Apex Legends Dev Tracker

I'm personally bummed about this issue because I think our ambition is to serve players no matter where they are in the world, but the market realities and infrastructure limitations in Africa are making us fall short of our ambitions there.

It's something we're pushing to improve but we don't have imminent solutions.

Oh yes, the XP thing is actually a bug and we're working on a fix!

lol i f*ckin' will, ty

We look at legends as a whole and not necessarily just the passive or tactical in a vacuum. Pathfinder does well in Arenas despite there being no survey beacons. I have my eye on Crypto and considering some changes for how to help him out a little.

A pricing question! One of the scariest of all! Our monetization guy's answer below:

Pricing is tricky and something we think about constantly. A couple of things I want to talk about here for more context:

• Respawn is gameplay first - Because of that, the first goal we tried to adhere to is that gameplay isn't locked in anyway around monetization and that it doesn't feel pay-to-win. That's why Legends are grindable and Legend Tokens are generally easier to get to unlock Legends (yes, we know that has led to other challenges we have to fix...math is harder than people think and when your assumptions are wrong, it's hard to adjust). With that goal accomplished and the game not feeling pay-to-win, the other half of the equation we have to think about is how to keep the business healthy so we can keep making more Apex!

• Content creation costs - As much as people think we can turn cosmetics out easily b...

No current plans for crosshair customization unfortunately. Apex's crosshairs are actually quite complex and technical. They don't just grow and shrink in size due to hipfire spread! They move based on aim point movement due to animation and such, change color and add elements sometimes due to character abilities (pathfinder grapple), fade in and out based on sprinting and ammo, go transparent on and off with ADS and menus, and all sorts of stuff. Building a system such that we can present options for players, preview the results, and hook all that data deep into our crosshair UI script would be a really massive undertaking, and it would make future changes and new crosshair additions way more difficult. It's just not high on the priority list in terms of bang for the buck sadly.

It would be nice, and maybe we can get some smaller scope stuff in like color adjustments, but no promises for now, sorry!

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u/RoboB0b answered this in a previous post

As for the future of Arenas, the first thing on the table is Ranked Arenas. Can't talk about when that's coming out but know that it's a top priority for us.

Funny story about bomb mode:

We definitely playtested a bomb mode early in Arenas development! It was... not as good as you think it would be... it creates a weird situation where you start looking at characters in context of the objective and it really exposes how many of the characters aren't built for a bomb mode. At the end of the day, it was really important for Arenas that character abilities feel valuable. Now I get that not EVERY ability is valuable in Arenas, but 90% is way better than 25%

Yes! We do plan to reward our level 500 players and give them more to earn. We've got a couple different cool things in the works but can't share any information yet, but yes we absolutely plan to reward our most dedicated players.

It's really early days and I'm probably jinxing myself right now, but she seems to have landed very well? Like she's clearly powerful at 5th in win rate rankings, but not overbearingly so; she came in as popular as most new legends but seems to be stabilizing now in the top pick slot. From playing a lot of Apex since Legacy came out it doesn't seem like she's particularly frustrating to fight either? I don't know, tell me if I'm wrong, but she seems... fine?

She's been hit hard in terms of pick rate which is understandable: she just straight up got hit with a pretty big nerf and another high-mobility Legend was released. Winrate-wise she went from the strongest by far to like 6th? 7th? Out of 16, that's still in the upper half of power. It's super harsh in contrast to where she was before, but that's because she was a really strong outlier in terms of power before. I think if she released at this current state, she'd be just fine. She's roughly where Valk is now (ever so slightly below Valk). It's just that if you were used to her incredibly powerful state before, she'll probably feel like ass right now. Give it a few months for things to shake out and we'll see if she needs follow-up work.

It's very hard to comment on any specifics. As you mentioned, for every innocent post there are people who we do have proof have cheated. For anyone who was innocently banned because their account was hacked and got a shoulder shrug from EA support to me that is not acceptable until some further information is gathered and determined to be justified. We have been recently trying to improve our relationship with the EA support team, as well as giving them more tools to help support issues like this in a better way. It's something that we're certainly trying to get a better handle on, as we as a dev team obviously cannot handle every player individually ourselves. In the short term, as we continue to give our support team a better toolset and information on how to handle these issues, I recommend that everyone turn on 2FA on their accounts.

Unfortunately, probably not. It wouldn't be good for a cosmetic item to give in game power, definitely want to avoid that when possible. It would be pretty sweet flavor though!

TLDR: yes

Yeah, I mean... maybe? Ults are supposed to be the kind of ability where you think to yourself "is this the fight where i'm supposed to use this?" (unless of course they are on the weaker end) so I would hesitate to make more powerful ones available every round.

Yes, if you don't have a full team then you won't be punished

EDIT - unless you leave too early. There is a point in time where it's still possible for the game to add a player into the match, gotta wait until the first round starts!

I can't provide you any update other than we want to do it, and we're working on it. Once I have more information about a release date, we certainly won't hold the information back because we know how important it is to our community.

We're always looking at our weapon balance through data, frustrations on reddit, streams, etc. You name it we've probably already seen it and talked about it. What this means is that we're always looking to make Apex gunplay a balanced and fun experience for everyone and give each weapon room to breath within their design space.

With that in mind and without giving away any of our plans you can expect that if a gun, such as the Spitfire, is an outlier in performance, even after a round of nerfs, we'll continue to iterate. There is a very fine line between nudging a weapon into balance and accidentally nerfing it into the ground. To achieve this we need to make bets and playtest, playtest, playtest which tends to take time- sometimes more time than we'd like but it's a necessary evil when it comes to maintaining a large roster of weapons.

I assume you mean the local charge up without a beam and then single fire shot, so I'll respond based on that assumption! I'm not the original designer on the Charge Rifle, so I can't comment with 100% certainty on the decision, but the main answer is counterplay and victim frustration.

One of the major axes of power for an Apex weapon is something I personally call "burstiness" (it's a technical term). While TTK and DPS refer to how quickly a weapon can kill someone, "burstiness" is how much damage is done in one short moment, or how _spikey_ it is. Most snipers have quite poor TTK, i.e. they don't down players as quickly as any of the other guns, because they have very slow fire rates comparatively. But, the tradeoff for this is that they do lots of damage in one shot, which has advantages in certain situations like catching someone by surprise, or engaging in peeking poke battles where players will hide back in cover as soon as they start taking damage (and you can hide ...

Fences will be fixed soon! I think her shield regen is fine. It's a lot of power, and she's very powerful. I'd rather not keep pushing more power into her into until she becomes overbearing. Until we push her power, how do you say, beyond capacity.