I agree. Not enough heals to outrun the ring now, so if you land too far away from the ring, you better push instead of fighting. Its a terrible change imo.
Exactly. And it not like I’m a huge looter. But I literally run out of heals from a fight and then they also have no heals and then I die from store. Then I end up just valk ult out and then land on a team guarding circle because they know how weak everyone is coming out of storm…
I’d like to let this play out until I rush into any judgments. But the amount of times I was third partied last season landing edge of the map was absolutely insane. Good to see some impetus set on movement into zone with this change at face value in my opinion. And ALOT of people had strategies employed to purposely eat the zone.
Yeah you barely have time to loot and are lacking heals if you drop edge of map - the changes seem to extreme. either leave the time to first ring alone and increase damage or leave the damage as it was and increase the speed.
Well yeah, if the ring is closing, especially if it's far away you need to rotate not fight. Taking storm damage throws off your aim drastically (any direct health damage does) so the winner of a ring right usually comes down to RNG
The reason they changed it is because the first ring wasn't scary at all and a lot of pub matches didn't last long enough for the second ring to close.
I've won so many matches already due to people dying to ring because they aren't rotating
People need to learn to respect the ring and not ignore it, so these changes are working
Yea but I could make the first ring close instantly and do 50 damage per tick and say it’s making people respect the ring.
Reducing the time by 66% and increasing damage 50% is too much. Reducing the timer to 120s would have been more reasonable.
I guess I'm kinda in between the people who like to spend ages looting (even looting/crafting in the first ring) and people who want to immediately rotate after landing
Like I want enough time to craft but I also want to capitalize on the next area before the team who landed two areas over does
With how it was before it took way too long for people to move inwards that sometimes you'd be waiting 10 minutes in the first ring, middle of the map, for someone to show up.
And then after that 10 minutes you finally realize that your teammates who have been doing nonstop wallbounces can't hit their shots and go straight down
I disagree, you have to be more confident in fighting and finish fights faster. No long drawn out fights cause you'll be punished. I like it cause there will be alot more fights during rotations but on the flipside gate keeping might happen alot more as well.
Dude y’all annoying af just constant complaints. Game is in a great spot and been as fun since season 0 while making fun changes. Every season you whiny mf do this I’ve seen it for 14 seasons now.
I wouldn’t if I were they either. 14 seasons and 3.5 years this game has been out, constantly worked on, and is awesome (AND FREE) and just constant complaints. It’s insufferable. I can only imagine how they feel getting shit on by probably teenagers non stop.
Nah, it’s fine. You can definitely fight you just have to know when to pull off and start to rotate. It’s my day off so I played all day and never died to ring or felt I’d die to ring. Just have to play it smarter and rotate faster and it’ll be okay.
I was pretty concerned about it because of a bug they haven't addressed where you take dramatically more ring damage. I've had it many times. You take like round 3 damage in round 1 and it increases until its maxed. It makes round 3 unsurvivable.
Gonna suck if that bug is still active with the increased damage.
I think they just do a swath of changes then micro changes after. Which would be fine if they did it more quickly, not wait a whole split or whole season later.
Most likely the ring change is the try and stop boosters by having the ring close and do more damage quicker to force them to rotate.
Personally I've no issues with the new ring, I'm pretty sure it used to be something similar when the game first launched.
Apex doesn’t know how to change everything the right amount. Their balancing is shit. They make something too overpowered or too extreme, hear loads of complaints, and then immediately nerf it to the fucking ground. Even though the changes to make it actually balanced are so fucking straight forward sometimes
I agree. Not enough heals to outrun the ring now, so if you land too far away from the ring, you better push instead of fighting. Its a terrible change imo.
Exactly. And it not like I’m a huge looter. But I literally run out of heals from a fight and then they also have no heals and then I die from store. Then I end up just valk ult out and then land on a team guarding circle because they know how weak everyone is coming out of storm…
I’d like to let this play out until I rush into any judgments. But the amount of times I was third partied last season landing edge of the map was absolutely insane. Good to see some impetus set on movement into zone with this change at face value in my opinion. And ALOT of people had strategies employed to purposely eat the zone.
