Respawn, "Why can't we keep player retention up" Also Respawn, "Hey lets get rid of these beloved map POI, weapon features, and game modes."

Respawn is speedrunning destroying the greatest BR ever made.

I remember back in season 4 they introduced evo shields and you were given two syringes and two shield cells at the start of the match during the System Override collection event. Ever since, no more looking around for white, blue, purple, and gold shields on the ground.

One thing I miss most was flying through the air of opened supply bins. The big where you’d punch the bin then stand on it then fly through the air.

I miss when no armor was on you off drop. As a rampart player you could just get a sniper and one shot everyone with amped walls.

The reason RANKED areans wasnt fun to most people was the grind wasnt rewarding and the points was too low once you hit sliver, gold and platinum

Removing Punch Boosting will always be an L, if anything they could've just nerf'd it a bit so that the speed doesn't stack w/ a Legend's Abilities like Stimmy, or now Rev's new Tactical. It was part of the unique Apex movement mechanics, no different than Tap Strafing & all the more advanced moves.

I miss arena so much. It is all I used to play. I played apex for like a year and then stopped for about half of a year. I came back and arenas was gone. I was devistated.

The mastif damage was insane as well in the early apex days

That train was fun. I was playing casually around that time with 2 mates and we'd always go train and if it didn't go well, we would all be screaming jump off on comms. Goddamn that was fun and made for some fun shenanigans

I miss bein able to load caustics gas traps with arch stars and launching them at people. Or making the gas trap move forward slowly so you could use it as moving cover and push a team through a hallway easily lol 😆

That flatline skin was responsible for about 300 of my flatline kills Brody 😂 that ironsight off drop was MARVELOUS 😅

for me, it wasnt a feature rather then a balance patch. It was the nerf to hammerpoint (or rather the buff of base stat p2020/mozam) since that initial change completely changed how effective and viable hammerpoint was to me, back then i enjoyed using p2020 as a niche ace up my sleeve in diamond/pred lobbies. but now with people with bigger armors, and +1/2 extra bullets to down an enemy hammerpoint is in a worse spot then what it was

What would be very cool is new badges. Example : Bombardier - wipe a squad with a single grenade Clutch - wipe a squad while your 2 teammates are down Unstoppable - kills 5 enemies in a row without healing Merciless - kills 10 enemies in a single match 5 times Rat - Win a game with the final kill with less than 100 damage Executor - finish 5 enemies in a single game Etc.

It's funny how these devs make the game how they want it not how the players want it

apex make punch boosting a movement tech since there isn't a skill ceiling

I miss the LTM that had you respawn with white eco and a p20 a fighting chance

Anytime theres a harmless bug where it actually makes the game more fun Respawn: nope..we dont do that here

That solos comment aged well😅

Shadow Fall is the best Halloween LTM.

Used to love to kick or punch, before falling from great height just to save some seconds instead of that whole animation where your character was slowed

I remember the third person mode was my first event and it broke my brain so bad as a first time player, just as I got the hang of it the mode ended

The train😢 and barrel stab on smg’s

The kraber change I feel like is the only change that made sense Other then the hot drop changes. The kraber only doesn’t 1 shot on like red shields on blue/purp helmet so the majority of time you hitting headshots you’ll probably get a knock.I do think at a certain point you should have the ability to loot up to the point where you don’t have to fear being 1 shot from some camper taking long shots with no real intention of pushing you.but they literally didn’t nerf the kraber they buffed the helmet which nerfed all snipers/marksmen weapons as a vivid Sentinel user i wouldn’t mind a helmet nerf

I am sad I missed a chance to see Shadow Royale, though I love the Rev Army. What I'll miss the most are Rev Shells though. They were so silly and fun. The best thing ever, haha.

