Apex Legends Dev Tracker

Never happened in playtests. Computers are wild sometimes.

Hoo boy. Investigating.

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I like it!. It reads well When it's huge. When this gets smaller will you still be able to see all the legends though?.

We look at histograms showing percentage of matches played on any given legend for different skill buckets. Wattson's doesn't skew in any unusual way towards higher-skill levels. What is significant is that her win rate is significantly higher alongside Lifeline's in the bottom 90% of players. She's still hovers at the top amongst the best 5% of players, but is not an outlier. This could mean her kit isn't doing her many favors at the level where people hit their shots, and that her invisible power is very much in her size + no LP for the vast majority of skill buckets. There are obviously many more confounding variables that y'all have pointed out (playstyles, solo queue vs. pre-mades, ranked vs. casuals), but the point is, there's no balancing bible for Apex. As DZK has mentioned, the paramount goal is to create a fun game. It's not as simple as inferring actions based solely on aggregate data, but it's definitely an essential tool in a game of such scale.

I post Twitter threads more actively than I post here (although I'm always lurking everywhere). Seeing as Wattson's been a hot topic these first couple weeks of Legacy, figured I could link to some additional comments I made on a u/DanielZKlein thread with some more context.

Also, fix for Wattson fences coming Monday. Sorry bout that and thanks for your patience! W...

I'm sure I'm still under NDA and can't get into details but I was on the MP Design team. I worked on some free roam events, lobby and a handful of smaller gameplay systems

Eh without saying too much, not really. If you read glassdoor testimonials for R* San Diego, let's say I had a "typical" experience there.

Ha no, I had nothing to do with this :)

I do not

Having worked on both, I upvote anything that combines RDR2 and Apex :D

LOVE YOU TOO.

lol glad you like it! Our skybox artist wanted to change it up to show a change in time. When I first saw it, I was stunned we were so close to space, and how pretty it looked with the planets and such. No storm clouds this high up, sorry!

If you want to check out our skybox artists' work, find him on ArtStation - Marcos Shih.

https://mshih.artstation.com/projects/Kr4QGr

The whole thing being an Octane selfie makes it even more perfect.

Haha I came up with this username as huge fan of the first Titanfall, and I had no idea that years later I'd end up working at Respawn. What a crazy world.

I honestly have no idea about about anything Titanfall related, as I joined the team a few months after Apex launched. Sorry!

This is something we've talked about and thought through during development and ultimately decided we were not going to do. Come with me on a magical journey as I talk you through just how much game designers overthink everything!

So first of all note that there are a limited number of buttons on a default controller, and we have in fact used all of them! There simply isn't a button left. Now we could use the binding we call "extra character action" (by default bound to d-pad down on controller / H on keyboard), but you'll notice that most of the existing uses of this (for instance, toggling Gibby's arm shield) are infrequent uses (like that toggle). If you've played Valk a bit you'll know by now that you're constantly engaging and disengaging her jetpack; either of those two buttons would be in really awkward spots for that use case.

Okay then how about if we make it purely optional? Surely we could just LET people opt into a binding even if we think it's awkward? ...

Soon (tm). But seriously, it's being worked on with no date in mind yet.

I'm kind of upset nobody (that I saw!) asked me this question because I'm getting it like 5 times a day on Twitter, so I'm going to ask myself:

Hey /u/DanielZKlein, any chance we can get the option to bind Valk's jetpack to a key other than jump?

I totally understand and this is a tough one to answer without giving developer insight. A little of column A and column B. We have some big ideas for Olympus. The ship and the outbreak it brings is only the beginning.

A really early artistic and design intention. Kept World's Edge from feeling like KC and gives the map its own identity.