Shroud criticizes Apex Legends Season 12 \u201cbattle pass meta\u201d pressuring players Respawn Entertainment \/ Twitch: shroudFormer CS:GO pro turned Twitch streamer Michael \u2018shroud\u2019 Grzesiek has shared his thoughts on Apex Legends Season 12, criticizing the game\u2019s \u201cbattle pass meta\u201d and saying he doesn\u2019t enjoy feeling \u201cpressured to play\u201d. After much anticipation, Apex Legends Season 12 finally dropped on February 8, bringing Mad Maggie and a new game mode, Control, to the world of Respawn\u2019s battle royale. Feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, with many players enjoying the change of pace offered by Control, a 9v9 respawn game mode that differs considerably from the standard BR that hooked so many Apex players. While shroud did have positive words to say about Control and Apex\u2019s twelfth season more generally, he reserved some criticism for the battle pass and how it forces players to play. Speaking in his February 20 YouTube video, shroud highlighted the \u201cbattle pass meta\u201d, arguing that the tiered rewards that accompany seasonal battle passes force players to play a certain way to ensure they level up. \u201cGod the battle pass meta is so f**king\u2026 I don\u2019t like it anymore,\u201d he said, flicking through the tiers. \u201cI\u2019m over it. I\u2019m over the battle pass meta. I wanna go back to the days of just grinding and playing the game and seeing your tokens going up and then you just buy what you want you want.\u201d He continued: \u201cIt\u2019s just easy\u2026 I don\u2019t like keeping up the battle pass \u2013 it like pressures you to play. I don\u2019t like being pressured to play.\u201d Timestamp: 0:32 Unfortunately for shroud, it doesn\u2019t look like the seasonal content and battle pass system is going anywhere soon. Since Fortnite\u2019s roaring success with the formula, many other titles (like Apex Legends and Warzone) have adopted a similar system. Many have also praised the Season 12 battle pass, hoping to unlock its highest skins and rewards. We expect to see one accompany Season 13 as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Shroud criticizes Apex Legends Season 12 \u201cbattle pass meta\u201d pressuring players Respawn Entertainment \/ Twitch: shroudFormer CS:GO pro turned Twitch streamer Michael \u2018shroud\u2019 Grzesiek has shared his thoughts on Apex Legends Season 12, criticizing the game\u2019s \u201cbattle pass meta\u201d and saying he doesn\u2019t enjoy feeling \u201cpressured to play\u201d. After much anticipation, Apex Legends Season 12 […]<\/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-18792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18792","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=18792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}