The influencers who were able to test Apex Legends before its release had a significant impact on the gameplay.
Streamer improved gunplay: The popular streamer Shroud is an expert in many shooters. Especially Battle Royale has been his flagship for several months. It’s no surprise that the Apex Legends team invited him along with other influencers to test the shooter in advance.
In a stream, the shooter pro explained that he was responsible for a crucial change in the gunplay. You are all surely thankful for that.
Shroud ensured cool recoil: The gunplay is one of the things that players celebrate about Apex Legends. An important factor is that you can predict the recoil. This way you know in which direction a weapon will pull when shooting and can counteract.
Thanks to Shroud, the developers discarded their plans for recoil in Apex Legends and worked on a better solution. Each weapon now has an individual, fixed recoil.
This is how the recoil was originally planned: Originally, Apex Legends had random recoil. Every time you picked up a new weapon, you would have to figure out the recoil again. That would have made for a completely different gunplay than what is in the game now.
Shroud says: “The recoil of the weapons was a bit random. And I told them: ‘You know what would be really cool in this game that you should try? Have a predefined recoil for each individual weapon. Like in Counter-Strike.
You know, when you hold down the mouse button and [the shots] follow the exact same pattern every time?’ I said ‘You should try that and see how it feels.’
They then adopted the idea, and that’s why the recoil is in the game like it is. It’s damn good.”
So it was indeed important that the Apex Legends team brought in a few experts from the battle royale scene beforehand and listened to them carefully. Or would you have preferred random recoil?
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