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Apex Legends dev explains why it feels like Respawn ships weak characters in each new season

Nafiu Aziz
By Nafiu Aziz Published October 29, 2020
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Respawn just recently revealed Horizon to be its latest character in season 7 of Apex Legends.

And just like every other season, players are concerned that Horizon might be shipped in a pretty weak state. Every new season, Respawn has a tendency of releasing weak characters at first. Later down the line, these characters would get some significant buffs and become meta several seasons after their initial release.

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Revenant can be one of the more prime examples. While the hype for legends like Revenant and Crypto was at an all-time high before their official release, the actual release in turn didn’t meet the expectation of most players.

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Power creep in Apex Legends:

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by u/DanielZKlein from discussion Game and Update Discussion | October 27 2020
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“Why characters in Apex are generally weak on release (and if you couldn’t tell, as someone working on the Legend meta, I’ve been thinking about this rather a lot recently ;P): my theory is that being a gun game precludes us from using certain power levels for abilities” u/DanielZKlein on power creep in Apex Legends.

Basically, the dev explains that since Apex Legends is a “gun” game that precludes them from implementing powers or abilities that could harm the game in the long term. As a result, Respawn is more comfortable with buffing their characters later down the line instead of shipping them in a broken state.

“We’re not trying to ship weak Legends, but it’s really hard to make Legends strong in a way we can be confident won’t ruin the game for everyone for a week or two. We’ll continue buffing Legends that release weak“, u/DanielZKlein also added.

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In short, to combat power creep in a hero shooter game with damaging abilities, Respawn feels shipping legends in their current way is more feasible in the long run.

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