Apex Legends

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• Action Points — Players have a limited number of action points per turn to perform actions like moving or shooting.
• Area Control — Placement and zones are important, with movement costs for navigating between areas and buildings.
• Card-based combat — Combat uses a deck of cards with varied values and symbols that modify attacks, influencing hit chance and damage.
• Deck Building — Players draw cards from their character's deck to perform actions and attacks.
• Line of Sight — Line of sight is a crucial mechanic that heavily impacts combat effectiveness and requires careful positioning.
• Respawning — Players can respawn after being eliminated, but it costs action points and has penalties.
• Team Synergy — Characters and their abilities can synergize with each other, leading to more effective team play.
• Victory Points — The game includes a victory point system, indicating objective-based gameplay.

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• The board game uh which no one was asking for.
• Thank god it's not by Steam Forge because this game would be uh way worse.
• I know I haven't. That's like the top tier. Is that Apex?
• I don't enjoy first person competitive games because I just get my ass ate.
• It's like, look, they tried to fill it all into one box. How about you just don't and make two boxes?
• It is very methodical on on, you know, tiers and zones you're in and placement and line of sight.
• Movement is very anemic in this game.
• The base movement as an action cuz it's very tight in action economy.
• So, your whole turn is to squeeze between buildings.
• You're something. That's because climbing one zone is like your whole turn.
• I feel a little bit better with team comp in this.
• I don't really like the rule book. I think it's very difficult to f in skirmish games.
• I wish they would have just did two separate boxes.
• I do like the fact that you get to see how the ring's going.
• I'm not like, funny enough, I don't think I'm just like I don't think I'm like wowed by it, though.
• This doesn't do it. This isn't as good.
• I think the hard part for me with this one is setup.
• If you're going to that kind of random needs speed.

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• I feel like Cthulhu could still be milked
• the cases are really solid
• the writing's really good it's a little wordy but I can edit that down
• Origins is garbage it was just absolute garbage
• he made it because I had 2,000 copies of him and I I threw in a dumpster eventually
• I hate the theme
• I'm agreeing to this is if it's overpowered
• that damn Joshy balancing lame who needs that in the game
• it's a super broken busted card

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• it's the simplest design and it's so freaking great
• it's freaking so much fun because it's simple
• it's easy to teach it's fun it's it's silly it's stupid
• oh that sounds ridiculous it is really oh it sounds ridiculous
• the suit of the boss eliminates that power for that round
• was overwhelmed and I I understand that that's part of the reason I want to play with cuz I was overwhelmed trying to play all five at once
• I couldn't see the overall strategy
• I like frost punk
• the Minis they have for the the the player pieces like the characters you play are awesome looking sculpts but I really don't like them because they have other characters on the thing with them
• it's parkour it's zombies with parkour
• capitalism is the worst idea ever but it's the best idea that we have now
• art is art only sounds like a product it isn't because I have discussions with artists a lot
• we are very picky and choosy when it comes to what bothers us and what doesn't
• it's like we all seem to we all want to say oh well you know it's like we need to nobody nobody complains that they're getting a t-shirt for $10 because it's being made in a sweat shop in Malaysia

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Action Point Allowance — Characters have quick abilities and ultimates.
• Area Control — The battle royale dome closing in forces players to fight.
• Deck Building — Each character has their own hand of cards.
• Dice-less Combat — Does not utilize dice as its combat system, instead using weapon accuracy values and modifier decks.
• Variable player powers — Each character plays radically different from another.

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• Yeah, they exactly like mine are all like that. Like games that were I had no hope in at all really.
• The mechanic that catches me on this that has caught me on a couple other games before that I that I really enjoy.
• Each turn you're going to race to build powerful synergies only to tear them apart when the time is right.
• It's deeper than what the game looks like.
• It just it works, man.
• There is no reason this should work as a board game and yet it does.

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• Oh my god, this has Bladeunner feel with an Arkham Horror twist. if that makes any sense. It feels like the old second edition uh Arkham Hore.
• I just want to get rid of some more stuff that isn't going to sit there, you know, that I'm not going to play.
• You know, once I review it, if I don't think it's going to stay, you know, and not that it's a bad game or anything like that, it just becomes a point where where, you know, at my age, okay, at this ancient ancient age, okay, how many games can you keep?
• I just got a feeling that, you know, everything's, you know, they want to go digital with everything. I mean, what's the point of that?
• I I I I I'm trying to find stuff that I can make consistent fun videos for.
• I try not to be a gosh darn infomercial, okay? I try not I try to separate myself from the rest of the board game industry.
• All I care about is doing my best to try to get, you know, have some fun.
• My whole thing is, okay, it's a Godzilla with big minis. Yeah. If I can get my hands on it, I'll get my hands on it.
• And my plan is to keep going as long as I can physically and mentally and just enjoy myself.
• get back to the way it used to be in 2013, 14, and 15, you know, where we just we had fun.
• And then we just, clean, smart, concise, and just keep it simple.
• The board game geek hall of fame. Holy cow, what a train wreck that thing is.
• You're one of my favorite designers of all time.
• And we're we're making that push to to just have fun and have a good time. And we're getting as far away from stupid stuff as you can imagine.

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• And that's really a good thing, you know.
• And I think that's a good thing. I think this is going to be a very, very busy summer uh for new games.
• And that's a good thing. We also have taxes this week.
• Um, the ones that usually do are are corrupt.
• Um, I'm really enjoying myself. And, that's the most important thing, I think.
• Um, I'm not complaining. It's It's good.
• Um, the channel's really doing a lot better.
• Um, the quality's going to keep getting better.
• Um, I I mean, I can go on and on with all the stuff and I'm really happy about it.
• Um, I think I paid three times the amount that I wanted to pay for it.
• Um, and and and and and and we're overcoming some of the things that we have going.
• Um, I love the AI artwork. I think they're doing it's doing such a great job and I really like it and um
• Um, and look to the future.
• Um, a lot of my friends are are hanging it up and it's sad.
• Um, I have a small little following and just uh play to that.
• Um, very sad about Marco.
• All right? So, if it doesn't work, we'll figure it out from there.

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