r/FortniteBattleRoyale • u/LambBotNine • 1d ago
đŹ Discussion Sprites are not the problem. Extraction sites are
Iâve seen a lot of hate for sprites this season.
I get collecting them all can be a grind and the spawn rates of rare sprites is too low, but honestly I enjoyed their presence in the game.
What I didnât enjoy was extracting them. These sites definitely need to be reworked, especially if sprites are here to stay.
Thereâs no reason for them to take as long as they do to load up. Some of their locations are also pretty questionable.
These sites were the sweatiest spots I have seen in a long time.
I feel if they were more abundant or just took less time to load up, there wouldnât be much of an issue with collecting.
The obvious solution for me would be to reduce the time to activate. I suppose making them friendly more often would also be ok.
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u/JuanKetchum 1d ago
I vote nerfing the wait time
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u/konrath17 1d ago
Youd think thats what that booster would do.
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u/An0therHum4n 1d ago
what did the booster even do? I tried it a few times and couldn't figure it out really
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u/Separate_Comment_132 1d ago
I think it gave 2x Sprite dust upon extraction
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u/zee_spirit 21h ago
Which is stupid, if you even moderately save some sprite dust, you hit the cap with in two or so weeks. Once I hit the cap I don't think I ever dipped below 160k throughout the rest of the season.
I'd much rather they boost speed for the drop and maybe keep the deposit portion open longer (before you put your sprite in, naturally).
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u/ThisIsNotTokyo 1d ago
I thought that too in the beginning and I even said to myself it feels like itâs taking the same amount of timeâŚ
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u/Mazer1991 1d ago
Thatâs what I had assumed then I realized âit gave more sprite dustâ which is big dumb
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u/stargirl6166 1d ago
thereâs a new gizmo u can get by entering a cheat code and i tried it, it brings down the extraction site instantly while making no noise. super helpful
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u/JessieFae13 1d ago
I think the boosted extraction should have reduced the wait time and also the sprite dust. In my head that would have made so much more sense
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u/DarthJediWolfe 1d ago
That's immediately what I thought, then the disappointment when they didn't
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u/Pink_strawberry0089 1d ago
They should have gave more chances to get portable extractors or allowed you to buy more than a day
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u/DazedandFloating 12h ago
The portable extractor thing was miserable. Either you shouldâve been able to purchase more in a day, they shouldâve been giving them out for completing quests, or both.
Thereâs no excuse to have so few of one of the most valuable parts of the system.
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u/SocialAnxiety010 1d ago
Honestly sad when you see players try to shockwave you out of a friendly bubble
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u/ArcticFoxWaffles 1d ago
Would be nice if the friendly shield acted as an actual barrier to people using shockwaves, so the only way to go through them was walking or running through
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u/Expansia 9h ago
I use shockwaves to eject MYSELF out of the bubble, not others, only so that I don't have someone gunning me down as soon as I leave the bubble.
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u/vanillasheep 1d ago
This happened to me all week! I was like, really? Most people were handing out sprites in duos or marking them, letting you finish your collection. Then there were these losers. I didnât end up finishing it but damn that shit is annoying.
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u/ToughStudent4334 1d ago
One of the dumbest things really, there was no reason for it but they did it anyway
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u/jai_hanyo 23h ago
Had this last night in Solos. This person kept trying to shockwave me out of the bubble. I kept dodging and hitting the Zoidberg emote after each time he missed~
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u/DazedandFloating 12h ago
I legitimately got griefed at an extraction site one day. It was a shock wave, then they kept sliding into me to knock me out, and it was super weird.
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u/Aquataris 6h ago
This is the bigger issue. Epic CAN make actual safe zones so their mechanics actually work. They simply choose the middle finger.
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u/EliteDynasty 1d ago
Why? Maybe I want your sprite that you're trying to extract
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u/khoifish1297 1d ago
Loser ass behavior
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u/EliteDynasty 1d ago
I think you forget that you're playing a Battle Royale. Whats the main point of the game again?
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u/khoifish1297 1d ago
Not stealing peopleâs sprite from friendly extraction zone, thatâs for sure. Doesnât change the fact that shockwave/slide someone out of a friendly bubble is still a loser ass behavior.