I miss the pre-fridge parhy hitbox

Ι miss the old world s edge and as a person who plays flatline without iron sights i see this as an absolute win

I miss punch boosting, gravity cannon tapstrafing, and self revive, they were so fun, especially gravity cannon tapstrafing, i basically quit the game after they removed it and oneshot kraber

Anyone remember War Games in season 8 where only 3 out of like 8 of the modes worked? We got the automatic shield regeneration from it Remember when everyone hated Maggie’s voice? Those were the days

i havent played apex in so long that a lot of these items that have been removed i never even played with. i used to play when the scout was light ammo and could have sniper scopes. since then ive played like one game probably every 2 years haha

I hadn’t played apex in a few years and came back to it a month ago, and yesterday I was expecting the gold knockdown to self-res and I’m just sitting there like… is this for real my teammates aren’t gonna be able to get me 😩

I didnt know about punch boosting until i saw a similar video to this, ive been llaying since launch.

Bhop healing was the shit back in the day, surprised you didn't mention it

When you were able to put the Rampart ult on Crypto's drone and turn into a reaper drone opperator

They really removed a lot of good features from the gene

5:01 laughs in season 21

Man, you always talking about some feature and then add the date like 2020 or so and I’m like: “Wtf, it feels like it was there yesterday.” 🤣

arenas was my favourite, i loved how it was constant fighting

most def the train :( .

I honestly hate the armor system, and red shields specifically... Gold armor is such a shitty state, and has been for so long because nobody cares about it... Finding that that gold armor, and gold loadout was the best, now its like nobody gives a shit about gold armor. Gold armor is still good in niche moments when you're getting poked hard frequently and getting pushed, being able to heal back so much so quick is great in those niche jams, but red armor is still more useful 99% of the engagements.

fast wraith q & bhop while healing what i miss the most

How can you leave out the selectfire prowler?!

Something about how they respond to things people want pisses me off like when they said that the community doesn’t drive their decision making process and when they said that solos negatively impacted new player retention even though the people that put in the hours to get better we’re having fun they didn’t care because all they want is the new players that will think they enjoy the game until sbmm kicks in and they are stuck because they were tricked into thinking they knew what the game was like and now have put in too much time to just quit. It’s slimy and shows a complete disregard for all the players that keep their game alive after all this time. It’s a team game yet most people that play it solo with randoms.

I got allot of my Wattson kills fencing up those loot bunkers 😬

its insane to me just how bad the respawn devs are at their job.

we need punch boosting

I will never forgive pro players for crying about punch boosting

I miss when u drop your armor when crypto alts and your shield doesn’t get affected

I think Golden helmet also saved you from one shotting in season 0, cant rememberfully though, LOVED SEASON 0 THOUGH, RESPAWN I WANT THAT OG KINGS KANYON BACK

i will never forgive them for removing arenas. they said it would be permanent, it was the most fun mode, and they just decided that it didnt deserve to exist anymore. this kinda shit is why i hate live service

I miss old knockdown shield... I think they should disable it in final ring

punch boosting made storm point bearable

Bro kraber thing is the really stupid. I hit some guy with a red armor and probably purple helmet a day or two ago. My guy just took it, ran away. It is not exactly easy to acquire to weapon, you expose yourself for a care package, risking getting gunned down immediately, and get a headshot with the weapon. It should be a 1 shot kill, no matter the circumstance.

I missed regular shields because they felt more valuable when there was no evo

Funny that sols is comincia back😂😂😂

I swear big companies like respawn take everything what good players love to their heart and fucking annihilate it

Maaaaaan punch boosting was so great. So much potential gone

Am I tripping or were there turrets when Apex first came out???? During the first few days to be exact

I’m still flabbergasted how respawn will do anything but what we want

I miss Arenas and the map Overflow. Being a console player, I get higher fps playing 3v3 instead of 59v1.

Skull town is back with the new event that started the other day.

Man I LOVED Arenas and stopped playing Apex when it got removed

0:11 good solo q

I miss season 0 bhop healing and when lifeline was actually a viable legend

I miss arenas. It was a fun game mode and i had some fun moments while playing it.

revenant shells are cool and all but id much prefer shadow mode

Sticking arc stars on allies ?

