies in the new format are a bit unrealistic. Opening 50 supply bins or surviving 75 minutes are not going to happen most days. But I still seem to be progressing quite nicely at the pace I'm playing.

New map is definitely a sniper heaven. I think I'm going to have to learn how to do that properly. I can't snipe for sh*t.

Had a couple of decent games today. Now I'll preface this by saying a game where I get a kill is a good game for me, but I did manage to get multiple kills in a couple of games. Including 5 in my last one. Didn't manage a win, but top 5's are becoming regular. Getting the hang of moving unpredictably around cover.

I'm playing Bangalore a lot for the weekly challenge, does her Double Time passive seem really fast now?

Also, glad you're having more fun Maverick.

ranalin wrote:

I'm cross posting this in case there's some crossover

So with the latest patch Warzone just allowed private matches.

Anyone who's interested or have friends that would be interested in playing some Warzone with Goodjers and friends speak up. We need a minimum of 23 people for the smallest mode.

Just a reminder that this is cross-play and F2P

I haven't played in a while, but this puts me in mind of the glorious GWJ Battlefield nights of olde. If it happens, please mention it here.

What would the voice chat situation be like?

Fedaykin98 wrote:
ranalin wrote:

I'm cross posting this in case there's some crossover

So with the latest patch Warzone just allowed private matches.

Anyone who's interested or have friends that would be interested in playing some Warzone with Goodjers and friends speak up. We need a minimum of 23 people for the smallest mode.

Just a reminder that this is cross-play and F2P

I haven't played in a while, but this puts me in mind of the glorious GWJ Battlefield nights of olde. If it happens, please mention it here.

What would the voice chat situation be like?

Depends on what platform you're playing on. If you're console it will have to be in game and PC will probably be Discord. I'm waiting to see if we get enough before digging into the logistics. Initial idea is to create a new regiment for the event and invite the participants that way, but no clue how that works without testing first.

Also the number of people will probably determine the mode. Like if we get the minimum may only do solos and/or duos. The game has a join random team option

Game chat isn't working for me on my Series X, but party chat is. I've actually had the same bug on my One X before, and it went away after a while.

Fedaykin98 wrote:

Game chat isn't working for me on my Series X, but party chat is. I've actually had the same bug on my One X before, and it went away after a while.

Powered all the way off, then back on, and it works now! Yay!

I am having so much fun this season! There's no better time in Apex than when a new map releases. It would be awesome if they could do two a year, but that may be asking too much.

I recently checked in with the tournament scene, and it looks like the pros are using more characters than ever, which is awesome to see.

Finally getting into the groove with the new battlepass. Even though it isn’t my favorite, I do like that the stars for challenges don’t seem like they will go to waste like I would feel completing challenges with the old BP could when you’re needing 45k to get to the next level. At least every level is now a straight 10 stars and completing smaller challenges doesn’t feel worthless at the end of a week and carries over!

Also- tried to add ya Fedaykin via the Find Friend cross play feature, but not sure if it worked and ya can’t send a message to let people know who ya are! So if ya see a friend request from J-diz22 on PlayStation, that’s me! Hope to find new peeps to play with now that Cross Play is enabled!

I don't know if I just got lucky yesterday or if they already reworked the dailys, but I was able to get all of them in two matches. All of mine up to then took more like 2 hours to get. I ended the night with a 9 kill victory using Bloodhound. It didn't start well, though. We landed in a heavy area. One teammate immediately said effit and ran away, the other teammate immediately died, and I'm stuck in between the two hardly equipped. I was able to down one buy and do enough damage to his teammates to get them to run away, and they seemed to distract the other teams in the area, which allowed me to grab the banner and run to where our other teammate was. Made the victory that much sweeter.

I'm enjoying Horizon. Gravity Lift is great to get you out of trouble or help you flank.

Le0hart85 wrote:

Finally getting into the groove with the new battlepass. Even though it isn’t my favorite, I do like that the stars for challenges don’t seem like they will go to waste like I would feel completing challenges with the old BP could when you’re needing 45k to get to the next level. At least every level is now a straight 10 stars and completing smaller challenges doesn’t feel worthless at the end of a week and carries over!

Also- tried to add ya Fedaykin via the Find Friend cross play feature, but not sure if it worked and ya can’t send a message to let people know who ya are! So if ya see a friend request from J-diz22 on PlayStation, that’s me! Hope to find new peeps to play with now that Cross Play is enabled!

Oh, that was you? I'll keep an eye out for you. I accepted your friend request.

They did already rework the dailies for the Battlepass. Imho they are now easier than ever. I think in trying to calm the masses, they actually made the Battlepass faster than before - and they're supposedly giving everyone 10 free levels of progress on it tomorrow.

Fedaykin98 wrote:

Oh, that was you? I'll keep an eye out for you. I accepted your friend request.

They did already rework the dailies for the Battlepass. Imho they are now easier than ever. I think in trying to calm the masses, they actually made the Battlepass faster than before - and they're supposedly giving everyone 10 free levels of progress on it tomorrow.

Yup! Can’t message ya to let ya know cross platform! Sorry about the surprise join! We’ll have to catch some games later!

And it does feel decently fast going through the battlepass now! Already at 23 and I don’t feel like I have played *too* often! Also, not sitting on XP quests during the weekend is nice! Being able to not worry about wasting a weekly challenge is a plus IMO!

Is there already a GWJ club? I haven't been huge about joining clans/clubs in games, but usually if there's a GWJer one I'll join. I haven't been playing as much as I usually do - my squadmates are on deployment, plus I'm playing Miles Morales - but I'm always down for some games if I'm playing some Apex.

They updated the game and the 10 battlepass levels have been added. As well as reverting the daily challenges, making them easier to complete. Instead of survive for 75 or so minutes for a star, I had one for today for survive for 15 minutes. Seems much easier to complete most of the dailies now. Also got ‘get 5 kills OR assists’ for 2 stars. Seems dang generous, IMO!

Their attempt to fix the bug that allowed you to put Sheila on Cryptos drone has backfired a bit. The game crashes if you even attempt to put Sheila on a Trident. Nice

I just got back into town, decided to squeeze in a round of Duos while my wife and son were out... Nothing. Dead before I ever got a shield.

Played another one, and this time I got seven kills and my FIRST EVER 2K damage game! Thankfully that was on my new Season 7 main, Caustic! That sweet, sweet Mjolnir badge is mine!

Kdr is starting to become slightly less embarrassing. I still sometimes don't get a kill, but games with multiple kills are becoming more common.

I realise this isn't a major achievement for regular shooter players, but for me this is groundbreaking.

Still can't snipe at all, but I'm getting better at using cover in the wide open areas of olympus. And getting closer. As long as I don't end up teamed up with two snipers the games go pretty well.

I also draw people indoors much better, I'm quite good at close quarters.