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This is not the intended interaction; sorry, this slipped off our radar when we meant to special case it. Will be fixed for 8.1 where one cast of Fuse tac will do 50% max hp to any wall it hits.
This is not the intended interaction; sorry, this slipped off our radar when we meant to special case it. Will be fixed for 8.1 where one cast of Fuse tac will do 50% max hp to any wall it hits.
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Since Loba is a loot based legend why cant she open blue supply bins? i don’t see a problem in sharing it with lifeline.
Fun fact: she used to be able to, when we treated ability to open blue bins as a "class passive" for support legends; her and Lifeline are the only support legends so far. I don't 100% remember why we moved off that during her dev; might have been that we couldn't find good fits for class passives for defensive and assault, might have been that we thought Loba already had enough loot power. I really can't remember now! (We would have made that call some time in February 2020)
That's absolutely something on the table we could bring back. We'd need a few more new voice lines for her (not a problem; just adds some dev time) and we'd need to make sure we absolutely do want new support legends to get access to blue bins (sounds like a no-brainer, but you never know in game design).
Why not buff her ultimate? Here's my idea.
When you manually close the Black Market, it steals all the ammo out of everyone's guns in the nearby area, and dumps it on the floor of where the Black Market was, forcing everyone to reload.
It also makes sense, since she's actually thieving from people, rather than being a pro scavenger, and would give you a good opportunity to push on enemies. (Also, it's a minor L-Star buff since it would be immune to this, and I love that gun)
I actually think the tactical is fine. The only problem is that it is just the only ability she has that is directly useful in combat, so it has to do a lot of heavy lifting. Letting a Loba sabotage her enemies with her ult would be great.
I seriously cannot tell if this is a sh*tpost or not. If it is, good work!
Ik this is a bit off topic but I know your primary expertise is in legend balance so I was wondering, are their any planned buffs for mirage in Season 8 (whether that be 8.0 or 8.1)
Nothing planned for him other than actually shipping the footstep sounds. Oopsy.
That won't be a bad thing?
I mean.... Having someone else sitting at the top for a change is only refreshing. Wraith meta is starting to look old tbh. Horizon is not only fun to play, but she feels new and amazing.
Oh absolutely! She's a great candidate to sit on top. The question isn't just "is she on top", it's "is she on top with a wide gulf between herself and the next legend down". That's where it gets a little unhealthy. We want you to feel that most, if not all, Legends are pickable, and if you have a clear best legend by such a wide margin you'd be trolling in ranked not to have at least one person pick her. That's bad for pick diversity.
Why aren't you start slowly making everyone the same hitbox? Make legends have big hitboxes with low profile is the most lazy and stupid way to balance a legend
It's actually the opposite of lazy! We created a whole bunch of extra work for ourselves for really no gameplay benefit.
Listen. If we were developing Apex today, I'd be like "EVERYONE IS ON THE SAME SET OF HITBOXES, MAKE IT WORK". Unfortunately that's not the world we live in. You may have noticed we haven't shipped another legend on a large hitbox; there's a reason for that. Unless we find a way to shrink Gibby and Caustic visually in a way that's not super derpy without having to redo all their skins and animations (and probably do the same for our tiny legends), I don't see us realistically moving to the same hitboxes for everyone, as preferable as that would be.
It's absolutely possible the hitbox nerf won't affect her win rate... What are you going to do then?
Quit in disgust ;P
More seriously, we have more options, but the hitbox nerf worked wonders for Pathy, putting him into a very healthy place without nerfing him too much, so remain hopeful.
Is there an indicator for people playing against the golden magazine?
Will I know if the Wraith who just blew her whole volt mag at me is able to auto load?
I don't think so, and that may well be a concern! I don't know how often it's relevant to track an enemy through two different reloads, but I could see this being frustrating if it happens.
Daniel could you confirm if a tactical buff is coming for loba? because that would keep me motivated to play her even though her tactical is the worst
I can't confirm that anything's coming, but we're looking at it. One of the possible outcomes of looking at it is that we don't make a change, so keep that in mind. Certainly nothing planned for Season 8.
Hello. I was wondering if you are planning to modify Bangalore somehow since she basically wasn't touched since game release. I remember an idea here on reddit that her smoke granade could break doors or her ult rockets be triggered by proximity of an enemy and not by timer.
I never wanna change a character just for the sake of changing them. What would be your goal in making a change to Bangalore? Her abilities seem pretty good and healthy for the game, her performance is really good both in terms of pick rate and win rate; like, why make a change to that?
Wraith's hitbox nerf will be interesting to see.
I suppose Horizon will be hit in a similar way?
We've got some other stuff planned for her, but if nothing else works we'll probably go to hitbox as well, yeah. The concern is that when we nerf Wraith we leave Horizon all by herself in that top position.
