RELATED: Can Valve's Card Game, Artifact, Actually Be Salvaged Into A Playable Game? Expect a bow to be added to Fortnite in the coming weeks. It’s unique, and a testament to the continual innovation of the Respawn team. Despite the fact it’s OP, the weapon is great for the game. There will be genuine questions about whether the gun will receive a nerf in the next patch. Not everyone wants to play Battle Royale all the time. Once new maps are added into rotation Arenas will become a staple of Apex. Arenas is a great game mode with massive potential for ranked queues in a few updates time. Servers went down for approximately 30 minutes and are now back up.ĭespite the server problems, Season 9 of Apex has generally been well-received.
However, at the time of writing, it appears the servers have returned to normal after overnight maintenance. Respawn recently went into some detail about their work into improving the server performance, but it seems we’re not quite there yet. The exact causes of the server outages are not known. Respawn and EA couldn’t have picked a worse time for their servers to collapse. The game even hit a massive 300,000 concurrent players on Steam. Season 9 is one of the largest ever for Apex: servers are live on Switch, Xbox, PlayStation, and Steam. There are always problems at the beginning of a season when the player numbers are high, but this time around has been particularly bad. It is by far one of the worst launches to a season Apex has had. There were numerous issues over the first three days of the season launch, including total crashes, the “No server found” issue and the removal of player’s items and unlocked legends. RELATED: Star Wars The Old Republic Removing Old Currencies And Changing Galactic Command To Galactic Renown To prevent further issues, we're planning limited (under 30 mins) service downtime starting tonight at 11:30pm PT.ĭuring this period you should be able to matchmake and play, but store and inventory services will appear offline and non-base Legends will appear locked. RELATED: Koei Tecmo Will Release Final Nioh 2 Demo This Week Before The Game Launches The server problems have meant the community dialogue has mostly been focused on the poor performance of the game rather than the new content. With it arrived a brand new game mode, the fresh Bocek Bow… and some of the worst server issues the game has experienced for some time.
Though it is still planned, Respawn added that “it is still our intention to address some of the most egregious use-cases of tap-strafing“.Apex Legends Season 9, Legacy, is in full swing.
Respawn originally planned to include a nerf to tap-strafing in a patch this month, however the development team discovered “some unexpected side effects” that meant all changes needed to be delayed.
We'll extend the current ranked split by one week-that update will go live Monday.
In response to stability issues, Apex Legends players were granted an extension to the current ranked split.ĭespite improvements today, we're still seeing roughly three times the normal rate of disconnect errors in and a full return to normal may take until our next planned patch on Sept 22. The game has been suffering from a range of server issues since September 14, as players have been experiencing three times the usual number of disconnects according to Respawn. Multiple attempts to fix the issues have been made, however previous patches haven’t quite managed to completely deal with the server instability.