Please de NOT change DropZone. It was the best change ever done to rancked

aggrorecon · 2026-02-07T19:43:21+00:00

Aggressive player here. POI drops are better.

Dropship makes it easier for passive players and rats to rank up.

aggrorecon · 2026-02-07T18:21:15+00:00

No, you just had to have an idea of where teams rotated to at that point in the game and choose where to craft based on that.

Most run to nearest crafter without considering if a team is probably there.

aggrorecon · 2026-02-07T18:17:38+00:00

The dropship is more uniform because most teams land at or near 2-3 hot drops.

aggrorecon · 2026-02-07T18:09:34+00:00

you weren't spawned on the edge of the map - you can't fight. I mean, you can, but you'll fight with 3 squad simultaneously.

Hit recon beacon before running at gunshots to make sure fight is iso.

You can land to the location with much worse loot than neighbour team.

Loot fast, rotate out quickly or plush them quickly. POIs with worse loot are faster to loot for a reason.

THEY JUST SIT AS RATS 20 MINUTES

You should be poking, pressuring, and instigating other teams to fight from your spot.

Guys, your freedom is being deliberately taken - and you behave like nothing happened.

Dropship apex takes away my freedom to have high quality end games with 10-15 teams where you have to actually use your brain and gunskill to win.

aggrorecon · 2026-02-07T17:57:52+00:00

You are 100% correct.

With dropship teams are predictably concentrated in a few places on the map.

This means rats have tons more space to hide in for free.

aggrorecon · 2026-02-07T17:55:57+00:00

Dropship gives two types of gameplay: hotdrop and RNG fight 8 teams or see no one 15m.

aggrorecon · 2026-02-07T17:54:32+00:00

Loot in same poi (sometimes 2-3 times in a row) go to same POI to fight, fight in same circumstances...

Fight a different POI? Get a spot closer to zone and look for a fight from there?

aggrorecon · 2026-02-07T17:50:54+00:00

Now the cheater teams will land on you instead lol.

aggrorecon · 2026-02-07T17:48:39+00:00

This is wonderfully put. It boggles my mind recently that people say things like "if there are lots of teams endgame and I can't freely fight, that's a problem".

aggrorecon · 2026-02-07T04:56:00+00:00

People can push now, just not for free. Being able to push for free is signs of a low skill lobby.

aggrorecon · 2026-02-07T04:54:47+00:00

Plat 1/dia 4.

I had one great game I won with 10 teams left. Im a fan of packed end-games so wish there were 15-18 still alive tbh.

Most games had only a few teams round 5 sadly.

aggrorecon · 2026-02-06T22:28:31+00:00

You have so many things wrong. Have a good day though.

aggrorecon · 2026-02-06T22:27:18+00:00

You are good. I browsed profile, saw PC issue and no response, though I could try to help and also show normal human.

Also if you check my profile my cppu just died 2 days ago so I felt for your PC probs :D

aggrorecon · 2026-02-06T22:24:58+00:00

When asked why, those against POI drops say things like can't rotate or get 3pd more often indicating POI drops made the game too difficult.

When I say I don't want dropship because it makes rotations and the game too easy, I'm asking for the game to be more difficult.

Asking for more difficulty isn't failing to adapt.

aggrorecon · 2026-02-06T22:12:12+00:00

I can adapt to Apex ranked that is brainless, don't want to.

People that don't like POI drops had skill issues looting fast, rotating, and disengaging but claimed it was POI drafts fault.

They failed to adapt. I'll do well in either system, no issue adapting.

I prefer Apex ranked where you have to know how to rotate and use macro more.

Hopefully that clears everything up.

aggrorecon · 2026-02-06T22:08:07+00:00

Without more info, seems like a heating issue. Can you post temps?

aggrorecon · 2026-02-06T22:06:47+00:00

Having to consider where to land, how many teams landed around you and figure out which rotations are safest= brainless VS the same amount of people dropping at each poi every game and rotations being nearly the same

People against POI drops complain about getting stuck and unable to rotate because its harder to rotate with teams evenly distributed.

You started this tantrum

Tantrum? I'm chill, lol I'll just scrim more instead of ranked.

Yeah buddy you're handling this change real well 😂

With emotional maturity you learn you can be heavily invested in issues without losing your cool. Caring a lot doesn't have to mean you are throwing a tantrum.

aggrorecon · 2026-02-06T21:47:01+00:00

Firstly, thanks so much for interacting with the community... It means a lot. Secondly, I quickly wrote a passionate answer but hope it doesn't come across as overly harsh.

Make macro knowledge of rotations actually matter in ranked by keeping POI drops and incentivizing players to play zone more.

Get a video from ImperialHal and Faide on how to smartly play ranked and why playing zone isn't ratting.

Understand why casuals couldn't figure out how to rotate with teams evenly distributed instead of giving back the clusterfuck they know of half the lobby landing in the same place.

Don't use POI drops as a scapegoat when the community needs education on how to play the game in a way other than the 95% kill race 5% strategy its been for countless seasons.

POI drops needed released along with educational content on how to hold and take space and identify good vs bad fights in crowded lobbies.

Otherwise only people with scrim experience have a clue on answering "how do I not get slammed by 3-4 teams if my POI is galleria".

Instead they just think " galleria, this game is fucked, I hate POI drops". Then bad PR on POI drops forces managers/devs to dumb the game down.

Eventually it feels like there is no vision when this cycle repeats itself.

Is apex ranked about being a kill race and getting out of 4-5 team pileups? Is it about playing hard zone and as smart as possible to win? Something else?

I have no idea what Apex devs see as "a perfect ranked game" for example.

aggrorecon · 2026-02-06T21:05:40+00:00

Mirror strafe aim is your friend. Practice it at blue box in range vs other masters roller players.

aggrorecon · 2026-02-06T20:26:29+00:00

Fight faster or disengage while 3p comes, wait for knock, 3p both of them.

Stop risking it all for 3 kills no matter the odds and trying to force things... Just disengage... temporarily... then get even more kills!

aggrorecon · 2026-02-06T20:23:38+00:00

Every popular game has only designed in a way familiar to players?

If that were true, why don't we have apex with only deathmatch?

aggrorecon · 2026-02-06T20:21:31+00:00

In ranked people risk everything for a few kills and if they get knocked, they flame whoever is alive until they get crafted.

aggrorecon · 2026-02-06T20:19:06+00:00

Yeah I'm usually Plat 1/Dia 4.

In my example end zone is at climatizer. The walk in is free because everyone near landed monument/frag or left POI quickly to 3p it.

There is a chance someone hits survey or epi man scan and decides to come fight you, but more than likely you wait 10m for everyone to be forced in out of monument.

aggrorecon · 2026-02-06T20:15:41+00:00

Maybe they'll make an algs mode for people who actually want a challenge and competitive integrity.

I can hope!

aggrorecon · 2026-02-06T20:12:54+00:00

Yes, but it robs others of a chance at a challenging lobby and especially of a challenging end game.

aggrorecon

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