Apex Legends devs promise Gibraltar nerfs \u201cstill coming,\u201d but not this patch Respawn EntertainmentRespawn has confirmed the long-awaited Gibraltar gun shield nerfs are \u201cstill coming\u201d in an upcoming Apex Legends update, after the promised Season 8 changes were conspicuously absent in this week\u2019s \u2018Chaos Theory\u2019 patch. Hefty shield-wielding legend Gibraltar has long sat atop the Apex Legends meta. In fact, since his Season 3 buffs, the Kiwi defender fallen out of the top three. It\u2019s been a point of contention in the Apex Legends community for some time; pros and ranked players alike have publicly called for nerfs regularly over the past 12 months. At first, Respawn stayed strong on the changes. They had \u201cabsolutely no plans\u201d to change the defender, and only fiddled with his ult timings slightly. Until, that is, the devs promised to look at his \u201cbroken\u201d gun shield. On Jan. 26, the Apex Legends balance team confirmed they would be changing the way bleedthrough (transferring damage to Gibraltar after his shield cracks) worked. These nerfs were tipped to arrive in the \u2018Chaos Theory\u2019 patch. Only, they weren\u2019t in the March 4 notes. Don\u2019t worry though \u2014 Respawn has already updated Apex fans on the status of the planned Gibraltar gun shield changes: \u201cDon\u2019t worry\u2026 they\u2019re coming soon.\u201d According to Respawn\u2019s balance team, they were working on \u201cthe arm shield stuff\u201d when they encountered a \u201cnasty\u201d set of bugs that slowed down their process. \u201cThese stopped us from shipping the nerf,\u201d they admitted. The absence of the long-awaited gun shield nerfs in this week\u2019s \u2018Chaos Theory\u2019 update doesn\u2019t mean they aren\u2019t coming, the devs added. The planned Gibraltar changes are still very much on the schedule, and should be \u201ccoming soon,\u201d once the coding bugs get ironed out. The Gibby nerfs \u2014 which have now been pushed back twice \u2014 should be included in the second Season 8 patch; that should be around late April or early May. Gibraltar\u2019s gun shield may be safe \u2014 for now \u2014 but his dome is not. The bulky Kiwi defender will have his Dome of Protection\u2019s healing item speeds reduced by 15% in the March 9 patch. He will also be joined on the balance sheet by Pathfinder (losing low profile) and Horizon (her Black Hole cooldown is copping a one-minute hit), as well as Revenant, Wattson, and Rampart. The Mastiff, Wingman, and Hemlok are all getting changes too. Catch up on the full \u201cChaos Theory\u201d patch notes ahead of the big Season 8 update on March 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends devs promise Gibraltar nerfs \u201cstill coming,\u201d but not this patch Respawn EntertainmentRespawn has confirmed the long-awaited Gibraltar gun shield nerfs are \u201cstill coming\u201d in an upcoming Apex Legends update, after the promised Season 8 changes were conspicuously absent in this week\u2019s \u2018Chaos Theory\u2019 patch. Hefty shield-wielding legend Gibraltar has long sat atop the […]<\/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-15019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15019","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=15019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}