I just played a game in ranked (diamond) where I helped my team win a fight but went down, they let me bleed out and deliberately ignored my tag. Then looted the Rez shield off my body, and then ran into a team next door and died.
I just played a game in ranked (diamond) where I helped my team win a fight but went down, they let me bleed out and deliberately ignored my tag. Then looted the Rez shield off my body, and then ran into a team next door and died.
I hate this game sometimes
I do wonder how the hell folks that do that end up getting into diamond. Imagine how they'd be ranked if they played a team game like an actual team!
I just played a game in ranked (diamond) where I helped my team win a fight but went down, they let me bleed out and deliberately ignored my tag. Then looted the Rez shield off my body, and then ran into a team next door and died.
Got a real scum win earlier today. No kills except for the final squad, who out-positioned and outshot us, but it wasn't enough to stop a Bloodhound in-ult rushing them with a mastiff. We were around the side of a cliff without cover. Two of theirs pinned us while another moved for a piece of cover that would leave us in flank, so I just rushed the flanker while the enemy two downed my two at the cost of one of theirs. Two-shot the flanker, then turned and two-shot the last one.
But hey, we take those.
My first win today was 16mins of looting and 60s of third party.
And we ran a pretty central path! (Late Train, Skyhook, Train Yard, Drill Site, Party Boat, finale on the train tracks)
Gibby ult the two fighting squads, land a Charge Rifle, one team dies, others turn to me, throw a dome to heal, my teammates finished it before the battery was done.
I fired one shot.
My other win we killed 10 people without a single fair fight. Constantly arriving just after fights were over, or picking people off who were late into the ring.
We nearly botched the 3v2 at the end, too aggressive and 2 peacekeeper shots later it was 1v1.
We nearly botched the 3v2 at the end, too aggressive and 2 peacekeeper shots later it was 1v1.
Were your team low health or something? Peacekeeper shouldn't be able to oneshot through purple. Might've been a mastiff.
We got Bangalore ulted and took some hits midrange, my teammates chased and killed the Bangalore, I tried to 1 v1 the wraith, got hit with the Peacekeeper, then the next shot downed a teammate. She hit the third shot too, but the last guy had enough hp to finish it.
We did some Kings Canyon tonight and boyyy howdy did we get fucked up. That was pretty brutal. Still had some good kills but only one game did we make it top 3.
My new favorite tactic as Octane is using the Stim to rapidly backup/strafe, people don't seem to anticipate it https://youtu.be/ScXnFHuryZA
Hrngh. We stalled out in platinum last season and I don't see that changing. Need to find a third on PS4 to grind to diamond at least once. I want that sweet trail.
I think they said that dive trails are going to start expiring, so you have to earn them every season to get it for the next. With the season 2/3 trails being exceptions and being grandfathered into being permanent
About 50% of all people in rando's drop there, it's already getting tedious.
Don’t forget all of the wraiths that instantly disconnect the instant they go down!
Seemingly tons of players returning from Season 1 to live some months-old nostalgia and then choosing to disconnect after the game neglects to recognize them as a returning champion. Very 2020.
Also, the folks that relinquish jumpmaster and immediately start spastically pinging Skulltown or Market is a delight. Because guess where I'm not gonna land now that you bequeathed unto me such magnificent power?
Gah had a near clutch moment and dropped a whole enemy team after popping Bloodhound ult and wrecking dudes. But during my panic heal, I had Shield Cell equipped not Shield Battery so dude 3 killed me while I misjudged and got dropped. Still, for fending off an ambush that dropped my team and a game with 3 kills, 2 knocks, 2 assists, it reminded me that sometimes I can actually play this game.
Had some quality games earlier. One where we actually had a third team made who (mostly) used my crypto drone correctly by taking advantage of the marks and pushing at the correct times.
