RobotHavGunz

I know we played other squad sizes when Arenas was being developed. But so much of apex is based around trios that I don't think there was a ton of investment in larger groups. But maybe with more varied squad size modes now it might play better. 

As a player I'd love to see arenas come back too. I played it almost exclusively for about three seasons. Still nothing quite like it. But I really have no idea. I don't work much on game modes stuff. I do mostly meta games systems. But I can say there are certainly still a lot of arenas fans. Both among the player base and internally. Arenas at its best was something truly special. Sudden death wins and losses were some of the hardest hitting games I've ever had. 

Can confirm there are a few legit 100 win badges. Not many - and I don't have the exact count offhand. But there certainly were a few. I remember the first one, we were tracking it internally ourselves waiting to see if the player would get it. Was pretty cool when it happened. Makes me want to go dig up who it was. I don't think this badge was ever bugged. The bug I remember was the BR win streak badge counted arenas by accident. 

acknowledged. we're on it.

The drop rate of shards is decoupled from the 500 pack guarantee. I.e., the drop rate is not 1/500. We keep track in the backend to ensure that if you have opened 499 packs and have not gotten shards, on your 500th pack you are *guaranteed* to get shards. This then resets that counter, as does receiving shards purely at random from a pack.

The guarantee was part of the level cap raise to 2000. If you reach level 2000, you are guaranteed to get 544 packs just from the standard progression flow. And because of that, you are therefore guaranteed to get shards. But it's the 2000 level cap, not the old 500 level cap.

easy enough to add in a Legend-specific craftable stat for wins-with-legend. I will ask about that. Certainly the data is there.

The other stuff - the image customization - is not possible (currently). These are just flat TGAs. We don't have a system to "skin" them. I mean, it's computers, so anything is theoretically possible, but that's like a major undertaking to basically make those images dynamic. Not that such a thing wouldn't be cool. It'd also allow us to do a longstanding request, which is that in-game squad banners reflect your skin. Same reason we haven't done that is the same reason we couldn't do this. It's just a big chunk of work to make something like that happen. Also same reason we can't pull the characters out of the art. Yes, certainly possible - it'd be like a much more involved version of the pose capture system for glad cards - but there are important differences between a 3D image capture and a 2D image capture. Definitely not plug-n-play there. And ...

I literally just got the ok. Changing it at this very moment to go in descending order. It'll go out with 22.1 patch.

I honestly do not know. I think we're hoping to see now that they system is so much more flexible what players actually want to do with this space. Like, now that this new form of customization exists, how do players use it? Now that you can use whatever art you want, what stats do you actually want to display?

Yes. The reverse sort on seasons is one of those things that I have no good answer as to why it hasn't been done. I remember one of my longtime squadmates reminding me how strange it is that it goes in ascending rather than descending order

I'll make a task to follow up on this.

please believe me when I say, I hear you...

Yeah, there are a bunch of places we need to add filtering. Weapon charms is the hardest to scroll and really needs the most work overall, but ideally we'd like to have a somewhat consistent setup for filtering.

We actually had it spec'ed out for this release - a single toggle filter like badges locked/unlocked, but we couldn't decide on *what* the actually filter should be. Our initial idea was seasonal/non-seasonal, but I don't know if that makes the most sense to players. I think we'll get feedback.

It was actually super overwhelming at first. That's when I was like, "whoa, I need to add some categories." But I think we could add more granularity. I did hope that the categorization into the three chunks would make the absence of filtering less painful, though yes to your point about it being a lot of scrolling...

Closer to four years actually. I pitched this on literally my first day at work - Dec 1, 2020. And kept annoying people about how we should do it. Finally they let me build it, probably at least in part to shut me up! :D For me, the main driver is that I'm bad, so my kills/wins/damage stats are ... not very good. So I wanted to be able to link something that wasn't purely skill based - Legend abilities are my personal favorite - but I also wanted the kick ass art. My original idea had more customization on the stats side, which I'd still like to do eventually, but it's a much tougher nut to crack on the UIUX side than this.

