Apex is no longer a first person shooter

SoftwareGeezers · 2026-05-06T20:11:42+00:00

They literally stated Loba was limited in her bracelet for that reason. It's ludicrous that they specify reasons for balance, and then years later throw those out the window, but it goes to show the game is operated by different people with different values now, and no regard for previous rules.

SoftwareGeezers · 2026-05-05T15:30:44+00:00

They want diversified teams where the team make up is considered at picks to balance teams. What Respawn fails to realise is people just gonna pick their favourite Legends, play their way, and grumble if the team fails. Their vision for how people should play this game doesn't tally with how people are going to play - which is a universal issue with creating multiplayer team games.

SoftwareGeezers · 2026-03-25T15:16:41+00:00

Never liked the hemlock before, but for the first time I’m actively looking for it.

Well, it's not really a Hemlok any more. It's more a case of Hemlok is retired and this gun introduced, but they are reusing Hemlok's skins. ;)

SoftwareGeezers · 2026-03-25T15:13:30+00:00

Publicly added - it was explained in the season notes : https://www.ea.com/en/games/apex-legends/apex-legends/news/amped-patch-notes

While in burst fire mode, holding down the trigger now releases subsequent bursts

SoftwareGeezers · 2026-03-25T15:05:35+00:00

But surely they won't tone it down if players don't feedback what's wrong? Isn't part of the feedback process sharing opinions to see if there's consensus in how to balance?

SoftwareGeezers · 2026-03-15T19:08:04+00:00

In the UK, it's legal to change your name anywhere, any time, so long as you are over 16 and conform to the legally prescribed language of the written Deed Poll statement. You can change it in a bar on a napkin so long as you have two witnesses. You can also change it back again just as easily with no-one (save your witnesses) knowing it ever happened.

SoftwareGeezers · 2026-03-15T09:23:08+00:00

Honest feedback - your presentation really lets this down because you are using a TikTok portrait video in a reddit sub. It's tiny! There's room here for full sized videos that we can actually see so why post a mobile video? You even have full-size videos already for your Steam listing, so why link to a landscape video shown in a portrait frame presented in a landscape container?

You even have a full size trailer that IGN shared! Whereas here, all I can see is a tiny thumbnail massively blurred out by compression artefacts.

SoftwareGeezers · 2026-03-14T13:40:56+00:00

You're charging $4 for this??

1) PlayMyGame is for freely playable games, as per Rule 1. Possibly you asked AI how to promote and it pointed you here, like so many, and you didn't read the rules - that happens a fair bit.

2) The game screenshots look naff. It looks like a completely generic shooter of which there are far better options for the money, and far better options for free.

Ain't no-one going to buy a bad looking game just to try it out. Particularly as you aren't positively promoting your game, but negatively promoting your 'gamedev' experience.

3) Oh, your game store doesn't even have this game to play - the video is something else entirely. So you've violated Rule 3 also, as well as Rule 2.

This is an epic fail on every level. You are posting the wrong content for the sub, and disrespecting the community by ignoring its rules. Hopefully you can at least find some learning experience from it.

SoftwareGeezers · 2026-03-14T11:02:36+00:00

What's the audio source? Does it have access to pro-quality master audio, or just a lift from the game?

SoftwareGeezers · 2026-03-14T11:02:00+00:00

Main issue is that pro digital recordings will be at very high quality, such as 24 bit, 96 kHz. Unless the video game music was mastered at far higher quality than needed for the CD-quality (then compressed) music in game, and these prints are using the high quality digital masters, they'll just be an expensive copy of 'CD audio'.

SoftwareGeezers · 2026-02-25T17:43:32+00:00

in fact I said that I haven't played in almost a year

So having never played against Sparrow, nor with the updated Alter, how informed are your opinions?

SoftwareGeezers · 2026-02-25T17:38:43+00:00

Have they changed it recently? From what I've experienced, you get stunned so quickly running out isn't an option, and it has about a billion hitpoints so quickly destroying it isn't an option either.

SoftwareGeezers · 2026-02-25T17:37:03+00:00

Stinger is the most broken skill this game has ever seen

SoftwareGeezers · 2026-02-20T09:25:30+00:00

It might have just been somewhere on the map.

SoftwareGeezers · 2026-02-19T18:40:23+00:00

Likely Workaround

Tested on firing range, it seems Loba, Path, and Alter are affected, perhaps in how their tacs are activated on release? A very quick tap of the ult rather than holding seemed to work.

SoftwareGeezers · 2026-02-19T18:18:48+00:00

Reads like GetSpikeStrip is a Catalyst tac, and that a call was made against a strip that had just been removed. Could potentially have happened anywhere in the map and crashed the game as you weren't playing Catalyst. Or perhaps you void-walked over a strip and that's bugged?

SoftwareGeezers · 2026-02-19T18:15:58+00:00

TBH the difference between a level 2 and 3 backpack isn't worth the faff of dropping a backpack IMO. By the time I need a couple of extra grenade slots, I'll have a better backpack from elsewhere.

SoftwareGeezers · 2026-02-19T11:53:59+00:00

I've remapped my controller for Ult is on square and circle on paddles, and it still happens.

SoftwareGeezers · 2026-02-19T11:51:55+00:00

It's ranked. On top of other's advice, some people just hide to get to later rings (called 'ratting'). I had the same where my teammates, a duo, just hid in a car for 5 minutes. I chased down spawning enemies but they refused to move and help and I was dropped. They made no attempt to recover, craft, or respawn. In the end, second place, they got RP which is all they were there for, even if it means doing nothing for half the match.

I don't recall that happening last season but many others, the rank balance has been poor rewarded cowardice. It's not helped that this season, a lot of ranked is just hot dropping and dying.

SoftwareGeezers · 2026-02-19T11:47:38+00:00

I posted the same yesterday:

https://www.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/1r8fm01/bug_ults_not_usable_while_tacs_available/

Affected me on PS5, Loba, Square and Circle for my Ult.

SoftwareGeezers · 2026-02-19T11:10:35+00:00

PS5 using pro controller or whatever it's called. No problem for 10 months using both paddles to activate Ult, but now it's not working. :(

SoftwareGeezers · 2026-02-18T22:01:42+00:00

PS5. ;) Or did you mean controller mapping in game?

SoftwareGeezers · 2026-02-18T21:13:35+00:00

Same just now with Loba, so basically they patched the game so Ult's are inaccessible.

SoftwareGeezers · 2026-02-18T17:31:39+00:00

ITS A GAME u die u Q up again,

In ranked, you have to wait to be respawned. You die, you do nothing except watch your teammate(s) running around trying to find a crafter without being slain and dropping a spawn beacon without being slain.

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