ImperialHal and Snip3down clash over Apex Legends devs ignoring pro player feedback Two of Apex Legends biggest names, TSM\u2019s Phillip \u2018ImperialHal\u2019 Dosen and FaZe Clan\u2019s Eric \u2018Snip3down\u2019 Wrona, have butted heads on social media over changes to meta ahead of the 2023 ALGS Championship. With the biggest tournament of the Apex esports calendar fast approaching, Season 18 launched on August 8 with significant shifts to the meta, including an entirely reworked Revenant. However, the change that has caught the eye of top pro players relates to survey beacons, and where they spawn. In competitive play, teams choose a POI (point of interest) to land at, and repeat it every game, to improve consistency in the otherwise random arena of a battle royale. As of Season 18 though, all POIs now have an equal chance of receiving a Ring Console, Survey Beacon, or Crafting station, as opposed to more predictable spawns for these items previously. This caused frustration for ImperialHal, who called it a \u201cmega nerf\u201d to his team so close to a major event. ImperialHal vs Snip3down On August 16, Hal revealed he had spoken to a developer before the season launch, and advised them not to change the spawn rate of beacons. \u201cHad a call with 1 on 1 dev to discuss changes to Apex comp and I was asked if they should change the % on beacon for POIs and told them def not then prob [the] day after they changed it,\u201d the TSM star said. However, Snip3down disagreed, arguing that it was a positive change for competitive play, and that no team is entitled to a consistent survey beacon spawn at their POI of choice. \u201cThere is no reason you should get 90+% beacon spawn rate and some of the best loot\/zone POI\u2019s in the game,\u201d he argued, and said that this applied to all teams, not just TSM. The debate devolved into a bit of a mudslinging from here, as Hal said his team simply gets the best POI because others, like Snip3down\u2019s team, aren\u2019t capable of fighting them for it. Snip3down, a former teammate of Hal\u2019s on TSM, mocked him for \u201ccrying\u201d about devs not listening to him, and argued that the beacon change turned an \u201cRNG factor into an even playing field for all.\u201d However, Snip3down did agree that he no longer finds it valuable to discuss his issues with developers, as years of doing so have led to little if any impact: \u201cEveryone can have an opinion, no one is entitled to the results of it. I\u2019d be just as fine if the change never happened.\u201d The ALGS Championship 2023 will be held in Birmingham, UK, starting September 6. TSM and FaZe Clan have both locked in their spots for the event, and both will certainly view themselves as contenders for the top prize, although TSM will be favored overall, after their impressive 2nd-place finish at the Split 2 playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ImperialHal and Snip3down clash over Apex Legends devs ignoring pro player feedback Two of Apex Legends biggest names, TSM\u2019s Phillip \u2018ImperialHal\u2019 Dosen and FaZe Clan\u2019s Eric \u2018Snip3down\u2019 Wrona, have butted heads on social media over changes to meta ahead of the 2023 ALGS Championship. With the biggest tournament of the Apex esports calendar fast approaching, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}