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Penny Arcade - Comic - Two Out Of Three
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Two Out Of Three
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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Oh well, maybe it's also meant to be a more universal Battle Royale strip then a specific reference. Even though the title, context of a three-way conversation, and the fact they're falling in a synchronized pattern makes it pretty obvious this is an Apex Legends thing.
Perfect.
Apex seems kind of chaotic relative to pubg and fortnite. I can't say exactly what the difference is, maybe the map is smaller or the more serious art style, but in Apex I never feel like I have any time to survey the situation and plan things out. The game just feels kind of stressful and random.
It doesn't help that 3 vs. all is the only mode and I'm simply not used to grouping with randos who just run off the moment they land.
edit: that reads a bit negative. I'm still playing it anyway, so...
"Mostly circus animal, some filler" ?
I think it's because of the ziplines and high mobility. It's fairly easy for someone to go where they want from anywhere.
This is me in any shooter with weapon spawns. Not even a unique problem in battle royale. Could be Quake Arena or something, and I run around, grab a rocket launcher, a super shotgun, tons of ammo, and then I get killed from behind, never get to use my weapons, and I drop all that stuff for the guy who got me.
I think it's a pretty universal sentiment for any multiplayer game with teams and random matchmaking. Some days I'm so off I feel like I should preemptively apologize to my teammates at the start of the match/dungeon/mission/etc.
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-Tycho Brahe
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that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
Hahahah nah
Apex is all about constant movement and positioning.
If you hole up in a house all they'll do is load it to the gills with frag grenades
That being said, I have won several times by laying low somewhere. Hell, I've won a match with 0 squad kills thanks to EA's servers disconnecting people.
The game is a mess and it gets old quick.
I think you forgot the "Praise Geraldo"...really though, I've had minimal issues with Apex connectivity wise. I have had a few, but over maybe 20 hours of gameplay I've only had it happen 2-3 times.
I think it is in part due to modern matchmaking games being seemingly designed to prioritize speed and quantity of matches rather than quality. So teams inevitably get pitted against each other with a large variance in member skill tier compositions instead of waiting a extra 30 seconds to a few minutes to build opposing teams of (relatively) homogeneous skill compositions. Thus the concept of the "team carry".
in PUBG I'd regularly get top 5 by just chilling in one of those rest stop buildings.
How long is your average PUBG match? Wouldn't that be boring to the point of making one ask why they are playing at all? lol
-Tycho Brahe
Yes. So you can't hide on tye edge of the island where no one comes, but you can kinda lay low and hope other players are distracted enough to not pay attention to you.
It is how I tried to survive dodgeball too.
The two survivors had one kill attributed to them each, and in Shuya's case his was basically an accident.
And PUBG has had documented cases where players win by doing literally nothing.
Meh, I was just in it to see how well the game emulated the source material.
At which point, you feel you should have just shot the rocket launcher at your feet so at least you'd get to say, "Yeah, but at least I killed that one dude with my rocket launcher."
Reminds me of this one time in Overwatch where, as Pharah, I jetpacked up to the roof of an airplane hanger and used my ultimate, which fires about 2 dozen mini rockets. Without realizing that I had hovered right in front of a hanging airplane. All of my rockets hit the plane and the explosions killed only me, in about a second. But I did get an Ultimate Shutdown credit for it!
The one VR I have to my credit, I was more or less stuck between a mountain and the storm wall, while the leet pros were duking it out on the mountaintop. If the eye had shifted towards my side of the mountain I would have been trapped and probably died in the storm. Instead it shifted away. The sole remaining player shot at a construct off in one direction thinking I might be hiding inside, then jumped off the mountain and ran off to keep ahead of the storm. I ended up killing him in the back with a combination of AR shots and a quick switch to rocket - mostly a combination of luck and old UT instincts - as the storm was overtaking us.
On rare occasions, it's better to be lucky than good.