Respawn said the ground punch was a bug, because it was a bug 🤦 I mean honesty, yes it may of been helpful is very specific situations. But it was honestly one of the most useless movement glitches/bugs to date. Who the heck wants to start sprinting, slide down hill, backwards, and punch the ground multiple times causing multiple unnecessary animations when in a fight. Just to move faster. And not to mention there are few hills if not just the one on storm point that this movement actually pays off or works at its full potential. Oh and I know the game is fictional. But when I punch the ground in real life I don't go flying through the air.. In fact if I did it like the bug id probably end up fracturing my hand. It was a bug. That's it.

Respawn with punch boosting: 👎🏻😡 Respawn with tap strafing: 👍🏻😎

I miss arenas that mode was fun asf

I miss the self revive

Unlimited B Hops while healing!

gibby pad arm Shield ngl

Idk why Apex cared about iron sights being good like you can just get a sight and have the exact same advantage like who cares

I remember arena it was my favourite

I think is bs that respawn blamed the player retention problem during the iron crown event on solos mode, when the real reason why no one was playing was because they were ripping people off. they don't want to admit their own greed caused the player loss, not solos mode. And, because of this absolute bs reason now we will never see a solos mode again. This game despitely needs a solos mode tho, the SBMM is horrible af being forced with randoms. I sware, I hate this game more and more every day.

Didn't we get a zero point recolor recently?

8:36-8:47 And that's exactly why I stopped playing Apex. Anything I love gets removed. That said, I am in the minority, and a lot of people enjoy this game so good for them. I'm not coming back to this game, so what do I care? I just hope IF (keyword: if) we get a Titanfall 3 or something like that, this philosophy doesn't carry over. Edit: For those who are asking, I used to watch ottr back when I played Apex. Ig me watching more and more TF2 now triggered the YT algorithm to recommend these vids again, which is refreshing after such a long time.

I miss the lifeline shield

I hate the idea of everyone dropping at the same spot You either try your luck and land there, 95% of the time you don't walk out of there free or you land anywhere else where there's no action at all. It punishes both hot dropper by making luck the major factor and edge dropper for no action off drop. I'm very glad they changed skull town. Frag west change is definitely an awesome change to me.

I would get absolutely fucking booty blasted in solos and I still want to play it. I wasn’t playing that season so I never got the chance):

I miss mirages old ult ability

Teal zeal has left the chat

life line is good but in last place of the list hehe im a life line main and im alone now

They should’ve just added an increase to the speed of your bleed out time with later rings I miss the gold knock self revive it was fun to get off

I always hated Skull Town, sue me. Yeah, you could have a lot of early fights, but not worth the hustle to me...

Why can't solos be added just for a weekend here and there ... I dont get it.. developers are annoying sometimes

Dammit! You're showing me so many reasons why I stopped loving this game! I never saw it all in my mind, just slowly stopped but with all of these shown in a video I get why I stopped and I was a S1 original player

I never liked punch boosting

i missed solos :P

Solo has returned 🫥

Sucks that they removed arena that was fun mode

10:10 arenas was better than br and I stand by that

i really liked to apex mobile they had some test feutures like perks

When they removed Arenas My brother Quit…😂

A few of these changes are the exact reasons why Apex has such "weak" Q1 2024 earning predictions.😊

i don't get why they don't add solos, its not like it'll affect the game that much, cause some legend abilities are useless in mixtape and no fill, mixtape isn't good for player retention cause it doesn't teach to play with your team or how to loot or why u shouldn't push everything. and no fills is just solos but on hard mode! so why respawn, why not just add solos, and if you don't want new players to play solos than why not just make it so you need to reach a certain level to play it. I DON'T FUCKING GET IT !

I would do anything to get Arenas back!

Removing punch boosting but not fixing all the jank with sliding and walls and mantling pisses me off. They wont add wallrunning to the game because poor controller players and their .6 aimbot cant track people but all it takes is a quick macro or script and i can bounce in a circle to the point where youd need aimlock to kill me. Why would you remove something controllers can do and leave stuff that controllers cannot do easily.

punch boosting did nothing wrong. I legit quit playing the game for 3 seasons when they patched that out.