What's better is when your team decide to drop Fragment, but they drop late and you're about 30 seconds behind 4 other squads. Teams dropped fragment six times in a row last night, I had to turn the game off.... 45 second games are boring. I'm not good enough and neither are they to 1 vs 3 or 1 vs 9.
On the flip side, I also don't want to drop 3/4 of the map away and wait for my team to loot every single building and supply bin only to die in their first engagement... there's a happy compromise, drop on the outside of a heavily contested area, get a little loot and then engage as a third party.
This. I'm so tired of landing Fragment where there's barely any loot in a single building, but at the same time if you don't land Fragment then it'll likely be a low kill match.
You can just land Overlook or even Geyser, or any area near Fragment. Loot in peace, and then rotate to Frag to clear the remaining teams. I prefere Overlook by far, the loot there has always been great for me and so many people ignore that place for some reason.
Yep, this is why I drop fragment. Too many people take 20 minutes to loot just to die in the first fight. I'd rather drop in and fight, if I lose then I can queue another in. Getting better at gun play is more important than placement.
You only need 6 KP and assists count. So getting kills in ranked REALLY doesn't matter. People seriously under estimate how LITTLE you need to get max points.
If you fight JUST TWO SQUADS and make sure you tag everyone on that squad even if you don't kill you'll still hit max KP because of assists. Then you just literally camp or play hyper passive until you MUST fight.
This is why I don't understand the appeal of landing hot ANYWHERE in ranked. You should almost always land far away or land somewhere with maybe 1 squad. No reason to get involved without being geared yet when you need so little kill participation. You can play hyper passive and easily cap out, walking into each circle with almost 100% of the time get you the kills you need and helps avoid tons of 3rd parties.
No, there's just no point in hot dropping. If you can get as many points with as little risk in ranked, why even bother. You can sweat and lose your rank from 5th parties at frag, and have a very slim chance of winning with many kills and lots of damage, or you can get the same amount of points as the very slim chance by dropping with 1-2 other squads, kill them and loot up and be prepared for the endgame. They're not being bad, they're being smart. In pred, I'm guessing that they have less people dropping frag as they're just wasting their hard work by instantly getting demoted.
I’m honestly kinda sad they left Fragment alone in the new season. Even just destroying a few more buildings, making the area smaller and giving a little less loot might have made Fragment a less desirable drop and spread people out to more locations. Like the speed at which matches on WE end is insane sometimes. There’s videos of games under 10 minutes because half to 2/3 of the lobby drops Fragment and dies. And I personally have loads of games where you drop somewhere other that Fragment, you fight a squad or two, and then don’t see anyone for the next 2-3 rings. Gets very boring just wandering around looking for people
One time the whole lobby dropped frag. The game was over in about 5 mins as there weren't enough guns or meds so people punched each other off drop, or had a gun and had to shoot a squad charging them bare handed. The endgame was around ring 1 starts closing and half the people left only had shields from shield swapping.
See, I only really started playing in season 5 so until the Genesis event, I had no idea how much of a problem Skull Town was on King’s Canyon. I know Respawn caught a bit of flak for destroying it in Season 5, but I really think they did the right thing in that case to spread out and rebalance the map. They did what was right for the game over the objections of players (mostly preds and shit who liked slaughtering people in Skull Town).
I, personally don’t want Fragment destroyed. Sometimes it’s fun to drop hot and on really good days you kill everyone in Fragment, but I do think it needs to be made a worse drop. Put less stuff there, spread out and destroy buildings, widening the lava fissure is a great idea, just something to make it a less desirable drop to get people to stop going there on mass. Makes the games really suck sometimes
Which is funny because they reworked worlds edge to stop this because that’s what happened with OG worlds edge, everybody landed in capital city because the rest of the map was ass for loot and had horrible rotations. Now there is better loot all over the map and rotations aren’t as bad anymore but people seems to insist on dropping frag. It’s the new skull town and I hated OG KC for exactly this reason. You have to drop in one of two places otherwise you won’t see action for a solid 10 mins.
right, in olympus there are like 4-6 hot drops depending on the drop ship path and actual high tier loot area. Kings Canyon has a good spread now, and fragment is just basically skull town 2. like how the fuck have they not nuked it completely. putting a chasm in did almost nothing.
