Apex Legends dev explains why Caustic\u2019s gas buff doesn\u2019t affect downed players Respawn\/EADespite being given a bit of a buff in Season 10, Caustic gas only damages downed players at 5hp\/s rather than benefitting from the boost. Now, an Apex Legends dev has explained why that is so. Caustic has been one of Apex Legends\u2019 go-to characters ever since the battle royale first released over two years ago. The mad scientist may have slipped out of the top-tier slots in recent seasons, but he\u2019s still pretty strong and at the start of Season 10: Emergence, received a bit of a buff. His toxic gas traps now deal 5 HP of damage to start but will increase by one with each new tick. While some players have taken the buff pretty well, it doesn\u2019t quite work on downed players, and no, it\u2019s not a bug. After knocking an enemy down, some Caustic players will immediately toss a gas trap in their direction, and many have noticed that it just stays at 5 HP\/s, instead of increasing by each tick. As noted by Respawn\u2019s Associate Live Balance Designer John \u2018JayBiebs\u2019 Larson, this intended change was left out of the patch notes but it has a purpose. \u201cShort answer: guns should kill people. Abilities should help facilitate that. Thirsts especially should not be driven by abilities, unless it\u2019s a heavy-hitting ult with a big cost,\u201d he said after a fan quizzed as to why downed players don\u2019t suffer the additional damage. \u201cGas is good for a lot of things outside of sheer damage; players at the top end have shown us that.\u201d Short answer: guns should kill people. Abilities should help facilitate that. Thirsts especially should not be driven by abilities, unless it’s a heavy hitting ult with a big cost. Gas is good for a lot of things outside of sheer damage; players at the top end have shown us that \u2014 JayBiebs (@RSPN_JayBiebs) August 4, 2021 Some fans, naturally, disagreed with the developer\u2019s take on things but at least any confused Caustic mains have got their answer. Of course, things could change in the future, but it seems unlikely that any change is forthcoming anytime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends dev explains why Caustic\u2019s gas buff doesn\u2019t affect downed players Respawn\/EADespite being given a bit of a buff in Season 10, Caustic gas only damages downed players at 5hp\/s rather than benefitting from the boost. Now, an Apex Legends dev has explained why that is so. Caustic has been one of Apex Legends\u2019 […]<\/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-14527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14527","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=14527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}