Apex Legends Season 1 patch notes: Hitbox changes and Octane rides in

Apex Legends obtained its largest replace immediately, which added Season 1: Wild Frontier, the game’s first Battle Pass, and the primary model new character launched for the reason that game launched – Octane, the “high-speed daredevil”. With the addition of Season 1, Apex Legends additionally obtained an enormous quantity of bug fixes and quality-of-life enhancements, together with some main adjustments the neighborhood had been begging for. We’ve obtained the total patch notes under.

The main addition, in fact, is the most recent Legend, Octane, who turns into the ninth playable character within the game. Players have suspected that the shark-masked character – whose in-game art work leaked fairly a while in the past – can be the primary latest hero to drop in Apex Legends, however solely with these patch notes are we getting his full particulars. As predicted, those jump pads that popped up in the game are his Ultimate potential.

More welcome, nonetheless, is the truth that eventually we’re getting adjustments to character hitboxes. This important problem wasn’t corrected in the first major patch for the game, however now lastly the wildly inaccurate hitboxes for Gibraltar, Caustic, and Pathfinder are all being adjusted.

The Season 1 patch is dwell proper now, and the Battle Pass has additionally been added to the game. If gamers fork out 950 Apex cash for the privilege of being a part of Season 1, they’ll earn cosmetics for his or her weapons, badges, character skins, Apex packs, and even get again a few of these cash.

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Other than all this, the Season 1 replace comprises principally welcome bugfixes, efficiency enhancements, and some quality-of-life enhancements. We significantly like the choice to show down display screen shaking whereas sprinting, and Pathfinder now having the ability to grapple ziplines. For the remainder of the adjustments, take a look at the total patch notes under.

SEASON 1: WILD FRONTIER PATCH NOTES

INTRODUCING BATTLE PASS SEASON 1

Added Battle Pass tab to Lobby.
Cost: 950 Apex Coins
Earn over 100 distinctive objects all through the season – all the pieces you snag earlier than the season is over is yours to maintain.
- Updated dashboard pictures for Season 1 on PC and Xbox [PS4 is on the way!]
- Updated Main Menu with new Season 1 artwork.
- Updated the Lobby visuals for Season 1.
- Updated Apex Legends web site FAQ with information on Battle Pass.

INTRODUCING THE BATTLE PASS BUNDLE

Get the Battle Pass, plus unlock your subsequent 25 ranges for Season 1 immediately.
Cost: 2,800 Apex Coins.

FREE REWARDS

Everyone that performs Apex Legends throughout Season 1 can earn the next rewards:

1 Wild Frontier Legend Skin
5 Apex Packs
18 Wild Frontier themed Stat Trackers

NEW LEGEND: OCTANE

High-Speed Daredevil

Developer word: If it doesn’t contain diving, leaping, plummeting, or racing, then Octane needs nothing to do with it. Always the lifetime of the celebration, Octane really believes profitable the Championship isn’t sufficient… not if you happen to didn’t cheat loss of life no less than twice to get there.

Passive: Swift Mend

While not taking harm, Octane restores 1 well being each 2 seconds.

Tactical: Stim

Move 30% quicker for six seconds. Costs well being to make use of. While energetic, Octane is affected much less by assaults that trigger slowdown. 2 second recharge.

Ultimate: Launch Pad

Deployable soar pad that catapults gamers via the air. Takes 90 seconds to recharge.

Cost:

12,000 Legend Tokens
750 Apex Coins

STABILITY & PERFORMANCE

Developer word: We’ve obtained some fixes on this patch that may enhance stability on PC however we all know there are nonetheless points on the market we have to handle. We additionally added crash reporting so we are able to higher perceive easy methods to deal with the problems we haven’t solved but and handle future ones.