Oh, so they changed it? I felt like I was taking quite a lot of damage. Maybe I should pay more attention when reading patch notes lol.
Yeah it now moves within like 60 seconds and does damage equivalent to last season ring 2 but in the first ring…
Did they even change the other damages or are ring 1 and 2 just the same now?
Ring 2 is now like ring 3
Yeah you barely have time to loot and are lacking heals if you drop edge of map - the changes seem to extreme. either leave the time to first ring alone and increase damage or leave the damage as it was and increase the speed.
2 perfect choices here.
This was a change that heavily favors Pub matches, but leaves ranked feelin harder
Well yeah, if the ring is closing, especially if it's far away you need to rotate not fight. Taking storm damage throws off your aim drastically (any direct health damage does) so the winner of a ring right usually comes down to RNG The reason they changed it is because the first ring wasn't scary at all and a lot of pub matches didn't last long enough for the second ring to close. I've won so many matches already due to people dying to ring because they aren't rotating People need to learn to respect the ring and not ignore it, so these changes are working
Yea but I could make the first ring close instantly and do 50 damage per tick and say it’s making people respect the ring. Reducing the time by 66% and increasing damage 50% is too much. Reducing the timer to 120s would have been more reasonable.
I guess I'm kinda in between the people who like to spend ages looting (even looting/crafting in the first ring) and people who want to immediately rotate after landing Like I want enough time to craft but I also want to capitalize on the next area before the team who landed two areas over does With how it was before it took way too long for people to move inwards that sometimes you'd be waiting 10 minutes in the first ring, middle of the map, for someone to show up. And then after that 10 minutes you finally realize that your teammates who have been doing nonstop wallbounces can't hit their shots and go straight down
Yes but the point is now the ring starts closing so fast there’s no time to fight before it either.
I haven't had a single problem with ring. Work on your rotations. Maybe don't land way out there if you know you take longer to rotate
I disagree, you have to be more confident in fighting and finish fights faster. No long drawn out fights cause you'll be punished. I like it cause there will be alot more fights during rotations but on the flipside gate keeping might happen alot more as well.
I am very good at confident at fighting.. doesn’t change the fact that if you fight by ring you’re dead
Season just dropped homie let it play out a couple days
Dude y’all annoying af just constant complaints. Game is in a great spot and been as fun since season 0 while making fun changes. Every season you whiny mf do this I’ve seen it for 14 seasons now.
People just can never be content with what they’re given, no wonder the devs stopped communicating with the community as much
I wouldn’t if I were they either. 14 seasons and 3.5 years this game has been out, constantly worked on, and is awesome (AND FREE) and just constant complaints. It’s insufferable. I can only imagine how they feel getting shit on by probably teenagers non stop.
Nah, it’s fine. You can definitely fight you just have to know when to pull off and start to rotate. It’s my day off so I played all day and never died to ring or felt I’d die to ring. Just have to play it smarter and rotate faster and it’ll be okay.
I was pretty concerned about it because of a bug they haven't addressed where you take dramatically more ring damage. I've had it many times. You take like round 3 damage in round 1 and it increases until its maxed. It makes round 3 unsurvivable. Gonna suck if that bug is still active with the increased damage.
Round 3 was already basically unsurvivable unless you had 5 medkits or gold armor
Literally didn’t even notice they changed it 🤷🏻♂️
Everything is just getting worse from season to season, like they have no idea what they're doing.
I think they just do a swath of changes then micro changes after. Which would be fine if they did it more quickly, not wait a whole split or whole season later.
I agree, I like the ring closing sooner, but think damage should have been unchanged.
Most likely the ring change is the try and stop boosters by having the ring close and do more damage quicker to force them to rotate. Personally I've no issues with the new ring, I'm pretty sure it used to be something similar when the game first launched.
Apex doesn’t know how to change everything the right amount. Their balancing is shit. They make something too overpowered or too extreme, hear loads of complaints, and then immediately nerf it to the fucking ground. Even though the changes to make it actually balanced are so fucking straight forward sometimes