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We are not aware of any problems with matchmaking on Asian servers, but we do see fluxations of player counts on certain playlists for each region. Currently, Trios is our number one played mode, followed by ranked, so that does mean that you may see fewer people playing Duos in off-peak hours and queue times could go up. You can try changing to another datacenter thought!

We read a lot of comments like "Fix the game", "Fix your servers!", or "This game is broken". We really do want to help, but generic questions like these are not very useful. We fix hundreds of bugs a month, constantly look at crash info on our backend, and watch videos and listen to issues posted online, but when someone simply says "Fix your game" it would be more effective to speak to your specific issue in detail.

Sometimes issues could be specific to your platform, your datacenter, your PC specs, and we also need to know what you're referring to! I promise you we are listening and trying to help, but generic "fix the game!" don't help as much as the more detailed threads we get.

Not really, I just answered another similar question in more detail!

This is a great question, and something we are asking ourselves as well. We definitely have a bit of a blindspot when it comes to testing that we're trying to resolve, but I'll explain why it exists and what we're doing going forward.

When it comes to testing, our internal playtests are quite different than playing the live game for many reason. For one, we're playtesting with only about 200 players in a single queue, versus the millions of players in the live game. This means 2 things. First, it means that our queue times are longer between matches, so we inadvertintly play the game a bit differently knowing that we can't just jump right into another match when we die. Second, it means we have all skill levels in the same match, from highly skilled to not so skilled. This also has an impact as to how the game is played, and can change our thoughts on the difficulty of a particular challenge. That said, we absolutely do have data from the live game that we can use, so let...

Thank you! I do think that in the future you'll see some other permanent modes. We're very passionate about Apex Legends, the legends themselves, and the gameplay possibilities outside of Battle Royale. I don't have anything to announce at this time, but there are certainly no shortage of ideas and prototypes here at Respawn!

Cross-progression is something I am really passionate about adding to the game, and we're discussing our options and potential solutions. It's a complex problem, especially post launch when people have multiple accounts already made on different platforms but we have some really smart people thinking about it as we speak. Hopefully sometime in the future we can support it, but it's still early development.

I hear ya. We have an improvement for this on our todo list!

The website I think you're referring to is not made by Respawn or EA. There are a few websites out there that are made by third party companies, or in some cases individuals with engineering experience who are fans of the game. Because they are developed by third parties Respawn has no control over those websites or any bugs they may have.

Before I get into the reason for the battlepass change, I'll start by saying that the team has the player's best interests in mind, and we are not trying to play negotiation games with our players. Respawn is made up of passionate gamers just like yourself. We also aren't trying to secretly force you all into buying more battlepass levels. I promise you everyone here on the team are good people, passionate gamers, and just want whats best for the game.

There were really 2 changes to the battle pass, each had its own reason. First, we streamlined the challenge system to reward stars, and 10 stars is a battlepass level. We implemented this change with the intent to simplify how the battlepass works and more clearly indicate what a challenge is worth. The second change was to the difficulty or time investment needed on the challenges. We've seen in our data that most players were completing the battlepass about 2/3 through the season and then not having much left do to in th...

Thank you! The team is very excited to have just launched such a big season!

Haha I get that a lot. It's "Hockey Skater 187". I grew up playing hockey, and still play (well except during pandemics). I've had this username since I was around 9 years old and just stuck with it ever since. Goes back to the Prodigy and AOL days!

It's something we are very passionate about, and we're looking at our options available. Much harder post-launch since users may have multiple accounts to merge or use. Easier with Steam because it's at launch. We'll give an update when we have something to talk about.

We could have, yes. Sorry we missed the communication piece it was a bit of a misstep on our part while trying to sort out some things with Fight or Fright and Season 7.

Agree the communication was bad. We are discussing internally and will be better going forward. We hope to make up the gap with increased XP at the end of the season.

We are planning double XP for end of season due to us reducing the time by a few days, and also you can expect a slight season 7 retune

Lots of progress and work being done internally to fix audio issues. 7.0 will contain a handful of fixes, as well as additional debugging to help with some of the harder to catch issues. Several other improvements being worked on now that will come just after 7.0.

Oh I guarantee you we continue taking risks :)

Changing aim assist for millions of players 1.5 years post launch is something that can really upset people, as is making console aim assist match PC. Needs some time. Everyone came at us with pitchforks with the TTK change I’m not wanting to go through that again with aim assist.

Console and PC players can party up together and play in PC lobbies, but PC players wont be matched into console lobbies.

We talked about that, and are considering it. There's an added challenge for us that we have different aim assist settings between PC and console, so more discussion is needed on our end. Definitely appreciate the feedback on this. Our priority was to get this feature out the door. Now that we've done that we can listen and tweak.