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I personally like the idea of supporting it at the settings level but I'm really not the guy who owns these decisions. Nevertheless I can take this on to the team and raise visibility on it!

To your other note: I've heard a lot about that re: sounds being audible across the map. If I had to guess I'd say it's because of the way our servers send updates about the map (whole world data is transferred every tick). We have a strike team working on audio right now which we hope will help us solve some longstanding issues. We know there's work to be done here.

This is right! We weren't sure exactly which hop-up we were doing until relatively late in the process. We'll get around to it probably next season.

Yep, looking into it

np at all, friend

honestly we are guilty of missing stuff in patch notes sometimes but we try to correct it when we mess up, so it wasn't a wild question

The team was so confused when we saw your comment lol, we don't think we nerfed it...

Next year.

Cross progression is gnarly as hell in terms of being a problem to solve. It's not only that you have to solve the technical challenge of merging existing accounts, but there are also legal and contractual issues to navigate with purchasing on other platforms. Different regions have different laws. It's a mess. But we're working on it, and we're committed to delivering it.

There's been a bunch of misinformation out there about "server contracts ending," and it actually isn't true. Just misinformation.

We also had an engineer go in-depth on the tickrate question in this blog. We think there's a bunch of high-impact work we can do to improve server performance, and hopefully you've noticed some improvements with this latest season launch.

In terms of expanding into less well-covered regions, nothing to announce here. Which regions do you think need better coverage?

Oh man, I WISH I had an update to share but we can't say anything definitive at the moment—so can't spoil anything here. Trust us tho, it's in the works and we're excited about it too

Yeah I asked the dev team about it earlier this week because someone else was asking. This was how the dev responded:

They were using it to change the audio so that occlusion no longer occurs, allowing you to hear people clearly across the map. This is obviously not intended and never was intended - this takes away from the entire audio design of the game - so we disabled it (the fact that they were able to edit it to begin with is the problem).

That being said, I think this answer isn't to dismiss any criticism of the audio, though. Still open to feedback on ways to improve it. Hope that's clear!

EDIT: THE AMA HAS CONCLUDED! Thanks everybody!

In today’s AMA we’ve assembled some of the lead devs from the team that brought you the Emergence update—including Seer, the Rampage LMG, the latest World's Edge update, and Ranked Arenas.

Today's AMA officially opens at 11:30am PT and runs until 1:00pm PT.

Got questions? Hit us.

Below is the list of devs participating in today’s AMA, along with their area of focus. Feel free to point specific questions at any of us by tagging us.

u/RSPN_Jello - Game Designer

u/RoboB0b - Senior Game Designer

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my quest for justice

was denied, screenshots don't lie

ooops, account delete

I wrote a Haiku about this morning's events:

Banned for saying gay!

He claimed, but no, twas a word

that began with "N"

Oh sweet summer child.

That’s one of the messages I was shown. You’re still leaving out another though that got a strike on your account on March 31st. Hint: it includes a word that starts with the letter N.

EA support should be able to fix this, as it's obviously just a case of the text filter being dumb. I'm escalating the issue too to see whether we need to make changes to the system.

EDIT: I’m told by support that this account was actually banned for different, more problematic messages, and that you were emailed with screenshots of those messages. I won’t post them here out of concern for your privacy.

The ban stands.

This would be the best/worst LTM ever

please god no

You deserve more subs

This video made me realize that The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny was my first real introduction to the concept of Battle Royale

Hey, nice.