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Previous to this Season, the Support Class's identity was around banner crafting - which was nice, but we wanted a stronger identity that the support role could be known for, so I believe a change was needed.

And with that change, we could also move banner crafting to everyone - which gives everyone a better chance of getting back into the game.

However, while our intent was to land strong with this season, it is also our intent to ease off at this season's conclusion and leave the support class with a strong identity that stays in a healthy place for the game moving forward. So don't expect the current power level to remain in the game for the class forever.

As for Lifeline, we strongly believe she's a better combat medic with these changes than she was before, and the static and more outdated elements of her kit did warrant a change. Is she powerful right now? Yes, and there could likely be more changes to reign in that power while still keeping her new...

Lot to unwrap here!

We wanted Lifeline and the Support Legends to come out strong in this Season of Support.

When looking at Lifeline's Ultimate, we felt it was important that her newest ability didn't have strong hard counters that instantly made it obsolete - it's an ultimate after all - not a tactical like Gibraltar's dome.

For Newcastle, the change to make Newcastle's Tac Invulnerable was independent of any interaction with Maggie. Since the Mobile Shield only took damage before - once damage was also ignored it became a stronger counter to her Ult - we've been talking about this and may revisit this interaction in the future!

Gibraltar was a calculated choice to return him to some of his glory days for the Season of Support. We saw a lot the hard counters ruling him out as a potential pick, and before the season he was second or third from the bottom of the dream pool, so easing off on his hard counters this season was a chance for him to sta...

1. When we started on the Lifeline rework, a number of seasons back, she was a popular pick, but only at lower skill and ranks. Her kit was often referred to both internally and in the community as being outdated and outclassed by other support Legends. Most importantly, she was not hitting the Combat Medic fantasy we wanted from her. We started out with the intent to replace the care package - which in today's Apex, with all the new ways of getting loot felt the most left behind. During development, we found opportunities to improve her entire kit, and make her feel more like the Lifeline we see in trailers and hit on her combat medic fantasy wholesale.

2. Glide was inspired by Lifeline's interactions with D.O.C. in the various trailers and lore segments we've seen through Apex's history, and is something we always wanted to add. From a gameplay standpoint, it let Lifeline keep up with her aggressive teammates more easily and help her shortcut difficult terrain...

11:34am PT: Thanks for joining us! Our Lifeline Revived AMA has now concluded. For those that didn’t get a direct reply, there may have been an answer to a similar question.

Hey, r/ApexLegends!

From the Rift is well underway, but we wanted to take a moment to focus on the frontline medic turned menace, Lifeline! Our woman of the hour has been revived with new abilities, a revamped D.O.C., and recharged new look that all come with a story to back them. If you’d like a quick refresher, check out our ...

This is rad as hell. That build must've taken forever - gotta get all the details just right, find a way to put it on easily, and make it transportable. That's no easy feat.

Thanks. weird. We'll take a look. That's super helpful.

Whatever you are saying that you cannot access in the store.

Also I just confirmed that unfortunately the Ultimate+ is not currently available in Belgium because of how we grant the immediate rewards. Sorry about that. I will at least see if we can update the website copy to explain that.

you also can't access the event shop? Any chance you can post some screenshots of what you see in the lobby? TIA

I'll check, but it shouldn't be the case that I'm aware of. We have a standard process to swap packs for crafting materials in the game. And I can tell you, we do a LOT of testing for your one small country!

(Give me a couple days to get back to you...)

The two variant skins are locked to the Ultimate+. It's in the More Info button in-game. And also here - https://www.ea.com/games/apex-legends/battle-pass

Specifically, the section "Legend Skin Variants"

Only change for Belgium is that we can't give you Apex Packs so have to give you crafting materials instead.

i've flagged to anti-cheat team.

Yes. Let me see if I can find out when that was/is. I'm not on the rendering team.

you can check DX12 in the EA app or Steam - updated May 2024. https://www.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/16mwzaz/dev_team_update_directx_12_rhi/

Hard to give any feedback on "smoothness." Could even be related to your own network/ISP behavior.

Should be coming back up, but if you're still seeing issues please close out the game, give it a minute, then relaunch. That should refresh it.

I'm so sorry this happened. *if* you encounter this type of behavior and are able to get a recording of any of it, we can take action. In general, it's hard for voice chat to take action absent evidence (unlike text chat), though if you do report them it is followed up on; if there's a lot of reports for the same player(s), I think that makes a difference. But if you are able to get a recording of it, the CS team can take action on that. I know that's not necessarily the first thing on your mind when going through this.

fixed internally. should be going out soon.

I did ask about this specifically when the Tracker system went live. Good reminder to bump this. I am pretty sure we'll add these. I just have no idea when. But I have pointed out that this is missing for all new Legends and for anyone that didn't already have it. I'll ask again.

The artifact system. I've posted about this a bit in some other threads, but that project was massive undertaking. There's no other system in the game that that allows for modular customization in that way* (*Gladiator Cards are also modular, but they have no gameplay element, so they aren't really comparable). Getting that all to work in a scalable and "efficient" (from an engineering perspective) way was a huge task. We had to build a ton of new tech - most/all of which is reusable, but still, it required a lot of new tech. And fixing some OG tech that should have worked but it turned out had been bugged (though not meaningfully so) from the outset. It worked... until we tried to get it to work with Artifacts.

There are 250ish different variants of the Katar itself - blade, power source, and handle - each of which as unique VFX and SFX. Like, getting those all to work - especially in a networked game - was a lot. Plus actually building the customization system. Networking...