Apex Legends replace (Season 2) – Apex Legends Season 2 patch notes analysed

Battle Pass

• To get the Battle Pass, soar into Apex Legends and head to the Battle Pass tab within the retailer. Grab the Battle Pass for 950 Apex Coins or the Battle Pass Bundle for two,800 Apex Coins (containing 4,700 Apex Coins’ price of content material!), and also you’re all set.

Challenges

• Take on Daily and Weekly Challenges to attain bonus Battle Pass XP and stage up even quicker. Read extra right here.

New Content Types

• Skydive emotes, music packs, and distinctive loading screens are actually a part of the rewards monitor.

More Legendaries and Crafting Materials

• Grab much more Legendary skins from the reward monitor and earn sufficient Crafting Materials to create a Legendary merchandise of your alternative.

Free Rewards

• Everyone who performs Apex Legends Season 2 can earn:
  • Season 2 stat trackers for every Legend.
  • Five Apex Packs.
  • The Wattson Hot Rod pores and skin.

Kings Canyon Changes

• The Leviathans have breached Kings Canyon and it’ll by no means be the identical! Many areas have been affected by our new friends. Enjoy exploring the brand new modifications!

New Legend: Wattson

• Wattson has entered the sector and is accessible for 750 Apex Coins or 12,000 Legend Tokens.
• PASSIVE: Spark of Genius
  • Ultimate Accelerants totally cost Wattson’s final. Standing close to the Interception Pylon boosts Wattson’s tactical recharge price.
• TACTICAL: Perimeter Security
  • Create electrified fences by connecting nodes. Fences injury and sluggish enemies.
• ULTIMATE: Interception Pylon
  • Place an electrified pylon that destroys incoming ordnance and repairs broken shields [can place up to 3 Pylons at one time].

Ranked Leagues

• One factor we forgot to say within the weblog put up: Players abandoning in Ranked can be penalized each with a matchmaking penalty, in addition to have any potential RP features zeroed out. On high of that, they may pay a further penalty RP price equal to their match entry price. For instance: if a Gold participant will get Four kills and would have completed high 5 however abandons his or her match on function, that participant will get Zero RP for kills and placement, pay the two RP entry price, and on high of that pay one other 2 RP abandon penalty price.

WEAPONS

New Airdrop Weapon: L-Star EMG

• Fires massive high-damage plasma projectiles
• Will overheat if participant fires for too lengthy
• Comes with its personal restricted ammo provide
• Only out there in Airdrops

New Hop-Up: Disruptor Rounds

• Increased injury to shielded targets.
• Compatibility: Alternator / RE-45

New Hop-Up: Hammerpoint Rounds

• Increased injury to unshielded targets.
• Compatibility: P2020, Mozambique.

New Attachments: Energy Mags

• Increases journal capability.
• Increases reload velocity at uncommon and above.
• Compatibility: Havoc, Triple Take, Devotion.
• Reduced default magazine sizes on appropriate weapons.

Skullpiercer Hop-Up

• Upgraded to gold tier & elevated rarity.

Flatline

• injury 16 -> 19

P2020

• injury 12 -> 13

Triple Take x Precision Choke

• choke time 1.5 -> 1.1

Alternator

• injury 13 -> 15
• recoil mitigation elevated for all barrel attachments.

Kraber

• injury 125 -> 145
• headshot scale 2.0 -> 2.05
• leg injury scale 0.76 -> 0.8
• barely elevated rarity

Arc Star Tweaks

• Increased ignition delay from 2.5 to 2.Eight seconds.
• Sticking a full well being participant with no armor will now down them.
• Players on the fringe of the explosion now not get their shields utterly shredded.

Ammo Stack Sizes

• Shotgun max stack lowered from 64 to 16. Players now want a number of stacks of ammo to run a shotty.
• Energy max stack elevated from 60 to 80; now matches Light/ Heavy ammo.

Rotated Gold Weapons

• Flatline
• Alternator
• RE45
• Mozambique
• P2020

Airdrop Weapon Spawn Rates

• L-STAR added to airdrop weapon loot tables.
• Airdrop weapon spawn charges now change primarily based on early/ mid/ late game. For instance, early game will spawn extra Krabers, finish game will spawn extra Mastiffs.

