Recent reviews by fully functioning internet child

collective punishment for using an operating system

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if i'm to be fair, there's a lot of things to like strategically about the battle royale aspect of the game. i used to be vehemently against battle royales as slow, boring, and drawn out. i still feel that way about pretty much every other battle royale, but apex actually does it very well through a combination of its longer time to kill, its rotation options which has their own risks and trade offs, and its map design.

mechanically, it has some of the most fun movement of any game. there are a bunch of techniques to learn which can be chained together to be able to pull off some very surprising and tricky movement options that can make for some crazy outplays. who wouldn't want to skibidi glide into a jump pad to sigma step and wall jump tap strafe into someone's face behind 3 corners?

the gameplay itself is good, but the management of it and implementation can be bad. servers are almost never stable after updates. audio has a tendency to not play at all; although, sometimes you just get surprised when someone does some low-audio movement techniques rather than the game bugging out. even on a stable ethernet connection, it feels like the game just decides to no-reg randomly.

and then they decide to ban linux with no transparency on the data behind the decision mkaing, so i guess ♥♥♥♥ you too

Works again.

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Presumably thanks to the new DRM in the game, I can no longer play it on Linux. Coincidentally reinstalled this game yesterday, only to find a new update in the morning, and the game not booting afterwards.

Unfortunately have to change the positive to a negative review as I literally bought something that did work when I bought it and not afterwards.

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TWINS :nut_button:

Good entry to the series with a range of monster difficulty.
Grind can be kind of insane, but new things seems to be coming out to reduce that effort over time.

There's something that keeps me coming back to World/Iceborne that hasn't quite hit me the same way here though.
Maybe the RNG grind is too intense and the fact that I could improve my run time by improving my gear rather than my play pushes me away. Maybe it's the fact that counter-based game play is so strong and prevalent regardless of weapon choice over positional play.

Still a great game, and there's no real point in comparing it to other MH games because they're all worth your time.

ho