Apex Legends developer Respawn Entertainment has announced a new feature that’s sure to please players around the globe: DDoS protection. The announcement was made on Twitter, and included a request for player feedback.
Predator, Master, and Diamond @Playapex players, this one’s for you:
We’ve just rolled out DDOS protection for Diamond through Predator lobbies. This will be noted by a small shield symbol next to your server.
While this is still ever-evolving, we’d love to know what you think.
— Respawn (@Respawn) January 25, 2023
For the time being, this feature only applies to Diamond, Master, and Predator lobbies, so public lobbies will remain unaffected, as will lobbies for all ranks below Diamond. This is somewhat disappointing news for players who aren’t Ranked Mode die-hards, but the announcement tweet’s request for feedback and reference to the “ever-evolving” nature of protecting Apex Legends from bad actors suggests future changes may be on the horizon.
Apex has been the target of several DDoS attacks in the past. Two Xbox players were banned in March 2021 after being identified as the source of an attack, with Respawn making an announcement later that summer to assure players that new avenues were being pursued to protect the game from future attacks. By August, a well-organized collection of Titanfall players attacked Apex in an attempt to bring Respawn’s attention back to Titanfall 1 and 2, which themselves had fallen into a state of chaos due to–you guessed it—DDoS attacks. With Titanfall 2 being run by a skeleton crew, a small group of players had decided to take matters into their own hands.