Performance Optimizations

• Improved efficiency when firing weapons, particularly for multi-projectile weapons like shotguns and Triple Take.
• In our testing this has contributed to delivering a smoother total expertise on each server and shopper, notably throughout early game fight conditions.

Bug Fixes

• Improved efficiency when firing weapons, particularly for multi-projectile weapons like shotguns and Triple Take.
• In our testing this has contributed to delivering a smoother total expertise on each server and shopper, notably throughout early game fight conditions.

LEGENDS

General

• Fortified [ Gibraltar, Caustic ]
  • Damage discount elevated: 10% -> 15%
  • Fortified Legends are actually proof against sluggish results from weapon hearth.
• Low Profile [ Wraith, Lifeline, Pathfinder ]
  • Low Profile will increase incoming injury by 5%.

Bloodhound

• Eye of the Allfather
  • Enemies scanned now are tracked in actual time as a substitute of leaving a ghost picture behind. The monitoring lasts for 1.5 seconds.
  • Increased the angle of the scan to 110 from 90.
• Tracker
  • Increased clue length to 90 seconds from 60 seconds.
  • Fixed a bug the place vitality weapons wouldn’t depart behind weapon fired clues.
  • Fixed a bug the place motion clues would generally not be generated.

Mirage

• Vanishing Act
  • Mirage can now cancel out of his final cloak early.
  • Mirage now has a small delay when disabling cloak.

Caustic

• Nox Gas
  • The magnitude of the sluggish is lowered by 50% when effecting teammates.

Gibraltar

• Dome of Protection
  • Increased the length by Three seconds.

Pathfinder

• Updated the hit field to higher conform with the bottom mannequin.
• We are additionally planning to make changes so his hitbox higher displays Legendary Skins as nicely for circumstances the place it’s not matching up.

Lifeline

• D.O.C. heal drone now will get destroyed after 2 injury ticks by the circle.

Stats Page

• Added a stats web page. You can entry it by hovering over your title whereas within the Lobby and clicking it to examine. The web page will present you your total account stats in addition to entry to your stats for every season and Ranked Series.
• We’re certain you all can have suggestions on different stats you’d prefer to see right here. What we’re delivery with Season 2 is simply the beginning and we’re planning to construct on it. We received’t promise something however positively tell us what different stats you need proven after you’ve performed round with it.
• KNOWN ISSUES: There can be some stats [like assists for example] that can begin counting for Season 2 however received’t account for progress earlier than that. This is as a result of till we added the characteristic, these items wasn’t being counted. We’re future enhancements to retroactively replace these areas that we hope to handle down the street.

The Ring

• With Season 2, we’ll attempting out new circle closing velocity, measurement, and injury that now applies to each Ranked Leagues and the traditional Apex Queue.
• Ring Damage is now the next:
  • Round 1: 2% injury taken per tick.
  • Round 2: 5% injury taken per tick.
  • Round 3: 10% injury taken per tick.
  • Round 4: 20% injury taken per tick.
  • Round 5: 20% injury taken per tick.
  • Round 6 and past: 25% injury taken per tick.
• Ring begin and shutting velocity is now the next:
  • First Circle
    • Starts closing after: Three minutes.
    • Time to shut: 2 minutes.
  • Second Circle
    • Starts closing after: 2 minutes 30 seconds.
    • Time to shut: 2 minutes.
  • Third Circle
    • Starts closing after: 2 minutes 15 seconds.
    • Time to shut: 2 minutes.
  • Fourth Circle
    • Starts closing after: 2 minutes.
    • Time to shut: 2 minutes.
  • Fifth Circle
    • Starts closing after: 1 minute 30 seconds.
    • Time to shut: 1 minutes 40 seconds.
  • Sixth Circle
    • Starts closing after: 1 minute 30 seconds.
    • Time to shut: 1 minutes 40 seconds.
  • Seventh Circle
    • Starts closing after: 2 minutes.
    • Time to shut: 1 minute 20 seconds.
  • Eighth Circle
    • Starts closing after: 20 seconds.
    • Time to shut: 1 minute 20 seconds.
• Ring radius for the primary circle has been barely lowered [it’s about 9% smaller than it was before].

