The Volt Is Still In The Care Package And I Hate It
Apex Legends Season 13 will be the season of heavy ammo. With the Flatline returning from exile in the Crafter, and the (heavily nerfed) Spitfire returning to floor loot from the Care Package, everyone and their mums will be running heavy weapons. The Rampage remains in rotation and the Wingman is still the top choice for players who have honed their ability to click heads. Heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy.
Some will still craft the R-301, but what’s the point if every body you loot is only carrying heavy ammo? You’ll have to switch out for the Flatline before too long. But my problem with Season 13 isn’t the number of heavy weapons in rotation, it’s that the Volt is still in the Care Package.
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If you want to pick up an SMG, you currently have to choose between the R99 and the CAR. The latter has edged things out since its release, and will continue to due to the reliance on heavy ammo this season. Did I mention that already? Reintroducing the Volt to ground loot again, however, would solve this problem, as well as many others.
The Volt behaves quite differently to the R99 and CAR, dealing more damage per energy round, but having a slower rate of fire. This gives players another option, and diversifies not only the pool of weapons on the ground, but also the types of ammo that players will find in opponents’ loot boxes.
At the moment, it’s barely worth running an energy weapon. While a Havoc or Devotion can be brutal with a Turbocharger, you’ll have such a hard time topping your ammo up throughout a match that you’ll inevitably have to swap it out before too long. Nobody runs the Triple Take since its nerf. The Volt could change this, and give players another
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