In Apex Legends the last major patch 1.07 was supposed to properly buff the legends Caustic and Gibraltar. However, the supposed blessing is more of a curse that is currently annoying both players of the two legends and their opponents.
What was changed for Caustic and Gibraltar? These two heroes are big, bulky guys with larger hitboxes, making them more likely to be hit. To compensate, the two hefty characters received a buff in update 1.07 that granted them a 10 percent damage reduction.
Buff becomes a Nerf
Here are the problems with the two heroes: The 10 percent less damage seems to have triggered a lot of chaos in the code of the two heroes. Players report via Dexerto that Gibraltar (and probably Caustic) now takes damage even while wearing armor.
That shouldn’t be the case since armor blocks damage until it is broken.
According to another player, it seems that the 10% less damage that Caustic and Gibraltar receive gets flipped into the opposite when wearing armor, causing the heroes to instead take 10% more damage directly to their health points.
This is another bug with armor: In general, armor seems to be completely bugged with the new patch for the two heroes. Some players report that they cannot rely on damage feedback when playing Caustic and Gibraltar.
This is how damage feedback works: Normally, Apex Legends indicates through differently colored damage numbers whether and what type of armor an opponent has left when hit.
This is extremely important, because when the color indication for armor appears, you shouldn’t engage in a prolonged firefight.
This is the problem with damage: However, if damage shows red numbers, that actually means that the opponent has no armor left and should die after a few hits. But that seems to be missing with Caustic and Gibraltar now.
You can see how this looks in the game in the video from streamer LeonBackwardsTV.
Because diverse players on Reddit report that they shot heavily at the respective heroes and saw red numbers. But suddenly the symbol for broken armor appeared, and the opponents didn’t die.
They presumably had armor on, but the hit feedback didn’t reflect any of that. This currently makes it extremely difficult to fight effectively against these heroes.
“That explains a lot! I thought I was going crazy,” commented one player on this.
What is Respawn doing? Update (04/20/2019): Meanwhile, there has been feedback from the developer on Reddit. They are working on the problem and intend to fix it soon. However, no exact date was given.
According to Dexerto, developer Respawn has not yet responded to the bug. But since it appears to be a serious issue impacting both heroes significantly, the devs should hopefully react quickly and roll out a hotfix.
In the meantime, there are still other bugs, but one of them is more funny than serious.
