Apex Legends dev responds to player concerns about Loba\u2019s Season 7 buff Respawn EntertainmentLoba\u2019s Black Market Boutique was changed in the Apex Legends Season 7: Ascension patch update, but it was met with a few concerns of the buff being too strong. The devs have since explained why a \u201cnuclear option\u201d was needed for the thief and how it could be reverted. In the Season 7 update, Loba\u2019s ultimate ability was upgraded so that \u201cammo taken no longer counts towards Black Market\u2019s maximum\u201d cap, meaning she could either steal or simply keep hostage munitions in the immediate area. This now opens up the potential for her to \u2018starve\u2019 out nearby teams that are trying to maneuver a prolonged firefight. While her new prospects made a lot of players excited, some could easily see how this could immediately be reverted by the developers. \u201cI\u2019ll say this: within a week they\u2019ll change that buff back,\u201d one Reddit user said. \u201cA full squad can scoop absolutely all the ammo in a POI. Just scoop it up and hide or carry it\u2026. It will make ammo even harder to find around.\u201d Respawn Senior Game Designer Daniel Z. Klein emphatically agreed, admitting that the change \u201cscares\u201d him, but also explained that the High Society Thief\u2019s ultimate wasn\u2019t getting quality use. \u201cThis is a change that scares me, but seeing how little Loba uses her ultimate and how little it benefits her team (almost no benefit at all) I decided we needed to invoke the nuclear option here,\u201d he said of the buff. While the devs might not be happy with the state of Loba\u2019s ultimate, there are mounting concerns about how this could get out of hand. As it is, it\u2019s not difficult to charge her ultimate, so there\u2019s legitimate worry that the frequency of the ability can eventually give the Legend a stranglehold on ammo. That is why, at least according to Klien, the option to revert the buff is still on the table if her ability becomes too impactful of an exploit: \u201cHold me accountable if this was a screw-up, and if you\u2019re right and it makes the game miserable for everyone else because there\u2019s no more ammo then yes, we will revert it.\u201d However, when presented with the possibility that the buff could fundamentally affect the looting habits of players, the dev remains confident that the loot pool is wide enough for it not to be an issue, since there\u2019s \u201cplenty of tough choices to make around weapon mods, equipment, healing, ordnance.\u201d For Loba mains, a lot hangs in the balance, and whether or not her Season 7 buff will be reverted remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends dev responds to player concerns about Loba\u2019s Season 7 buff Respawn EntertainmentLoba\u2019s Black Market Boutique was changed in the Apex Legends Season 7: Ascension patch update, but it was met with a few concerns of the buff being too strong. The devs have since explained why a \u201cnuclear option\u201d was needed for the […]<\/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-14619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14619","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=14619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}