Apex Legends Players Are Concerned About Upcoming Season 22 Feature

A new feature called “Battle Sense”, being added to Apex Legends with the upcoming Season 22 update, has posed concern among the player base. Fans have taken to social media to express their displeasure over the impact this one change could have on the gameplay in Apex Legends.

In the last five years since its release, Apex Legends has remained one of the most popular multiplayer games on the market, and one of the best EA games to date. Respawn has kept it relevant via updates that bring dynamic changes to the gameplay, as well as the game’s visuals, keeping players on their toes. Recently, however, the developers of Apex Legends have made some decisions that have caused frustration among fans.

In the most recent post on its official site that gave early insight into some updates for Apex Legends Season 22, EA has revealed a new mechanic called “Battle Sense.” The feature is meant to go live with the Season 22 update and will allow players to see enemy health bars temporarily while dealing damage to the enemies and maintaining line of sight. Not only that, but they will also be highlighted in red to make it easier to spot them against the landscape and differentiate them from squadmates.

Apex Legends Fans Frustrated With Developers Once Again

Fans immediately took to social media to complain about this upcoming feature. Most are pointing out the immediate downsides to “Battle Sense,” where one of the core Apex Legends tactics of bluffing enemies into retreating will now no longer work, and Revenant’s passive of seeing low-health enemies is now obsolete.

On the other hand, others are diving even deeper into the motives Respawn may have had when designing this mechanic. Fans say that the mechanic of highlighting enemies and showing their health bar could massively lower the skill ceiling of Apex Legends, which players argue has no place in Battle Royale. The remaining fans are giving Respawn the benefit of the doubt, waiting to see how the changes will affect the game once implemented.

This all comes shortly after an interview where the Game Director for Apex Legends acknowledged cheating as one of the deeper issues in the game, after the Battle Pass changes fiasco. There, he stated that the game belongs to the community first and foremost, which should give hope to players that the “Battle Sense” feature will improve the game, or be retconned if the community rejects it outright upon implementation.

Apex Legends

Apex Legends is a free-to-play battle royale game made by Respawn. In this shooter, players take up the mantle of a Legend — one of the playable characters — and form a squad with other players. The game is set in the same universe as the Titanfall series and the two franchises have had many crossovers.

Battle Royale

First-Person Shooter

Released

February 4, 2019

Publisher(s)

Electronic Arts

Multiplayer

Online Multiplayer

Engine

Source on console/PC, Unreal Engine 4 on mobile

ESRB

T for Teen: Blood, Violence

PS Plus Availability

N/A

Cross-Platform Play

PC, PS4, Switch & Xbox One

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