Apex Legends devs respond to calls for more Legend \u201creworks\u201d in Season 7 Respawn EntertainmentRespawn have revealed why some of the least-played or least-powerful Apex Legends characters, typically, do not receive massive ability overhauls or \u2018reworks\u2019 when the developers are looking to balance gameplay. [jwplayer QJBhIFLZ] Following the release of Horizon in Season 7, there\u2019s now a total of fifteen unique characters that players can choose between in the Legend Select stage, ahead of competing in the Apex Games. Although each of these Legends has their own abilities and playstyle, it can be difficult to balance them all at once and, as a result, it usually leads to a few characters falling out of the meta for a short while. Apex devs will typically introduce small buffs throughout a season to help bring a struggling Legend up to par, but if any of the characters\u2019 troubles persist across multiple seasons, fans often call for complete reworks to be considered. Mirage was one such Legend to receive a total rework. During the Reddit AMA on November 6, which saw Apex Legends devs open up about changes with the battle pass, one player asked if Respawn had any plans for Legend reworks in Season 7. Respawn Game Designer Daniel Klein responded, highlighting previous reworks and revealing that they often try to find other ways of balancing the Legends before adding anything that \u201cmeaningfully changes the play pattern of a character.\u201d Comment byu\/rkrigney from discussion inapexlegends He followed up by explaining that reworks can dramatically change a Legend\u2019s playstyle and that it often requires players to completely re-learn a character, \u201cwe try to avoid reworks whenever we can because they invalidate previous player learnings.\u201d \u201cReworks are a last resort for us: when it seems that there really is no other way to make the Legend either fun for the player or healthy for the rest of the game.\u201d the Apex dev added. Klein shared that they have also considered reworks for characters who do not live up to their potential, pointing at Lifeline\u2019s passive rework to make her stronger as a Support Legend. The senior game designer later revealed that many of the biggest changes, such as reworks and new Legend releases, are often saved until the start of each season, suggesting that the next rework would likely happen at the start of Season 8, if any characters require one at that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends devs respond to calls for more Legend \u201creworks\u201d in Season 7 Respawn EntertainmentRespawn have revealed why some of the least-played or least-powerful Apex Legends characters, typically, do not receive massive ability overhauls or \u2018reworks\u2019 when the developers are looking to balance gameplay. [jwplayer QJBhIFLZ] Following the release of Horizon in Season 7, there\u2019s […]<\/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-14793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14793","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=14793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}