NICKMERCS wants one big Apex Legends ranked change, but it could lead to \u201cboosting\u201d Twitch: NICKMERCS \/ Respawn EntertainmentNick \u2018NICKMERCS\u2019 Kolcheff is calling for one major Apex Legends ranked change \u2014 inspired by the title\u2019s pro tour \u2014 that he believes could solve the battle royale\u2019s competitive grind, but admits the bold idea could lead to new \u201cboosting\u201d issues. \u201cRP\u201d has been a hot topic in Apex Legends for a while now. The battle royale\u2019s competitive currency has been part of the title since 2019 and, for the most part, has been relatively well-received. The way the points work means you don\u2019t have to score a hard-earned victory to climb; instead, kills, assists, and placements help that goal too. There is one issue that arises from the \u201cRP\u201d \u2014 Ranked Points, that is \u2014 is that survival hands Apex Legends big boosts, multiplying any kill or assist points a player may have raked in across the competitive lobby. That means ranked players will \u201crat\u201d (hide until the end), often kill-stealing from teammates in an effort to climb faster, and NICKMERCS has had enough. The Twitch star\u2019s call for new Apex Legends ranked changes came after fellow streaming star Jack \u2018CouRageJD\u2019 Dunlop raised the topic on Twitter. The 100 Thieves co-owner is another streamer fed up with the way the \u201cKP\u201d system works and believes there should be a change. According to Dunlop and Kolcheff, there seems to be an easy solution: make points a team-based bonus. NICKMERCS threw out the suggestion after seeing a similar system being used in the battle royale\u2019s pro ALGS scene, where they share points around the three-man squad. The Twitch star claimed Apex queues should have the same, and brought up an example of why. \u201cI had a team fight the other day, right? I did 400 damage, went down, my teammates cleaned it up. W. 100 damage for each. \u201cThen, they both got three KP, I got zero. L. That\u2019s 400 for zero, 100 for three, 100 for three.\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s f**ked,\u201d he added, \u201cand it shouldn\u2019t be a thing.\u201d There is one big issue with NICKMERCS\u2019 idea, however. That big problem, as many may have guessed, is boosting. Allowing a full Apex Legends squad to share their points means a high-level player could log on to a lower-ranked account, dominate a lobby with kills and assists, and hand those points to the two other players they were boosting, whether the RP was actually earned or not. NICKMERCS concedes his idea isn\u2019t perfect, and warns if Respawn did decide to implement it, they\u2019d have to think long and hard about how they would manage that \u201cboosting\u201d issue so that it wasn\u2019t used and abused. \u201cMy main concern for this in Apex Legends ranked would be that it could lead to players boosting,\u201d the Twitch star admitted. \u201cI just don\u2019t really know how ya fix it.\u201d Since making the move from Warzone to Apex Legends, NICKMERCS has been quite outspoken about the game\u2019s balance and ranked experience, and hasn\u2019t been afraid to drop suggestions on how he thinks the battle royale can improve. This isn\u2019t the first time he\u2019s gone after ranked either. Earlier this month, the Twitch streamer took aim at Apex Legends ranked protection. He claimed it \u201cartificially\u201d boosts each player\u2019s ranks, and often keeps \u201cpoor\u201d competitors stuck in tiers they don\u2019t actually deserve. \u201cI think this game has one of the best ranked modes ever created,\u201d he said, but had more to add. \u201cAside from one thing: I don\u2019t believe in the ranked protection, at all. You should be able to lose and drop out of ranks. It promotes careless gameplay, because, no matter what, you have this net at the bottom.\u201d He also weighed in on the aim assist debate in late August, saying \u201cIt\u2019s funny. All these keyboard and mouse guys say aim assist is broken. Why do you care?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NICKMERCS wants one big Apex Legends ranked change, but it could lead to \u201cboosting\u201d Twitch: NICKMERCS \/ Respawn EntertainmentNick \u2018NICKMERCS\u2019 Kolcheff is calling for one major Apex Legends ranked change \u2014 inspired by the title\u2019s pro tour \u2014 that he believes could solve the battle royale\u2019s competitive grind, but admits the bold idea could lead […]<\/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-18354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18354","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=18354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}