Won a game where the third disconnected before the match started. Tried to drop hot and die fast, but ended up uncontested. We took out another two man maybe halfway through the match. Got lucky with the final rings, they were centered on a hill that was slightly closer to us and the enemies were a bit too cautious pushing it regardless. Caught one out in the open and downed him. Pinned two behind a rock and grenaded them, killing one. Final one tried to move cover to cover and close on us but got pinned again and eventually gunned down when they tried to make a break for it. Then there was just one more squad, and it was just one guy, went out basically the same way as the last guy from the previous squad. https://gamerdvr.com/gamer/czb557/video/88306281
I had forgotten how bullshit Pathfinder can be on Kings Canyon. We lost two games last night in the final ring because the other team had a pathfinder and that was the deciding factor. Guy had been creating zips between mountain tops for the last couple rings with his team and just sniping at people that came in the general vicinity. So there was already no way to actually get to them without your own pathfinder.
That's the one thing I definitely appreciate about Worlds Edge - there are still places where pathfinder can give you the high ground but most of them you have a reasonable chance of getting to / it exposes them some as well. King's Canyon is filled with random mountain tops in the desert that don't have a "return to map" warning and all kinds of nooks and crannies along canyon walls.
My gut instinct is that I like King's Canyon better, but when I actually think about it I think I've generally found World's Edge much more enjoyable and been less frustrated by loot or being unable to get to a Pathfinder or other things like that.
metaghost - That is one of the things that drives me crazy. I feel like the chance of someone passing jump master is already 50% or higher. And when they pass it, a lot of times they start pinging stuff, half the time after I already launched us. Those type of people always either:
Start to complain we didn't jump where they wanted.
Go off on their own and then get mad at us for not following.
EDIT - oh, and of course, disconnect instantly when they go down because they are half a map away from us =p.
My gut instinct is that I like King's Canyon better, but when I actually think about it I think I've generally found World's Edge much more enjoyable and been less frustrated by loot or being unable to get to a Pathfinder or other things like that.
Yeah. As an addendum to Squall's post, I'll say that even though I was mad about Pathfinder's existence, part of the actual issue with King's Canyon is a matter of loot. On KC, you can come out victorious from a big 5-team scrum and come away with no tangible rewards for your success; you'll search through the boxes scavenging what meds and ammo you can, but so often we'd be marching towards the "final" circle with insufficient tools to maintain a protracted fight. Presumably this is by design in a way, ensuring a faster paced match, but certainly the teams that can put themselves in exceptional poking position (likely via Pathfinder) are better able to exhaust those resources.
World's Edge has a bit of an opposing problem, where seemingly everyone has infinite batteries, infinite ammo, and All Gold gear, so you encounter a lot of these dumb 9-team standoffs where everyone takes a defensive position and waits for the first team to flinch.
I enjoy the diversity of locales and the typical match progression on King's Canyon more, but both maps have issues. And with respects to Pathfinder's kit, I'd like to see them use map design as the means to restrict its efficacy, rather than necessarily altering how he plays.
They can easily change maps so you can't place ziplines to those places/put kill barriers on top of those rocks. I like KC but it's obviously rough in some spots, especially the first iteration. Pathfinder is my favorite character because of how much verticality he introduced to the game. I remember the first time I realized just the kinda shit you could pull off with him. I don't mind them changing the map to make things a little more fair. That's why I like WE so much, it has a lot of cities and high up areas, it's a very vertical map. That's what makes Apex so interesting to me, and I hope they introduce more Mobility characters in the future. Pathfinder and Octane are my favorites because they allow you to be fast and go places others can't, and very quickly at that. The game excels in situations where you can leverage your kit to make whatever you have work best for you.
I'm already imagining a character with like a jetpack or wingsuit. Her Ult could be placing her own Mini-Redeploy ballon tower.
I'm waiting for them to add a "disgraced" Pilot from TF into the game. Where they have worn out jump kit that just lets them double jump but not wall run.
I definitely would like the general flow of KC back, but with some modification of lessons learned. I think one of the differences was that KC had this method of fights spilling over into other zones. WE I feel like fights are more often in the heart of a defined zone, the zones are much more defined and vertical and... I dunno. Something about the flow feels much different.