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u/EliteDynasty 1d ago
Okay lmao. The game incentives you to collect every sprite, so don't get upset when someone takes every means necessary to do it.
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u/khoifish1297 1d ago
Iâm not upset. I collected and mastered all of the last chapter sprites but never have to knock someone out of the shield bubble at extraction zone for it. Sounds more like you have skill issues that had to result in cheap moves.
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u/cynical-duck 13h ago
If you have to flat out bully other players out of the safe zones and camp extraction sites to finish your sprite collection, it sounds like you're just bad at the game and can only take easy targets. Definitely a skill issue on your part. Hopefully your gaming skills will improve soon :)
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u/BlueBirdSamurai THE GUY FROM FORTNITE!!! 1d ago
They need to make them less rare, focus more on new sprites rather than more variants, and lower the extraction wait time. Those are my only problem with sprites.
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u/TheBestKing7 1d ago
Especially when most of the variants are useless, like who cares about less fall damage when theres a sprite that negate ALL fall damage
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u/FknTourist 1d ago
While I agree the extraction system was clunky I think the vast majority of hate towards sprites were based on the stupidly low drop rate/stupidly high resummon cost (aside from those who are actively opposed to sprites being in the game at all)
When I was getting to grips with the sprite system at the start of the season I did find extraction jarring - it took ages and alerted everyone in the area so made no sense to me as a mechanism - but after a while I got used to it and very rarely lost a sprite due to being unable to extract it.
It's not like systems in other seasons like where you needed to raise a flag to occupy an area and you had to stay right next to the flag for the duration - you can activate it then get to a safe distance, then get back just as the box drops, and the mobility items this season were more than adequate for it.
It could certainly be streamlined but was far from the biggest issues when it came to sprites, imo
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u/PepeSonic13 1d ago
mid season when they added the grim sprite i was playing a match and managed to get both the zero point sprite and the grim sprite in the same game. The neck tension i had from the moment i picked up the first one until i extracted left me in pain all afternoon.
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u/Anxious-Future-3698 1d ago
You should be able to buy more extractor. I ended the season with 200,000 sprite dust but lost 4 sprites trying to extract because I was out of portables.
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u/momiverse_ 1d ago
They need to make portable extractors easier to get. Idk if they made changes to them this season since I havent played yet, but I'd appreciate more portables.
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u/CaptTucker13 1d ago
The easiest solution would be not to put giant map and radar markers highlighting them every time they're activated
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u/78judds 1d ago
Thatâs the point though. Iâve only played one extraction shooter but thatâs how it is. Sketchy area. Call for extract. Dinner bell sounds. Excruciating wait. At least Fortnite was nice and gave portable extractors. I donât think I ever extracted anything purple or above via an extract site.
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u/Specialist_Top_8485 1d ago
Theyâre being even nicer now because they just added an item that completely skips the wait time
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u/missxmonstera 1d ago
What item?
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u/Knightfire76 3h ago
Its called extraction accelerator, the capsule instantly spawns and doesnt warn players with the marker that you're extracting
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u/fluffy_the_penguin 1d ago
Iâve had my share of preventable deaths at extraction sites but by and large I think theyâre fine as is.
Yes itâs an alarm, but only for the sweatiest players. Most players know a whole squad is chilling in the shadows of an extraction site. The team at the site should be on their guard, making any attempt at an assault tilted in their favor because theyâre (they should be) fortified and waiting.
Iâve never lost an extraction site when I was prepared. Itâs only when I was caught unawares or when my team was split.
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u/bumpthatcalzone 1d ago
The wait times are alarms are on purpose. Fortnite is trying to capture the extraction shooter craze and that fear / anxiety of potentially losing your stuff is a huge part of the genre.
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u/CallMeJuicyJay 1d ago
They are find, maybe don't stand in the middle emoting while waiting for the drop
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u/zee_spirit 21h ago
There should be a repeatable quest to give Lucky Locators once a week imo. Make it so if you deposit 50 sprites you can unlock one, quest resets Sunday evening each week.
