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I'll chime in on this because a lot of this falls on me as the leader of the Apex team, but I truly believe Respawn has it's employee's best interest and health in mind, and always has.

Transitioning to WFH all of a sudden during a pandemic was indeed very hard on the team, took some getting accustomed to, and we all certainly had never gone through this before so we're all in some uncharted territory. We certainly didn't have the tools, tech, or systems in place to make a smooth transition to going from several hundred person team on the same campus to a completely remote studio. During this transition, I knew that not only was work going to be more difficult and less productive, but people would also be dealing with a scary global pandemic. Add to that the pressures even in a normal environment of making a live service game and we were set up for likely the biggest challenge we've ever faced, and are still facing as we continue to work from our homes.

As the Apex ...

I said that in the dev stream. This is amazing! Haha. Thanks for sharing and you guys never fail at accepting challenges and delivering on them.

Apparently hasn’t rolled out to all servers yet. We are working on the issue. Thanks for letting us know.

May take 20-40 mins to roll out across all servers in the world.

They should be, yes

We've talked about this, but are concerned with the number of leaks that would come from it. We generally do pretty well on finding these issues but this slipped through the cracks. Anyhow, we fixed it now.

We published a fix for this.

Thank you! It’s days like today and reading all your comments that gets the team really pumped and motivated to keep crushing it.

Can’t reveal details but hey I like what you’re saying.

And a whole lot more! Wait till you see the patch notes, coming soon :) I can’t wait for Tuesday to play with everyone.

Calling us armchair activists is totally unfair. Many of the developers of this game are participating in protests in the streets, making large donations (and having those donations double matched by EA), and posting on their personal social media accounts to enact change. We are also building a game with a diverse cast of characters.

We have a game that reaches tens of millions of people, so it was the passionate people at the studio who rallied to get a message out there within our game, not a corporation or EA. This is a message from those who built this game, of all races and colors, and are sickened by the racism that exists out there.

You can see in this thread that this brings mixed feelings to people, so calling it a PR stunt or for profit also isn’t true. Unfortunately there’s actually a lot of risk in doing this, both PR and profit. We didn’t care.

These are my thoughts only and not those of Respawn or EA

You should still earn all the progress and rewards while the UI is missing.

Congrats on your sobriety and we’re all rooting for you. Glad our game had the impact it has had, it’s one of the reasons I love making games!

We have spent a good part of the day trying to learn what went wrong to those lucky people who are affected by this. We will put out a fix as soon as we are able to. Definitely not just sitting back on this. Appreciate all of the info everyone has provided, and I’m sorry for the inconvenience. My understanding is that in the meantime you can still see and complete the event challenges by looking at them in game next to the minimap.

We actually tried to stop the PC patch but couldn’t. Unfortunately we didn’t detect the issue early enough. Patch rollouts are like heavy train, once in motion can’t be stopped on a dime due to all the different groups involved and server propagation.

No hard feelings on people being upset. I am upset too. Just happy there are people out there who care. If nobody cared about our game that would be very bad :)

Team has been working all day and pulled an overnight on the console patch. We believe we have a fix for the framerate issue on all platforms, we are currently running internal tests to verify. If all goes well expect some news soon, otherwise we will continue to work on it. Apologies for the inconvenience, it’s important for us to make sure it’s right before we push the update.

Great idea, wish we thought of it haha. I’ll throw your suggestion over to the right dudes. Also, your MS pint skills are super legit.

For me, more like game devs first, and presenter like 9th or 10th :)

Jake killed it on the mode. I can't wait to play it on Oct 15 with everyone.

Thanks! We're planning to do more of these, as long as people are watching.