Apex Legends dev explains removal of \u201cawful\u201d Caustic Gas passive Respawn EntertainmentCaustic was the target of a couple of changes in the Apex Legends Season 7: Ascension update patch that essentially took away probably the strongest part of his kit \u2013 but Respawn game designer Daniel Z. Klein defended the removal of the \u201cawful\u201d effect. In the patch notes for the new season update, Respawn made it so that \u201cLegends no longer get a blurred vision effect while in\u201d Caustic\u2019s Nox Gas. Though they also upticked the damage inflicted by the haze, people were more concerned with the nerf. Players immediately expressed their concerns with the change, noting that the ability to partially blind opponents could arguably be seen as one of Caustic\u2019s greatest tools. \u201cThis is overall a nerf,\u201d user \u2018BarrothObama\u2019 said to the patch. \u201cMost Caustic mains understand that gas damage is not the most useful part of his kit. It was always the slow and the blinding that was important.\u201d To be clear, the Ascension update didn\u2019t remove the Nox Gas\u2019 ability to slow down opponents, but the main concern revolves around the blind. With the Legend\u2019s tall stature as well as his lack of mobility or meaningful gap-closing capabilities, the blind was the most unique and welcomed part of his kit. But the developer was more wary of what the Nox Gas\u2019 ability was doing to the playability of the overall game. \u201cI do agree this is probably a nerf,\u201d Klein said. \u201cThe vision blur was a huge part of the power of this skill, but it was also reliably one of the most frustrating experiences in Apex.\u201d Comment byu\/Murphythepotato from discussion inapexlegends The Respawn designer was also cautious with how overbearing the blur effect was becoming for people to deal with: \u201cIt made fighting back feel like not even an option, and even if you could fight back, the experience of having everything, including your sights when you ADS, blurred just felt really awful.\u201d While the reasoning is sound, Caustic players now feel like a generally weak character was made even worse after the latest updates. For grieving fans of the Toxic Trapper, Klein was enthusiastic about getting more community feedback on how to properly buff Caustic in the future, but for now he\u2019s going to be in a strange spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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