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168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Apex Legends Season 11 is surprisingly well-balanced. New additions in the form of the CAR SMG, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Titanfall 2’s very own Ash, and a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:giant new map in the form of Storm Point seem to fit in with the early meta, but that isn’t always the🌊 case.
I’m here to talk about Seer. Season 10’s charac🔯ter launched strong. Really strong. Imagine setting a Sumatran tiger loose in a nursery - he was unstoppable, and if you didn’t have him on your squad, you were destined to lose. His abilities took Bloodhound’s wallhacks to the next level, allowing him to track the movements of all enemies within his sphere so long as they were running or shooting (which, in a team-fighting battle royale game, tends to be a lot of the time). His tactical interrupted opponents resurrecting teammates and stopped them from healing, and his passive was even more broken.
While it didn&rsq📖uo;t pinpoint enemies’ exact locations, Seer’s passive ability told you what direction your opponents were in at all times just by aiming down your sights. This led to Seers jumping around the map, flopping out of cover like salmon swimming upstream, 360ing like a noughties Call of Duty YouTuber to constantly relay vital information to their 🐎teammates. Imagine a battle royale match where you knew precisely where your every opponent lay in wait - the early days of Season 10 were bleak, boring, and filled with the infuriatingly loud sound effects that accompanied Seer’s overpowered abilities.
Respawn acknowledged that Seer launched too strong, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:ner🐟fed him a few weeks into the season. However♑, they didn’t just tweak a few numbers or carefully retune his passive ability, they took to Seer like a hammer 𒊎to a jelly, sending exploded pieces of gelatinous Legend spraying across World’s Edge. This time, Respawn was the tiger and Seer was… well, best not think about the rest of that image. Herein lies the problem: Respawn doesn’t know how to balance its characters.
Perhaps the developers were in a rush because of how broken Seer was and just wanted to get something out, but that doesn’t explain why he hasn’t been buffed in the patches since. The trailers showed him jumping beautifully through tꦚhe air with the poise of a ballerina, but his fall from grace more closely resembled a middle-aged dad bombing into the swimming pool at an all-inclusive holiday resort.
Seer has remained a crumpled heap at the bottom of the pool that is the Apex Legends roster, forgotten in every sense of the word. His lore hasn't progressed since his addition either, likely impacted by the fact he was flanked by the releases of Valkyrie and Ash, two lore-heavy Titanfall throwbacks. I still feel like I hardly know the man, which has resulted in him being defined by his broken launch and subsequent fall from grace rather than his stunning Prince-esque design or a potentially memorable, heartstring-tugging story like Loba.
When he launched, . That number halved when he was nerfed, and one season on a meagre two percent of players use him. And that’s a shame. He has some of my favourite voice lines, the potential for so much interesting story and characte🐠r development (are we all forgetting that he was cursed at birth?), and his abilities could fill a niche in the Apex Legends roster if only they were more carefully handled.
Seer isn’t the only victim to Respawn’s less-than-subtle rebalances, but he’s the most memorable. Remember when people actually used Pathfinder? To add insult to injury, Caustic’s huge nerf was cruelly timed t🔯o coincide with his own Town Takeover in March this year.
Respawn has acknowledged that it wants new content to launch strong to make it meaningful, but the overzealo❀us haymakers it throws as it attempts to balance the broken additions kill any interest in whatever new toy is in their sights.
There is hope, though. Caꦫustic and Wattson have received more careful, calculated buffs in recent patches to make them useable but not broken. Both seem well balanced at the moment. Valkyrie launched strong, but not too strong - arguably the perfect level for a new character to release at.
It’s worth remembering that Valkyrie has a completely unique set of abilities compa🃏red to the rest of the characters, something which subsequent additions Seer and Ash cannot claim. The latter will always carry comparisons to fellow portaller Wraith, and Seer’s wallhacks have Bloodhound and now Fuse to contend with. Adding Legends with similar abilities to existing characters may be a factor in the power creep in Apex, with new additions needing to be stronger than thei༺r tactically-similar counterparts in order to make a splash upon entry. Respawn just needs to stop that splash from becoming a tsunami every time.
As difficult as balancing an ever-evolving live-service game is, it’s sad to see characters fall to the wayside and seemingly be forgotten about as soon as they are no longer problematically overpowered. Season 11’s launch was thankfully well balanced, but if Ash’s pass𓂃iv🧸e had been even stronger or the CAR had less recoil, both could have been nerfed to oblivion by this point, not to be seen again for months.
Apex is in a balanced place right n⛦ow regarding - especially when it comes to its weapons - but let’s just say I’m keeping my fingers crossed that Season 12 launches in a similarly measured fashion.