Popular Rampart buff idea will never happen despite Apex Legends woes, devs say Respawn EntertainmentRampart continues to be one of Apex Legends\u2019 least popular characters despite plenty of buffs. The community has called on Respawn to boost the power of her passive to increase her play rate, but developers say those changes won\u2019t fix her issues. Rampart\u2019s static identity in Apex Legends saw the Base of Fire quickly fade into the background after her release in Season 6. Because the battle royale is so dynamic, you can\u2019t just sit in one place and hope for the best. However, Rampart has been getting some help from Respawn as of late. Her minigun, affectionately named Sheila, is now mobile, which has done wonders for her play rate. She also has a bit of extra power with her Amped Cover too. The one part of her kit Respawn hasn\u2019t really looked at is her passive, Modded Loader. It does increase her reload speed and magazine size with LMGs, but players have called for it to be extended to more guns to make her even more viable. According to developers, that\u2019s not where extra power for Rampart can be found: \u201cRampart\u2019s identity is built around LMGs, and her passive was meant to reflect that synergy and provide incentive when opting into that style,\u201d developer Devan McGuire told players. \u201cThis topic has been discussed before, especially back when we were looking at ways to empower Rampart. But the passive was never the aspect holding her back so we opted to invest more in the core parts of her kit to bring meaningful change.\u201d While the buffs ended up putting Rampart in a playable niche \u2014 not meta, but at least not terrible \u2014 there has still been calls for more changes, especially to her passive. Those won\u2019t be coming any time soon though as Respawn wants to keep some sort of \u201cmeaningful choice\u201d to her weapon loadouts. You can choose between a shotgun or another LMG as a secondary, but the trade-off is losing out on her passive somewhat. \u201cIf you just get it on all the good weapons, it doesn\u2019t carry the same meaning \u2014 you\u2019re just always better, and you still always pick up your favorite R-301 like you do with other Legends,\u201d McGuire continued. \u201cIf it\u2019s tied to LMGs, they are special, and you make an active decision to wield a Rampart special. We felt that choice was important to maintain. \u201cCould this passive be extended in other ways in the future to provide more value? Perhaps. But at the moment, we\u2019re satisfied with how Rampart is playing and are not looking to expand the power of the passive.\u201d It\u2019s the same for Mad Maggie with shotguns and Vantage with sniper rifles; \u201cthey\u2019re meant to be a boon for players who like that playstyle,\u201d McGuire expanded, but they shouldn\u2019t be used as a balancing lever. If Rampart was to fall far below expectations from here on out in Apex Legends, the developers will still look at new ways to buff her, but that won\u2019t be by adding more weapons to her special arsenal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Popular Rampart buff idea will never happen despite Apex Legends woes, devs say Respawn EntertainmentRampart continues to be one of Apex Legends\u2019 least popular characters despite plenty of buffs. The community has called on Respawn to boost the power of her passive to increase her play rate, but developers say those changes won\u2019t fix her […]<\/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-18458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18458","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=18458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}