Apex Legends dev reveals \u201cunfair\u201d Revenant abilities they didn\u2019t release Respawn EntertainmentRevenant has already proven he\u2019s a deadly threat in Apex Legends after his bait-and-switch arrival in Season 4, but according to Respawn director Jason McCord, the simulacrum could have been even more \u201coverpowered.\u201d The arrival of Apex\u2019s new simulacrum \u2014 a lot more sinister than the cheerful robot Pathfinder \u2014 was one of the biggest moments in the battle royale\u2019s history. After teasing the arrival of the undefeated five-time hyper-fighting champ James \u2018The Forge\u2019 McCormick, Respawn had him unceremoniously murdered by the lethal assassin Revenant. The robot took his place in the Apex Games. Once Revenant arrived in the battle royale proper, players soon realized he was an interesting addition, but wasn\u2019t too special. His much-hyped lifesaving ultimate had little impact, and Rev got shunted out of the meta pool. According to Respawn\u2019s McCord, however, the simulacrum may have been \u201cunfair\u201d if he had arrived in World\u2019s Edge armed with his original abilities. The Season 4 arrival may have even been the most \u201coverpowered\u201d legend to grace the game. Respawn wanted to find the right balance between the new terror Revenant would bring to the table, and still have him release with the \u201cright gameplay kit\u201d to make sure he didn\u2019t just overshadow other legends. Foremost among the binned abilities deemed too strong to launch in the game\u2019s live version was an old tactical power dubbed \u201cMarked for Death,\u201d McCord told Dot as he broke down key features about the newest legend. Hunting seems to be a major forte for Revenant, and so the \u201cMarked for Death\u201d tactical does make sense for his lore \u2014 the simulacrum did get his mark in his release video, after all, and killed Forge live on Outlands Television too. The ability, which marked enemies with a skillshot, would allow Revenant and his teammates to \u201csee [the marked opponent] at all times.\u201d Basically, it granted an icon that worked similarly to a wallhack \u201cfor the rest of the match.\u201d Eventually, it was deemed both \u201cvery overpowered\u201d and \u201cunfair\u201d for the players who then had an angry robot and his squad breathing down their necks for the rest of the match \u2014 which sometimes last up to 20 minutes \u2014 and it was hooked. That wasn\u2019t the only part of Revenant\u2019s eventual live kit which looked different behind the scenes either. According to McCord, the Season 4 legend originally had a \u201cscurrying spider\u201d animation whenever he crouched. \u201cWhen he crouched, he dislocated his shoulders and walked on all fours,\u201d McCord said. \u201cIt was very disturbing and so amazingly creepy.\u201d While this would have added to the horror of seeing Revenant approaching, and may have been pretty cool, apparently having to run through the graphic animation every single time the player wanted to crouch didn\u2019t work. In particular, his Stalker Passive suffered. It\u2019s supposed to be seamless between his walk and crouch speeds, but Revenant testers were finding themselves slowed down by having to become a spider-like machine for a moment. Respawn also battled with ways to make Revenant\u2019s crouched hitbox work. While crouched he was near impossible to hit, which compounded issues the devs were already having with the royale\u2019s hitboxes. They binned the animation. Considering the fact Revenant has struggled to find his place in Apex\u2019s all-powerful roster of legends in Season 4, maybe Respawn should consider dipping back into the bin to give the simulacrum a power boost. Until the devs decide to push the panic button, however, players may just have to imagine the robot assassin speeding across World\u2019s Edge or King\u2019s Canyon like Star Wars\u2019 asthmatic bad guy General Grievous \u2014 at least for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends dev reveals \u201cunfair\u201d Revenant abilities they didn\u2019t release Respawn EntertainmentRevenant has already proven he\u2019s a deadly threat in Apex Legends after his bait-and-switch arrival in Season 4, but according to Respawn director Jason McCord, the simulacrum could have been even more \u201coverpowered.\u201d The arrival of Apex\u2019s new simulacrum \u2014 a lot more sinister […]<\/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-14653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14653","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=14653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}