The Apex Legends Global Series) ALGS Championship 2023 has been an incredibly exciting event so far. However, there’s been one thing, a new system introduced during this event, that’s been driving fans to despair.
The pause mechanic sent fans into disarray earlier this week as players began posting about how it messed up their positioning and advantages. With no word from ALGS on how the mechanic works, it’s been thought that each pause was caused by a crash and unfairly impacted players. Now, though, the organization has explained how this system works behind the scenes.
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Official messaging on how the pause mechanic works went out late last night. We’ve been in the press room for the entire event and have seen first-hand how hard the marketing team has been working to get the right messaging together so fans have all the information to answer every question about pauses that’s been raised. We feel what they put out more than does the job.
As per ALGS’ post, the pause mechanic is a result of player feedback, allowing everyone in a match who didn’t crash to retain their position, loot, and other advantages whilst giving the engineers working the event time to get a player who has crashed back into that match.
The system doesn’t work like a time-out in other sports. It’s determined by a program that monitors several inputs. First, two people have to agree that a pause is required. One is the person in the monitoring station watching every player’s screen, the other is an official overseeing the event. Once they’ve agreed, a pause is requested.
This is when the
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