Improved stability for numerous GPU configurations.
Capped PC FPS to 300 to steadiness bettering stability however nonetheless letting you of us take pleasure in these candy frames.
Addressed problem with PS4 crashes because of operating out of reminiscence.
Introducing higher reporting when Apex crashes on PC with out error message.
- We actually need to repair any crashes individuals occur to get on PC. We additionally respect our participant’s privateness. So, if the PC game crashes, it is going to write “apex_crash.txt” to your “Documents” folder. This tiny file is obvious textual content, so you possibly can simply see for your self that it has no private data. If you select to share this file with us, it is going to inform us whether or not the crash was in Apex or in third celebration software program. If the crash was in Apex, our programmers can use the data to seek out and repair it. If you expertise a crash, please embody this file once you report.
  - We defend your private data.
  - You can simply see all the pieces within the file your self; we have now no secrets and techniques.
  - You’re accountable for whether or not we ever see the file.
Added Report a Player characteristic for dishonest and abuse on PC.
- Players can now report cheaters they encounter in-game and it’ll be despatched on to Easy Anti-Cheat. You can do that from both the spectate view after dying or when taking a look at your workforce’s Banner Cards within the Squad tab.
- We have plenty of different work occurring behind the scenes and this stays excessive precedence for us. We received’t be capable of share many specifics of what we’re doing however we’ll attempt to offer updates on progress for the issues we are able to discuss.
- As I’m ending the notes this morning, 499,937 accounts and counting have been banned for dishonest.
- Speed hacking: We do at present have anti-speed hacking in Apex Legends, nevertheless it’s not being as efficient as meant because of a bug that we imagine we’ve recognized and will likely be addressing in our subsequent server replace. Will present ETA for it when I’ve it. Working to get it out ASAP.
Added Report a Player for abuse on Consoles
- You can report gamers from the spectate view after dying or when taking a look at your workforce’s Banner Cards within the Squad tab.
Optimized skydiving to enhance general server efficiency.
Fixed bug the place generally the consumer might crash when opening Apex Packs one proper after the opposite.

QUALITY OF LIFE

Added “Swap LT/RT & LB/RB” / “Swap L1/R1 & L2/R2”) toggle within the Controller Button Layout settings.
- Lets you shortly swap what your bumpers & triggers are set to, with any controller preset.
Added “Sprint View Shake” setting underneath the Video tab.
- Setting this to “Minimal” might be particularly useful for gamers inclined to movement illness.
Added “Trigger Deadzones” setting underneath the Controller tab.
- Customize how far you need to pull the triggers earlier than they register.
Added “Advanced Look Controls” settings submenu underneath the Controller tab.
- Fine-tune particular elements of the look controls for a customized really feel; equivalent to Deadzone, Response Curve, Target Compensation (goal help), and extra.
When you relinquish the Jumpmaster place to a different participant you’ll now hear your Legend’s VO line along with the brand new Jumpmaster. The third participant received’t hear it although.
Improved mantling from a grapple level.
Pathfinder can now grapple ziplines.
We’ve added D-pad navigation as a comfort in many of the menus. Our hope is this can velocity up searching and enhance accessibility.
UI enhancements to the KO Shield
- Shield bar drains to point the remaining well being of the protect.
- When you’ve a Gold KO Shield and are down, we’ve added an impact to the label that reminds you that you could self revive.
We noticed that the Ring indicator that seems when gamers are viewing the entire map wasn’t precisely displaying the participant’s place so we mounted that.
Character animations whereas taking harm now precisely mirror the course the harm is coming from.
Fixed a bug the place occluded sounds would generally sound unoccluded.
Patched up some points with lacking geo on Kings Canyon and glued just a few spots the place gamers had been getting caught.
Fixed a script error that would occur when eradicating attachments on holstered weapons.
General polish to game UI fixing some grammar points, improved navigation, and composition of parts.
Fixed PC customers consistently switching weapons whereas scrolling via objects in a Death Box.
Fixed problem the place we had been seeing server stability points generally brought on by buying objects whereas matchmaking.
Fixed script errors that would happen through the skydive.
Reduced skybox fog.
Adjusted the code for Supply Bins so they’re much less prone to kill gamers. If you do nonetheless get killed by one please tell us!
Made it so push-to-talk is now not on when a chat field is energetic.
LT/RT now not switches between gamers in spectator mode whereas the map is open.
Updated the minimap to extra precisely mirror the geo and factors of curiosity on the primary map.
Adding sound FX to the UI for the important thing binding menu.
Fixed problem the place a participant’s title wouldn’t present up after they ship a message that reached the character restrict.
Fixed bug the place generally the Champion display screen decision can be stretched in widescreen resolutions.
Fixed audio bug the place generally the zipline sounds FX would maintain enjoying after disembarking.
Added accessibility choice to switch the subtitle measurement.
Improvements / fixes for coloration blind gamers:
- Added higher coloration blind help for Blood Hound’s Threat Vision.
- Colorblind colours per setting at the moment are displayed within the settings menu.
- Colorblind settings moved from Video Settings to Gameplay->Accessibility. They at the moment are utilized on the fly.
- Enemy pings now use correct enemy coloration as a substitute of solely utilizing purple.
Audio:
- Turned down quantity when Wraith prompts a portal.
- Turned down the top sounds on the Peacekeeper charged shot.
- Turned down the draw/holster sound barely for thermite grenades.