Quality Of Life

• Pings
  • When pinging a closed door, the participant will now say “closed door here”.
  • When pinging an open door, the participant will now say “someone’s been here”.
  • When a participant requests a hop up, if the gun solely accepts one sort of hop up, the participant will callout that particular hop up they’re on the lookout for. If the gun accepts a number of hop ups, the participant received’t vocalize it however all potential hop ups requested will present up within the obit feed.
• Arc stars which are caught to gamers ought to now not fail to do injury when the a part of the participant it’s caught to is intersecting one other object.
• Made visible enhancements to the Legends whereas within the Lobby and character choose.
• Added enhancements and polish to the Legend’s animations whereas skydiving.
• Improved melee hit detection on the hover tank whereas it’s shifting.
• Server optimizations.
• Improved server and shopper efficiency when firing weapons, particularly for multi-projectile weapons like shotguns and TripleTake.
• Large doorways and Supply Bins can now be used whereas viewing them from extra excessive angles.
• Slow Effects will now sluggish gamers equally no matter their controller settings.
• Wraith’s Heirloom will now extra reliably present its lightning visualFX.
• Heal gadgets will now extra reliably present the proper mannequin when switching between differing types.
• General optimizations to enhance framerate.
• Fixed situation with geometry generally flickering when considered from an extended distance.
• Death Box rarity colours are actually extra seen from a distance.
• “Send Friend Request” tool-tip now exhibits up when hovering over teammates Banners whereas viewing the “Squad Eliminated” display screen and “Squads” tab throughout a match.
• Made it in order that your weapon received’t play its priming animation while you pull it out after skydiving.
• Fixed situation with skydive persevering with to loop falling soundFX after touchdown.
• Apex will now not swap from full display screen to windowed mode robotically should you shift to concentrate on different functions whereas Apex is booting up.
• Fixed situation with gamers seeing their Origin associates listed as offline after they aren’t.
• Made enhancements to voice chat for PC.
• Fixed situation the place you possibly can lose your Steam associates listing after restarting Apex on PC.
• Fixed situation the place generally gamers would get a black display screen throughout character choose.
• Added “Flash Hider” description to the Gold Barrel Stabilizer attachment. It at all times did this however the info wasn’t supplied nicely so we added it to the outline when inspecting the attachment.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a success registration bug that would happen should you fired your weapon whereas being broken by an enemy shotgun.
• Fixed a bug the place generally load screens wouldn’t seem correctly and gamers would briefly see the coaching map earlier than loading right into a match.
• Fixed situation with gamers not at all times listening to chosen quip dialogue when performing a finisher or being executed.
• Fixed situation with Apex not working accurately when SLI or Crossfire is enabled.
• Fixed bug with the consumables wheel generally showing clean.
• Fixed bug the place gamers would generally get caught on the Battle Pass Level display screen.
• Fixed bug the place The Unlock button can be greyed out when it shouldn’t be when attempting to view rewards.
• Fixed bug the place gamers would generally be unable to exit the Battle Pass tab after deciding on it from the Lobby.
• Fixed an exploit the place gamers might soar whereas downed.
• Fixed situation the place generally the shopper would crash to the Dashboard when coming into character choose on Xbox One.
• Fixed a bug the place pinging a sniper inventory in your stock would present up as “looking for Grip”
• Fixed a bug that brought on gamers and loot to start sliding completely or launching inconsistently onto Supply Ship surfaces after doing melee assaults towards the Supply Ship partitions.
• Fixed bug that would trigger gamers to shift to a location below the map when switching between gamers whereas spectating.
• Fixed bug for circumstances the place performing a melee assault whereas inspecting an merchandise would trigger the assault to decelerate and never deal injury.
• [X1 only] Fixed bug the place gamers weren’t being rewarded “The Player” achievement after hitting stage 50. If you might have reached stage 50 and never obtained it prior to now it ought to now be awarded retroactively.
• Fixed the bug that generally brought on Apex to crash when plugging a PS4 controller into your PC whereas the game is energetic.
• Fixed bug that brought on an “Out of Bounds” warning and timer whereas using the Supply Ship over sure areas of Kings Canyon.
• General enhancements to game stability associated to numerous script errors.
• LEGENDS
  • Bloodhound
    • Fixed bug the place gamers wouldn’t create motion proof markers except they have been sprinting.
    • Fixed bug the place generally vitality weapons wouldn’t create ‘weapon fired’ proof markers.
  • Wraith
    • Fixed bug the place Wraith’s jetpack boosters might nonetheless be seen whereas phasing.
    • Fixed situation the place in some uncommon circumstances, performing a Finisher whereas down participant is coming into a Wraith Portal.
    • Fixed an exploit that allowed gamers to put additional Dimensional Portals.
  • Octane
    • Fixed a bug that brought on throwable gadgets to bounce off a soar pad with out really touching it.

