Posted 18 March 2019 - 10:55 PM

There's a roadmap for content and season 2 starts in June, so hopefully having a few months instead of six weeks allows them to make a more thorough battle pass with challenges. I was going to say that they probably scrambled to make the battle pass after having so many people asking about it but the roadmap was released near launch and said the pass would be out in march. Maybe they didn't realize it would take more time to create it. It's wishful thinking but I hope they add some new achievements either for the season or octane similar to overwatch with their events/characters. With the pass not having challenges I think achievements being added is a slim chance.

I've been thinking about it and I'm pretty close to not buying this BP. I've been looking forward to having something to work toward but overall I feel like they blew it. 1/5th of it being relegated to a worthless banner icons that easily could have been a single reward that updated with your level is pretty terrible, but if you factor in the other stuff about half of it is near worthless. The base three skins would be fine if there were two or three better ones that you earn later, and I think all of the weapon skins are essentially the same pattern aside from the Legendary at tier 100.

The only thing that could really save this is if there are more rewards we don't see currently, like getting crafting materials along side the icons or something. If you get the same amount of XP with the free one I probably will at least wait to see if they improve it, especially since you get 5 of the 6 loot boxes for free anyways. It looks like a lot of people on the Apex Reddit are withholding judgement until we have full details, but I think this is going to be an issue with the community unless there is more to it.

And this is all we get for 3 months? Yeah, this whole thing screams rushed. I get that Fortnite's first season was kind of weak compared to where it is now, but they aren't competing with a game 18 months in the past, and I'd argue that their season was still stronger than what Apex is offering with this pass.

Edit: Also, I think 6 weeks is only the Blackout and maybe the early PUBG passes. Way too short when the whole progression system is XP based. Fortnite's are 10-12 weeks so at least they took after that.