Apex Legends devs explain why they stopped releasing support Legends after Loba Electronic ArtsDuring a Reddit AMA, Respawn developers explained why they haven\u2019t released new support Legends since Loba arrived in Apex Legends Season 5. The battle royale\u2019s roster presently plays host to only two Support heroes \u2013 Lifeline and Loba. (Technically, Pathfinder also boasts support qualities, though he lacks healing benefits.) Loba joined the popular online title when Season 5 launched in May 2020. Since then, Respawn Entertainment has debuted several other Legends, with the offensive class receiving plenty of love. But players who prefer support roles feel left in the dust due to the disproportionate number of Legends for their class of choice. Devs explain lack of new support Legends in Apex Legeds While fielding questions in a Reddit AMA session, Lead Game Designer RV-Devan addressed whether or not more support characters are on the docket. The developer couldn\u2019t divulge specifics about what the future may hold but told fans the following: \u201c\u2026Support Legends are one of the more difficult roles to bring to Apex without over-indexing in healing and resets that make fights drag on and upset the already high TTK of the game.\u201d Those who like to main support heroes shouldn\u2019t give up hope, however. According to RV-Devan, the team is interested in offering a \u201cmore balanced roster of class roles\u201d sometime in the future. RV-Devan\u2019s comment comes months after Respawn acknowledged support as an \u201cunderserved playstyle.\u201d In so doing, Apex Legends\u2019 Gameplay Engineer, Chris Winder, teased the team had a few \u201cthings cooking\u201d with respect to building new support Legends. Evidently, whatever those plans entailed have yet to come to fruition as far as the public is concerned. The most recent character to join the fun, Vantage, is a sharpshooting recon Legend. Leaks suggest Apex Legend\u2019s Season 15 newcomer will be a builder named Catalyst. EA and Respawn haven\u2019t corroborated as much at the time of writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends devs explain why they stopped releasing support Legends after Loba Electronic ArtsDuring a Reddit AMA, Respawn developers explained why they haven\u2019t released new support Legends since Loba arrived in Apex Legends Season 5. The battle royale\u2019s roster presently plays host to only two Support heroes \u2013 Lifeline and Loba. (Technically, Pathfinder also boasts […]<\/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-16671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16671","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=16671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}