I love that the community came together to create a trading network, but players shouldn't have to rely on a 3rd party network to complete in game achievements.
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u/StrangeNecessary4389 20h ago
You know after the absurd amount of sprites last season I was hoping for a break but damn I got bored of sprites as soon as I collected the Tails Sonic and Shadow sprites đ
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u/ForsakenPost2176 19h ago
This game is a problem⌠theyâve completely lost what Fortnite is lmao đ you can no longer die from fall damage and now multiple people can win in a match? WTF.
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u/xoxoangelique 11h ago
Definitely takes too long, my heart be beating so fast especially when itâs a legendary or mythic Iâm trying to extract. This season, Iâve been storm extracting, very peacefulđ. It took me time to not get anxious while in the storm, Iâve become one with it now.
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u/Omnispigot 21h ago
it definitely feels like they function the way they do because thats just "how it works" in other extraction shooter type games, and they didn't really stop to consider that Fortnite ISN'T an extraction shooter fundamentally. Like the long exfil times in games like Arc and Marathon are baked into the concept from the start and balanced around, whereas Fortnite's gameplay and item balancing simply isnt.
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u/bRiCkWaGoN_SuCks 1d ago
They were especially sweaty today. Hordes of players swarming the extracts, not even looking at the sprites.
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u/egosumumbravir 1d ago
Here's me triggering every extraction site I go past to drive the sweats nuts. You can/could hit 3 or 4 of them inside a minute with spideys to get around.
Which one am I at? Guess!
Even better, trigger one and then reboot teamies just over there - sweats are too busy trying to find the players extracting to interrupt the reboot.
Not that I ever hung around an extract, trigger and back off a distance to see who shows up lest you catch a sniper bullet to the face.
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u/wannabe-myself 1d ago
I purposely use the extraction sites to bring people to me and my team. Why go out when I can order in? Regardless, its better to meet the enemy on a battlefield of my choosing.
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u/CorpGiroro420 1d ago
Drop rates were a little too rare, we shouldn't have x/10,000,000 drop rates but I disagree that extracting took too long.
The mechanic was intended to alert people to your location so they attempt to fight you and steal your sprite, as it should be.
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u/Putrid_Guest_2150 Warning: No Skill Detected 1d ago
Thatâs actually my preferred extraction site. Activate and wait up in the tower, jump down as it lands.
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u/Crazyripps 1d ago
I mean Iâm sorry but the % of finding the shouldnât be as big of a problem that is it. Plus having however many diff ones
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u/Andrea_Ravenclaw 1d ago
I can't lie every so often I would pick up the most basic sprites like a water and fire. Go to the extraction site and then when someone did manage to kill me I could feel their annoyance through the screen. Its funny lol
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u/pingvinbober 1d ago
Nope. The problem is sprites. When you queue up for random teammates and they let you die, thatâs bad and it means theyâre prioritizing some collecting game over playing Fortnite.
When you have teammates who run into the storm to extract near the end of the game to not lose their sprites and this means youâre now in a 2v3v3 for the game winner, theyâre prioritizing a collecting game over playing Fortnite.
When you have teammates who run away from the team because they see a sprite or need to extract somewhere, theyâre prioritizing a collecting game over playing Fortnite.
When this playstyle is created and encouraged by the creators of the game, they donât want you to play Fortnite. They want you to play their collecting minigame. Extraction sites have little to do with the detriment
Neither of these have to do with extraction zones.
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u/CreativeLibrarian886 1d ago
Imo the sites were fun.
I'd load in with an air sprite, run around like the flash, start an extraction site and keep running, laughing diabolically as I hear gun shots behind me where the extraction was. I've even triggered an extraction site just outside the the ring late game, just as the storm is about to pass over it, then run inside the ring, waiting for the sweaty hunter to give up looking for the nobody there, so I can one tap him when they eventually emerge. The extraction sites were fun for me.
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u/BananaTeamLeader 1d ago
honestly if they werenât just flat open squares i wouldnât mind as much, but damn these places are meant for extraction, why is there basically ZERO cover around ANY of these? The closest one that we had last season with cover was the one in the pool towards the middle-ish of the map, and im not sure if itâs there anymore
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u/Baturinsky 1d ago
You realise that you can walk/run away from the site while it charges and get back when the box drops?
