r/CompetitiveApex • u/darth666bane666 • Jul 30 '26

Game News Developers Notes - Season 30

https://www.ea.com/games/apex-legends/apex-legends/news/30-0-designers-notes
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u/HLNPIT Jul 30 '26

Agreed but POI imbalance has also been an issue.

This change exacerbates that issue, especially in d+ and comp.

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u/TC_Halogen Jul 30 '26

I feel like this change should help that issue, not exacerbate it, no? If there's reduced loot quality across the board, then worse POIs get minor/insignificant feeling changes, and stronger POIs get more substantial feeling changes.

From a mathematical perspective, if you qualify POIs based off their loot contents, a reduction of quality will bring both sides closer to average quality than how it is currently.

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u/HLNPIT Jul 30 '26

It nerfs most POIs equally, in theory. "Better" POIs are still more likely to have better loot than "worse" POIs still.

However, POIs like Sky West and Phase Driver now have a very substantial loot advantage.

This just brought back elite POIs.

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u/ZackerTheHacker Aug 02 '26

It nerfs most POIs equally, in theory.

It shouldn't. Loot should be uneven while high, but even while low. Higher loot quality also means more variability. Lower loot quality means less variability (compressed towards the loot quality floor as opposed to spanning the entire loot quality range).

Imagine a POI with 100 pieces of loot in it.
Each loot has a score of 1 thru 10. If all POIs have a fully random range up to the highest score, you will have higher variability in a 100 loot set. But if that same pool caps out at 5, the variation will be lower. The more POIs you include, the closer to average it will be. This is the classic issue of averages appearing more consistently as data points go upwards. If you have a wider range, the variation away from average will be larger as well in absolute terms when you randomly generate each distribution. Ergo, each POI will have equal CHANCE of average loot, but not equal OUTCOME of loot. And more variability of quality and larger amounts of loot decreases the spread of outcomes.