Apex Legends Dev Tracker

Originally posted by HAMMERHEAD394

u/ricklesauceur - You mentioned the latency issues in Asian server very briefly. Can you elaborate on that or point me to the right resources so that I can look it up and understand what these inherent issues are?

Originally posted by Beppu-Gonzaemon

I was not trying to disparage you or cause strife. Thank you for all that you do

Originally posted by equaNJ

Hi Samy. Thanks for taking the time to do this interview. It was incredibly informative and inspiring for a budding network professional. I completely understand the philosophy that Respawn has decided to take with interpolation in Apex Legends for the sake of making the game more accessible to those around the world with higher latency. I think you and the team have done a brilliant job at making Apex Legends a game that almost anyone around the world can pick up and find an enjoyable play experience with, even if they suffer from common networking issues in more remote parts of the world. I sincerely want you to know you really have done something truly spectacular with the netcode in Apex Legends.

I am curious, however, if it is plausible with your network infrastructure to allow for more refined interpolation settings to be made standard, or at least somewhat accessible, for more competitive modes of play within Apex Legends? Has it at all been considered to introduce s...

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Originally posted by Duke_Best

I mean broken as in solo players that are > 500 level. When I pub queue it’s obvious I’m being partied almost exclusively with sub-100 level players for about 6 games. Then, poof!, I get matched with a couple players 300 level or above. We either win game or come in top-5, then next 6 games it’s matched with sub-level 100 players again. It’s really obvious what happening and very disheartening. I realize pubs aren’t ranked, but consistently being paired with much lower level teammates is no fun.

Originally posted by Duke_Best

u/ricklesauceur - Kudos to the host for bringing up SBMM. It's good to see some verification as to why SBMM is broken for many people (especially solo queuers) from a Dev and that you have ideas on how to fix it. I know it's likely out of your hands, but any possible ETAs on when you/your team can actually start to implement it?

Originally posted by PalkiaOW

Thanks for the insightful interview. Many of us play Apex basically every day, so it's very interesting to get a look behind the scenes on fundamental topics like lag compensation or matchmaking.

I think it's no secret that a lot of players (especially towards the high skill brackets) are unhappy with the pub and arena matchmaking. The most common complaint is that solo queuers are frequently matched against high-skill premades, while often receiving low-skill teammates. This is especially frustrating in Arenas, since getting two Lv40 teammates while facing triple stacking Diamond+ players feels like the game is over before it even started.

Personally I feel like the pub SBMM has improved a lot over the past two years, so I'm confident that it will keep getting better. But are you guys planning any future improvements specifically for this solo vs premades situation?

Originally posted by fLu_csgo

Thanks man! I actually do and it was a point that was verrrrry briefly touched on regarding hairpinning (literally mentioned off the cuff) :

I live in the UK and honestly, some times it feels like we live in the United Kingdom of Latency when playing vs the rest of Europe - this has gone back 20+ years as far as dial up days and pre-DSL/ADSL internet - when we used to play CS beta!

Have you ever come across evidence (even anecdotal) to point towards people living on islands (even as "developed" as the UK) to suggest that living on an island can be detrimental to network traffic leaving said island? As opposed to say, being in France/Belgium/Germany/Netherlands for instance, where the network infrastructure is much more accessible than infrastructure that travels under the sea (and by very definition is "harder" to maintain)?

Could it literally be down to how badly the infrastructure is maintained/has aged (without refresh) in the UK as opposed to th...

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Originally posted by ManAndHisMastiff

Was this fixed in the recent patch? Octanes boosted health regen and quiet steps are dominating rn

Originally posted by fLu_csgo

Just started watching this - fantastic so far, really really good insights in to matchmaking. Makes me really happy that Respawn have such good engineers on board - Samy is clearly very very good at his job, and passionate to boot. I am so glad they put stuff like this out there and allow their engineers to talk freely!

Originally posted by writing-nerdy

Sorry to be antsy, will I be a happy dude regarding the season 10 launch...? :D

Originally posted by Beppu-Gonzaemon

I am having trouble understanding him