Respawn hope to bring Wraith \u201cunder control\u201d in Apex Legends Season 8 RespawnThe debate around Wraith is still raging on in Apex Legends. Despite change after change, she\u2019s still a power pick in a lot of situations. However, in Season 8, Respawn are pulling out the final straw to try and bring Wraith \u201cunder control\u201d once and for all. [jwplayer vP8vm9zZ] Wraith has been slowly tuned down over the 20-month history of Apex Legends from outrageously broken, to somewhat manageable. Despite being hit with a big set of nerfs in June\u2019s Lost Treasures update though, she still reigns supreme in the Outlands. However, Respawn aren\u2019t giving up hope on finally bringing the voidwalker \u201cunder control.\u201d In an interview on the Third Party podcast, developer Daniel Klein said that more changes are on the way in Season 8. While he joked about just straight up removing Wraith from the game, Respawn actually have a direction they want to take. They don\u2019t want to hit Wraith\u2019s kit any harder. They want to see if they can \u201cfix\u201d her hitboxes. \u201cI don\u2019t want to hit her kit any more. We\u2019ve pushed that to the breaking point where it\u2019s barely still fun, but the extremely wind-up on her tactical \u2014 as much as it was necessary \u2014 it puts the ability more into the camp of cerebral power rather than satisfying in the moment power,\u201d he said. \u201cWith Wraith, our approach is going to be very similar to Pathfinder. We\u2019re going to take a look at her hitboxes and see how much wiggle room we have there. With Pathfinder, it turned out that we had so much\u2026 that was a 20% increase in hitbox size.\u201d The Pathfinder changes were shipped in the Season 7 update earlier in November, and have made the grappling robot a bit easier to hit while dashing across Olympus and the other maps. Despite Respawn\u2019s hopes though, nothing is locked in. They\u2019ve only just started scouting out the work to change Wraith\u2019s hitboxes. Klein stated he hopes the changes will be enough that Respawn could even look at buffing Wraith down the line, but the solution could be a dead end. \u201cNothing is guaranteed yet, we haven\u2019t started work yet. I\u2019ve asked one of our technical artists to take a look at it. Whenever he gets around to it, we will know more. \u201cMy earnest hope is that we can bring her under control with just hitbox changes, and then maybe even look at ways at making her more in-the-moment fun again, and find a balance point between her tactical now and what it used to be.\u201d They\u2019re not willing to risk \u201cgiving Wraith more power\u201d by shipping some changes early before they tackle her hitboxes, so don\u2019t expect ability buffs soon. However, in Apex Legends Season 8, expect Wraith to feel a little bit different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Respawn hope to bring Wraith \u201cunder control\u201d in Apex Legends Season 8 RespawnThe debate around Wraith is still raging on in Apex Legends. Despite change after change, she\u2019s still a power pick in a lot of situations. However, in Season 8, Respawn are pulling out the final straw to try and bring Wraith \u201cunder control\u201d […]<\/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-18613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18613","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=18613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}