Apex Legends devs explain why they haven\u2019t nerfed Seer despite dominance Respawn EntertainmentSeer has been the talk of the town in Apex Legends with players getting sick of his intel-gathering abilities. There are pleas for nerfs, which Respawn are hearing, but the developers haven\u2019t been able to find the right changes for him just yet. It\u2019s hard to get into a game of Apex Legends right now without being scanned by a Seer from every direction. While other scan Legends \u2014 Bloodhound, Valkyrie, and Crypto \u2014 have always had their place in the meta, Seer has replaced them all basically. The chorus of complaints is racking up from players as they beg Respawn for nerfs to the Ambush Artist. Pro players and casuals alike want something to happen, but the Apex Legends team hasn\u2019t pulled the trigger. There\u2019s a simple reason for it, according to developer Devan McGuire: they haven\u2019t found the right Seer nerf yet. \u201cConsidering Seer\u2019s recent rise into the Meta, we\u2019re noticing the power of Seer\u2019s passive taken to great extremes, and it\u2019s been a big topic of discussion in our balance meetings,\u201d he explained on Reddit. \u201cWe have no updates at this point, but targeting the power of Seer\u2019s passive is something we have been actively looking into.\u201d Seer\u2019s passive ability, Heart Seeker, can hunt out enemies within 75 meters. All Seer has to do is spin around with his arms out and he can get a sense of who is around. This is incredibly useful knowledge when pushing into a new area on the map. It was the first thing Respawn nerfed once Seer dropped in Apex Legends Season 10, but it\u2019s still one of the most powerful tools in the game to this day. It\u2019s effectively a no cooldown scan with nearly 100% accuracy on an enemy\u2019s position. That ability has also been a struggle for the developers to balance from day one. McGuire explained to players originally Seer\u2019s Heart Seeker would notify enemies when they were being scanned \u2014 but it would actually hinder the Ambush Artist more than help. \u201cEarly in Seer\u2019s development we actually prototyped giving enemies feedback when the heartbeat locked on,\u201d he said. \u201cGiven that it was tied to Seer\u2019s camera movement and actions it became an irritation to have any notification propagate to other clients and clouded other audio\/scan combat information that actively affected the player. \u201cIt also angered Seer teammates to have enemies jump on them because the Seer was just \u2018looking around\u2019 and proc\u2019d the intel to the opponents. \u201cWe even had the heartbeat play in the enemy player\u2019s head at one point that told them they were being tracked. It was terrifying, and induced panic in players to feel constantly haunted by this presence, so we backed away from it.\u201d The current iteration of Seer\u2019s passive is much more powerful, so there has to be a balance. With pressure in regards to nerfing the wider scan meta too, there\u2019s a lot Respawn has to consider when pushing out changes for him. The one thing they won\u2019t do is give up his identity though, and until they find a way which includes the best of both worlds, there won\u2019t be any Seer nerfs \u2014 or wider scan meta changes \u2014 in Apex Legends. \u201cWe are actively looking into the frustration that can come from these abilities and finding ways to reduce it without crippling the identity of the Legends who wield them,\u201d McGuire added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends devs explain why they haven\u2019t nerfed Seer despite dominance Respawn EntertainmentSeer has been the talk of the town in Apex Legends with players getting sick of his intel-gathering abilities. There are pleas for nerfs, which Respawn are hearing, but the developers haven\u2019t been able to find the right changes for him just yet. […]<\/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-14734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14734","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=14734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}