The easy to touch characters of Apex Legends are a little more sturdy

A new patch hits Apex Legends Today, and with her, more and more efforts are being made to tackle the hit-paralists of great characters like Gibraltar.

Although the Gibraltar kit makes him a classic tank – he has a shield to aim for, and his ultimate is an impenetrable shield – the players barely use it. Since his character is larger, he has a bigger hitbox, which means he is easier to kill. Larger characters, Caustic and Pathfinder have similar problems.

While previous changes in hitbox size seem to have worked for Pathfinder, today's update solves this problem by offering Gibraltar and Caustic a new advantage to their passive fortified ability, which reduces damage to 10%. Gibraltar's gun shield damage has also been increased, as well as gas damage and Caustic's ultimate strike distance.

"At the beginning of season 1, we had previously explained how our beloved Thicc Bois (Pathfinder, Gibraltar and Caustic) had been crushed because of the size of their hitbox compared to other Legends. We first wanted to try to adjust the hitboxes to better fit the model. For Pathfinder, this change worked very well, "said a representative of Apex LegendsDevelopment Studio, Respawn Entertainment, wrote on Reddit. "However, after reviewing players' data and reactions, Gibraltar and Caustic only improved slightly with the hitbox adjustments."

"We do not think that the number of hit boxes and the customization kit are sufficient to align Gibraltar and Caustic with their smaller competitors," he continued. "During the week or two weeks after this change, we will monitor their performance with this extra protection and adjust aggressively if they are still underweight relative to their size. Our goal is to ensure that both legends are viable choices by the end of this process. "

The patch also contains modifications to the weapons to make the sniper rifles more viable by reducing swing and damage reduction, increasing the size of the energy weapon magazine, and reducing the size of the Wingman magazine. so that he does not dominate the battle between firearms against an early firearm. to his super high damage by bullet. "The Wingman dominated Mountain peakMeta since a few weeks after the launch.

The changes are explained in detail in the release notes, posted on Reddit, and arrived for all players at 1 pm Eastern time.