NICKMERCS: New Apex Legends map Storm Point will solve game’s biggest issue

Nick ‘NICKMERCS’ Kolcheff has extreme hopes for model spanking new Apex Legends map Storm Degree, which shall be added to the game in Season 11, and believes it will go “an ideal distance” to fixing what he sees as a result of the battle royale’s best concern.

This week, Apex Legends is heading to “Storm Degree,” a new tropical battleground, as a result of the Respawn battle royale shifts into Season 11 with its November 2 exchange.

Storm Degree marks the first time since October 28, 2020 ⁠— over a year ago now ⁠— that Apex Legends players have been given a model new map to play on. The battle royale launched with Kings Canyon in 2019, World’s Edge was added in Season 3, and Olympus was dropped in Season 7’s exchange.

Evidently, the map hype is hitting a fever pitch.

Caught up throughout the hype is Twitch well-known particular person NICKMERCS, who was a primary decide throughout the Warzone-to-Apex Legends movement earlier this yr. He’s “large excited” to get his fingers on the model new battleground this week.

And, on excessive of all the standard hype, Kolcheff has extreme hopes for one totally different issue; he sees Storm Degree as the correct reply to no less than one important Apex Legends concern.

The Twitch well-known particular person has found himself swept up throughout the Season 11 hype.

For primarily probably the most half, NICKMERCS has had nothing but praise for Apex since defecting to Respawn’s flagship title in September. He’s returned to Warzone in stints nevertheless stays pretty loyal to the character-based sport.

That’s to not say he sees it as the correct sport, however.

The Twitch star has threatened to quit the battle royale completely if servers aren’t fixed, repetitively complained about the ranked system, and ⁠(perhaps his biggest sticking point) can’t stand the “third-party” custom that has developed in Apex Legends throughout the two years given that sport’s shock launch.

All that would probably be over, though, he claims; in keeping with the Twitch star, the model new map’s swollen dimension ⁠⁠— 20% bigger than each different Apex battleground, Respawn confirms ⁠— means it “has the prospect to be probably the greatest of all 4 maps.”

“It’s going to be 20% bigger than any we’ve had however, which I consider is de facto good for [finally stopping] third occasions,” he talked about. “Yeah, [that makes] this new map fireside!”

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The Storm Degree map and its bloated 20% dimension enhance is means from the one issue NICKMERCS has been getting “truly hype” about too. Apex Legends Season 11 is together with one different character, Ash, and he can’t wait.

The reality is, he sees her overtaking Wraith subsequent season.

“That’s the model new character?” the Twitch star talked about whereas watching the Ash gameplay trailer for the first time on October 29. “Woah… you’ll be capable to, like, purpose up. That’s her ult? Holy sh*t, holy sh*t, that’s crazy. She [looks like a] Wraith port. I consider [after Ash’s release] that Wraith goes to be no additional.”

“I adore it, I adore it!” he continued. “Yeah, the truth is [she’ll get nerfed immediately]. It’s one of the simplest ways of it. Take into account when Seer acquired right here out, he was broken as f**okay.”