Y’know that weird problem the place Apex Legends matches would generally begin out in slow-motion? That ought to now be mounted, or at the very least so much higher, as builders Respawn Entertainment say they discovered some servers had defective {hardware} that wasn’t detected by regular checks and have eliminated them. Their state of the game replace chat on Friday evening additionally talked about different efficiency fixes within the pipeline for his or her free-to-play battle royale FPS, in addition to punishment deliberate for an additional class of ne’er-do-wells: ‘piggybackers’ who be part of squads then do naff all.
Respawn Entertainment gave an replace on issues they’ve mentioned earlier than in Friday evening’s Reddit post.
Hit detection? They’ve discovered and stuck numerous issues, “mostly related to mismatches between the way the game client and server pose characters in their animations.” Those fixes will come within the subsequent replace, although Respawn word they assume they’ve extra work to do on hit detection.
Slow-motion begins”? “By adding additional tracking and telemetry to our dedicated servers we have identified a number of machines that were passing our health checks but actually had faulty hardware,” they clarify. “We have removed these from our server pool, and match quality should be noticeably improved in all datacenters.” More server optimisations are coming too.
Audio efficiency? Some fixes are coming within the subsequent patch, although once more they word they anticipate extra will observe.
As for piggy-backing, effectively, it’s not an enormous or widespread downside however apparently Respawn assume it’s value tackling. As they clarify it, piggybacking is “when a player drafts off other players in the squad to carry them to a good position and level up faster but doesn’t actually participate in the match [meaning they never collect a weapon, fire a shot, don’t deal any damage, etc].” That doesn’t strike me as a enjoyable or efficient method to grind XP however hey, the Internet is a bizarre place.
“After looking at the data and internal discussions, we’ve decided that in the future we’ll start instituting temp bans for players that exhibit piggy-backing behavior and extreme cases could lead to a permanent ban,” Respawn say. Which appears bizarre. If somebody is presently doing the naked minimal, effectively, gained’t they begin doing only a bit extra to idiot the detection system? Ah, we’ll see.
The game has already banned 770,000 cheaters in order that they definitely do take punishment significantly.
No phrase but on when the replace bringing these fixes will come. The wonky servers are out of the rotation now, at the very least.
The second season of Apex Legends is because of be unveiled at E3 in June. Respawn say they’ve redirected resources from future Titanfall to Apex to maintain the updates rolling whereas hopefully avoiding horrible crunch.