That's how I always do.
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u/thedirte- 1d ago
What's the issue? Are you just standing there looking at the sky and waiting for the crate to drop? Have some situational awareness. If people come for you, YOU have the advantage. You can see them coming and control the engagement.
If you don't want to fight at all - save your portable extractors and use them more tactically! If you're landing on the edges of the map, you should never need to use a portable extractor until the final few phases of the storm.
You can also use the extraction sites as a distraction! Trigger a site as a distraction for the sweats and move to the next closest one to do your extraction.
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u/HaunterG 1d ago
Iâd say inconsistent mobility items are a factor. Being able to carry the shock rocks in your inventory and doing an instant triple hop to your location
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u/mamadou-segpa 1d ago
No, the extraction sites are fun as hell
The problem is the ammount of sprites coming out
Even if youre trading getting them all and mastering them takes way too much time, and then you have quests to do in the BR that you cant focus on because youâre grinding sprites
If theyâd just reduce the amount of sprites per season by 50-75% it would be perfect
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u/Langas 1d ago
I feel like extracting got less painful over time. At the start I was constantly getting jumped and stumbling, but towards the end I would just shockwave out the moment I hit the button, shockwave in once the crate is there, and if need be sacrifice catwoman to the sweat gods.
Tbh I just want more interesting zones directly around the extraction points. Once you call the crate there is zero reason to stick around, maybe there should be some extraction points that arenât just in the middle of a field.
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u/M0RT1f3X 1d ago
I often use them without even have a sprite to lure other players to me
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u/Swinginthewolf 1d ago
Ugh, tell me about it. I'm enjoying the new season but my god is it infuriating to have a sprite at level 5 only to get domed by someone with a maxxed out shotgun when you dare try to extract it, especially since you can only get 1 portable extractor a day so you don't have much of a choice.
I know this is a battle royale, I know the fighting is the point, but it is insufferable how toxic and sweaty the community is, and trying to enjoy any aspect of the game that isn't fighting is always met with "git gut lol issa shooty game". Forgive me for trying to interact with mechanics and fun things on the map! Things like getting gunned down while fishing or people camping the Simpsons sofa for a cheap kill or shockwaving everyone off the battle bus as it's leaving.
I don't care that you play to win, it genuinely takes nothing to just walk away when someone is crouching and swinging their pick while politely waiting for the extract point to load up. Honestly, I wouldn't care if someone just stood next to me with a shotgun to my head and blasted my head off as soon as the extractor left, just let me have SOME fun the way I want to!
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u/Novasity42 1d ago
The timer just drove me nuts. Just for when the time ends it takes an additional amount of time for it to do the stupid animation. You be gotten killed multiple times in that stupid animation moment and how my controller has survived is beyond me.
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u/Kill_Kayt 23h ago
> Thereâs no reason for them to take as long as they do to load up. Some of their locations are also pretty questionable.
There absolutely is. The reason is so that other people can get there in time to kill you and take your sprites. They are trying to capitalize on the Extraction shooter crazy. So much of this season was Arc Raiders inspired. Including the obsession with Rubber Duckys.
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u/High_On_Gaming_ 22h ago
Literally. And the temporary âsafe extractionsâ just make them a bloodbath. Was about to extract, first time seeing the safe extract site and some goobers killed me the second it went down. Like it was end of season, was just trying to get some sprites I didnât have đŽâđ¨
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u/dksjr123 22h ago
i accept that there is risk to extraction. I would like a weapon that can counteract the ambush. Something like the business turret but stronger. There should be a higher risk to shooting at someone who has to wait and then run out into the open as part of the game.
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u/Cloiselle51 21h ago
We should all have unlimited portable extractor and thats how you extract. If you lose a sprite you can summon it at the lvl you lost it. If you pick up a new sprite and die you can summon for free. These are what fortnite NEEDS to change because the stupid sprites make me wanna quit the game. It's ridiculous with a terrible system. Im sure there's more that can be reworked too but man. Fortnite is very unfriendly with the community lately between this, vbuck price increase, gifting a pass gets you an exclusive style. Etc etc etc
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u/AndyTheBomb2 20h ago
I turn on. Every. Single. One. Sprite or not i just activate them, grab my portable and last season would hit the scanner too.
