Apex Legends Season 1: Wild Frontier is stay – right here’s the patch notes and the launch trailer

19.03.2019

Games

Apex Legends – Season 1: Wild Frontier

Battle Pass Season 1

Battle Pass tab to has been added to the game Lobby.
Cost: 950 Apex Coins
Earn over 100 distinctive gadgets all through the season – every part you snag earlier than the season is over is yours to maintain.
- Updated dashboard photos 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 data on Battle Pass.

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

If it doesn’t contain diving, leaping, plummeting, or racing, then Octane needs nothing to do with it. Always the lifetime of the get together, Octane really believes profitable the Championship isn’t sufficient… not if you happen to didn’t cheat demise at the very least twice to get there.

Passive: Swift Mend

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

Tactical: Stim

Move 30% sooner 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 leap pad that catapults gamers via the air. Takes 90 seconds to recharge.

Cost

12,000 Legend Tokens
750 Apex Coins

Apex Legends patch notes – March 19

Stability and Performance

Developer’s notice: Some fixes on this patch will 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 will higher perceive the best way to deal with the problems we haven’t solved but and handle future ones.

General

Optimized skydiving to enhance general server efficiency.
Fixed bug the place typically the shopper may crash when opening Apex Packs one proper after the opposite.
Improved stability for numerous GPU configurations.
Capped PC FPS to 300 to steadiness bettering stability however nonetheless letting you people get pleasure from these candy frames.
Addressed challenge with PS4 crashes as a consequence of working out of reminiscence.

Reporting

Introducing higher reporting when Apex crashes on PC with out error message.

Respawn actually need to repair any crashes folks occur to get on PC. We additionally respect our participant’s privateness. So, if the PC game crashes, it would write “apex_crash.txt” to your “Documents” folder. This tiny file is obvious textual content, so you may simply see for your self that it has no private info. If you select to share this file with us, it would inform us whether or not the crash was in Apex or in third get together software program. If the crash was in Apex, our programmers can use the knowledge to search out and repair it. If you expertise a crash, please embrace this file if you report.
- We defend your private info.
- You can simply see every part within the file your self; we’ve got no secrets and techniques.
- You’re answerable 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 numerous 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 supply updates on progress for the issues we will speak about.
As the notes had been completed this morning, 499,937 accounts and counting have been banned for dishonest.
Speed hacking: We do at the moment have anti-speed hacking in Apex Legends, but it surely’s not being as efficient as meant as a consequence of a bug that we consider we’ve recognized and can 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.

Quality of Life updates

Added “Swap LT/RT & LB/RB” / “Swap L1/R1 & L2/R2”) toggle within the Controller Button Layout settings.

Lets you rapidly swap what your bumpers & triggers are set to, with any controller preset.

Added “Sprint View Shake” setting below the Video tab.

Setting this to “Minimal” will be particularly useful for gamers inclined to movement illness.

Added “Trigger Deadzones” setting below the Controller tab.

Customize how far you need to pull the triggers earlier than they register.

Added “Advanced Look Controls” settings submenu below the Controller tab.

Fine-tune particular facets of the look controls for a customized really feel; comparable to Deadzone, Response Curve, Target Compensation (intention help), and extra.

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, you’ll now discover an added an impact to the label that reminds you which you could self revive.

Improvements / fixes for colour blind gamers

Added higher colour blind assist for Blood Hound’s Threat Vision.
Colorblind colours per setting are actually displayed within the settings menu.
Colorblind settings moved from Video Settings to Gameplay->Accessibility. They are actually utilized on the fly.
Enemy pings now use correct enemy colour as a substitute of solely utilizing pink.

Audio

Turned down quantity when Wraith prompts a portal.
Turned down the tip sounds on the Peacekeeper charged shot.
Turned down the draw/holster sound barely for thermite grenades.

General

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.
Added D-pad navigation as a comfort in many of the menus. Our hope is it will velocity up looking and enhance accessibility.
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 fastened that.
Character animations whereas taking injury now precisely replicate the route the injury is coming from.
Fixed a bug the place occluded sounds would typically sound unoccluded.
Patched up some points with lacking geo on Kings Canyon and glued a couple of 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 components.
Fixed PC customers continually switching weapons whereas scrolling via gadgets in a Death Box.
Fixed challenge the place we had been seeing server stability points typically attributable to buying gadgets whereas matchmaking.
Fixed script errors that would happen throughout 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 replicate the geo and factors of curiosity on the principle map.
Adding sound FX to the UI for the important thing binding menu.
Fixed challenge the place a participant’s title wouldn’t present up once they ship a message that reached the character restrict.
Fixed bug the place typically the Champion display screen decision could be stretched in widescreen resolutions.
Fixed audio bug the place typically the zipline sounds FX would hold taking part in after disembarking.
Added accessibility choice to change the subtitle dimension.

Legend Balance and 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 injury to gamers.
Reduced cooldown of Gas Grenade 2:30 -> 2:00 seconds.

Pathfinder

Grapple
- Increased distance 850 -> 900.
Insider Knowledge
- Increased the variety of beacons on this 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 just isn’t set to default
Spitfire: fastened 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 risk optics: risk highlights are actually extra seen (barely brighter; now not affected by TSAA)
Fixed bug the place Devotion audio typically wouldn’t precisely replicate charge of fireplace.

Additional Bug Fixes

Fixed uncommon challenge the place a participant may get caught on the drop ship and be invulnerable.
Patched up the opening we present in Gibraltar’s protect.
Fixed challenge the place Lifeline’s revive protect wouldn’t keep put whereas on a shifting platform.
Fixed challenge the place typically gamers would get caught in map geometry whereas skydiving from the dropship or Jump Towers.
Fixed bug the place gamers may nonetheless shoot even after being downed.
Fixed bug the place sometimes Lifeline’s D.O.C. drone would keep related 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 typically the Heal Bar would keep up if the heal was cancelled proper after it was began.
Fixed a bug the place typically the audio would proceed to play sound FX for the Knockdown Shield even after it’s been destroyed.
Fixed challenge the place typically gamers may get disconnected when unplugging their controller throughout a game.
Fixed the exploit the place you could possibly do infinite wallclimb utilizing Pathfinder’s Grapple.
Fixed bug the place typically you couldn’t fireplace the Peacekeeper after driving a zipper line.
Fixed challenge the place typically the skybox fog wouldn’t seem whereas spectating after you died.
Fixed bug the place Banner Cards would present via partitions sometimes when seen via a really excessive FOV.
Fixed some odd mild flickering that was taking place on the ballon flags connected to Jump Towers.
Fixed bug the place typically a participant’s Banner Card wouldn’t present up after character choose.