Bloodhound changes in Apex Legends

Bloodhound's cloak is harder to see inside the dome and no longer breaks from ring damage, and scans last a second longer with more frequent snapshots that fade faster.

Allfather's Cloak (Ultimate): From 8/25 Hotfix: Reduced cloak visibility while in dome.

• Allfather's Cloak (Ultimate)
• From 8/25 Hotfix
• Reduced cloak visibility while in dome.
• Ring damage no longer drops cloak.
• Eye of the Allfather (Tactical)
• From 8/25 Hotfix
• Added 1 extra second on scan length.
• Tweaked to provide more frequent snapshots, but the snapshots fade over time.
• New
• Sonar snapshots begin fading more quickly.
• Sonar snapshots should disappear more readily when seeing the head of either the snapshot or the player being tracked.

Bloodhound gets a new ultimate, Allfather's Cloak, which cloaks anyone in range with faster movement and threat vision, and the tactical now does a longer full-body scan followed by snapshot scans.

Allfather's Cloak (Ultimate): New Ultimate: Allfather’s Cloak

• Tracker (Passive)
• Bloodhound can now see a red trail near fresh enemy clues to guide you to them: This is similar to the red footsteps Bloodhound would see in their previous ultimate, Beast of the Hunt.
• Adjusted some of the black raven behavior to help them spawn more reliably, and included information about how they work to the ability description
• White ravens can fly up to 400m (was previously 190m baseline, 380m with Raven's Flight)
• You can now activate white ravens remotely by looking at them for a short time
• Eye of the Allfather (Tactical)
• Tactical now full-body scans for 3 seconds (was a 2 second full-body scan with 2 more seconds of a diamond scan)
• After the full-body scan finishes, create 4 "snapshot" scans with 1.5s in between them
• If a scan hits a white raven and at least one enemy, cooldown no longer partially refunds: If a scan hits a white raven and no enemies, it still refunds the full cooldown
• Allfather's Cloak (Ultimate)
• New Ultimate: Allfather’s Cloak
• Throw down a device that cloaks anyone who gets within range
• While cloaked, players also gain 20% increased movement speed and threat vision
• Cloaking area lasts 8 seconds
• Cloak lasts 12 seconds after leaving the area
• Cloak breaks when taking damage, firing your weapon, or when using most abilities
• Bloodhound’s abilities can be used without breaking cloak
• Upgrades
• Level 2
• (NEW) Hidden Sight: Using the Ult refreshes your Tactical, and using your Tactical while cloaked hides the visuals effect from enemies
• (NEW) Bird’s Eye: White ravens will split and fly to the two nearest enemies (on different squads)
• Removed Taste of Blood, Raven's Flight buffed and integrated to base kit
• Level 3: (NEW) True Predator: Shooting temporarily interrupts your cloak instead of breaking it

TipCloak enables aggressive pushes with stealth and speed, while more frequent scans let you track enemies through walls constantly.

Bloodhound's ravens spawn more easily, scans last longer with less screen tint, and the ultimate comes back much faster, activates quicker and extends on knocks; the level 2 and 3 upgrades are reshuffled.

Abilities: Tracker (Passive): Enemies outside of 13m no longer block white ravens from spawning (Flock upgrade brought into base kit)

• Abilities
• Tracker (Passive)
• Enemies outside of 13m no longer block white ravens from spawning (Flock upgrade brought into base kit)
• Clues more than 13m away no longer block White ravens (was ~50m)
• Eye of the Allfather (Tactical)
• Total scan duration up to 4s (was 3s), full-body duration remains half the full scan duration (so now 2s, was 1.5s)
• Reduced screen coloration during scan
• Fewer clues will pop-up on screen when your tactical successfully scans an enemy
• Ultimate
• Cooldown reduced to 2.5 minutes (was 4 minutes)
• Activation time reduced by ~20%
• After activation, the wider FOV gradually shifts back to your normal FOV
• Knocks while your ultimate is active increase the duration by 5s (will always reset to 10s if below)
• (Unchanged) Knocks while your ultimate is active resets your tactical duration: This has been active for a while but is now called out in the ability description
• Upgrades
• Level 2
• Taste of Blood: Regen 50 health when getting a knock while your ultimate is active
• Raven’s Flight: When activating your white ravens, they can ping enemies twice as far as normal
• Level 3
• Hunter’s Agility: Your tactical is faster to use and has -5s cooldown
• Eye of the Allfather removed from level 2
• Removed Raven’s Blessing, Flock, and Sighthound

TipUse scan much more liberally for constant enemy tracking - it's faster to activate and recharges in half the time.

Bloodhound's ultimate no longer shows threats through smoke or gas and Raven's Blessing gives less ult charge, while new level 3 upgrades halve the tactical cooldown during the ultimate or remove the White Raven range requirement.

• Beast of the Hunt: threat vision is no longer visible through smoke or gas
• Upgrade: Level 2: Raven’s Blessing: Ult charge 25% → 20%
• Upgrades: Level 3
• NEW Sighthound: reduced Tac cooldown by 50% while Ultimate is active
• NEW Flock: remove enemy range requirement for White Raven spawns

Bloodhound's Beast of the Hunt has a longer cooldown and knocks only extend it with the new Long Hunt upgrade; Taste of Blood heals more on knock, and the Tactical Cooldown upgrade is gone.