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It's very Rocks/Paper/Scissors, but I don't know what the Scissors would be, probably Skilled Wraith w/R-99.
I hate this game sometimes
I do wonder how the hell folks that do that end up getting into diamond. Imagine how they'd be ranked if they played a team game like an actual team!
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Did they blame you for the loss?
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
Cypto ping + Pathfinder spider monkey grapple + mastiff = deathu
Of course we still lost that one but felt amazing
But hey, we take those.
And we ran a pretty central path! (Late Train, Skyhook, Train Yard, Drill Site, Party Boat, finale on the train tracks)
Gibby ult the two fighting squads, land a Charge Rifle, one team dies, others turn to me, throw a dome to heal, my teammates finished it before the battery was done.
I fired one shot.
My other win we killed 10 people without a single fair fight. Constantly arriving just after fights were over, or picking people off who were late into the ring.
We nearly botched the 3v2 at the end, too aggressive and 2 peacekeeper shots later it was 1v1.
We got Bangalore ulted and took some hits midrange, my teammates chased and killed the Bangalore, I tried to 1 v1 the wraith, got hit with the Peacekeeper, then the next shot downed a teammate. She hit the third shot too, but the last guy had enough hp to finish it.
My new favorite tactic as Octane is using the Stim to rapidly backup/strafe, people don't seem to anticipate it
EAT SLEEP SKULLTOWN REPEAT
About 50% of all people in rando's drop there, it's already getting tedious.
Which feels lame
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same (though who knows if I'd have been successful). I'd be much happier if they all expired or none of them expired.
PSN: Robo_Wizard1
Just get everyone to hide their trails by using this one weird trick! Predators hate him!
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Don’t forget all of the wraiths that instantly disconnect the instant they go down!
Seemingly tons of players returning from Season 1 to live some months-old nostalgia and then choosing to disconnect after the game neglects to recognize them as a returning champion. Very 2020.
Also, the folks that relinquish jumpmaster and immediately start spastically pinging Skulltown or Market is a delight. Because guess where I'm not gonna land now that you bequeathed unto me such magnificent power?
Also - Punching people into lava never gets old.
I know they weren't a Predator, but I'd like to think Zylbrad would have been proud of us.
https://gamerdvr.com/gamer/czb557/video/88306281
That's the one thing I definitely appreciate about Worlds Edge - there are still places where pathfinder can give you the high ground but most of them you have a reasonable chance of getting to / it exposes them some as well. King's Canyon is filled with random mountain tops in the desert that don't have a "return to map" warning and all kinds of nooks and crannies along canyon walls.
Start to complain we didn't jump where they wanted.
Go off on their own and then get mad at us for not following.
EDIT - oh, and of course, disconnect instantly when they go down because they are half a map away from us =p.
Yeah. As an addendum to Squall's post, I'll say that even though I was mad about Pathfinder's existence, part of the actual issue with King's Canyon is a matter of loot. On KC, you can come out victorious from a big 5-team scrum and come away with no tangible rewards for your success; you'll search through the boxes scavenging what meds and ammo you can, but so often we'd be marching towards the "final" circle with insufficient tools to maintain a protracted fight. Presumably this is by design in a way, ensuring a faster paced match, but certainly the teams that can put themselves in exceptional poking position (likely via Pathfinder) are better able to exhaust those resources.
World's Edge has a bit of an opposing problem, where seemingly everyone has infinite batteries, infinite ammo, and All Gold gear, so you encounter a lot of these dumb 9-team standoffs where everyone takes a defensive position and waits for the first team to flinch.
I enjoy the diversity of locales and the typical match progression on King's Canyon more, but both maps have issues. And with respects to Pathfinder's kit, I'd like to see them use map design as the means to restrict its efficacy, rather than necessarily altering how he plays.
I'm waiting for them to add a "disgraced" Pilot from TF into the game. Where they have worn out jump kit that just lets them double jump but not wall run.
Sometimes you gel well with strangers on the internet
In this case, I kept landing Charge Rifle shots, and they kept finishing them off.
Octane will be madly in love with her.