Respawn respond to Apex Legends pros demanding a Gold Shield rework Respawn EntertainmentRespawn are hearing out Apex Legends pros who want an update to Gold Shields in Ranked to complement recent competitive integrity changes in the ALGS. The second season of the Apex Legends Global Series (ALGS) removed Gold (Level 4) Knockdown Shields after player complaints. Pros think a similar update should be in Ranked to combat the same problem. \u201cIf all 3 players are downed but 1 person has Gold Knockdown (self-revive), your squad should still be eliminated in Ranked,\u201d Cloud9\u2019s Jamison \u2018PVPX\u2019 Moore said. \u201cGold Res was removed from ALGS for a huge lack of competitive integrity. Time to bring a similar change to Ranked.\u201d In the ALGS, issues would arise after a fully knocked team with one Gold Shield would still place higher than a group eliminated after them. I would say the feeling of getting a gold rez off, respawning teammates, and coming back from shambles to clutch a win makes it worth for 99% of games\/players. But, if gold knockdown were to be reworked, what would you propose to make it interesting for both casuals and comp? \u2014 JayBiebs (@RSPN_JayBiebs) October 26, 2021 Apex Legends Gold Shield rework ideas Associate Live Balance Designer John \u2018JayBiebs\u2019 Larson responded to player concerns around the item in Ranked playlists. While it doesn\u2019t sound like there\u2019s going to be a change, the studio could be exploring options for the future. \u201cI would say the feeling of getting a gold res off, respawning teammates, and coming back from shambles to clutch a win makes it worth for 99% of games\/players,\u201d JayBiebs said. The Apex dev invited rework suggestions from the community with PVPX, Phillip \u2018ImperialHal\u2019 Dosen, Mac \u2018Albralelie\u2019 Beckwith, Christian \u2018Nokokopuffs\u2019 Feliciano, and more chiming in. \u201cIf one player has a Gold Knockdown Shield, if they revive or are revived themselves it will res one other knocked teammate,\u201d ImperialHal said. \u201cSingle-use would probably be the best way to balance it, but this provides players a chance to fend off 3rd parties after fighting.\u201d https:\/\/twitter.com\/nathanias\/status\/1452872353554186254 Could also add a radius to the item so they at least have to be within the circle to multi res to avoid cross map res lol \u2014 Albralelie (@TSM_Albralelie) October 26, 2021 Honestly 99% of the time the person with the gold res still dies and the team who originally goes for the kills gets punished by losing kills\/placement. That situation you described happens once every couple hundred games. In pubs sure. Ranked it shouldn\u2019t be there IMO. \u2014 Nokokopuffs (@Nokokopuffs_) October 26, 2021 Other players like ImperialHal think Ranked should follow in the footsteps of ALGS and outright remove Gold Shields. \u201cRanked shouldn\u2019t be casual,\u201d Hal said. \u201cIt should be a way to introduce players to the competitive side of Apex before actually competing which is why Gold res should be removed. Let anything fly in [public games] though.\u201d The Apex Legends community has long been split on Respawn tuning the game to facilitate pros and the competitive scene. How the studio will approach Gold Shields is unclear but they have plenty of input to work with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Respawn respond to Apex Legends pros demanding a Gold Shield rework Respawn EntertainmentRespawn are hearing out Apex Legends pros who want an update to Gold Shields in Ranked to complement recent competitive integrity changes in the ALGS. The second season of the Apex Legends Global Series (ALGS) removed Gold (Level 4) Knockdown Shields after player […]<\/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-18646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18646","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=18646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}