A recent tweet hints that Respawn Entertainment will soon deliver on a popular fan-requested feature for EA’s premiere battle royale, Apex Legends. This tweet came in response to another tweet from a professional Apex Legends player.
Since the free-to-play battle royale launched in 2019, developer Respawn Entertainment has steadily added new content to keep giving players a reason to come back. This “live service” model that Respawn has embraced is not without issues as new guns, equipment and characters shake up the balance and make some characters and play styles over-powered.
It also means that Respawn is constantly tweaking the game, allowing for quality-of-life changes in addition to new content. Apex professional C9 PVPX prompted the studio to make such a change with the request to allow players to change optics on golden guns. These rare weapons are fully-kitted firearms with legendary attachments that easily out-class the common weapon variants found on the map. At time of writing, these attachments cannot be changed, forcing players to keep any undesired attachments in order to take advantage of the player buffs.
Josh Medina, a producer at Respawn, offered a simple response to the tweet: “!remindme”. This does not mean that the problem will be fixed soon or even fixed at all, but it does suggest that Respawn is aware of the concern. Since Medina is a producer on the team, it’s safe to expect that the studio will address the issue in the future.
This is good news for Apex Legends players because it offers more flexibility in playstyle. Many of the optics in the game serve different purposes and are not necessarily better or worse than others. Players often need to choose between rarity and preference, and most players opt for the latter. The Apex arena is an unforgiving battleground and having the right tool that the player knows and understands can mean the difference between victory and defeat.
Hopefully, this is a choice that players will not need to make anymore with golden guns. Medina’s response is encouraging for the Apex community at large, as Respawn is clearly committed to taking, hearing and implementing ideas and improvements to their popular shooter. Respawn has a solid history of receiving fan feedback; the studio re-crowned Attrition as the primary multiplayer game mode in Titanfall 2 after fans expressed concern over its removal. Since Apex Legends and the battle royale genre do not seem to be going anywhere soon, the industry can only hope that more developers will listen to their community as well as Respawn.
Apex Legends is currently available for PC, Xbox One and PS4, and is coming to Switch on March 9, 2021.
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