Respawn locks in more Rampart buffs for early Apex Legends Season 8 Respawn EntertainmentRespawn has tipped Rampart for even more Apex Legends buffs in an early Season 8 update \u2014 as soon as patch 8.0, if the devs can bed down the changes \u2014 as the turret-loving defender continues to struggle in the battle royale\u2019s fast-paced meta. [jwplayer VEi3mnK7] Rampart has struggled to find a home in Apex Legends since her Season 6 release, and has slipped towards the bottom of the meta heading into 2021. This problem is partly to do with her \u201clocked-in\u201d style of play. The defensive Legend is based around deploying walls, cover, and her powerful mini-gun \u201cSheila\u201d to control areas and dominate opponents through superior firepower. In theory, that works well. In practice, however, Apex Legends is such a fast game that Rampart often gets left in the dust; an issue that has forced Respawn to take another look at their Season 6 builder, and her iconic amped walls. Rampart gets more Amped Wall buffs Respawn is mainly focusing on the struggling defender\u2019s ability to \u201creact quickly\u201d in battles and firefights. They want to give her a platform to help her squad, no matter how long they have to prepare. The buff will see 45 health added to Rampart\u2019s walls while they\u2019re being built. This update to the defender\u2019s tactical \u201cshould be in 8.0,\u201d Klein confirmed on Reddit, but things may still be swapped as Respawn continues to test the buffs. This change, while seemingly small, aims to bring her in line with other protective Legends like tanky Gibraltar, who can use his shields reactively. This means he can have a greater influence on skirmishes and moving firefights in the battle royale. \u201cI believe there\u2019s still too much delay in the ability for her to use it reactively. I also think reactive vs setup isn\u2019t a black and white question,\u201d Klein admitted. Read More: Fuse\u2019s explosive Ultimate Ability revealed – There may be another buff packaged in patch 8.0 as well, the Apex dev conceded, though it\u2019s far less set in stone: Rampart \u201ccould do with a little power closer to the reactive side of that spectrum,\u201d but that change is still being worked on. Respawn worried Amped Walls will be \u201ctrump card\u201d Rampart\u2019s building walls will also be handed a quality of life update in the upcoming 8.0 update as well. This will relate to the \u201cally player paradigm\u201d \u2014 how her walls interact with incoming fire midway through construction. \u201c[Her walls] will stop bullets, except sniper bullets, which will pass through, just like they do with ally players,\u201d he explained. Once the wall is fully built, it will then behave normally. This is to avoid the wall becoming a \u201ctrump card\u201d against long-ranged snipers, and still allowing outplay potential for opponents that have taken the time to set up a strong vantage point, or have caught out mispositioned Rampart players. \u201cThis is so, in case I am wrong and Rampart players can reactively plop down a wall when someone with a Kraber looks at them, the wall doesn\u2019t [cancel that out].\u201d As mentioned by Klein, these Rampart buffs are expected to be shipped in the patch 8.0 update. Apex Legends Season 8 \u2014 and that new patch \u2014 are right around the corner; Dexerto expects the update to drop around February 4, to mark the title\u2019s second anniversary. These changes will come alongside a possible Wattson rework. Wraith, Horizon, and Revenant nerfs have also been penciled in. Catch up on all the changes coming in the next Apex Legends update right here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Respawn locks in more Rampart buffs for early Apex Legends Season 8 Respawn EntertainmentRespawn has tipped Rampart for even more Apex Legends buffs in an early Season 8 update \u2014 as soon as patch 8.0, if the devs can bed down the changes \u2014 as the turret-loving defender continues to struggle in the battle royale\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-15389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15389","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=15389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}