Apex Legends Evolution Patch Notes

Development Collection Event Patch Notes

Run and gun with a new Town Takeover, Rampart'southward Heirloom, a new twist on Arenas, and tons more updates in the Evolution Drove Event.

Welcome to the Evolution Collection Event. Unlock upshot-limited cosmetics for Wraith, Octane, Pathfinder, Fuse, Bangalore, Rampart, and Lifeline that give a glimpse into what our Legends could get with time and technology on their side. Meanwhile, our resident modder is showing those plonkers who's in charge with the Rampart Town Takeover, Large Maude. Check out her mobile shop, parked between Lava Urban center and the Geyser. It's sure to be a popular POI for the rest of Emergence.

While the brick-and-mortar location might exist in Boxing Royale, Rampart's bringing her entrepreneurship into the Arenas as well in "Rampart'southward Arenas Caricature," with special discounts meant to inspire players to change up their usual loadouts. For all of her hard piece of work, Rampart's getting a "Problem Solver:" a brand-new Heirloom pipe wrench, complete with a gumball dispenser. Who could inquire for anything more? Oh, well - how about an upgrade to Sheila? Bank check out the total web log below for all the details in the update.

Rampart Town Takeover - Big Maude

After a few rough starts to her previous shops, Rampart is pulling out the big guns with the mod shop of her dreams. Finally, she'll be able to evidence the Outlands—and Big Sis—what she'southward always been capable of creating.

Enter Large Maude, Rampart's custom shop (also a giant tank, what else would y'all expect?) located near Lava City in Earth's Edge. This POI is big enough to adjust a few teams fighting over the shop itself, and she's also built a wonderful paintball class out front that acts as a spill off location if the drop only looks too spicy.

Inside the shop, you can use collected materials to purchase Rampart's Custom Modded Paintball Weapons from the new Vend-it Machines. These guns price a chip, simply they come fully kitted at unlike tiers. This should requite players a reason to rotate here mid-game if their weapons just aren't as upgraded as they'd like.

As usual, be on the lookout for extra lore sprinkled around. Rampart's store is back open up for business organization!

Rampart Arenas Takeover

Rampart has slipped into the Arenas and is offering modded weapons at special discounts! These marked-downwards modded weapons supersede their base version for the match, making lower tiers of that weapon unavailable. Her special deals update often, so be certain to check what'southward available in your friction match and program accordingly.

Rampart'due south Heirloom: Problem Solver

While the brick-and-mortar location might be in Battle Royale, Rampart'due south bringing her entrepreneurship into the Arenas also in "Rampart's Arenas Extravaganza," with special discounts meant to inspire players to alter up their usual loadouts. For all of her hard piece of work, Rampart's getting a "Problem Solver:" a brand-new Heirloom pipe wrench, complete with a gumball dispenser. Who could enquire for anything more? Oh, well - how about an upgrade to Sheila?

Finally, unlock event-express cosmetics for Wraith, Octane, Pathfinder, Fuse, Bangalore, Rampart, and Lifeline that give a glimpse into what our Legends could become with time and technology on their side.

BALANCE CHANGES

Rampart

Sheila has gone mobile!
- Rampart will now be able to run effectually with Sheila out, and shoot while walking. The spin up is longer, and she only gets 1 magazine in this mode.
- Once Sheila is out, you can put it away and pull it dorsum out until you run out of ammo (or hit the cooldown time).
- At any point, you can still place Sheila down for your teammates to use. Once placed, it has infinite reloads and acts merely like the previous version. You cannot pick information technology back up.

Dev Annotation: A legend based solely on a defensive position is hard to get right in Noon Legends. We remember Rampart has a identify as the ultimate defensive Legend, simply we wanted to give her a little more ability to be reactive and push with her squad. As usual, nosotros'll be watching to come across how this plays out and will arrange accordingly!

Revenant

VFX (similar to the pulse on Loba ult placement) added to increase visibility for when a totem is placed nearby.

Octane

Reduced leap pad horizontal altitude past 10% - xv%.
Reduced the rate of Octane'due south Stim regen from ane.5 to ane.0 hp/sec.

Bloodhound

When Bloodhound pings a inkling from their passive, information technology volition now show their teammates in quickchat how long ago the event took identify

Bocek Compound Bow

Describe speed slightly reduced from 0.56 to 0.54
Arrows per brick increased from 14 to 16
Arrows per inventory stack increased from 28 to 32

Hemlok

Reduced hipfire spread
Hipfire resets slightly faster

Dev Notes: The Hemlok'south hipfire effectiveness was reduced a few seasons agone and since and then the weapon has seen a steady decline in use. Bringing dorsum some of that hipfire strength (but non all) should help the weapon feel more consistent in close quarters without being ascendant or affecting its medium-range excellence.

