Reasons Apex Legends Is the Most Beginner Friendly Battle Royale
No Building
Apex Legends has absolutely no building, and that is a wonderful thing for new players.
Some people forget the reason Fortnite even has building mechanics in the first place is because it started out as a survival game where your fortifications protected you against an onslaught of zombie waves.
When a battle royale mode was finally added, building was included in the mode because all the functionality to do so was already present in the game.
Building in Fortnite can be the most exciting part of a match, for intermediate and pro players that is. I think we have all had that moment where we fire one single bullet into an enemy’s back and suddenly, their hotkeys have fabricated a tower quicker than a newbie could switch weapons.
Building is a key factor of what makes Fortnite stand out among other battle royale titles, but the catch is that the feature can be very unforgiving for beginner players.
Watching the last minutes of a Fornite match almost always ends with massive towers getting erected with a frantic energy where the winner is determined by who is the quickest at placing walls and floors.
A beginner player, if they happen to make it to the end, will likely watch from the ground to get picked off due to their low-ground disadvantage.
Apex Legends makes up for this by putting a ton of high-ground/low-ground locations in its map. Therefore, you don’t need to build a tower to get that upper hand to pull a battle.
You can just use the map around you to strategically get the higher ground and still get that satisfying win.
It’s not that beginner players can’t learn to build as time goes on, but to drop into match after match where advanced builders have already been mastering the art for months can be quite irritating for the newbies who are just trying to get their foot in the door. It’s no fun being “out-build” by other players on day one of starting Fortnite.
Maybe if Fortnite had ranked games where you only play with people of your level, this would be a different story. But for now, beginners will always get placed into a game with master builders where their fate is almost sealed before they even reach the top five.
