Respawn Entertainment are certainly planning so as to add penalties for people who abandon their squads and go away in the midst of Apex Legends rounds, however not simply but – and never within the precise kind that they unintentionally added it final week. Wednesday’s replace, on high of unintentionally making accounts seem reset, included a work-in-progress model of leaver penalties that was enabled accidentally. Whoops. But the characteristic, which ought to discourage jerks within the free-to-play battle royale FPS from bailing and scuttling your possibilities of that Tofurky dinner, is coming. At some level. When it’s achieved.
“So internally, we have been working on and testing this feature but it wasn’t our intention or plan to have it go live with the update that went out today,” Respawn said last week. “There was a piece of script that was missing and caused the leaving match early penalty to be turned on when it shouldn’t be. That’s why it wasn’t in the patch notes.”
And that’s why it didn’t stick round.
“We updated the script, tested with QA and it’s now disabled for all platforms. We don’t have an ETA for if or when this would come out for real. Apologies for the confusion.”
Respawn people did clarify just a few particulars of the implementation too. The leaver penalty didn’t apply in case your workforce wasn’t full and anybody who died was free to depart, that are good touches. Though we’ll must see how the leaver penalty works when it’s really, like, completed.
For now, do behave, gained’t you?
