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Apex devs are Arrested Development writers confirmed
Apex devs are Arrested Development writers confirmed
Loose seal!
Kind of off topic, but how are you guys trying to handle the lever action? And what types of situations do you think it will work best in?
There's gonna be an AMA for Season 8 I expect! You'll be able to ask our weapon designers all kinds of questions there.
Question: how AWESOME is s8 going to be. Cause s7 was freaking Dope, loved it. Rate it from a scale of 1 to 10
Definitely an 8. But just you wait for seasons 9 and 10! ;P
Hey Daniel I have one small suggestion for a small loba tactical buff I hope you reply 😊 so do you know how pathfinders cooldown is based on how far he goes well I was wondering if there’s anyway you can do the same thing with loba where her tactical cooldown is based on how far her bracelet goes. I think it will be good because there’s been many times where I’ve and many others have accidentally thrown it right in front of us and then have to wait 30 seconds for it to recharge I hope you see this
Definitely could do that! Could also just shave off time in general. I think the animations pre and post use could also do with some tightening. Thing is, she's pretty good right now. Will let her rest for a patch or two.
More on loba since you are here. Did the suggestion to pick up crafting mats from the dispensers like ammo through Black Markets if they are in range just get ignored or can we look for it in season 8 or beyond?
I also wanted to bring this up and see if you have a solution? It has gotten me and other lobas killed too much during sniper peak fights. Crouching is pointless because it doesn’t lower your head at all so forget meds and reloading. My suggestion is a reduced headshot multiplier for loba or fortified while ADS crouching with a 3x+ scope.
That was news to me! I'll discuss with the team on Monday.
Hey Daniel, this might sound weird but...like 80% of why I play Loba is because of that beautiful landing animation with her bracelet. I love that shit. I would hate it to get shortened.
I don't think the landing animation is the problem. I never die because of it. When I die using the bracelet, it's because of either the taking the bracelet off animation being too long, and/or because the bracelet moves rather slowly in the air.
If you are going to make the bracelet faster, I suggest speeding up the throwing animation and/or making the bracelet travel faster in the air, and keep the flashy gorgeous landing animation alone.
Travel faster in the air would be last resort; it would require some work on the visual effect to make it look good and it has the highest risk of negatively impacting combat legibility. Point taken on the beautiful arrival anim; maybe most of our shortening needs to be in the taking off anim. Like I said tho, this is experimental stuff we're still playtesting and there's a good chance we won't ship it if it's not healthy for the game.
Nice to hear your thoughts on Loba, she's one of my mains!! But something I would like more than having a similar mechanic to pathy, it's to make her bracelet quicker, like the traveling speed could have a buff.
This way it should be a better repositioning tool and should reduce her 'sitting duck's time, but that's just a thought coming from another loba main. I know you guys like feedback, so here I leave mine.
Hey Daniel, while i still have you, are you guys still looking into cross progression or is it out of the question because I was looking into switching to pc but I got my wraith heirloom yesterday so I really can’t give that up
I'm not in those conversations (and they're probably like two job titles above my paygrade), but my understanding is conversations are on-going and there's nothing new to report yet. Sorry!
Wraith's hitbox nerf will be interesting to see.
I suppose Horizon will be hit in a similar way?
We've got some other stuff planned for her, but if nothing else works we'll probably go to hitbox as well, yeah. The concern is that when we nerf Wraith we leave Horizon all by herself in that top position.
It's absolutely possible the hitbox nerf won't affect her win rate... What are you going to do then?
Quit in disgust ;P
More seriously, we have more options, but the hitbox nerf worked wonders for Pathy, putting him into a very healthy place without nerfing him too much, so remain hopeful.
Why aren't you start slowly making everyone the same hitbox? Make legends have big hitboxes with low profile is the most lazy and stupid way to balance a legend
It's actually the opposite of lazy! We created a whole bunch of extra work for ourselves for really no gameplay benefit.
Listen. If we were developing Apex today, I'd be like "EVERYONE IS ON THE SAME SET OF HITBOXES, MAKE IT WORK". Unfortunately that's not the world we live in. You may have noticed we haven't shipped another legend on a large hitbox; there's a reason for that. Unless we find a way to shrink Gibby and Caustic visually in a way that's not super derpy without having to redo all their skins and animations (and probably do the same for our tiny legends), I don't see us realistically moving to the same hitboxes for everyone, as preferable as that would be.
That won't be a bad thing?
I mean.... Having someone else sitting at the top for a change is only refreshing. Wraith meta is starting to look old tbh. Horizon is not only fun to play, but she feels new and amazing.
Oh absolutely! She's a great candidate to sit on top. The question isn't just "is she on top", it's "is she on top with a wide gulf between herself and the next legend down". That's where it gets a little unhealthy. We want you to feel that most, if not all, Legends are pickable, and if you have a clear best legend by such a wide margin you'd be trolling in ranked not to have at least one person pick her. That's bad for pick diversity.