Summary
- Respawn Entertainment has delayed Ranked Rumble in Apex Legends Season 22 without specifying the reason.
- Players have reacted both positively and negatively to the delay, citing past issues with glitches and matchmaking.
- Respawn plans to make changes and improvements to Ranked Rumble before its return this season.
Apex Legends developer Respawn Entertainment has announced that it will delay Ranked Rumble, one of the game's returning multiplayer modes. The mode was originally set to return during Apex Legends Season 22.
Competitive live-service titles like Apex Legends face constant pressure to maintain the balance or atmosphere players enjoy about the game while still growing and adding novel content and modes. Maintaining proper game balance adds further challenge to the task at hand, as skeptical players may even begin to question the wisdom of decisions before they even debut. One such example was when some players decried the Apex Legends Season 22 Battle Sense feature before the season had even launched.
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Another feature intended to go live in Season 22, Ranked Rumble, has also just been delayed. In an announcement, Respawn Entertainment said that Ranked Rumble's return would be postponed from its original launch date of September 13, 2024. Ranked Rumble is a variant of the standard Apex Legends ranked mode, with separate leaderboards based on each rank tier for players to compete in. Alongside Ranked Rumble, Season 22 included balance changes for different playable characters and weapons, as well as a new Apex Legends map called E-District.
Apex Legends Ranked Rumble Delayed for Changes
In its announcement of the Apex Legends Ranked Rumble delay, Respawn Entertainment didn't specify exactly why it was delaying the mode's return. It only said that it had heard player feedback and that it would work on changes and improvements to the mode before bringing it back. In a response to the official post on Twitter, Apex Legends Senior Community Manager Karen Lee said that Respawn was "going back to the drawing board" with Ranked Rumble and encouraged players to tune into future patch notes for more details.
Reactions online to the announcement of Ranked Rumble's delay ranged from positive to frustrated. Some players praised the decision, citing earlier complaints about the previous iteration of Ranked Rumble. Those complaints included glitches that put players in the wrong rank or affected matchmaking for higher ranks. Others called on Respawn to address other bugs affecting ranked play, weapons, and general issues with the game experience. In another widely decried incident, a glitch caused the usual Apex Legends Ranked split to happen too early, resetting many players' ranked levels.
The dissatisfaction of players over the Ranked Rumble experience shows that the new Apex Legends Season 22 mode might not be quite up to par with the game's best. Respawn may have made the correct decision to delay the mode's return in order to retune it, rather than suffer further player frustration.
Apex Legends
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OpenCritic Reviews
- Top Critic Avg: 81 /100 Critics Rec: 74%
- Released
- February 4, 2019
- ESRB
- T for Teen: Blood, Violence
- Developer(s)
- Respawn Entertainment
- Publisher(s)
- Electronic Arts
- Engine
- Source on console/PC, Unreal Engine 4 on mobile
- Multiplayer
- Online Multiplayer
- Cross-Platform Play
- PC, PS4, Switch & Xbox One
WHERE TO PLAY
Conquer with character in Apex Legends, a free-to-play* Hero shooter where legendary characters with powerful abilities team up to battle for fame & fortune on the fringes of the Frontier.
Master an ever-growing roster of diverse legends, deep tactical squad play, and bold new innovations that go beyond the Battle Royale experience—all within a rugged world where anything goes. Welcome to the next evolution of Hero Shooter.
This game includes optional in-game purchases of virtual currency that can be used to acquire virtual in-game items, including a random selection of virtual in-game items.
- Cross Save
- Cross Progression lets you share your game progress across PC, PlayStation®, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch
- Steam Deck Compatibility
- yes
- Platform(s)
- PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, PC, iOS, Android, Switch
- Genre(s)
- Battle Royale, First-Person Shooter
- X|S Optimized
- yes
- PS Plus Availability
- N/A