Beast of the Hunt: Cooldown 3m → 4m

• Beast of the Hunt
• Cooldown 3m → 4m
• Knocks with Ult active no longer extend duration
• Upgrades: Level 3
• Tactical Cooldown: removed
• Taste of Blood: HP gain on knock 25 → 50
• NEW Long Hunt: knocks extend Beast of the Hunt duration
• Breakout: Level 3
• Taste of Blood: Gain 25 hp on knocks while Ultimate is active.
• Tactical Cooldown: -5s Tac Cooldown
• Upheaval: Level 3
• Long Hunt: Knocks extend Beast of the Hunt duration.
• Taste of Blood: Gain 50 hp on knocks while Ultimate is active.

TipLess frequent ultimates mean careful timing. HP rewards on knocks favor aggression.

Bloodhound's Odin's Glare upgrade moves to Level 2 and Tactical Cooldown moves to Level 3.

Upgrades: Odin’s Glare: moved to Level 2

• Upgrades
• Odin’s Glare: moved to Level 2
• Tactical Cooldown: moved to Level 3

Bloodhound's Raven scans now give ultimate charge only if you take the Hunting Ravens upgrade.

Tracker: Raven scan’s Ult Charge is now gated behind the Hunting Ravens upgrade

Bloodhound can now use White Ravens that fly toward the nearest enemy and restore ability charge, the tactical's full body scan is shorter, and the ultimate no longer recharges the tactical but launches a raven.

Passive - Tracker: White Ravens: Ethereal White Ravens will now occasionally spawn near Bloodhound when no enemies are around.

• Passive - Tracker
• White Ravens
• Ethereal White Ravens will now occasionally spawn near Bloodhound when no enemies are around.
• White Ravens can be interacted with or scanned to trigger them to fly towards the nearest enemy player
• The White Raven will leave a misty trail behind for Bloodhound to follow, and will share this direction with their team on the map.
• Using a White Raven will recover 25% Tactical / Ultimate charge
• Scanning a White Raven will fully refund the Tactical Charge
• Tactical - Eye of the Allfather
• Full body scan time 3s → 1s
• Diamond target on scanned enemy is unchanged
• Ultimate - Beast of the Hunt
• No longer recharges or speeds up the cooldown rate of Bloodhound’s Tactical
• Will launch a White Raven that flies towards the nearest enemy
• Killing an enemy while in Beast of the Hunt will also trigger a White Raven

TipUse White Ravens for scouting without spending full ability cooldown; scanning recovers your tactical instantly, enabling aggressive recon plays.

In Arenas, Horizon's Gravity Lift and Mirage's Psyche Out each start with one fewer charge, and Bloodhound gets one fewer free scan during Beast of the Hunt.

• Horizon's Gravity Lift starting charges 2 → 1
• Mirage's Psyche Out starting charges 3 → 2
• Bloodhound's free scans while in Beast of the Hunt 3 → 2

TipYour early Arenas rounds shift without burst ability spam - adjust economy and rotations around single charges.

Bloodhound no longer earns assists from Eye of the Allfather.

No longer receives assists from Eye of the Allfather.

Bloodhound's Beast of the Hunt gets more extra time from knocks or kills when it is about to run out, and during it Eye of the Allfather comes out twice as fast with a much shorter cooldown.

• Beast of the Hunt: Now gains even more duration when Bloodhound scores a knockdown or kill with the ultimate about to run out.
• Eye of the Allfather: During Beast of the Hunt, Eye of the Allfather now comes out twice as fast and has a much shorter cooldown.
• Numbers
• Beast of the Hunt duration extension 5s → [5s - 15s] based on remaining duration
• Eye of the Allfather CD during Beast of the Hunt 25s → 6s
• Eye of the Allfather total use time during Beast of the Hunt 1.8s → 0.9s

TipUse the ult to secure kills and sustain duration - becomes an unstoppable tracker when enemies fall.

Bloodhound, Crypto and Pathfinder can all use Survey Beacons to see where the next ring will be, and Crypto can get it instantly with the drone.

All Recon legends (Bloodhound, Crypto, and Pathfinder) can now use Survey Beacons to get the next ring location. Crypto can use his drone to instantly get this information.

Bloodhound's scan reveals enemies for a second longer and comes back faster.

Tactical: Eye of the Allfather: Sonar Detection 3 seconds → 4 seconds

• Tactical: Eye of the Allfather
• Sonar Detection 3 seconds → 4 seconds
• Cooldown 35 seconds → 25 seconds

TipScan more often to find squads early; track targets longer to maintain pressure through rotations.

Bloodhound activates both Eye of the Allfather and Beast of the Hunt faster, the scan now tells you straight away how many targets it pinged, and the ultimate gives a bigger speed boost.

Reduced the animation time to activate by 33%.

• Eye of the Allfather
• Reduced the animation time to activate by 33%.
• Now immediately tells you how many targets have been pinged.
• Beast of the Hunt
• Reduced animation time to activate by 30%.
• Movement speed bonus 25% → 30%

Bloodhound's scan now tracks enemies in real time for a moment instead of leaving a ghost image, covers a wider angle, and tracker clues stay visible longer.

Eye of the Allfather: Enemies scanned now are tracked in real time instead of leaving a ghost image behind. The tracking lasts for 1.5 seconds.

• Eye of the Allfather
• Enemies scanned now are tracked in real time instead of leaving a ghost image behind. The tracking lasts for 1.5 seconds.
• Angle of the scan 90 → 110
• Tracker: Clue duration 60 seconds → 90 seconds