Bangalore smoke and Caustic gas are still visually bugged after S9's "fix"
Product: Apex Legends
Platform:PC
Please specify your platform model. PC
AMD or Nvidia Model Number Radon RX 580 4GB
Enter RAM memory size in GB 16GB
What is your gamertag/PSN ID/EA Account name? Mummelpuffin
Please provide your squad mates' gamertag/PSN ID/EA Account name if possible.
Are you using any software with an overlay? Yes
If yes, can you list them here? Steam & Discord
If you disable this software, does that have any effect? No
Which Legend were you playing (if applicable)? Bangalore (Also applies to Caustic)
Which Legends were your squad mates using (if applicable)?
Where did the issue occur? In a match
Which part of the map or menu were you in? If you don't remember the exact name, please describe the area or what you were trying to do in the menu. N/A
What were you doing when the issue occurred? E.g. respawning a squad mate at a beacon, using an ability, a squad mate left the game. Using Bangalore's smoke grenades
Did your squad mates also experience the issue? I don't know
How many matches had you played in a row before the issue occurred? 0
When did this happen? (dd.mm.yy hh:mm) 06.05.21 5:30 EST
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
How severe is your issue? Major impacts to gameplay
What happens when the bug occurs? One, more obviously a bug, Bang smoke suddenly turns black depending on the angle you look at it from, making it significantly better at concealing targets within it. Two, the smoke, and Caustic's gas by extension, don't actually conceal anything from within the smoke as they used to. If you're standing in the smoke, you can see out of it quite a bit, and people can *very* easily see your silhouette.
What should be happening instead? Smoke should be visually consistent, and you probably shouldn't be able to see the silhouettes of entities within it.
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Put a player inside Bangalore smoke or Caustic gas in the live game environment.
I've looked at this smoke on every level of the Effects setting and can confirm that it makes no visual difference. It still looks like this in any case. Unfortunately I don't have Caustic personally so I wasn't able to test his gas out myself, but I understand that these are the same particle systems so the same should apply to him.
On some level, I understand if this level of concealment is intentional (beyond the black smoke bug) for Bangalore, because she can just put smokes between herself and an enemy to get a bit of use from them, but in the case of Caustic, it invalidates the one thing he still had going for him, his passive. It doesn't matter that he can see through his smoke if everyone else can do so as well, and that's what has made him a nonexistent character, not his more intentional nerf.
Video driver: Driver Version 20.10.35.02-200821a-360470C-ATI
OS: Windows 10 Version 20H2, Build 19042.928, Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.551.0
