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[Apex Legends] Battle Royale from the makers of Titanfall. High OCTANE gameplay!
EriktheVikingGamer
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Brought to you by Respawn, the team responsible for Titanfall and Titanfall 2. Takes place in the same world but the connection is tenuous.
Jump from ship.
Grab loot.
Shoot mans.
Basic stuff for the most part if you've played a Battle Royale. Differences are mainly that it's herolegend based, three-person team based, and there is a form of limited respawning that's dependant upon your teammates nabbing your tag and running to a respawn point where you respawn naked.
Available on PC(Origin), PS4, and XBox One. (Apparently you can also link your Steam Account for additional friends list?)
NEW CHARACTER - OCTANE!
1ST SEASON BATTLE PASS OUT!
Giant Bomb Quick Look Type Thing -
Characters -
Bangalore
Bloodhound
Caustic*
Gibraltar
Lifeline
Mirage*
Pathfinder
Wraith
* - Characters that currently require unlocking via in-game currency or funbux. Funbux cost translates to about $7.50 a character but smallest funbux pack is $9.99 plus tax so figure about $10.00 a character realistically. Haven't played much so don't know the earn rate to unlock a character.
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Jump from ship.
Grab loot.
Shoot mans.
Basic stuff for the most part if you've played a Battle Royale. Differences are mainly that it's herolegend based, three-person team based, and there is a form of limited respawning that's dependant upon your teammates nabbing your tag and running to a respawn point where you respawn naked.
Available on PC(Origin), PS4, and XBox One. (Apparently you can also link your Steam Account for additional friends list?)
NEW CHARACTER - OCTANE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOdTqvcEaZ81ST SEASON BATTLE PASS OUT!
Giant Bomb Quick Look Type Thing -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvQZHEYGa-s&t=3702sCharacters -
Bangalore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyJhFYNob30Bloodhound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euWTbVdRGv0Caustic*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSz8Dnj1pdIGibraltar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccDyztf9FjULifeline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxXFfe5X5qoMirage*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPHlrmyM8v4Pathfinder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBpc2EaKBcAWraith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bglAJajZFx4* - Characters that currently require unlocking via in-game currency or funbux. Funbux cost translates to about $7.50 a character but smallest funbux pack is $9.99 plus tax so figure about $10.00 a character realistically. Haven't played much so don't know the earn rate to unlock a character.
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FFXIV - Milliardo Beoulve/Sargatanas
FFXIV - Milliardo Beoulve/Sargatanas
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I understand why its not in the game. You can still grapple slide with the friendly robot guy tho.
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I'll go back to getting blasted in TF2 mp instead.
Like the fifth match. And I didn't get carried, it was a team effort.
A team of randos, but damn did it feel good. Seriously I am all in now.
Personal highlight of the match
ran through two games so far, getting my feet wet, but I'm enjoying this one
Don't have a lot of experience with BR but just won my second game, full squad alive with no knockouts 8-)
It's so good. And I HATE BR games.
edit: also I saw some people tried to invite me... but every time that happens my client crashes? had to turn off notifications, sorry if it seemed like I was ignoring you.
The gunplay is still a little bit too long range for me to be great at it, but wandering around is nice. On my third match we just and meandered around the entire time without any serious combat, and the ring happened to center on us, and we won. I had completely blank stats, haha.
This game desperately needs a "mute teammate" button. Just got paired with a guy who talking to someone in a different voice chat with his mic volume maxed, just buzzing over everything.
I don't hate BR games, but I agree with this. I can see myself sticking with this one for awhile.
FFXIV - Milliardo Beoulve/Sargatanas
Yeah, I charged in with an auto-shotty hoping to take one or two out for our teammate. It uhh...it didn’t work.
What is this witchcraft
(Also that auto shotty is so tasty)
Look, if I don't pick the medic my suicidal squad mates will just get themselves killed, and then who will shoot the enemies trying to kill me?
Your able to mute teammates from the options menu once you jump, I too desperately started looking for it once I got a bunch of background noise from a rando
Oculus: TheBigDookie | XBL: Dook | NNID: BigDookie
Try to drop areas free of enemies so you can loot safely without getting jumped. Stick close to teammates, if possible. Also, the inventory is limited unless you pickup a backpack to expand it; and you want to pickup armor as you go to protect yourself.
Also seems like there's not just health kits, but also shield and Super buffing items.
Oculus: TheBigDookie | XBL: Dook | NNID: BigDookie
It took me a few matches to figure out that just picking up the energy shield refill items doesn’t do anything. You have to pull up your inventory and manually activate them to get the protection.
The medkits and shield restore items can go in the same 4 quickslot. Not sure how to swap them, but you can definitely use from inventory too.
Shooting is really nice, but seems like right now some guns are far and away the best. I was tearing ass with the Spitfire LMG and some shotties seem really beefy. Long range stuff seems favored up until the end circle, just like PUBG.
Movement isn't as badly gimped as you'd think, but it's really weird. It definitely feels like they could have given everyone a grappling hook and it wouldn't have hurt the flow of the game much. The sliding feels great, but is just about all the average character can do. It plays great but like Titanfall with training wheels, I suppose?
It definitely makes the gunplay shine more than Titanfall, where often I would be moving first and shooting second. Battle Royale games usually means camping, but in our case that didn't work out great as we were easily flanked and smashed. Seems like one of the few BR games to encourage firefights rather than discourage them. Still, we made it top 5 more than a handful of times just playing conservative til the final circle.
Overall I'm having fun and it's free, and there's depth there. I feel like once I get used to the mechanics, it'll really shine. Haven't settled on a character yet but they all seem to have something nifty.
That said I say this having only played two games and as a Wraith, which I didn't really understand at all.
I suppose I'll finally give BR games a shot for a bit of distraction.
You could probably set up some sick ambushes with it too, have your teammates or some fire grenades/throwing stars waiting.
On lower video settings characters blend into the background way more. They don't seem to be outlined much and the edges are pixelated, and the colors are (probably intentionally, ala pubg) not standing out. So on the PC I can't find who to shoot, and on the PS4Pro I can't hit people because I have never console shootered (Well since Halo2...)
Now even this old machine is still well, well, beyond minimum sys reqs. There must be many people out there with a worse time than me. Especially knowing that the "Fortnite crowd" is mostly young teens.
For me personally I'm really close to doing a massive upgrade soon (That was delayed by the bitcoin craze, RAM shortage, 20** benchmark dissappointment, intel cpu shortage as well as threatening very large bills that never materialized). So it's not my problem, but I feel it will really hurt their growth on PC.
Turns out when the guys who made COD4 take all the stuff out of their game that differentiates it from COD you're still left with a really good game. Which is honestly a bit snide because one of the more notable things in this game is that the TTK is the highest in the genre.
Also so far my big complaint is how swingy gun RNG can feel. I've being switching between the medic and soldier because they let you compensate for shitty RNG with resource mitigation or smoke to remove the long bow advantage.
Also you can currently get a month of Origin Access for $1 and get $10 of funbucks.
The AR's handle really well, the snipers feel like they have some heft, the shotguns are civilization for the mid- to short game, and the pistols also make great weapons in a pinch. The smgs are the true heroes though, because they all have relatively high damage and high fire rates, so you can melt people from even mid-tier armor really fast.
My friends and I had our first win about 3 games in last night. It's really easy to pick up and get into. And the medic is my absolute JAM. A free HOT plus a an airdrop with almost always guaranteed level 3 items? Yes please!
I had to stop playing Overwatch and Paladins because I was spending too much...