Shatter Caps - Bocek Compound Bow

Damage per pellet increased across all depict strengths
- Short draw damage: 4 to 6
- Medium depict: 7 to 9
- Full draw: 11 to 12

Shatter Caps - 30-30 Repeater

ADS Strafe speed increased to shotgun strafe speed while Shatter Caps are enabled
Charged pellet harm multiplier increased from 35% to 50%

Dev Notes: When Shatter Caps work they experience amazing, but currently information technology can notwithstanding feel a little punishing to bandy into the mode. Increasing the damage potential and improving the CQC flow of the 30-30 should help Shatters feel a trivial more attainable and rewarding.

L-STAR

Absurd-off time slightly increased
Overheat lens replacement fourth dimension slightly increased
Rounds earlier overheat reduced at base and all Energy Magazine tiers
- Base: 22 to 20
- White: 24 to 22
- Blueish: 26 to 24
- Purple/Gold: 28 to 26
Arenas price adjustments:
- Base: 500 to 600
- Bluish: 300 to 250
- Purple: 400 to 350

Dev Notes: We're nudging down the 50-STAR's cadre stats a fleck to smooth out the power progression in what we think is a slightly more healthy meridian-end. Nosotros'll proceed a shut heart on the L-STAR and it's recoil as we enter the 2nd half of Emergence. In Arenas, we're well enlightened of information technology'south prevalence in high-level lobbies and are pricing it out of the first round. These changes substantially increase the blue cost past l and go on the purple cost the same. If its selection rate remains unchanged, we volition hotfix further adjustments.

Shotguns

EVA-8 and Mozambique headshot damage multiplier reduced from ane.5 to one.25 bringing it in line with the Peacekeeper and Mastiff.

Dev Notes: The EVA-eight holds a lot of power in its speed and leniency compared to its counterparts, the PK and Mastiff. Information technology's got the edge with burn rate and consistency then nosotros're shaving off some of its spike damage to even the playing field. We're normalizing the Mozambique also for consistency within the shotgun class and to give the P2020 some space as the more precise early on game weapon.

Triple Take

ADS charge fourth dimension decreased from 1.0 to 0.eight

QUALITY OF LIFE UPDATES

Shortened the out-of-bounds timer from 30 seconds to 15.
- Your timer should be reset after beingness respawned.

Swapping from Red to a Gilded Shield with more wellness no longer requires a long press.

Evo Shields in deathboxes now show their health.

Early Leaver Warning has been improved to assist people from accidentally leaving before their political party is dead.
- You at present need to hold the confirm push down for a small-scale amount of time
- The highlighting is different colored than other prompts to grab your attention
- Red text alarm showing your leaving penalization added

Added graphic symbol portraits to "detected" widget for recon characters.

BUG FIXES

Stock-still a issues where Streamer mode wouldn't anonymize the names on the scoreboard in Arenas manner
Fixed issue for when players would randomly get un-readied while matchmaking in Ranked.
Fix for Ranked Arenas: longest win streak number was incorrect for some players when viewed in the Stats screen.
Fixed cases where players would yet see Ranked icons when switching over to Arenas while inspecting personal stats.
Gear up for cases where the player would still see the Abandon Penalty inaugural when getting other messages like RECEIVED PREMIUM CURRENCY.
Removed the red speaker icon that would show up on the upper right corner of the screen that served no purpose.
Set up for when the Playlist Selector would sometimes flicker.
Players should no longer encounter a string outcome in the Timeline when they accept a ";" in their username.

Stock-still cases where the name of killed players was not always showing up when a histrion died.
Fixed a rare bug that can cause the Observer to become stuck on the Intro Screen at the start of a match.

Fuse

Motherload ultimate will no longer highlight enemies far below the ring.

Seer

Increased the hitbox for Exhibit Ultimate to better friction match the model.

Loba

Loba tin can no longer glitch into Skyhook when using her tactical.
Fix cases for when Loba's ultimate visualfx do not appear while aiming downwardly sites.

Rampart

Fixed bug that could go players stuck nether the map afterwards dismounting from Ramparts Turret on a Trident.

Bangalore

Gear up for the times when pinging a Prowler would trigger a voice line that mentions a removed hop-up.

Lifeline

Switch Only - Prepare for cases where players couldn't complete training due to her Ultimate malfunctioning,

Gibraltar

Set for cases where it appeared that Gibraltar's Ultimate acquired dropped audio.

Wattson

Fixed a issues where Wattson would start matches with thirty fences.

Valkyrie

Fixed an exploit where players could get continuous missiles after exploiting Valkyrie's passive/tactical equally well as utilize the Vtol jets infinitely.