NEW LIMITED TIME EVENT: THE LEGENDARY HUNT

Apex Elite Queue (June 4 – July 2)

• Make it to the Top 5 in any match, and earn your method right into a choose queue stuffed with Top 5 winners. Then show you’re the most effective of the most effective by taking all of them down!
• The queue is optionally available. You can select to play within the common playlist at any time.
• The Ring closes quicker and injury for out of bounds has been elevated.
• Earn character particular badges that monitor Elite game wins.

Two Additional Legendary Skins for all Battle Pass Owners

• Players who’ve the Wild Frontier Battle Pass will robotically get the Legendary Honored Prey R-301 pores and skin.
• Players who attain Battle Pass stage 15 earlier than the tip of the occasion will get the Wraith Night Terror Legendary pores and skin.

Legendary Hunt Challenge Rewards (June 4 – June 18)

• Complete particular in-game challenges to attain free Legendary Hunt loot! Don’t lose sight of your prey – these rewards are occasion unique, and as soon as it’s over, they’re gone for good.
• Legendary Hunt Badge – Finish within the Top 5 in any match. Tracks your longest Top 5 streak within the Elite Queue.
• Rare Wolfpack G7 Scout weapon pores and skin – Finish within the Top 5 in an Apex Elite match.
• Epic Master of the Hunt Bloodhound Legend pores and skin – Finish within the Top 5 in any queue 5 instances (consecutive or nonconsecutive).
• Legendary Tamed Beast Triple Take weapon pores and skin – Win twice in any queue (consecutive or nonconsecutive).

Battle Pass Bonus XP (June 4 – June 18)

• Earn a complete Battle Pass stage while you end within the Top 5 in any match (as soon as per day).

Double XP Weekend (June 7 – June 10)

• Score double stage XP and Battle Pass XP all weekend lengthy! Does not embrace the Battle Pass stage earned from ending within the Top 5 every day.

Legendary Hunt Store Skins (June 4 – June 18)

• New Legendary Hunt gadgets will rotate into the store each three to 4 days – these things are occasion restricted, so they could be again, however nobody can say when.

1.2 PATCH NOTES

Known Issues

• “Teamwork” and “Bonus Round” Badges
  • We are engaged on a server aspect patch for these ASAP.

  Playstation check in bug for brand new gamers

  • [affects Playstation only] There is a matter with some model new gamers that don’t have already got an EA account linked to PSN being unable to signal into the game. We’re working a repair for this to get out ASAP.

King’s Canyon Updates

• Thunderdome has had some small modifications to loot placement, principally round shifting unfastened loot into bins for extra visibility on the place the loot is.
• The Pit has about 2x the loot in it
• Repulsor has loot bins added to the west aspect of the realm, on high of the trapezoid buildings.
• Some loot added to the underground pit within the small city in Shattered Forest.
• Added voice over strains that can callout Jump Towers while you ping them. You can now ping the soar towers.

