Apex Legends dev explains why they\u2019re struggling to buff Revenant Respawn EntertainmentOne of Respawn\u2019s lead designers working on Apex Legends has explained the difficulties they have buffing Revenant, as mains of the Season 4 Legend continue to call for improvements. Revenant, like a few other late additions to Apex Legends, has fallen some way down the pecking order. Alongside Rampart and Crypto, the Synthetic Nightmare has struggled to make a long-term impact to the battle royale\u2019s meta, finding himself among the lowest pick rates going into Season 8. The response from Revenant players has, quite understandably, been to call on Respawn to provide a buff to the deadly assassin. His current abilities, detailed below, are generally considered to be too weak in the game\u2019s evolved meta. However, Daniel Klein, Respawn\u2019s lead game designer on Apex, has explained just why he\u2019s so difficult to strengthen. One Redditor, during Respawn\u2019s recent AMA, suggested that one thing they\u2019ve noticed more than ever in this season is the relative weakness of Revenant\u2019s tactical. However, Klein explained that they don\u2019t want the abilities of legends to become their primary way to deal damage. \u201cWe do wanna be very careful not to position abilities as primary damage dealers,\u201d Klein said. \u201cRevenant\u2019s tac is pretty reliably hittable, so probably not a great candidate for more damage.\u201d In short, simply enabling Revenant\u2019s tactical to do more damage is pretty far down the list on potential buffs he will receive. Another player echoed Klein\u2019s comments, saying that Revenant\u2019s tactical is already very strong, and shouldn\u2019t receive a buff. They finished: \u201cDon\u2019t get me wrong, Revenant needs some help, but his tactical is not the area to buff.\u201d Replying to this comment, Klein explained that this is Respawn\u2019s struggle: \u201cThat\u2019s what makes buffing him so hard; it\u2019s clear he needs buffs, but it\u2019s also equally clear that [his] tac and ult shouldn\u2019t be straight up buffed.\u201d One potential avenue for a buff would be his Passive, but the impact of a faster crouch-walk would be pretty negligible in the grand scheme of things. Perhaps another idea would be to make his climbing abilities even stronger, allowing him to reach hard to reach spots quickly. Back in Season 7, Respawn said they were looking into some tweaks to his hitbox too, which could make him a harder target. The admission that Revenant needs a buff will be music to the ears of his mains, but it remains to be seen exactly what form a buff would take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends dev explains why they\u2019re struggling to buff Revenant Respawn EntertainmentOne of Respawn\u2019s lead designers working on Apex Legends has explained the difficulties they have buffing Revenant, as mains of the Season 4 Legend continue to call for improvements. Revenant, like a few other late additions to Apex Legends, has fallen some way down […]<\/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-14554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14554","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=14554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}