Apex Legends dev responds to requests for Pathfinder buffs in Season 12 Respawn EntertainmentApex Legends\u2019 Lead Balance Director John Larson has responded to the community\u2019s plea for some big buffs to Pathfinder and also delivered an update on how the studio feels about the robot\u2019s position heading into Season 12. Everyone\u2019s favorite MRVN unit has been under the microscope as far back as Season 9 but so far Respawn has been adamant about keeping the grapple master\u2019s abilities exactly the same as they are now. When asked why there\u2019s been no update, Larson shed some light on what goes into buffing and nerfing a character and how even small changes can have big implications for game balancing as a whole. Respawn will not change Pathfinder in Season 12 In an interview with Dexerto\u2019s own Kijanna Henry, the dev spoke a little about addressing the possibility of reworking the Forward Scout\u2019s passive. Larson explained that he disagrees with the popular sentiment that it needs to match the strength of other characters: \u201cIt\u2019s important to evaluate the kit as a whole\u2026I don\u2019t think there should be a world where every legend has an equally enticing passive, tactical, and ultimate.\u201d As it stands now, the droid\u2019s passive ability is Insider Knowledge, which allows players to shorten the cooldown timer after using Zipline Gun by interacting with a Survey Beacon. Completing a scan of the beacon also fully charges the ultimate ability right away. He went on to note that the team is open to making changes, but that there aren\u2019t a lot of options that would keep Pathfinder in the pick rate sweet spot where he has been for the last few seasons. Some of the more popular fan suggestions have been about increasing Path\u2019s utility while on a zipline, but Larson dismissed those ideas and explained that they would make him far too powerful: \u201cDoes he have less of an accuracy penalty on ziplines, or can he heal on ziplines? That would just straight up buff him.\u201d It\u2019s clear that the Apex team has done a lot of thinking about a potential swap, but if one does eventually show up, it\u2019s not likely to be in Season 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends dev responds to requests for Pathfinder buffs in Season 12 Respawn EntertainmentApex Legends\u2019 Lead Balance Director John Larson has responded to the community\u2019s plea for some big buffs to Pathfinder and also delivered an update on how the studio feels about the robot\u2019s position heading into Season 12. Everyone\u2019s favorite MRVN unit has […]<\/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-14623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14623","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=14623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}