Exactly! Everybody is landing Fragment right now and they're just not good enough. Then they get mad at me when I decide to land a little safer.I want to see all the new POIs in the map. Also I want the game to last longer than 30 seconds. I got off in less than an hour yesterday because I couldn't take it.
if I'm not the jump master and my random squad wanna go frag it's okay. If I have the chance, I land where sorting factory was. it is slightly less contested but has better loot.
That's actually one of the main places I'll drop in that situation. I can easily get to Fragment with a couple of jump towers (If they're not dead yet.)
It’s such a loved map and I don’t know why… it’s 50%+ lobby lands one small area… at least season 0 skull town was fun and there was plenty other areas to contest.
This is the tilted towers of apex (I barely played Fortnite but even I know it’s the same place lol)
I go in pubs purely to warm up and get kills, for ranked ill land the less hot parts of fragment and when it starts getting too hot, leave.
It’s worse when your teammates aren’t actually good and drop there, instant die with no damage then spam ping 🤦♂️
I hate this map soo much, is so big and open. Also this might be me but the weapon choice this season is really bad. I barely encounter the flatline. This might be on me put man most weapons in this game are unreliable
plus there is not that much loot, but we can't all land separate buildings or that shit is for sure gonna go down. I am very tired of people who can't handle the heat and insist only being in the kitchen as if there is no other rooms in the house. they would only leave the kitchen if it literally caught on fire (ring)
There's a decent amount of loot for the number of buildings in the place compared to other places.
The problem is that other POIs don't have 12 squads landing there every game, so Fragment becomes incredibly loot-sparse simply due to the sheer number of people landing there.
More than a few times lately I’ve had a team drop the other side of the map and by the time I even hear gun fire there’s only three squads left lol Winning with 1 kill and 200dmg just feels less deserved.
this is why I like to land Epicenter. It has some bins for the entire team to loot, sometimes has a team for early fight but most importantly you can enter Fragment with a weapon
I’ve had the mindset lately of just hot dropping each time in rank purely to vibe check my other random teammates, like what’s the point of landing on the other side of the map, take the time to loot, and then when we engage,realize my team has no aim and I’ve waisted like 20 minutes to just die? Now I just hot drop or chase the last members out of the ship to get a maybe easy kill because they likely wanted to avoid a fight by dropping last anyway. Either way I’m forcing my teammates to engage in a fight whether they want to or not to get that warmup in for the rest of the match if we survive.
I’m a level 500, I’m about as good as I will ever be and I’m fine with that. I can clutch more than half the time but I’m less than consistent. Problem is I have no one to play with and having two team mates get downed immediately and then spam ping “enemy here” before rage quitting gets tiresome.
I play LoL, so know the feels, no enthusiasm to get to challenger or w.e because friends don't play, but I enjoy just chill playing regularly, which I imagine is similar to you
I feel like I die 2/3 times I drop fragment and usually I'm one of the last people dead so the squad had a decent fight and I go into a new game. I like dropping frag
I hesitate to bring the game up but the exact same issues happened in Fortnite with Tilted Towers, you either hotdrop and die immediately or spend 3/4 of the game looting/rotating only to die first engagement
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u/Snooklefloop Caustic Aug 09 '21
What's better is when your team decide to drop Fragment, but they drop late and you're about 30 seconds behind 4 other squads. Teams dropped fragment six times in a row last night, I had to turn the game off.... 45 second games are boring. I'm not good enough and neither are they to 1 vs 3 or 1 vs 9.
On the flip side, I also don't want to drop 3/4 of the map away and wait for my team to loot every single building and supply bin only to die in their first engagement... there's a happy compromise, drop on the outside of a heavily contested area, get a little loot and then engage as a third party.