Apex Legends ranked has been turned off today after a strange competitive glitch that reset unlucky players’ standings in the season just days after the new split began.
Across the battle royale, Apex players immediately began reporting they’d lost their ranks after logging in on Monday, Aug. 12. The in-game messaging suggested the ranked split had been “reset”—a wipe obviously not meant to happen for more than a month. Unsurprisingly, the game-wide reset sparked panic across the community.
Within hours, Respawn responded, confirming today’s Apex ranked reset was totally unplanned (and unwanted). The developers are now looking into a way to “restore ranks and Ranked Points for all players” and until they’ve cracked the code behind this nasty competitive glitch, the Apex team has taken ranked offline. There’s no real timeline for its return beyond whenever the fix is ready to deploy.
“We’ll let you know as soon as it’s ready,” the Apex devs promised in a post on X (formerly Twitter), “but in the meantime, ranked will remain unavailable for affected accounts to prevent them from losing further progress.”
It appears not all players have been effected, with those who didn’t log-in during the peak of the error event being spared. They can still load up lobby queues at the time of writing.
Ranked resets aren’t a shock in Apex, but one coming less than seven days after a new season certainly was. The next reset should drop in mid-September.
Update Aug. 12, 10:50pm CT: Respawn has yet to upload a fix, but aggrieved players believe they’ve found a workaround: Join a duo that still has playlists activated, Ready Up in a public Apex lobby, then swap the match to ranked. This does appear to let gamers play again—but won’t change impacted (and lower) ranks.
This story will be updated with any new developments.
Published: Aug 12, 2024 07:17 pm