Apex Legends

Sterno

02:13

@BunsGlazing Are you already in a squad?

Dragonrage

04:28

anyone playing?

ping me if you need an extra squad mate

Yuuki

@GodEmperorDune Hello?

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki baby thing came up, i'll join you next match

Yuuki

Ah okay.

Dragonrage

04:44

in discord if you want to join @GodEmperorDune

GodEmperorDune

05:35

client crashed

i had good weaps too

dammit

GodEmperorDune

06:01

thanks for fun all

Sterno

14:04

I'm starting to get triggered by all the squadmates who stand still in the middle of the open desert to take pot shots at squads who have cover

Buns Glazing

14:38

@Sterno Sorry I must have left the game running

Wasn't on last night. My first ever Valentines date, haha

@Sterno are you actually playing right now?

Sterno

Yes

Buns Glazing

Nice. I'm jumping on ping me when you're done

Off today and tomorrow

Sterno

I'll just drop out and we can queue

Buns Glazing

Word

Buns Glazing

16:00

Me and buddy were out after 5 minutes but @Sterno solo'd the whole game and clutched a win

Buns Glazing

16:13

Man, playing with randos sucks

Invader Skoodge

Playing with randos is better because then I'm disappointing randos instead of people I know.

Sterno

Honestly, no matter how bad someone is, if they're on comms and trying to cooperate, I'm 100% happy with them. It's the people who don't ping, don't talk, and just do their own thing that bother me

Invader Skoodge

Well then I guess we'd get along fine in game.

I have done a little better the last few games, making an active effort to be more aware of my surroundings and remembering to actually full auto fire instead of trying to burst fire depending on weapon.

I should probably stick to not shotguns until my tracking improves.

Sterno

I'm really hit and miss with shotguns

Peacekeeper (without choke) I'm good with. Peacekeeper with choke is whiff city

Invader Skoodge

The problem is if you miss there's a lot of downtime before you get to try again.

Sterno

16:22

And the Auto... I don't even know what my problem with that one is

Overall I enjoy playing with randos. It's really only when I get good gear but then they do something odd without communicating and I put myself in a bad position to try to help and die that I get salty. I should probably just leave them to their fate more if they're trying to solo anyway

On the other hand, reviving/rezzing teammates is the most exciting stuff usually

Buns Glazing

@Sterno The auto just feels spastic to me

Invader Skoodge

Trying to help a teammate who did something stupid and getting the squad wiped for it is pretty frustrating.

Buns Glazing

EV8 was my shotgun of choice in Titanfall but now I pretty much dont even grab it, I prefer the peacekeeper

Sterno

I still don't really have a handle on any of the ARs

Buns Glazing

The hemlok is good.

Sterno

16:25

Other than early game when people have no shields or white shields, I can't one-clip anyone with them

Buns Glazing

And if you set it to single shot you can conserve ammo and still do decent damage

Sterno

Hemlock is fine on single fire but at that point I'd rather have a g7

Buns Glazing

The G7 is still one of my favourites

but it's noticeably weaker than in TF2

I don't know if the hemlok does more damage

Sterno

g7 and shotty is my go-to, then later in game I drop the g7 for a spitfire or something if I can

Buns Glazing

Same pretty much

the g7 is just good in so many situations

Sterno

16:26

@BunsGlazing That was so tense when I had 3 shotgun ammo and 20 spitifire ammo last game and every corpse I looted had none

seriously like 9 bodies, no shotty ammo

Buns Glazing

haha

I wish it let you see looting during spectate

Sterno

I wish you could ping for me while spectating :P

I think what saved me during most of that solo run is I'd only engage when two teams were fighting and neither realized I was solo

Down and thirst one, then run and hide

Buns Glazing

thirst?

Sterno

kill them when they're already down

Buns Glazing

ah. Never heard that

Sterno

16:31

I need some science to find out of footsteps can be heard when people crouch

It seemed effective but I'm not sure

@BunsGlazing I think G7 is 30 and hemlock is like 18 or something

and I think all ARs and snipers are double damage on a headshot

Yuuki

Peacemaker is such a binary gun. I either do really well with it or really poorly.

