Apex Legends and Respawn continued to strengthen their lines of communication between developers and player base to start off 2023 yesterday, announcing some big news for players in the higher ranks of the game. So far, though, it doesn’t seem like everything is working out exactly as the devs intended.
Players that are ranked at Diamond and above will now benefit from a DDoS protection feature. Respawn announced that they were rolling out the feature last night, and included that the appearance of a new shield icon in the game’s performance display meant that games’ servers were now utilizing the feature. Despite this announcement and the appearance of the shield icon, however, it doesn’t seem like the feature has prevented players from causing disruptions in ranked servers entirely.