Glad you like it. And as for the suggestion, well, I think there's no real ownership of obviously good ideas!

you will need to unlock them.

I will ask about that. I know we could. When we introduced the first heirloom recolors, we had to build some infrastructure so that the heirloom poses reflected the correctly equipped heirloom. That same approach would be workable for the banner poses that have weapons - e.g., Bangalore & G7 ones, Mirage & Wingman, etc. - where we just apply whatever skin you have selected in customization. I like that. I will ask about it. It's not trivial - like, not just a switch I could flip - but i know how I would build it, so definitely following up on. Thank you.

pretty sure this is fixed in S22. I'm like 99% sure.

working on a proprietary engine is the only way, IMO. It's the thing I love the most about working on Apex. It's also the most intimidating part. Because we control literally 100% of our tech stack, we can do anything. But it also means that anything new we want, we have to build ourselves.

we already have *some* universal frames - the esports teams one. Not sure if we're planning to release more of them, but the tech there is done.

Universal *poses* (animations more generally) are a lot more complex in our engine, so I can say that isn't imminent. I certainly won't say we wouldn't do it in the future. But we'd need engineering work to make it happen.

Any tracker you already own that has background art - that art can be equipped to any Legend's glad card. There's an "equip to all" option as well that puts it in the same position on every banner.

The stats from those same trackers can only be equipped to the *specific* Legend (as, to date, they are Legend-specific stats).

So if you had a tracker that was, say, Kills with Bangalore that had background art. You can equip Kills With Bangalore on Bangalore's glad card only. But that background art can be equipped to any Legend.

If you have a tracker that's just a stat, if it's a Legend-specific stat, it's only equippable to that Legend. If it's a generic stat - like the Bow-Out Challenge - it can, as always, be equipped to any Legend. But you can now have any background art behind it.

I pitched a variant of this on my very first day at work - almost four years ago (Dec. 1, 20...

crap. sorry. :( I only tested one match as I was focused on getting the actual fix implemented ASAP.

Have seen a bunch of posts about this, and since this reasoning behind this doesn't reveal any great secrets and I think players generally appreciate some insight into the process and since it's entirely my fault and therefore I won't seem to throwing anyone else under the bus...

Anyway, it's a bug related to the new Artifacts. Basically, unlike every other skin in the game, Artifacts aren't a single skin; they are three - blade, power source, and theme. Making that system work in parallel alongside regular heirlooms - which are a single skin - was a unique challenge. And in testing, there were quite a lot of bugs - most (probably all) of which came from the DEV environment being different. Trying to split the difference between testing the flow as players would experience and also not making every artist who wanted to make a change have to buy each component one-by-...

As a temporary workaround until we can push a fix, if you do NOT go back into character customization for that specific character *after* equipping your Heirloom, it will stay equipped.

Basically:
- do whatever customization you want for a character
- equip your heirloom
- hit ESC (or back button on console) to return to the lobby character select menu
- hit ESC to return to the lobby and play your match as normal.

If you do go back into customization for that character, you will need to equip your heirloom again.

Now back to being waterboarded...

in this case, yes. But - per your bank example - your bank basically knows that (almost) every number they are every dealing with - at least every number that might need to be formatted - is a currency. So they can apply rules accordingly. Like, because it's currency, your bank is rarely going to - if ever - truncate a number for UI "neatness." Your bank is always going to favor absolute precision in every case. But we use the same rounding and truncation logic for basically everything. Damage, kills, games played, KDR, and currency. And yes, we could "always round down." But does that make as much sense for games played? Or damage? I am less sure. And yes, you can make it like an optional arg - round down/round up - but then you have to think through what's "best" in every case, and then make sure you have test cases for all those things, and ... Well, that's why I had found this be such a whack-a-mole type of debugging process to get right.