Quality of Life / Bug Fixes

• Decreased the delay with gadgets exhibiting up within the menu when looting a Death Box.
• Mini Map route will now show accurately whereas within the ship or skydiving.
• Improved server efficiency for some circumstances of rubberbanding when utilizing gadgets.
• Removed an exploit that allowed a squad to have greater than one of many identical Legend.
• Removed an exploit that allowed to “bunny hop” whereas therapeutic.
• Fixed situation the place gamers may “bounce” off your squad when breaking off throughout a skydive.
• Improved skydiving so it ought to really feel extra responsive and easy.
• Thermite grenades now trigger injury to doorways.
• Squad Summary Page Improvements
  • cursor help added.
  • gamers can now mute / report gamers from this web page.
  • gamers can now report teammates which have disconnected.
• Caustic barrels can now be triggered or disabled by pleasant teammates.
• Added cooldown [.5 seconds] earlier than you may reuse the final zipline you have been on.
• Pathfinder’s Grapple now has a blue crosshair indicator that can seem when the Grapple is in vary of objects it could actually hook up with.
• When grappling a zipline, the trajectory will now pull gamers to some extent beneath the zipline moderately than above. This makes it so gamers usually tend to join with the zipline as a substitute of flying over it.
• Made enhancements to how weapon reticles and optics are displayed when enjoying with colorblind settings.
• Added colorblind help for menace imaginative and prescient scope and Bloodhound’s Ultimate.
• Removed the power for gamers to alter game settings not meant to be modified on a shopper stage. Our intent is to forestall exploits like eradicating muzzle flash, disabling lighting, and different modifications that give gamers an unfair aggressive benefit.
• We’ve reverted the habits of “Holster Weapons” so urgent that button whereas your melee weapon is out will now not convey out your final main weapon.
• Added potential to totally customise button format for controllers.
• Added localized voice overs for all Legends that now helps:
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish
  • Italian
  • Russian
  • Polish
  • Japanese
  • Mandarin
• Fixed a problem the place a participant is unable to alter their Party Privacy possibility.
• Fixed the additional sway from the G7 crosshair whereas shifting.
• Fixed bug the place cloaked Mirage was too noticeable.
• Fixed a uncommon situation with utilizing consumables whereas having a Caustic gasoline canister out.
• Fixed a problem the place defend cells and defend batteries would generally seem like completely caught to the participant.
• Improved framerate when Sun shadow protection is ready High in Video choices.
• Fixed situation with the Long Distance Kill Badge not displaying the proper max distance.
• Fixed situation with unhealthy framerate when utilizing Bloodhound’s Ultimate.
• Fixed gamers being crushed by opening or closing doorways when climbing onto a roof simply above the door.
• Fixed a crash associated to mannequin code.
• Fixed situation the place participant would crawl very quick in place.
• Fixed some uncommon circumstances of gamers getting caught in geometry.
• Fixed situation the place Octane’s Stim path would nonetheless linger after demise.
• Fixed circumstances the place melee lunges might cease too removed from their meant goal.
• Fixed situation with gamers not receiving any XP for something after a match and the Champion Bonus exhibiting as -1XP.
• Fixed a problem the place generally the audio and visible results wouldn’t play when a weapon fires.
• Lots of minor fixes and polish to game stability and efficiency.

Legend Balancing:

• CAUSTIC:
  • Fortified Passive Perk added: reduces injury taken by 10%
  • Gas Damage per tick elevated: 1 -> 4
  • Ultimate Throw distance elevated: 28 metres -> 33 metres
• GIBRALTAR:
  • Fortified Passive Perk added: reduces injury taken by 10%
  • Gun Shield well being elevated: 50 -> 75

Weapon Balancing:

