Respawn unintentionally rolled out an Apex Legends characteristic that the neighborhood has been break up on

After immediately’s Apex Legends patch 1.1 dropped, gamers discovered that they have been being penalised for leaving matches early however this has since been fastened.

Apex Legends replace 1.1 rolled out on all platforms this week, however it left a couple of niggles in its wake, together with gamers’ accounts dropping progress which was swiftly seen to. One change that took the neighborhood abruptly – and clearly wasn’t a bug – was a leaving-early penalty that wasn’t talked about within the patch notes.

Respawn has since clarified that the characteristic is being labored on, and that it wasn’t speculated to go reside simply but – therefore why it wasn’t included within the patch notes. It’s since been rolled again.

“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 mentioned in a Reddit post on the snafu.

“There was a bit of script that was lacking and brought on the leaving match early penalty to be turned on when it shouldn’t be. That’s why it wasn’t within the patch notes.

“We up to date the script, examined with QA and it’s now disabled for all platforms. We don’t have an ETA for if or when this might come out for actual. Apologies for the confusion.”

A penalty for leaving early is one thing numerous gamers have been requesting over on Reddit, though different have chimed in to say that it’s not possible, and that they don’t wish to get punished in the event that they don’t really feel like hanging round spectating in the event that they’re downed.

During the temporary time the characteristic was reside, gamers obtained a 5 minute timeout for each three matches they left early. That included squad mates who absconded earlier than their Banner card expired. Penalties weren’t relevant if participant squads weren’t full, nevertheless.

Presumably the characteristic is deliberate to be launched sooner or later, which ought to please these of you who’re sick of your teammates buggering off willy nilly. Currently, if you happen to go away early, you simply gained’t get any XP, which people who find themselves in opposition to a penalty system argue is sufficient of a deterrent.

Respawn doesn’t seem to agree.