Apex Legends devs will consider Crypto rework if hacker\u2019s play rate drops any lower Respawn EntertainmentCrypto could well be the next Apex Legends character to receive an ability rework, the Respawn dev team has revealed, as they look to balance the hacker\u2019s ever-sinking Season 8 play rate with his overall \u201chealthy\u201d win rate. Everyone\u2019s favorite Apex Legends hacker has Respawn in a pickle. Since his release in early Season 3, the Surveillance Expert\u2019s pick rate has slowly been trending down. Part of that is, of course, due to the release of other more popular legends like Fuse, Loba, or Apex Legends meta-breaker Horizon. Primarily, however, there\u2019s a disconnect between the player base, and Crypto\u2019s play style. It\u2019s an issue Respawn are considering fixing with a Season 9 rework. \u201cCrypto\u2019s got a really low pick rate in Season 8, but a healthy win rate,\u201d one of the battle royale\u2019s live balance designers, John Larson, explained during an appearance on the popular \u201cBird\u2019s Eye\u201d competitive Apex Legends podcast. According to Apex Legends Status, he has a 1.4% pick rate. That\u2019s overshadowed, by a lot, by popular Legends like Lifeline and Bloodhound (both around 14.3%), as well as Wraith (12.1%), Bangalore (9.2%), and more. Long-term Crypto players \u201clove the character,\u201d Larson continued, but due to the fact Tae Joon Park\u2019s main Apex Legends ability \u2014 his iconic Surveillance Drone \u2014 \u201cisn\u2019t streamlined,\u201d many players shy away from putting any meaningful hours into the character. That, in turn, leads to Crypto\u2019s pick rate plummeting over the seasons, to the third-lowest in the game. To boost his \u201cpretty low\u201d pick rate, Crypto would \u201cneed a rework.\u201d Now, that doesn\u2019t necessarily mean Respawn are automatically pulling the trigger on an overhaul for the Apex Legends hacker \u2014 you can breathe easy, Crypto mains. Right now, the balance team is simply in \u2018wait-and-watch\u2019 mode. The fact the Surveillance Expert still boasts a solid win rate and has been appearing in pro matches in recent weeks means he isn\u2019t in dire need of a touch-up just yet. While Crypto may not be getting a rework as soon as the upcoming Season 9 update dropping on May 4 \u2014 unless his play rate dips any lower, that is \u2014 Respawn has inked up some quality of life changes they want to give the hacker. These include \u201callowing him to see the minimap and kill-feeds while in drone view,\u201d and making the switch between his drone mode and \u201cFPS mode\u201d smoother. Read More: Who is the Season 9 Legend in Apex Legends? – The Season 9 update will also see long-awaited changes for Octane, Loba, Horizon, and a mini-rework for flagship Apex Legends healer, Lifeline. The seventeenth Legend (likely the leaked \u201cValk\u201d character) should also make their debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends devs will consider Crypto rework if hacker\u2019s play rate drops any lower Respawn EntertainmentCrypto could well be the next Apex Legends character to receive an ability rework, the Respawn dev team has revealed, as they look to balance the hacker\u2019s ever-sinking Season 8 play rate with his overall \u201chealthy\u201d win rate. Everyone\u2019s favorite […]<\/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-18554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18554","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=18554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}