Developer Respawn Entertainment has revealed that audio and graphical bugs that have been plaguing gamers in Apex Legends throughout the recreation’s sixteenth season have been all prompted by a single line of code.
As half of the bug, gamers have been noticing varied audio/visible features of the sport have been glitched, from assault rifles not making sounds, to random particle results displaying up, to grenades outright disappearing regardless of dealing injury.
The dev staff took to the Apex Legends subreddit to elucidate the bug, which was apparently prompted by the way in which the sport handles graphics and synchronisation for the gamers it may assist in a single match.
Without getting too technical, the sport’s servers can present 128 results in any given body of gameplay. Typically, these results additionally embody instructions that begin or cease results for varied issues, like weapon results and physics affect. Effects acquired by the server after the 128 results restrict in a single body are dropped.
Respawn has said that a repair has been rolled out on to its servers in an replace launched final Thursday, and the studio has been keeping track of issues since.