Apex Legends’ Control Mode Needs Better Loadouts
Apex Legends has plenty of great guns. This season, with the Flatline moved into the Replicator and being on the receiving end of a one damage nerf that hits all the wrong breakpoints, it’s R301 season.
Lots of players are calling for it to be nerfed now, as they did for the Flatline last season. But it’s not broken, it’s just good. And without any other decent assault rifle available as ground loot (I’m not using the Havoc unless the Turbocharger is in the Replicator, sorry not sorry), the 301 feels oppressive. However, the opposite is true in Control mode.
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When I logged on to the game last night to check out how Caustic Treatment played - by the way, it’s about as good as I predicted - I was greeted with some devastating choices. P2020 and Charge Rifle? Seriously? Hemlok/Mastiff is usable I guess, but I’ve never really fancied burst fire weapons. I opted for the only reasonable loadout, R99 and EVA-8, and just about everyone else in the match did, too.
Maybe I’m being harsh and I just want my favourite weapons every time I play - that’s the case when I can loot to my heart’s content in battle royale, after all. There was a Loba griefing me with a Charge Rifle from her home base all game, after all. She never killed me, but she was annoying. But when I flanked to take her objective, she had nothing to match my R99.
I’m not asking for a Flatline or R301 every single match, let’s just balance the loadouts so that we don’t just have an R99-fest. What does a Havoc Rifle and Wingman combo do for you? They’re both good weapons, but do the same job. Rampage and Alternator might tickle someone’s pickle, but Bocek and Prowler seem plain old bad.
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