Apex Legends developer Respawn Entertainment said a single line of flawed code associated with an assault rifle was responsible for numerous audio and graphics bugs that plagued players during the Battle Royale game’s 16th season. made it clear that
Players started reporting bugs shortly after the start of Season 16. This is after noticing the lack of rifle sounds, Phantom he particle effects, and the disappearance of grenades that do the right amount of damage to nearby enemies but fail to detonate. The bug didn’t occur in playtesting, but after preliminary research, the most likely cause of the missing effect was narrowed down to a limitation in how the game’s servers parsed the effect.
According to a Reddit post describing a bug hunt,, the Apex Legends server can dispatch up to 128 effect “entries” for each frame of gameplay. can contain Any effect requests received by the server after the 128 entry frame limit is reached are dropped, which may explain the lack of sounds and FX reported by players.
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The team then determined which process or asset flaws were causing impact overload. However, as a Reddit update points out, each new season of Apex Legends introduces thousands of asset tweaks and code tweaks. Finding the source of a problem is like finding a “needle in a haystack.”
“This left us with a complex issue that we knew was impacting our community, but which was difficult to reproduce despite detailed reporting and had minimal internal leads. , there was no metric to definitively prove that this limit was reached at all,” the post said. read.
Finally, the team found a needle. This is a single line of code attached to the Nemesis Rifle introduced in Season 16. Nemesis was created with a bespoke particle effect that increases in intensity as the weapon is fired repeatedly.
The team found that each player using Nemesis was sending a “stop particles” effect request to the server every frame where they didn’t fire their weapon, even if the weapon was holstered. . If many players were running around with his Nemesis rifle uncharged, Stop His Particles His command onslaught was overwhelming the server, causing it to lose its effectiveness.
Thankfully, the team was able to push a fix for the issue last Tuesday, but the developers are aware that the update may not have fixed all of the FX issues players were experiencing over the course of Season 16. I warn you that there is
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