Apex Legends dev confirms they\u2019re working on Ranked to fix Season 13 problems Respawn EntertainmentAn Apex Legends dev has acknowledged the problems affecting Ranked in Season 13 and has confirmed the \u201cteam is actively working on improving it.\u201d Season 13 of Apex Legends introduced the Downed Beast POI on Storm Point, IMC Armories, and of course, the Heroic Defender Newcastle. While all of these additions received an overwhelming amount of praise from the community, the Ranked Reloaded changes that reworked the competitive mode have been heavily criticized by players. The primary complaint is that matches are often stale until the endgame and lobbies are regularly unbalanced with Diamonds, Masters, and even Predators being pit against lower-tier competitors. Well, in a recent interview with The Loadout, a dev acknowledged the problems affecting Ranked and confirmed changes are in the works. Apex dev confirms fix is coming for unbalanced Ranked matches Speaking to The Loadout, Apex Legends Design Director Evan Nikolich spoke about the Ranked Reloaded patch, revealing what they thought the rework achieved, and what areas need improvements in the future. In terms of positives, Nikolich thinks the \u201cdegenerative strategies\u201d that made it too easy to climb in Season 12 Ranked have been removed. However, they also acknowledged that there are too many \u201chigh-skilled players sitting in lower ranks for too long\u201d, resulting in unbalanced matches for a lot of the community. In response, Respawn will be looking at \u201cseparating out the skill tiers faster\u201d which will in turn lead to more balanced matches between players of an equal skill level. \u201cWe have improved over Season 12 where it was too easy to climb with degenerative strategies, but in Season 13 we have a number of high-skilled players sitting in lower ranks for too long\u2026We need to get better at separating out the skill tiers faster, and the team is actively working on improving it.\u201d In terms of a timeline, Nikolich didn\u2019t reveal when we could expect to see the changes the team is \u201cactively working\u201d on. However, as Ranked is such a huge part of the Apex experience, it\u2019s possible the improvements could arrive in Season 14. Either way, it\u2019s great to see the devs have heard the community\u2019s complaints and are working on improving the overall competitive experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends dev confirms they\u2019re working on Ranked to fix Season 13 problems Respawn EntertainmentAn Apex Legends dev has acknowledged the problems affecting Ranked in Season 13 and has confirmed the \u201cteam is actively working on improving it.\u201d Season 13 of Apex Legends introduced the Downed Beast POI on Storm Point, IMC Armories, and of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}