StryderPilot

Hey! Thanks for asking! We've got a ton of ideas for future maps and the team is working hard on new custom maps as we speak.

In terms of POI usage for Arenas, we have a plan to use new ones every season. Estates has been highly requested along with a few others (Skulltown) but I’m tightlipped on which POIs we choose to use in Arenas. :)

We’re VERY open to experimenting with different style of Arena maps. We’re trying wacky ideas and some spicy locations; some not even POIs but open fields in BR maps. However, when it comes to the size of Arena maps, we want to be careful that Arenas doesn't turn into TDM. We carefully choose locations or create custom maps that allow teams to breathe, strategize and create pacing that starts off slow and ramps up in intensity over a period of time. We tried some smaller maps internally, and it gave rise to reactive combat that rewarded twitch shooting and that doesn’t give time for teams to strategize while on the move. Plus, some ...

Not at launch, but it's something we want just as much! Can't say anything more than that.

They don't. Arena and BR stats will be separate. There are Arena only stats (and badges) that you can flex on your banner.

It’s awesome to see you try to figure out the design problem. These are the exact kind of conversations we had back and forth for months! After many proposed solutions, some exactly like your own, the current fence is what was decided. Ideally, you shouldn’t even notice them very much. They were made to fulfill the idea that they’re noticeable when you look for them and “invisible” when not.

Hahah That’s a pretty cool idea! Let me get back to you on that :)

I’m so sorry!! You’re not an idiot. We all play very differently when under the stress of combat. We made this call based on that

I see this comment a lot and I want to explain a bit why we made this call.

During development of Olympus, players fell off the map... a lot. There were no barriers. Since open, non playable space was a design goal for the map, we needed a way to tell players they were approaching death. When the fences were being tested, players climbed over them to their death. We let the fences sit for a few more weeks and this was still a constant complaint. We learned that if some players see playable space through the fences and that they can climb them, then they assumed it must be safe on the other side. So we made the call to place non-climbable clip on the fences and the original feedback was never heard from again. This was a compromise we needed to make because while some players will see a pit and avoid it, others won’t depending on the situation (in combat, outrunning the circle, abilities blocking sight lines...etc.)

We did think of using the lava float triggers fro...

No. I’m looking into that bug too. I think we already caught that but I’m checking

Ooooooof. Taking a look

Ahhh this bug. Yes, this is on our radar. Tricky one to fix. Thanks

The method for going under the map has been out for a while though

...go on. Don't tease me with a good time.

Lmao. I think I got a fix for this locally. Now pinky promise you won’t do this again so I can go back to watching anime and working on future content :)

Lol it’s all good. Trident bugs are expected. Did you manage to get out?

Welp. I know what I’m working on today lol

Ugh fine! You win! Thanks for the wisdom lol

Those two are fixed locally! Rogue clip that previous had geo in its place but was removed at the last moment.

sigh Note to self: Don’t look at the Apex subreddit before basting a turkey. I’m now compelled to head downstairs and open the map to see how exploit-y this looks...

Hmmm that’s probably a bug. I’ll see if we can reproduce that and get a fix in. You shouldn’t be able to die in it, but I bet the thermite played a part. Sorry about that!

You’re almost right. There’s two phase runners because the one within the map is full of occluder brushes to help with performance. To prevent players from seeing those, we duplicated the phase runner below the map and use the “white flash” effect to hide your transition below to simulate you going through the real one. Then teleport you back up top with another white flash effect. The reason you probably noticed is because we couldn’t block player tag names below the map in time.

We don’t kill players in the phase runner runner to reduce complexity of the task. We don’t need to kill you to solve our issue. What did need to be solved was reducing the potential abuse of using the phase runner late game to avoid circle damage. I’m sure you can imagine how abused that could have been...

That’s fixed locally and will be patched soon! Requires a client side patch for reasons I can’t speak of just yet