Accidental Wattson nerfs \u2018will be fixed\u2019 in next Apex Legends Legacy update Respawn EntertainmentApex Legends devs Respawn have confirmed the major Wattson nerfs that accidentally shipped in Season 9: Legacy should be solved by the time the battle royale\u2019s next update rolls around. Season 9: Legacy dropped in Apex Legends on May 4, making a number of significant changes to the battle royale\u2019s established meta. Players now spawn in with basic equipment, called a Starter Kit. Valkyrie, too, has dropped in-game, bringing with her a plethora of utility, mobility, and fire-power. Despite the exciting new additions, Legacy has found itself frustratingly plagued with server and connection issues, as well as some issues with loot not dropping as it is supposed to. There also appear to be some pretty big issues with Apex\u2019s Static Defender Wattson, in the form of a major \u2013 and totally unintentional \u2013 nerf. The issues were highlighted on Twitter by @lilakeyLK, who said: \u201c[Wattson\u2019s] fences no longer stun or slow enemies\u2026 I\u2019d imagine this is because the Arc Star stun\/slow has been removed, and they probably had some shared code (\u2026I\u2019m an expert, totally)\u2026 it\u2019s a massive nerf to her kit in the meantime.\u201d Attached to the tweet was a clip showing Bangalore moving seamlessly through a Wattson fence, without incurring any movement penalties. A first-person POV of passing through a fence shows some visual distortion but no penalties other than that. The tweet garnered a lot of attention, including from Respawn developer \u2018pav\u2019, who responded: \u201cSending this off to the team. Thanks!\u201d Since that original tweet, the Apex Legends devs seem to have been hard at work on solving the unintended Wattson nerfs. In fact, they appear to have solved the problem entirely; Respawn comms director Ryan K. Rigney confirmed on Twitter on May 11 that they were \u201caiming to get Wattson fence fixes out in a patch next week,\u201d before adding \u201cthat one sucks.\u201d The unintentional Wattson nerfs being fixed took the back seat this week, however, in favour of the over-powered Bocek Bow. The new compound weapon was nerfed in patch 1.67 alongside several Spitfire changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Accidental Wattson nerfs \u2018will be fixed\u2019 in next Apex Legends Legacy update Respawn EntertainmentApex Legends devs Respawn have confirmed the major Wattson nerfs that accidentally shipped in Season 9: Legacy should be solved by the time the battle royale\u2019s next update rolls around. Season 9: Legacy dropped in Apex Legends on May 4, making a […]<\/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-14758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14758","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=14758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}