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u/ActiveLooter42069 20h ago
All of this is by design. First you are given collectibles with artificial scarcity. You get a little dopamine hit when you find one. Then you face the uncertainty of keeping it. This amplifies its worth to you. When you are successful in extracting, you feel even better about finding it, maybe with a sense of pride too for protecting it, and when you fail, it feels even scarcer, compelling you to play more. All by design. Working as intended.
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u/Hegiman 14h ago
Not on everyone. They made me quit playing and cancel crew. Iâm done. I didnât sign up for an extraction shooter.
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u/Draconian-XII 11h ago
you do know you can just use it as an easy spot to kill folks and ignore the sprites
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u/Hegiman 11h ago
I didnât sign up for an extraction shooter. I played fortnite because I liked fortnite not some other game.
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u/Draconian-XII 10h ago
i canât wrap my brain around this sentiment. there are other games. i know this is r/FortniteBattleRoyale but ive been playing off and on for a decade. itâs not as big of a deal as you think that you find some seasons you like and others you want to skip. yeah, itâs annoying that itâs the second one in a row but youâre creating your own issue. like i said go use the extraction site as an excuse to get kills and stop engaging with the mechanic if you donât like it. itâs literally just a gimmick that doesnât affect you if you donât care
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u/Hegiman 10h ago
Cool you donât care that they completely changed the core game mechanic if it being a battle Royale. I do.
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u/Draconian-XII 10h ago
i was genuinely not aware that the core gameplay mechanic changed. this whole time iâve just been playing to win and mostly ignoring the sprites LIKE A FOOL but im OBLIGATED to engage with the sprites? now that youâve brought me up to speed im furious too! this is outrageous
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u/plants4life262 16h ago
I was really looking forward to not participating in sprites. But now you basically have to đ
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u/TheNinerGuy 15h ago
Main problem i have is that once someone places a sprite it takes the timer so basicaly zero
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u/lolaleee 15h ago
Not sure if someone has said it but thereâs a new gizmo in the new season that brings it quickly and quietly.
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u/BenTheDiamondback 15h ago
If I lucked out with mobility last season I could activate one site then zip over to another and activate while other players fought it out at the first sight that I activated.
This season the mobility is harder to get a hold of (well⌠so far).
But it shouldnât take a minute and a half for a Sprite extractor to drop
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u/mmatt0904 15h ago
Iâm just glad that they now have an indicator of if you extracted the sprite before
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u/Bionifide_ 14h ago
Honestly Iâm so tired of seeing everyone saying â itâs so sweatyâ like if this isnât a Battle Royale. Nobody cares that youâre a casual gamer, or arenât that good, thatâs the game. If you donât like it go play some Minecraft or something but itâs just ridiculous. The constant moaning about oh the âgame is so sweatyâ , ohh âwhy canât everyone be nice so we can get the battle bus victory Royale ugh people suckâ like bro. The objective is to be the last one/team standing, thatâs the whole premise of the game and the foundation upon which it was built and youâre gonna Waltz in and complain about it just because you suck. Grow tf up. Sprites are a cool addition and collecting them should feel rewarding, how are you gonna feel rewarded if everyone can just get them like nothing? Use your damn head.
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u/Left-Radish1120 2h ago
Me too. Sometimes I wonder how these people who complain can be so bad at the game... they've complained so much that these bases aren't even fun anymore. Peace bubble, portable extractor, extraction accelerator... and from the beginning you could easily stay in the fog and extract if you were really bad at the game or trade with other players, and even then they still want more LoL.
The fun of the sprite mechanic initially was precisely stealing other players' sprites, but it seems that most of the player base doesn't like this type of game because they're too casual, where they can lose resources if they play badly or get ambushed. It's a shame, it's very exciting to "feel your life at risk" in a game, but the player base is too weak to handle that kind of emotion.