• G7 SCOUT / TRIPLE TAKE / LONGBOW DMR
  • Lowered leg shot injury discount: 25% -> 10%
  • Reduced base weapon sway by about 33%
  • Reduced base sway velocity by about 25%
• LONGBOW DMR:
  • Increased hearth price 1.2 -> 1.6
  • Increased journal measurement
    • Base magazine elevated: 5 -> 6 rounds
    • Common magazine extender elevated: 6 -> Eight rounds
    • Rare magazine extender elevated: 8 -> 10 rounds
    • Epic magazine extender elevated: 10 -> 12 rounds
• HAVOC:
  • Increased base journal measurement: 25 -> 32 rounds
  • Charge Beam
    • Reduced price per shot: 5 -> 4
    • Increased shut vary injury: 55 -> 60
    • Increased injury at vary: 45 -> 50
    • Close vary injury falloff elevated: 35m -> 75m
    • Ranged injury falloff elevated: 75m -> 125m
• WINGMAN:
  • Reduced journal measurement
    • Base magazine lowered: 6 -> Four rounds
    • Common magazine extender lowered: 8 -> 6 rounds
    • Rare magazine extender lowered: 9 -> Eight rounds
    • Epic magazine extender lowered: 12 -> 10 rounds
• SPITFIRE:
  • Reduced base injury: 20 -> 18
  • Magazine extender attachments lowered
    • Common magazine extender lowered: 45 -> 40 rounds
    • Rare magazine extender lowered: 55 -> 45 rounds
    • Epic magazine extender lowered: 60 -> 55 rounds

Adjustments to Gold weapon attachments:

• Gold Havoc
  • Now has Turbocharger
  • Now has 1x-2x variable holo sight
• Gold R301
  • Now has 1x-2x variable holo sight
• Gold Wingman
  • Now has Digital Threat

Battle Pass XP Bonus Event:

In honor of Thicc-boi buffs, we’re going to be working a bonus Battle Pass XP occasion. From roughly 10AM PST 4/16 by roughly 10AM PST 4/18, your first Top 5 of the day (your squad locations fifth or higher in a match) will grant you 1 full bonus Battle Pass Level (29,500 BPP), as much as a max of stage 110. You can earn this as soon as per day.

We’ll even be discovering different moments in the course of the season so as to add Battle Pass XP bonuses, so keep tuned!

Additional Changes:

• JUMP SHIP SPEED:
  • Increased the velocity of the ship by about 50%
  • We felt that the ship was shifting a bit too sluggish after watching participant habits so we’re rushing it up so gamers that prefer to drop later within the flight path don’t have to attend so lengthy.
• BUG FIXES:
  • Fixed UI bug the place the mistaken share can be displayed for all increase badges.

Quality of Life

• Added the power to celebration up with the final squad you performed with. After the match you will note buttons within the foyer that show the final two individuals you performed with and might invite them to your squad.
  • When you head again to the foyer after a match you will note two new buttons that present you the gamers in your final squad with the choice to ask them for one more match!
  • You can select to permit invitations or choose out within the Friends menu.
• Additional behind-the-scenes enhancements for squashing cheaters.
• Added Mute button in the course of the intro and Legend choice.
• When utilizing the Report Player button for PC, you now have the choice of choosing Cheat or Other.
• Made small enhancements to the UI for customizing Legends.
• Added possibility to show off lighting on appropriate {hardware} [for example, Razer Chroma devices] within the Mouse/Keyboard settings.
• Added informative messages that seem on PC for crashes on account of:
  • Running out of reminiscence.
  • CPU errors greatest defined by overclocking/overheating.
• Added higher collision to the turrets on Supply Ships.
• Stability fixes to all platforms.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed situation the place the Battle Pass rewards web page wouldn’t have a default merchandise chosen, leading to a principally clean web page.
• Fixed bug for PS4 and X1 the place generally trying to make use of a keyboard to speak might trigger a deadly script error.
• Fixed bug with Banner Cards not exhibiting up throughout and on the finish of a match.

Jump Pad Phase Walk Interactions

• Octane’s Jump Pad now not impacts gamers when utilizing Into the Void potential.

Introducing Battle Pass Season 1

• Added Battle Pass tab to Lobby.
• Cost: 950 Apex Coins
• Earn over 100 distinctive gadgets all through the season – every thing you snag earlier than the season is over is yours to maintain.
  • Updated dashboard photographs 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)

If it doesn’t contain diving, leaping, plummeting, or racing, then Octane desires nothing to do with it. Always the lifetime of the celebration, Octane really believes successful the Championship isn’t sufficient… not should you 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% 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 by the air. Takes 90 seconds to recharge.