There was a game last night with @GodEmperorDune and @Dragonrage where I wiped out a squad with a Peacemaker.

But then several games where I got no kills.

GodEmperorDune

yeah i hate peacemaker, i can't land shots with it

and the low magazine count gets me killed

Yuuki

It's such a swingy weapon.

Trying to figure out what guns I like. Peacemaker's definitely one of them simply because I have, on multiple occasions, soloed a squad with one.

Probably need a good mid-range option to complement it, maybe one of the ARs.

Buns Glazing

16:47

@Yuuki Hemlok, G7 or even the r301

GodEmperorDune

i like the two light ammo SMGs and the full auto shotgun

i can also do well with an LMG

and i'm shit at long range with any weapon so i don't even try long range engagements anymore

Yuuki

EVA-08's nice but I seem to run into Peacemakers far more often than the EVA-08.

Buns Glazing

The EVA8.. idk it just doesn't feel that good in this game

GodEmperorDune

yeah it seems to drop mozambique > peacemaker > eva8

Buns Glazing

I think the peacekeeper is less common

Omg I suck at close combat I just lost to a guy with no gun and I had a mozambique

and it was gibralatar of all people

RIP Mozambeast

Got a legendary banner for Pathfinder yee

@Sterno I know a good place you can ask

Dragonrage

17:01

weirdly, r-99 is probably my favorite gun

Buns Glazing

the r-97 was okay in TF2, didn't use it much

have hardly touched it in apex

carbines and SMGs were always surprisingly plucky

Dragonrage

if i have a blue or purple clip for it i can shred people. it has so little recoil and great rof

Buns Glazing

Haha, if you airdrop into the water you just die

Somehow we were #18

My partners were in a party and one disconnected so I just jumped into the sea

Invader Skoodge

17:22

Does anyone know what happens if you just never leave the dropship?

Do you get ejected at some point or does it carry you away and kill you?

Buns Glazing

No idea, lol

Sterno

The choke for the peacekeeper tightens the spread so much. Great if you have great aim but punishing if you don’t. I think I rely on those half-hits without the choke

Buns Glazing

Only if you aim down sights

And only if you hold it. You can still hip fire

Does it increase the effective range too? I've just been under the assumption it does

Dragonrage

@InvaderSkoodge if it follows the pattern of most brs. it will auto eject you at the end before it leaves the map

Invader Skoodge

@BunsGlazing I think it does.

@Dragonrage I'd like to test it but not with randos just out of respect for their enjoyment.

Buns Glazing

17:34

I just got like 5 or 6 kills in a game

Dragonrage

@BunsGlazing the choke tightens the spread , so effective range should increase as bullets will stay closer together

Buns Glazing

We didn't win but we shit on people for the first few engagements

@InvaderSkoodge next time my buddies have to quit I'll try it. I took the last opportunity to see what happens if you land in the sea, lol

The choke is good for hitting someone who is hiding inside a building and shooting through a window

cause the shot is still is wide enough to like fill the window at range

You guys are all at work right? Nobody wants to play?

Invader Skoodge

I am at work :(

Also I feel worse today than I did yesterday. I've been sick for 11 days now.

Dragonrage

im at work as well

Invader Skoodge

I actually started feeling sick the day Apex Legends launched.

So far there is a perfect correlation between this game existing and me being sick.

Coincidence?

Buns Glazing

17:48

Just found out apex has been using my webcam mic and not the headset

explains why everyone is saying my typing is too loud

Yuuki

18:31

@BunsGlazing And only after you hold it for a bit.

It takes about 1-2 seconds after ADSing for the spread to tighten.

So you can still get the wider spread by quickscoping.

Sterno

I'm back and gonna play some more Apex now

@InvaderSkoodge I've been sick about the same. My wife just prescribed me some antibiotics and steroids yesterday and I'm already like 80% better in a day.

@BunsGlazing Yeah, and you can control the volume you broadcast at via Origin, but only the volume you receive at via Apex

why the fuck Origin doesn't default to whatever Windows default is set to is a bit of a mystery

@BunsGlazing Give me a yell if you want to squad agian

600 more coins until I unlock Caustic and then never play him

Matchmaking never goes :(

Buns Glazing

@Sterno Yea be back on in a min

Sterno

If we do, you be party leader. I think midwest server is down

Reading posts where noone in the midwest can get a match

Buns Glazing

Just gonna get a snack

Invader Skoodge

@Sterno It's the steroids.

