Apex Legends

[TbTeRRoR]

yep me and my  bud rarely get a competent  3rd that was the point of this thread.   I also think hot dropping is bad if your goal it winning.  Its only good if your goal is to get a few kills a most likely die.

[Ivan The Awesome]

On 2/15/2020 at 12:52 PM, TbTeRRoR said:

yep me and my  bud rarely get a competent  3rd that was the point of this thread.   I also think hot dropping is bad if your goal it winning.  Its only good if your goal is to get a few kills a most likely die.

Hot dropping really puts you in a bad 50/50 situation, you're literally inviting RNG to dictate how the fight goes. I don't like those type of situations. I have to confess that if you do survive those situations you usually have a higher chance of winning since you're battle tested and should have good equipment. I've gone to win several time after doing that, but If I could break down the numbers I don't think that's a successful model to follow. It's just not the way to do things. Hot dropping is for padding stats to be honest. I rather have the W than have a really hight KD game and not win. That's just me tho. 

[Skack25]

9 hours ago, Ivan The Awesome said:

Hot dropping really puts you in a bad 50/50 situation, you're literally inviting RNG to dictate how the fight goes. I don't like those type of situations. I have to confess that if you do survive those situations you usually have a higher chance of winning since you're battle tested and should have good equipment. I've gone to win several time after doing that, but If I could break down the numbers I don't think that's a successful model to follow. It's just not the way to do things. Hot dropping is for padding stats to be honest. I rather have the W than have a really hight KD game and not win. That's just me tho. 

A buddy and I were in a game yesterday with a guy who basically just spent the whole match shooting and throwing grenades at us.  When we switched over to game chat to find out wtf his problem was, he said we played boring because we didn't go jump in a fight with every enemy we saw.

Plot Twist - when it was time to fight he died immediately.

[lightsout]

Myself and RealBits tend to play a safe drop, aggro push style of play. We know we can both win fights and clutch up odd-man fights most of the time, so it works for us. Take good fights, know when to bail on a fight and reposition, that kind of stuff. It leads to games where you don't see a fight until there are 7 or 8 teams left sometimes but it's unusual. We usually either have one team on us or a team that dropped near and they push towards us as soon as they get a fast loot in. Gotta win your early fights to win.


That being said, casual play vs ranked is different. I'm CRAZY aggro, pushing towards gunfire as much as possible in causal because I'd rather have 6 kills, 1500 damage and finished third in casuals than have 500 damage, 1 kill and a win. In ranked, give me the latter because RP > stats. Playing ranked makes casuals so much more fun too. Because you are playing smarter, positioning better and that carries over to casuals where guys are just full sending without any thought process as to what they are doing. Highly recommend anybody doing casuals only to go into ranked, reach gold or platinum and then go back to casuals. You will absolutely shred.

[Arroz con Panther]

Yep, my buddies and I were getting nowhere in ranked tonight. Went to casuals for a breather and won the first game we played. Loving this season so far. This might be the first battle pass that I actually finish.

[RealBitsOfPanther]

On 2/17/2020 at 11:45 AM, lightsout said:

Myself and RealBits tend to play a safe drop, aggro push style of play. We know we can both win fights and clutch up odd-man fights most of the time, so it works for us. Take good fights, know when to bail on a fight and reposition, that kind of stuff. It leads to games where you don't see a fight until there are 7 or 8 teams left sometimes but it's unusual. We usually either have one team on us or a team that dropped near and they push towards us as soon as they get a fast loot in. Gotta win your early fights to win.


That being said, casual play vs ranked is different. I'm CRAZY aggro, pushing towards gunfire as much as possible in causal because I'd rather have 6 kills, 1500 damage and finished third in casuals than have 500 damage, 1 kill and a win. In ranked, give me the latter because RP > stats. Playing ranked makes casuals so much more fun too. Because you are playing smarter, positioning better and that carries over to casuals where guys are just full sending without any thought process as to what they are doing. Highly recommend anybody doing casuals only to go into ranked, reach gold or platinum and then go back to casuals. You will absolutely shred.

This. 

We played pubs last night and was smashing everybody in the lobby with no sweatiness at all. 

 

Now ranked on the other hand, I've hit the dreaded plat 4 wall. lol 

[Skack25]

On 3/12/2020 at 9:35 AM, RealBitsOfPanther said:

This. 

We played pubs last night and was smashing everybody in the lobby with no sweatiness at all. 

 

Now ranked on the other hand, I've hit the dreaded plat 4 wall. lol 

I've hit my ranked wall much sooner.  Gold 3.  I've played all mine without friends though.

[RealBitsOfPanther]

On 3/13/2020 at 2:39 PM, Skack25 said:

I've hit my ranked wall much sooner.  Gold 3.  I've played all mine without friends though.

Yikes. It happens man. Add me on origin and I'll run some games with you. 

 

tuffyggs

[XOBlackxJokerOX]

I play on Xbox myself. I can't seem to get out of Platinum because I'll get a good streak going then get either casuals or soloists landing hot or running off doing their own thing. This tends to happen back to back after a good streak. I like to drop away from folks and actually gather some good gun pairings. My usual go to is the G7 Scout and the Prowler with the select fire attachment. The combo is mean af.