Anybody who has performed Apex Legends for a season — and generally even lower than that — will undoubtedly know that the sport has issues. Sure points like hits not registering are claimed to be fastened, however creep again up as time passes. Once more, that is simply sort of what you settle for as an Apex Legends participant. And but, a current downside stemming from an occasion remains to be a bit bit humorous and irritating.
The current Harbingers Assortment Occasion began on Sept. 19 and introduced out a brand new Revenant-themed grenade referred to as the Rev Shell. When thrown, it should journey in a straight line till it senses an enemy after which rapidly change course to trace them. They’re hilariously persistent and supply a enjoyable twist for the sport’s Halloween occasion. The Rev Shell additionally elements into one of many occasion’s problem badges that required gamers to deal 1,000 injury with them.
However an issue rapidly arose by which gamers observed that their injury wasn’t monitoring. The day after the occasion began on Sept. 20, Respawn Leisure introduced on Twitter that they had been wanting into the difficulty and would even be reducing the required injury to 500 as a substitute. Whereas the untracked injury couldn’t be utilized retroactively, this at the least made up for it a bit.
They introduced that the monitoring challenge had been corrected on Sept. 22, however the repair reducing the injury to 500 was nonetheless on the best way. Whereas this fastened the core of the issue, it didn’t assist gamers who had already dumped a number of time into the problem and acquired nothing for his or her effort.
With the occasion set to finish at 1:00 PM ET on Oct. 3, Respawn Leisure tweeted out at 1:00 PM ET on Oct. 2 that they pushed out a patch to repair it. Whereas PCs may get these patches slightly rapidly, consoles don’t fairly have the identical luxurious.
As of midnight on Oct. 3, I nonetheless hadn’t gotten this patch. It was solely after I turned my PS5 on this morning that it began downloading. Funnily sufficient, that left roughly 4 hours by which I might gather the five hundred injury for a difficulty that Respawn acknowledged two weeks in the past.
I do know, it’s only a badge in an occasion that can get misplaced amongst all my different Apex Legends occasion accolades. However it’s greater than that as a result of this isn’t the one challenge that there was in a recreation the place it looks like issues and bugs aren’t being resolved rapidly sufficient. Sure, it bought fastened, but it surely took till simply concerning the expiration of the occasion and sure dropped at a time when most gamers couldn’t sit down and dedicate time to it.
It’s unclear precisely what Respawn’s precedence is with the sport, as primary recreation points like hit registration and server breakage are nonetheless considerably frequent. Simply earlier this yr in March, the prize tracker for the Imperial Guard Assortment Occasion broke for a lot of gamers. Respawn introduced that, whereas they had been wanting into it, a repair wouldn’t come earlier than the occasion ended.
It will be good if this led to some kind of total change the place it didn’t take two weeks to repair a widespread downside, however it’s unclear if that can ever occur. Contemplating this occurred in a set occasion that brings in tons of cash, it ought to have been corrected sooner.
Greater than something although, it’s regarding for the long-term sustainability of Apex Legends that bugs aren’t at all times prioritized correctly, whether or not it’s points inside the UI or the sport itself. I’m unlikely to cease enjoying Apex Legends anytime within the close to future, but it surely’s tough when it looks like fixes and adjustments aren’t the highest precedence, even after being publicly acknowledged.