I had 2 days worth of steroids from the doc and I felt great for those 2 days and now I'm out and I'm back to misery.

Sterno

18:45

Steroids are dope

I have 11 days of steroids

Invader Skoodge

ughhhhhhh

Sterno

Tell your wife to get a medical degree real quick so she can get you meds

Invader Skoodge

That's got to be super convenient.

Sterno

Yeah, okay, a ton of the US servers are shitting themselves

Apex Legends Server Outage Map

It was hard not to link Friday there

Buns Glazing

Will you be able to olay with me?

Play

Sterno

18:47

@InvaderSkoodge It's awesome for when the kids get sick. It's not like "Oh, maybe they're sick.... let's wait 2 days to be sure, then wait to see the doctor, then wait for their meds"

Buns Glazing

Heating food be back in a min

Sterno

@BunsGlazing Yeah, just be party leader and I think it'll pick a Canadian server

So invite me rather than join me

There's an outage dot right on top of Indianapolis

Someone star that outage map

Buns Glazing

Is that where you live

Sterno

Yes

Dragonrage

@Sterno do you have mirage yet?

Yuuki

18:57

They need to fix Mirage's clone model, the gun's off every now and then.

I wanna try a play where I pretend to be my clone and just mindlessly run towards the enemy.

Invader Skoodge

@Yuuki I shoot the mirage clone every time so this is probably a low percentage play.

Yuuki

A lot of people seem to ignore my clone.

I use it more often for the cloak to reposition.

Invader Skoodge

Did you get Mirage just through levelups?

Buns Glazing

I almost have enough to unlock somebody

I want Caustic

Sterno

@Dragonrage YEAH

er. yeah

Yuuki

19:05

@InvaderSkoodge I got Mirage because I got Origin Premier Access for Anthem.

Sterno

@InvaderSkoodge Pretty much

Yuuki

Access gave me a bunch of coins, some of which I spent on Mirage.

Sterno

You might get more for placing/winning? I'm not sure

But I'm about level 42 and just getting enough for the 2nd char

Buns Glazing

I just hit 20 and I have 10,200

Need 12

Sterno

Well, if it's per-level, then that fits

Invader Skoodge

19:06

@Yuuki Oh ok.

Dragonrage

i almost have enough for mirage

Invader Skoodge

I'm probably buying Caustic first.

Dragonrage

you dont get more coins for winning, but you get more experience which helps you level faster

same goes for kills, etc

Buns Glazing

@InvaderSkoodge we're about to see what happens if you dont jump off the ship

we have no partner lol

Invader Skoodge

@BunsGlazing Nice, let me know!

Buns Glazing

19:08

Nevermind we're just gonna play

or not

yeah it just ejects you at the end

Buns Glazing

19:43

We got a nice uncontested water treatment drop lol

All the way across the map

Yuuki

20:35

> I would prefer if winning [Apex Legends] just locked the other 57 people out of the game for some indeterminate amount of time. The talent would funnel upwards, which each game being filled with progressively better and better players, until finally only one squad remains able to play.

This is when the third act reveal happens, that this was all actually a clever way of fighting the Formics, and the final squad has to forever live with the knowledge that they exterminated an entire species.

Sterno

20:55

The Spitfire is so good

40 levels and countless hours in, I've unlocked 300 crafting materials. A single Legendary finisher is 1200 :(

Buns Glazing

Yeah

I can't even afford a rare skin for Pathfinder

Sterno

Really the main thing I want is stat card things

The legendaries there are 1200 too. Per item. per character

Buns Glazing

Yeah it's ridiculous

You can't even buy that currency

Actually I think legendaries you can buy with the gold currency

Sterno

21:18

I'm looking at my Lifeline badges and this is funny

I've won over 15 games with her, according to my badges

But I have not yet unlocked the "Win a game where you were the Jumpmaster" badge with her :P

Buns Glazing

23:06

Does that include games where you're given jump master?

Sterno

23:49

I don’t know

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