Respawn Entertainment recently gave the Apex Legends world a good hearty shakeup by introducing small scale Arena fights, offering players a significantly different game experience than the regular battle royale modes. Unfortunately, these arenas also came with their fair share of bugs.
Quickly skyrocketing to the top of the list of outstanding issues in the Arenas portion of the Season 9 update is the so-called 'ghost rock' exploit. You might have heard it referred to differently, but this is the nickname that took off the most. We're talking about that one specific stone on the Phase Runner map that has no collision detection for players.
After it was discovered, players quickly started exploiting the rock to hide inside. When you clip into the rock, you can see and shoot players outside said rock, but they do not see you, nor will their shots harm you - since the rock does have bullet collision. This gives the resident of the stone a clear unfair advantage over the competition.
The exploit got quite a bit of publicity lately as players have begun to document cases where they were killed by players using this exploit or just caught themselves inside the rock. The advantage granted by the ghost rock is costing legitimate players matches and turning games on the Phase Runner map into predictable camp fests.
Respawn Entertainment has known about the ghost rock practically since its discovery, and a fix for the exploit was supposed to be rolled out in yesterday's hotfix - you know, the one that nerfed that overpowered new bow, the Bocek - but was ultimately delayed due to 'quality assurance reasons', whatever that may mean.
