Apex Legends Dev Tracker

So I'll share a movement story that goes way back to TF. Hilariously, it's actually captured in the MSFT support threads - https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/xbox/forum/all/the-dead-zone/389fd425-1184-4b27-b7c3-157ed72762c0

Here are examples of the dead zones on the controller. The dead zone is on EVERY game on the Xbox one, besides Titanfall.

This is absolutely true. Microsoft actually had some real problems with the outer sections of the thumb sticks on the Xbox One. In the most notable example, the input map was a square rather than a circle, so the very outer edges of the sticks just got lost. It was actually Respawn devs who discovered this, because they kept running in...

Thank you so much for this. These posts mean so much. I've shared it a bunch internally because this is just such a wonderful sentiment.

Devs do actually want players to feel rewarded

Yes! Yes we do!!

Flagged! And quick update, sounds like this was fixed. Lmk if you're seeing otherwise.

Katar - three customizations in total across all legends:

For example:

• Set 1 - Wraith, Horizon, Caustic
• Set 2 - Lifeline, Gibby
• Set 3 - Maggy, Seer

if you update set 1, those changes will apply to ALL legends that have set 1 equipped.

Karambit - any legend can equip any one of the colors you own. No swapping required.

For example:

• Lifeline - green
• Wraith, Bangalore - red
• Maggy - blue
• Caustic, Catalyst - grey
• Seer, Bloodhound - yellow

Changes you make to one legend will have no effect on other legends.

Customizable weapons are definitely on the table. See the Serpent's Sting with the kill counter. Will we do another Katar-esque weapon? I really don't know. We're experimenting a lot right now and seeing what player's actually seem to want. I certainly hope we do another weapon like the Katar where you can mix-and-match - and I definitely built the system expecting we would. But it's really up to players to help guide us there.

Color customization is super interesting. I wouldn't be allowed to say if it's something we're actively exploring, but I doubt it would surprise anyone if I said it's something that we've discussed. I know that's a sh*tty non-answer. But also hope you can understand why I couldn't just say yes/no.

I knew a response like was coming, but I nevertheless want to take some time to answer this. As I said, the overwhelming majority of those 18 months was creative work - concept art, 3d models, vfx, animation, sound fx, etc. These are not the folks who work on any of what players rightly pinpoint as core issues. An animator isn't going to work on anti-cheat. A VFX artist isn't going to dive into the nuances of matchmaking. A concept artist isn't going to unravel why footstep audio sometimes doesn't play.

Even among technical folks, there's specialization. Most of my expertise within Apex is on meta-game systems - challenges, cosmetics, stats, progression systems, etc. I would like to believe I'm capable enough to contribute in other areas - and I certainly have, but most of my expertise is in these systems. I've done work across a lot of different parts of the game - I was part of the team that made core changes to Ranked to make it easier for us to flag and revok...

Just to give some context on the Karambit vs the Katar from a development standpoint. The Katar was a close to 18mo project that necessitated building a lot of entirely new systems from the ground up. But most of the work in that time was creative work, making all the unique variants. I was the technical lead on that project, and it was arguably one of the most interesting things I've worked on in my four years on Apex. But it was also resource intensive enough - especially in terms of things that don't automatically scale like modeling, vfx, animation, etc - that it wasn't clearly worth it to you the players to do again versus putting those resources elsewhere.

The tech is there to have made the Karambit customizable like the Katar. But the actual humans who do the creative work of making those intricate designs do not scale in the same way as the code. A lot of the tech we built for the Katar is being reused by some of these newer Legend-agnostic heirlooms. But a lot of i...

Chefs Kiss!

Now tracking on Trello, fix in progress.

Any chance of a screenshot/recording? Shoot me a chat with that (if you've got it) and your gamertag and we can investigate.

Update on Xbox should now be downloading after the delay.

Xbox hit some delays, but you should see it start to download shortly.