Lookout

Fix for when players would notwithstanding come across "Amped" or "Revved up" from Lookout man or Rampage afterwards swapping weapons.

Wingman

Fix for reactive skins, "Precision Calibur" and "Attention to Item" where role of the skins appeared stuck in place when shooting.

World's Edge

Various fixes on Globe's Edge cleaning upwardly some bad collisions, exploitable hiding spots, and areas where players could go stuck.

Firing Range

Fix for the mysterious fire show that could announced in Firing Range and cause a crash.

MISC

Fix for cases where players were able to reach farther than intended when punching an enemy actor.
Individual Lucifer Set - Observers should no longer get stuck on the intro screen for the duration of the match.
Fix for Audio fluttering that could happen when killing someone during self-revive.
Various fixes to improve overall game stability.

Dev Note: Tap-Strafing and Mobility Tech

Written past John "JayBiebs" Larson

nine/13/21 UPDATE: The planned changes to tap-strafing accept been delayed to a afterwards patch. Come across context here.

Earlier this week, we announced our intention to "remove tap-strafing," a decision that was met with surprise past many movement enthusiasts. Tap-strafing is a term associated with different sorts of motion, depending on who yous ask. Internally, nosotros mostly use it to describe what many associate with scroll-wheel strafing.

To be more explicit, this modify targets multiple rapid directional commands after jumping. Move should feel unchanged for controllers and for M&Yard (mouse-and-keyboard) players who hadn't heard of the term "tap-strafe" until this calendar week. Thanks to the piece of work of a couple of our engineers, this is now easily tunable on the wing, and we have the ability to iterate on or even revert it completely without a client update.

Our goal is to remove some of the sharpness in momentum conservation around 90°+ angles. That'due south what I'm thinking of when I use the term "tap-strafe" throughout this mail. Things similar wall-bounce redirects back onto that aforementioned wall should feel unchanged, but motion afforded by scroll-wheel strafing volition exist removed.

Since tap-strafing is a unique Chiliad&M mechanic, many platforms have asked almost our arroyo to controller-specific systems like aim assist. Every bit Noon and its players evolve, it'south simply prudent for us to continue to evaluate whether or not aim assistance needs adjustment. When top-level controller players say they would be alright with nerfing aim assist, we definitely take note. Players should non feel forced to use a specific input type to stay competitive

When people say, "Gee dang it, Respawn'south balancing decisions cater to controller players," the best reply I have is: "When it comes to accessibility, nosotros frequently must consider controller players given the constraints compared to K&K. But, accessibility isn't the aforementioned as remainder design, and it'due south a strawman argument to care for it as such."

This is why we believe tap-strafing exists solely as a design trouble. Even in a M&K-only Apex world, or a scenario where controller and M&Grand could tap-strafe just the aforementioned, we don't believe it would exist a healthy change with the liberty it currently allows, for three principal reasons:

The commencement consequence: information technology's highly inaccessible. By "inaccessible," we mean that it's an opaque technique that's practically impossible to learn organically (and the most egregious examples require a strange keybind).

Secondly, tap-strafes have terrible readability and limited counter play. Path grapples and Octane pads bated, I've seen clips of players breaking ankles with victims (including loftier-skill players) who are at a loss for what to do. While it's not terribly prevalent, I'm concerned nigh how this could continue to evolve every bit more than players adjust and farther develop their tap-strafe mechanics.

The third point, and the most problematic, is how tap-strafing is exacerbated by movement abilities. I can buy that a tap-strafe at normal velocity in a gunfight occurs infrequently and is relatively mild enough to non immediately kill with burn down. But Path grappling past and tap-strafing dorsum into your face with a Mastiff, or Octane cranking 90s while maintaining ridiculous speed both bring up greater gameplay concerns.

Mobility creep is something to be very mindful of in this game. While many honey the liberty that Apex's motility system affords, constraints are simply as important. It's not surprising that mobility legends are highly popular. Why don't nosotros just do more of that? Well, over time (and I'd say we are already seeing it) mobility creep can open a Pandora's box of new problems to solve. How is third partying afflicted by mobility? Within a fight, how are frontlines defined? How rapidly tin can I close the gap on an enemy? As a game, Noon is designed to piece of work well with a finite number of motility possibilities.

I experience it'due south important to note that limitations don't always equate to lowering skill-gaps; there are skill-gaps in working within constraints. Ane could argue that bunny-hop healing lowered the skill-ceiling—players could brand upward for misplays with less constraints on their ability to safely heal. Different types of skill expression are changed when we bear upon something similar perfect air control, for improve or for worse.

Hopefully this provided some context, and as always, we're happy to hear your thoughts.

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