  Cost:

  • 12,000 Legend Tokens
  • 750 Apex Coins

Stability & Performance

We’ve bought some fixes on this patch that can enhance stability on PC however we all know there are nonetheless points on the market we have to tackle. We additionally added crash reporting so we will higher perceive how one can deal with the problems we haven’t solved but and tackle future ones.

• Improved stability for numerous GPU configurations.
• Capped PC FPS to 300 to steadiness enhancing stability however nonetheless letting you of us take pleasure in these candy frames.
• Addressed situation with PS4 crashes on account of working 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’ll write “apex_crash.txt” to your “Documents” folder. This tiny file is apparent 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’ll 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 knowledge to seek out and repair it. If you expertise a crash, please embrace this file while you report.
    • We defend your private info.
    • You can simply see every thing within the file your self; now we have no secrets and techniques.
    • You’re in command of whether or not we ever see the file.
    • Please submit the file while you create a bug report on our boards right here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/bd-p/apex-legends-bug-reports-en
• 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 your group’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 try to offer updates on progress for the issues we will 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 on account 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 your group’s Banner Cards within the Squad tab.
• Optimized skydiving to enhance total server efficiency.
• Fixed bug the place generally the shopper 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 below the Video tab.
  • Setting this to “Minimal” might 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 points of the look controls for a customized really feel; akin to Deadzone, Response Curve, Target Compensation (purpose 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 it will velocity up shopping and enhance accessibility.
• UI enhancements to the KO Shield
  • Shield bar drains to point the remaining well being of the defend.
  • When you might have a Gold KO Shield and are down, we’ve added an impact to the label that reminds you that you may self revive.
• We noticed that the Ring indicator that seems when gamers are viewing the entire map wasn’t precisely exhibiting the participant’s place so we mounted that.
• Character animations whereas taking injury now precisely mirror the route the injury 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 stuck a couple of spots the place gamers have 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 by gadgets in a Death Box.
• Fixed situation the place we have been seeing server stability points generally attributable to buying gadgets whereas matchmaking.
• Fixed script errors that would happen in the course of the skydive.
• Reduced skybox fog.
• Adjusted the code for Supply Bins so they’re much less more likely 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 situation 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 hold enjoying after disembarking.
• Added accessibility possibility 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 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 coloration as a substitute of solely utilizing purple.
• 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.

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 injury to gamers.
  • Reduced cooldown of Gas Grenade 2:30 -> 2:00 seconds.
• Pathfinder:
  • Insider Knowledge
    • Increased the variety of beacons on the earth 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 with the ability to shortcut weapon swap by altering stance
• Fixed gamers with the ability to shortcut Peacekeeper rechamber sequence
• Fixed inaccurate auto ranging fullscreen (sniper) optics when base FOV just isn’t 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 are actually extra seen (barely brighter; now not affected by TSAA)
• Fixed bug the place Devotion audio generally wouldn’t precisely mirror price of fireside.

Additional Bug Fixes

• Fixed uncommon situation the place a participant might get caught on the drop ship and be invulnerable.
• Patched up the outlet we present in Gibraltar’s defend.
• Fixed situation the place Lifeline’s revive defend wouldn’t keep put whereas on a shifting platform.
• Fixed situation 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 often 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 hook up 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 situation the place generally gamers might get disconnected when unplugging their controller throughout a game.
• Fixed the exploit the place you possibly can do infinite wallclimb utilizing Pathfinder’s Grapple.
• Fixed bug the place generally you couldn’t hearth the Peacekeeper after using a zipper line.
• Fixed situation the place generally the skybox fog wouldn’t seem whereas spectating after you died.
• Fixed bug the place Banner Cards would present by partitions often when considered by a really excessive FOV.
• Fixed some odd mild flickering that was taking place on the ballon flags hooked up 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 stuff you do within the game! Some examples:

• Red lights throughout banner transitions.
• While skydiving colours will tune to the colour of your smoke path.
• Picking up loot.
• Opening Apex Packs
• Firing and taking injury.
• Colors that flash when your Ultimate is prepared.
• And extra!