Apex Legends Dev Tracker

Yo, I am a Bangalore main and I feel for you! I have expressed the same feelings towards the legends balancing team and hopefully, we can see our girl get the buff she needs :)

From what I can tell, it's a bit more involved than whether the free cells or purchased cells were used. I've seen some workarounds like dropping the Sentinel and picking it back up will let you charge it for example.

Thoughts on an end game encyclopedia to keep track of the story? I follow things fairly closely and I just saw yesterday something about Gibby being married that I had no idea about.

This is definitely something we want as well. It's hard to track all our bits of lore, especially with a live service game that keeps going. All I can say is something is in the works...

Thanks for bringing this up, I was not aware of it. I'll make sure this gets looked into if it's not already!

What was the goal behind the rempage lmg, did you want to change the meta with it or simply wanted extra options when it comes to long range

There was a few goals with the Rampage LMG. Adding a new gun always has the potential to shake up the meta and we hope when they released they become a viable option for players. The goals for it's design was to add a slow fire rate LMG that excels at mid range engagements, we also liked the sentinel charge mechanic so wanted to introduce this to the rampage to give it some versatility. When we were first developing we had tried a bunch of different outcomes from the charge mechanic (Fire rounds was one) but settled on fire rate cause it offered a great feeling boost that a slow gun needed.

np at all, friend

honestly we are guilty of missing stuff in patch notes sometimes but we try to correct it when we mess up, so it wasn't a wild question

The team was so confused when we saw your comment lol, we don't think we nerfed it...

Tough question, but I'll try to answer sincerely and in good faith since you aren't being rude! We have a strong culture of playtesting at Respawn and have multiple playtests per week where everyone on the team is welcome to join in, play the upcoming content and provide their feedback. We also will occasionally host playtests with pros and content creators to get their feedback on upcoming content. Despite all of that playtesting, nothing can match having content be released into the wild and played by the players to see how a piece of content actually ends up performing. Seer specifically went through multiple gameplay kits and iterations before shipping which was shaped directly by both internal and external feedback. With that being said as I mentioned in another comment we will be adjusting some of his power in an upcoming patch.

Next year.

Cross progression is gnarly as hell in terms of being a problem to solve. It's not only that you have to solve the technical challenge of merging existing accounts, but there are also legal and contractual issues to navigate with purchasing on other platforms. Different regions have different laws. It's a mess. But we're working on it, and we're committed to delivering it.

Playable quests are really hard to do each season without burning out the team. It's an enormous amount of work to make quests every three months. We're definitely not stepping away from lore in our game though--we have some ideas, including some future seasonal work, that will potentially bring even more lore than what the in-game comics offered.

Can't say specifics yet, but we're currently looking at other ways to tell story in the game, as well as continuing to drop lore on social from time to time.

Are you planning to buff wattson in the future?

We are looking into some improvements to Wattson but not sure when those changes will be coming

We didn't really take inspiration from Black Panther, but we are definitely flattered that those comparisons are being made!

There's been a bunch of misinformation out there about "server contracts ending," and it actually isn't true. Just misinformation.

We also had an engineer go in-depth on the tickrate question in this blog. We think there's a bunch of high-impact work we can do to improve server performance, and hopefully you've noticed some improvements with this latest season launch.

In terms of expanding into less well-covered regions, nothing to announce here. Which regions do you think need better coverage?

Yes there is more then just pick rates and win rates that we look at. We do have really detailed stats like Legend vs Legend, encounter win rates and how long certain characters are surviving. All these stats, community feedback and playtesting help us drive our tuning decisions.

Lore will be released throughout the season in the game and on social with a bit more heavy weighting in the latter half...

What kind of stuff are you excited to see?

Oh man, I WISH I had an update to share but we can't say anything definitive at the moment—so can't spoil anything here. Trust us tho, it's in the works and we're excited about it too

Seer has launched strong, which was the hope. He's also brought a lot of new gameplay elements to the game (HP bars, interrupt) which has driven a lot of discussion with players, which is great to see. With that being said is probably a bit too strong at the moment and will receiving some balance updates in an upcoming patch.

It's definitely on my radar. It doesn't repro in dev like it does on live, which has made it a little hard to track down. I'm hoping to get a fix out as soon as I can.

As of right now, we have no plans on changing up Fragment East or West, but I won't rule out anything for the future. We are aware of some of the communities feedback about the POI and are paying attention.