Recording summary · February 2019
WTF is... Apex Legends
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Overview
Apex Legends features polished visuals and responsive movement and gunplay, but suffers from technical bugs, unoriginal mechanics, slow match pacing, an oversized map with a 60-player limit, repetitive desert scenery, generic character skills, redundant weapons, and small squad sizes, resulting in an overall rating of 4.1 out of 10.
Proposed improvements for Apex Legends include shrinking the map, increasing the player count or squad sizes, introducing heavier weaponry, melee combat, vehicles, and adding larger team modes like 50 versus 50.
Themes
Critique and evaluation of Apex Legends gameplay, pacing, and overall score.
Technical glitches and matchmaking issues encountered in Apex Legends.
Recommendations for game changes, features, and alternative modes.
Developments
Daniel began playing Apex Legends on the preceding day and played for most of that day.
Daniel encountered an infinite loading screen preventing gameplay.
Daniel restarted the game after encountering an erroneous matchmaking error claiming the party was not ready while playing solo.
Daniel timed the duration from pressing play to landing and moving on the ground, measuring roughly three minutes.