Apex Legends Dev Tracker

We designed Apex Legends with a long-term core competitive identity to master over time as opposed to short-term novelty. I agree that we do not have enough of the right kind of player progression in the game at the moment and is something we're putting a lot of effort in to for players of all skill level.

I want to be incredibly clear with what I'm saying in that portion of the blog post.

We have been pretty quiet since launch on what our actual long-term plans are for Apex Legends. We talked about our seasonal approach, and then shipped some stuff and fixed some bugs. This has led to a vacuum in the community where lots of speculation and desire has resulted in disappointment from everyone. This blog post is the first step in clarifying where we are, where we're going, and what to expect. Specifically, we're going to start talking about content and features before they drop and give everyone more insight as to when to expect that stuff. This means we will be doing less hot-drops (like Season 1 or the game itself) and more traditional lead-up marketing when the time is right. This does NOT mean we're talking months in advance of things that may or may not happen. We want our communication to you guys to have concrete information and timelines wherever possible.

What specifically would you like to see for changes?

I'd have to check if its on the list - so no promises, but I'll do some digging.

Any more detail you can provide on footsteps and gunfire inconsistency? We definitely spend a lot of effort on ensuring a detailed and comprehensible soundscape and want to ensure it is working as intended.

After recent balance changes it is clear that Mirage is slightly underperforming compared to other Legends. No plans to share at the moment, but we like to take a holistic approach to balancing characters to ensure they're where they need to be.

There is always a fine balance between information and clutter. When it comes to down the barrel gunplay we tend to try and err on the side of keeping the picture sight clean. Good feedback, though!

Challenges no. Another bonus XP event is definitely possible.

1. Sorry, won't comment on future content at the moment.

2. Nothing to share on any economy changes at this time.

3. Right now nothing is really standing out as blatant or problematic, that said we're always watching data and reading feedback if any changes are needed.

As mentioned in the post, between now and June we're focusing on fixing some of the core issues the game currently has while continually working on additional content. At EA PLAY in June we will be showing off some of what is in store for Season 2.

Hey all, Drew and I will be sticking around for next hour or so to answer questions that we can [as of posting this at 10:35am PDT today]

To say that the launch of Apex Legends exceeded our expectations would be an understatement. 50 million players the first month (and growing) is staggering for any studio, let alone a new IP from a relatively small team who, for many, were taking their first swing at a free-to-play game.

Rapid growth is a wonderful thing to achieve, and we’re thrilled with the response we’ve received since launch. However, that growth comes with some clear challenges, and we’ve hit a few bumps along the way, including missteps with our updates, not giving players enough visibility into future content, and properly setting expectations on how we plan to support Apex Legends.

We are 100% committed to the long-term growth of Apex Legends, and supporting the millions playing every day. So today we want to reset our commitment to you and give...

Correct. The point of the feature is more about making sure players give a fair shot to their squad. In that implementation of the feature, that doesn't include being required to wait for a possible banner recovery or respawn. There are a number of issues with doing so that aren't easy solves (e.g. *accurately* detecting if your squad mates have any intention of recovering your banner in the first place) and the payoff isn't objectively worth it... you can still end up with players forced to sit around for 90 seconds while their teammates fail at recovery. Right now, once you're dead, your obligation ends.

I can say that all these issues are being worked on but I don't know the timelines for when the fixes go out

From my POV it has definitely been a positive decision for the game. While the dev team definitely has its fair share of cis white dudes we do care about representation and take it very seriously. I see some comments in this thread about it being some kind of PR ploy, but in reality we really just want to represent a world and characters that are unique, wide, and interesting - just like the playerbase. It's been awesome seeing the community latch on to and rally behind their favorite characters for whatever reason they like - whether it's their abilities, personality, background, orientation, or anything else.

What I wasn't fully expecting was the impact ping has had for women or people who usually get toxicity for using voice comms. That has been incredibly cool to watch.

Of course I did the dumb internet thing where I didn't watch the video and made a comment. Ok now that I've watched the video 😥

It does look like the bleed through can instantly kill you. I've seen this bug before in testing and we've fixed it but it looks like the fractional bleed through is triggering it again.

This is worse than I originally described it for sure so I apologise about that. Either way, we should definitely fix it soon

This is actually false. What is happening is that when the damage reduction happens, it is possible for some to bleed through the shield. When I say some, I am talking less than 1.

The problem is that the client inspects the damage and sees that it did any damage to health at all so it thinks the entire 25dmg or whatever was applied to the health so it decides to not display any of the shield effects.

Again, in reality, most if the damage went to the shield with only fractions of a health point deducted from health.

Still a bad bug since it confuses people but it's not really as bad as this post makes it out to be

I prefer referring to it as my double chin, but I guess you could say it's a fat neck.