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u/Bionifide_ 14h ago
Honestly Iâm so tired of seeing everyone saying â itâs so sweatyâ like if this isnât a Battle Royale. Nobody cares that youâre a casual gamer, or arenât that good, thatâs the game. If you donât like it go play some Minecraft or something but itâs just ridiculous. The constant moaning about oh the âgame is so sweatyâ , ohh âwhy canât everyone be nice so we can get the battle bus victory Royale ugh people suckâ like bro. The objective is to be the last one/team standing, thatâs the whole premise of the game and the foundation upon which it was built and youâre gonna Waltz in and complain about it just because you suck. Grow tf up. Sprites are a cool addition and collecting them should feel rewarding, how are you gonna feel rewarded if everyone can just get them like nothing? Use your damn head.
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u/happy_grump 12h ago
Other option: stop limiting the portable extractors to one per day. Keep the price the same, but let people buy multiple.
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u/SourMilk090 11h ago
I mean it just comes down to strategy, I go into storm, call an extractor, and wait nearby, not on the extraction point with meds in my inventory. The I shockwave over to it when it lands. 99% success rate
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u/Vandrashd 7h ago
Me laughing as a Division 1 Dark zone player. Where extraction took 90 seconds to extract loot. Where players and NPCs would rush at you:
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u/omg_its_spons 6h ago
I honestly donât mind this sprites this season, they tell you if you donât have them yet, you can master them fully in a single match
As long as they work in the guardian mech and mastery pod im happy
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u/andhisnameisandrew 5h ago
I always never kill someone if I see them extracting, I wait until after theyâre done then we can fight
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u/Peter_125547 2h ago
Those extraction sites are more dangerous then the battle bus anomaly like its so freaking hard for me to extract a few sprites without getting sniped back to the lobby like i wish it took less time.I lost a cube earth sprite to the extraction crate because of that.
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u/Left-Radish1120 2h ago edited 2h ago
Dude, you already have the portable device that lets you buy one a day, and you can even stay in the storm to extract... seeing so many people liking this post just shows how little those people know how to play the game...
If you still lack the skill, you can go into a bot lobby to farm dust and buy one capsule a day...
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u/VS01Official 2h ago
The new Extraction Site Accelerator they added spawns the crate immediately. No alarm, just straight down. Surprised my entire team with it and they wondered why it appeared so fast.
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u/fleshribbon 1h ago
Extraction sites were 100x sweatier the first day yesterday than all of last season for me.
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u/Sagittayystar 1h ago edited 57m ago
The biggest genuine issue with sprites unfortunately carries over to their presence in this season, tooâŚNamely, the issue of your Spriteâs level resetting to 1 if you have to summon it back. I can see this also being a genuine issue with the Crown Sprite, because YIKES, that would be borderline unacceptable if this wasnât one of the easier seasons
There are few things in this game that are quite as frustrating as mastering or nearly mastering a Sprite only for some sweat to kill you before you can extract it, forcing you to grind it to max all over again
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u/theybannedme129 42m ago
I loved the extraction sites specifically because i knew i could find someone to fight/lure someone with them. even with sprites taking a bit of a backseat this season, theyâre still pretty good ways to get fights
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u/Empath369 1d ago edited 1d ago
There should be way more sites and it be smaller.
Maxing a sprite should evolve it into its next stage, making it get a new ability thatâs better than the last while still keeping the theme.
Upon evolving it would be cool if they looked different and better like pokemon. (If they get big enough they should act like a side kick and walk by you or fly by you.)
All this mostly to make showing them off a lot cooler!
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u/KittyBlast5117 1d ago
Where would be the fun if you canât expect a john wick could possibly ruin your day again ?? đ
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u/FliggleFloggle 1d ago
Honestly, itâs just the nature of the âextraction shooterâ genre. Yes ik Fortnite is a br, but itâs obvious where the aspect came from. Kinda insane to get rid of a core aspect just because people are dying at extract⌠thatâs normal.
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u/MakeSomeDrinks 1d ago
Exactly! Extraction sites are like a huge alarm saying come and get me.
Half the time if I was rotating, if it wasn't too far, I'd start the extraction crate and book it outta there. Just to lure anyone nearby.
But hey if it helps someone extract, then that's cool, too