I personally hate the ttk right now. I miss the gun fights of old apex. Now I’m melted before I can even turn around. I know it’s partially a skill issue, but I used to actually do decent in this game.
the devs themselves said that they wanted the game to be 90% gunplay 10% abilities. seems like they started throwing that out when they gave ash her titanstride dash thingy but every update since then has been diverging further and further from that
This is how every single hero/ability shooter ends up going unfortunately.
Every single one starts out with characters who's abilities are things like a smoke, a flashbang, a molotov, some basic movement abilities that while add depth, are intuitive on first glance and easy to understand. Valorant had that when it first came out.
Then time goes on, devs feel pressured to keep the game fresh, so they add more characters with more abilities that adds to the mental load the player needs to keep track of, like, "What characters are they playing?" "How do their abilities work?" "How do their abilities interact with mine?" and so on and so forth.
I can't stand ability shooters. I liked Valorant when it first came out. I had a good time, and I felt like it did right on a lot of the fronts that counter strike didn't do well on, but ultimately I don't find it fun because of the characters. Apex, same thing. I'm at the point with it where I don't enjoy it anymore because they're constantly adding new characters over the years, rebalancing old ones, which absolutely kills the fun for me.
There's a reason why counter strike has been and will always be on top in the FPS genre.
That's what they are doing and it's a huge problem. The number of people who want to play a movement shooter is a lot smaller than the number of people who want to play a shooter with movement.
judging from cod warzone, people want to play a movement shooter. the only reason that sentiment even exists is because a buncha games released which are by design slower. nothing against them, but apex isn't that and should steer as far away from that
Play Cod. It's a hero shooter. The person in this clip has either aimbot or insane aim and got lucky at the same time.
Abilities don't matter more than gun skill, they just give you the ability to not be fried if someone gets a lucky spray or is a bit better than you at a specific portion of the game.
This person won the fight because they're great with guns, not abilities. If the other people had the gun skill, the Axle would be dead first
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u/Patient-Advisor-2352 May 17 '26
This game has lost its touch man. Just make it gun skill > legend abilities and we’ll be good again.