This is a Control-specific feature. Only you see enemies highlighted, and only when they are in your field of view. There's a bit of lag if they go behind a wall just because of the time to process line of sight and then turn VFX off. But this is actually pretty essential with 9v9 where you have 8 other teammates for identifying friendlies & enemies.

There were no changes to AA. Reports of changes were the result of the streamers playing on non-Productions servers with notably different performance characteristics. Most of the speculative buffs, nerfs, etc were the result of either the servers being non-Production, bugs in the build on client/server (it was also not a finalized build that players were on), or there being a couple (very few) features that had *test* changes made in the server configuration as part of ongoing balance tests.

Found the bug. Simple fix. Will take a while to get it out as it's a client fix, but the data will correct automatically as soon as we do. The stats are all accruing properly in the background. It's just a *visual* bug. Sorry about that. And thank you for flagging.

I don't think so, but this isn't my specific area. u/rspn_exgeniar will know for sure.

As far as I am aware, no controller changes. Any that changed that impactful should be reported in the patch notes.

Next week - Feb 15 @ 10AM PST

Most of the changes here were for the dailies. We moved basically ALL of the dailies to be "any mode." The biggest change here that we made was to change all of the weapon damage challenges to be any mode. 80% of the dailies are now "any mode" (39 of the 50 dailies) with the remaining 11 being split roughly 50/50 between Arenas (6) and BR (5).

We also made a lot more of the weeklies be any mode, but this varies quite a bit by week. You MIGHT have gotten a week that has more mode-specific challenges - some weeks are still more mode-specific heavy - but across the whole BP, weeklies are split as followings across the entire season:
- 55 any-mode
- 56 BR
- 29 arenas

Remember there's some RNG in what you see on any given day - and especially in terms of what you see for the one week of weeklies. But I promise that we for sure heard the feedback and tried to make the battlepass less mode specific, and we're working on even more functionality in terms of offering players choice and flexibility here for S13 and beyond. This will continue to be an area of focus for us.

Do you own every rare-or-better item for Octane already? If so, the pack automatically functions as a "normal" Apex pack. This logic is pretty bulletproof - we run pretty large scale simulations on this. I just checked and everything on that pack is setup properly.

Not the same. I forget how quickly that stats screen updates, so that's a possible explanation. But early season always stresses me out because we see some of these bugs with stat inconsistencies. If you go hover over the S12 kills tracker for the character that you played that match with (*unless* it was Bloodhound because of the above bug which mean it will show you your S11 stats), what does it say? Does it also say 4? Kills are kills (execution or not), executions just ALSO tick up the finishers tracker.

So, the character-specific thematic packs guarantee *one* rare-or-better item for that character. The other two slots are purely random and are common-or-better.

I think part of the challenge is balancing two separate but related goals. Most players want to complete the BP, meaning reach level 110. But lots of players are also "completionists," meaning they want to finish all 11 challenges in all 12 weeks. The first goal - making sure players can complete the BP - is our primary goal. And that also considers events throughout the season that award BP stars. But the second goal is also a legitimate one.

I'm definitely not saying we can't do more here. There is more we're working on in this area. But the challenges system is a gigantic one. And one that we're really careful about touching because if you make it worse, players get REALLY mad. It's a lot of work both technically (in terms of adding functionality here) and also in terms of analysis (to make sure the BP still works well and "feels good").

Regardless, point taken. It is good feedback.

No, that's perfect in terms of digging in. I know there are definitely some discrepancies here, so this is very helpful for sussing out where there are. Thank you very much.

You, sir, are a champion. This looks like it comes straight from QA! Thank you!!

All I can say is that we've for sure seen the reports and are digging in. Something like that I'm afraid I'm never gonna be able to give an easy and quick answer like, for example, on the Bloodhound tracker - "we were looking at the wrong stat, easy fix..." Never know whether one of those, "we're aware of the problem and looking into it..." answers is helpful or just feels like useless corporate dronespeak.

You will get the same weeklies as everyone else over the course of the season, but the ordering of the weeks is RNG. I.e., what I *see* as Week 1 isn't necessarily the same as what you see in Week 1. My week 1 might be your week 6 and your week 1 might be my week 9.

Yup. That's also the reason for this. To prevent that exact behavior, especially at the start of the week. It does make for interesting QA - "I had a bug during the week 1 challenge..." But I have a big table of all of the challenges so I can figure out what they are actually referring to.

Taking off my "dev" hat and putting on my "player" hat, that's what I hope we do personally. I've suggested it. As have others. But that's a big decision to make, I'm not the maker of such decisions. But I absolutely agree personally.

Octane: anytime Feb 8 - Feb 15

Wattson: anytime Feb 15 - Feb 22

Valk: anytime Feb 22 - Mar 1

This is a bug. Just found it thanks to your post. It's an Arenas challenge that's mislabeled. And so looking for damage in Arenas instead of in any mode. We'll get it fixed. Apologies. But thank you.

Just put in a fix that should go out in the next week or so. Unfortunately we can't "revert" your stats backwards. Apologies. But thanks to you and the many others who tagged this. Sorry we missed this in testing.

Most of the badges actually do safeguard, but we've made mistakes around badges before so I wouldn't be surprised if there were some badges we missed. We are working on overall improvements to our stats system, but it's a big project.

Seeing this reported across the community and we're still investigating! We'll update via the Respawn Twitter acc as we get more info: https://twitter.com/Respawn/status/1491195357786963968

4K & 20-bomb are NOT bugged. Sorry. No sneaky badges for those two in Control.

Did you get crafting materials? CM (depending on the quantity) count as a rarity. I forget the exact quantities offhand. I think it's 15/30/60/120 for common-legendary. I've never seen an actual pack give three common items. If you're certain you did, message me. I can actually look up your account and see what the packs gave you item by item.

That's by design. Legend abilities track across all modes intentionally.

No pack of any kind should ever give three commons. I typically open about 5 million packs before each new season to make sure of this (automated process...) . Plus we run extensive analysis on the live game data. Three commons should be impossible. And I've never seen otherwise. But if you are sure it's happened, I can look at your account to check.

Was this a "regular" Apex pack? Or a thematic pack - like an Octane pack?

Followed up with you on your post there.

Thank you.

There was an issue! Fix being deployed: https://twitter.com/Respawn/status/1491439672777928704

That one was a bug. Fix is in and should be going out "soon." Should only be 1.