Posted in: Games, Video Games | Tagged: Apex Legends, Respawn Entertainment

Apex Legends Will Be Getting a Major Bug Update Soon

The developers at Respawn Entertainment released a new post on Reddit this week letting Apex Legends players know of an incoming update. The 5.10 update is going to be more of a bug-fixing update that will address more of the major issues than adding any gameplay aesthetics. Chief among them will be the Hit Registration, the Fortified Bug, dealing with slow motion at the start of a game, and dealing with piggy-backing. The last one, which we have below along with the HR issue for you to read about, will include players receiving temporary bans for bad behavior. No word yet when the patch will go into effect, but at least we know what's on the way.

HIT REGISTRATION

While searching for possible explanations for this bug, we have been able to reproduce and locally fix many cases of incorrect hit registration, mostly related to mismatches between the way the game client and server pose characters in their animations, but also caused by various other factors. The next patch will address these issues.

However, we don't believe that we are out of the woods yet. There is still more work to be done but we believe that the fixes coming next patch will be a good improvement and will help weed out many of the less severe issues people are noticing, which will help us understand more about whatever bugs may be remaining. (And when we squash this thing, our hit detection will be more solid than ever.)

PIGGY-BACKING

Piggy-backing is when a player drafts off other players in the squad to carry them to a good position and level up faster but doesn't actually participate in the match [meaning they never collect a weapon, fire a shot, don't deal any damage, etc]

We had been seeing some feedback from players around this and have been doing some internal investigations looking at game data to understand how many of the matches being played are affected by this behavior.

After looking at the data and internal discussions, we've decided that in the future we'll start instituting temp bans for players that exhibit piggy-backing behavior and extreme cases could lead to a permanent ban. This change will not be immediate but wanted to give a heads up to players so you can adjust that behavior.

Enjoyed this? Please share on social media!

Stay up-to-date and support the site by following Bleeding Cool on Google News today!