The Marble Goddess skin truly made Wraith into her namesake with how easily she seems to avoid damage now. It may look like your bullets are doing damage to her, but she somehow walks away without a scratch.
However, what appears to be no-regs are actually just visual bugs. The design director of Apex Legends, Jason McCord, explained on Twitter how their quick fix to the skin’s hitbox led to the appearance of no-regs, as well as when players can expect it to be patched.
When the Marble Goddess skin was released, the developers missed an entry in the model settings that removed the hitbox entirely. The game auto-generated a hitbox in response, but it didn’t adhere strictly to Wraith’s character model. Instead, it created a large, rectangular zone around her body that she could take damage from as long as the Marble Goddess skin was equipped.
As McCord explains, there are two ways to address this issue: client patches and server patches.
Client patches contain code that gets downloaded directly onto the player’s machine, and each client patch needs to be approved by Sony and Microsoft before it can be released. Meanwhile, server patches aren’t loaded onto players’ machines, and they don’t need Sony or Microsoft to give them the green light. Both the server and client need to be patched in order for the hitbox to work as intended, but server fixes are faster to put out.
McCord explains the effects of patching the server first in this reply:
When a player shoots at a Marble Goddess Wraith, they get feedback in the form of blood splatters, but no damage is done. That’s because they’re actually missing their shots. What they’re really hitting is the auto-generated hitbox (which the client still reads), which gives them feedback. Because the client is the one that decides whether damage is done, though, those shots get no payoff.
Once the client patch is approved, this visual bug will be fixed. Otherwise, temporarily disabling the skin is the only other solution. McCord and the Apex team didn’t think disabling the skin would be fair to those who paid $18 USD for it, so they worked on administering patches as quickly as they could, even if it led to frustrating visual bugs. McCord stated a client patch is coming soon, as early as “tomorrow morning.”
