I'm still not over how much of a game design triumph it was to separate out the shield core and actual shield. It completely removed the cognitive load of deciding when it's a good idea to go for a shield swap. Before shield generators you had to take into consideration: - Swapping vs being able to circle back to pick back up your old higher lvl shield. - Your higher lvl shield falling into the hands of an enemy. - Your skill to farm future damage/evo. - Keeping track of where, which enemy, with which shield died, to swap to their higher lvl shield. - Which teammate on which legend on what loadout should have the highest lvl armour. And that doesn't even touch on Evo harvesters, removing crafting material or getting evo from more sources than just damage and how that removed RNG, incentivized gameplay besides hot-dropping, completely changed the edge vs zone playstle and so much more. Has to be in the Top 3 changes ever made to Apex.

Man breaks down the age differences between LNs, YNs, BBs, Uncs, OGs, and Elders 😭