Read moreI listened to your design approach on that one podcast and made me realize youre pretty damn smart. I agree that wall running would break the game in the hands of good players if the tf2 version is implemented. But Isn't your current take a little narrow minded though?
Just nerf the wall running aspect until you feel it is balanced. Like no midair jump. No 30 second wall runs. No speed increase. You could even add lingering jump jets trails to improve legibility of combat. Give it to a large character so he is easy to hit/see. Make it a tactical or ultimate so it's not always in use. Make it loud so new players know where to look. Surely one or all of these ideas would make it possible?
So many people want it in the game- and I know you could figure out a way to make it happen if you were just a little more open to a nerfed version of it. I agree with 99 percent of your decisions but I just wish you would reconsider your stance on this one. Could you please bring ...
A lot of the ways in which I sound smart are just me benefiting from the knowledge this team has amassed over the years! I'm still new to designing for FPS games, so I absorbed as much of their combined learnings as I could when I started here. I don't have first hand experience of the negative impacts of wall running on the long term enjoyment of a shooter, so I can't really speak with confidence here. You may be right, there may be a tuned down version of it that works, or you may be wrong and any amount of added mobility over what we have now may imperil the secret sauce that makes Apex so good: your ability to understand and play smartly around complicated combat situations.
See the really scary part of this, to me, is that this is somewhat resistant to playtesting. It's the kind of unexpected negative side effect that manifests only over many many hours of millions of people playing with it and seeing what they can do with it. I, too, am excited by the potential of wa...
Read moreRead moreYou overbuffered her ultimate and left her tactical underwhelming. The charge time on her ultimate compared to other legends is a little crazy. I love playing her, but her tactical is often more punishing than rewarding. A cooldown like pathfinders would help in situations where using it is punishing. The bracelet is so hit and miss. If you compare her tactical to other mobility based tacticals it has to be at the bottom for efficiency. I understand wanting to make it not too OP but she's supposed to be a sneaky little thief but her bracelet is the equivalent of a loud music blaring disco ball blasting through the sky.
Have you considered giving her a slight buff with the teleportation endpoint? I find the most frustrating thing being that the bracelet is so easy to see that if you use it in any kind of fight, especially if there is line of sight, the entire enemy team will lazor you the second you blink. The second or two it takes to orient usually ends in death. If you fi...
Moving some of the power from ult to tac is absolutely an option! We buffed her ultimate because anecdotally it hadn't been used much at all--both from looking at our games as and with Lobas and from watching streams, people basically disregarded the ability. We definitely fixed that, but it was a heavy swing. I think we could add some CD back into the ultimate and tone down how much of it she gets for free start of match. Don't think we're locked into always having this much power in the ult now! But it for sure was the safer option; I don't think any amount of power in her ult would have made us go "oh sh*t that was too much, revert immediately", while with the tactical that was a real risk.
Quick question, I’m assuming the data says Loba uses her ultimate more than her tactical. Does any other legend also use their ultimate more?
This is actually not a data point we look at / have a graph for. It's hard to compare, right, what with tacticals and ultimates being on such very different CD ratios between different legends. I'm sure we could get that data, but I'm not sure what I would do with it.
Is it going to have a notification just like Crypto reloads a weapon while dronning?
Yup! Quick popup and IIRC a sound. I never miss when my offhand is reloaded in playtests, so whatever they're doing is working for me.
Are you considering reworking or removing the gold stabilizer? After the muzzle flash fix is kinda pointless
This is a great question to ask our weapon designers whenever the S8 AMA rolls around. I don't work on weapons and mods so I don't wanna misrepresent their thinking!
Quick question - Is there going to be Gold Magazine for every ammo type or just 1 GOLD MAG that fits all?
Sorry if it's dumb. Asking this because I'm not sure how it fits in the loot pool.
I don't actually know! I didn't work on the feature. I've definitely seen light/heavy/energy in our playtests, I don't recall off the top of my head if there's gold snipers, but if I had to guess I'd say yes? You'll know soon enough!
I don't think we're treating shotgun bolts as mags (since they don't increase ammo capacity), so I don't think there's a gold bolt. Again, I didn't work on the feature myself tho.
I think some of you imagine this to be a lot faster than it is. There's a good delay before a holstered weapon is reloaded, and if it turns out that delay isn't long enough, we can always increase it. This shouldn't be usable for cheating out of a reload; this should be for switching to another weapon, using it for a bit, and then switching back to your reloaded initial weapon.
It's still really powerful! But I wanted to jump in before everyone thinks this is instant or whatever.
Hey Daniel, while i still have you, are you guys still looking into cross progression or is it out of the question because I was looking into switching to pc but I got my wraith heirloom yesterday so I really can’t give that up
I'm not in those conversations (and they're probably like two job titles above my paygrade), but my understanding is conversations are on-going and there's nothing new to report yet. Sorry!