LEGEND BALANCE & HITBOX ADJUSTMENTS

Adjusted hitboxes for Gibraltar, Caustic, and Pathfinder to higher align with their shapes.

Caustic:

Reduced cooldown of Traps 30 -> 25 seconds.
Increased radius and proximity radius by about 10%.
Removed a 1 second delay on the smoke dealing harm to gamers.
Reduced cooldown of Gas Grenade 2:30 -> 2:00 seconds.

Pathfinder:

Insider Knowledge
- Increased the variety of beacons on the planet 10-> 12.

Bangalore:

Double Time
- Reduced transfer velocity bonus to 40% -> 30%.

Gibraltar:

Defensive Bombardment
- Fixed a bug the place your teammates wouldn’t be affected by Shell Shock. This was meant to be the identical as Bangalore’s final.

WEAPONS

Fixed gamers having the ability to shortcut weapon swap by altering stance
Fixed gamers having the ability to shortcut Peacekeeper rechamber sequence
Fixed inaccurate auto ranging fullscreen (sniper) optics when base FOV is just not set to default
Spitfire: mounted ADS view on Legendaries partially obscured by customized geo. (The Continuum, The Heavy Construct)
Fixed ADS view being blocked when utilizing Caustic legendary skins with sure weapon/ optic combos
Digital menace optics: menace highlights at the moment are extra seen (barely brighter; now not affected by TSAA)
Fixed bug the place Devotion audio generally wouldn’t precisely mirror charge of fireside.

ADDITIONAL BUG FIXES

Fixed uncommon problem the place a participant might get caught on the drop ship and be invulnerable.
Patched up the outlet we present in Gibraltar’s protect.
Fixed problem the place Lifeline’s revive protect wouldn’t keep put whereas on a shifting platform.
Fixed problem the place generally gamers would get caught in map geometry whereas skydiving from the dropship or Jump Towers.
Fixed bug the place gamers might nonetheless shoot even after being downed.
Fixed bug the place sometimes Lifeline’s D.O.C. drone would keep linked to a participant however not heal them.
Limited the quantity of Lifeline’s D.O.C. drones that may connect with a participant to 2.
Fixed Pathfinder’s zipline not deploying when leaping.
Fixed a bug with the HUD the place generally the Heal Bar would keep up if the heal was cancelled proper after it was began.
Fixed a bug the place generally the audio would proceed to play sound FX for the Knockdown Shield even after it’s been destroyed.
Fixed problem the place generally gamers might get disconnected when unplugging their controller throughout a game.
Fixed the exploit the place you may do infinite wallclimb utilizing Pathfinder’s Grapple.
Fixed bug the place generally you couldn’t fireplace the Peacekeeper after using a zipper line.
Fixed problem the place generally the skybox fog wouldn’t seem whereas spectating after you died.
Fixed bug the place Banner Cards would present via partitions sometimes when considered via a really excessive FOV.
Fixed some odd gentle flickering that was taking place on the ballon flags connected to Jump Towers.
Fixed bug the place generally a participant’s Banner Card wouldn’t present up after character choose.

RAZER CHROMA SUPPORT

Apex Legends will now detect Razer Chroma peripherals and supported gadgets will now play animated colours that react to belongings you do within the game! Some examples: