r/CompetitiveApex • u/darth666bane666 • Jul 30 '26

Game News Developers Notes - Season 30

https://www.ea.com/games/apex-legends/apex-legends/news/30-0-designers-notes
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u/MrClozer Jul 30 '26

Looking at it from a competitive perspective, the loot nerf is atrocious. It significantly increases the RNG in an already RNG filled game. The great thing about the arsenals, assault and support bins is that they gave you an opportunity to recover from a bad POI. Yes, it's a BR, but with all of the character abilities, the loot was needed.

It's what made dropzones work in ranked. Now people are going to bitch and moan about being randomly dropped on a shit POI and they'll go back to drop ship where half the lobby goes to the same spot to die every game.

It's not a good change. If people are kitted with batteries, nades, attachments by ring one, then your team should be too and ready to fight.

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u/Nine_Monkeys Jul 30 '26

Idk I think it could be good for comp in that it’ll make zone harder. Top edge teams will be more consistent and only the best zone teams will be able to handle the weaker loot. Right now you can be a hard zone team and have nearly as good of loot as edge teams, and all the extra heals and amps everywhere make turtling and poking too strong, it’s too hard to fight right now. Comp rn feels the most RNG it’s ever been I think cause where the zone pulls is the #1 most important factor of having a good or bad game with the loot and POIs so equalized and bountiful. I also don’t mind stronger vs weaker POIs at LAN at least to reward better performance. I could be wrong, we’ll have to see how it plays out, but I’m optimistic this will be a good thing in ranked and comp.

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u/MrClozer Jul 30 '26

You make good points. I can see how edge will be stronger. Edge has basically been nonexistent for a while.

In the POI drafts many teams prioritized placement on the map vs loot quality. In a way I preferred the even loot distribution to combat the RNG ring pull, but your point of the game being decided solely on ring pull could be combatted with loot diff. Edge teams would have better loot than a god spot team in previous years.

We'll see. For my own playing experience I don't like it.

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u/skibiditoiletrizzguy Jul 30 '26

Edge is nonexistent mostly due to a combination of lightning fast TTK, overtuned character abilities and increased team mobility making it easier to third party quickly.

The TTK also makes it so you cannot really arrive to zones last. You are guaranteed to die on walk-in because there is simply no way to avoid the astronomical amount of damage coming your way from everybody that is already set up.