A pair of top Apex Legends ranked players, or Apex Predators per the game's tier system, have been banned by developer Respawn Entertainment for DDoSing an Xbox server.

A couple of videos hit the Apex Legends subreddit that showed an in-progress game crash after an Apex Predator was knocked down. When the server reconnected, the knocked Apex Predator was revived and standing over the player responsible. The fourth and sixth ranked players in the match were then accused of colluding and performing the "distributed denial of service" (DDoS) attack that overloaded the Xbox servers.

The usernames of the Apex Legends players have not been revealed, but the two have been banned, according to Respawn security analyst Conor "Hideouts" Ford