Apex Legends Season 30 Marked Midseason patch notes

Full patch notes from EA

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LEGEND BUFFS › Conduit › Radiant Transfer (Tactical)

• Added preview visuals on the shield bar to indicate how much Temp Shield will be generated by the end of the regen period.

LEGEND BUFFS › Conduit › Energy Barricade (Ultimate)

• Various aspects of the Ultimate’s deployment have been smoothed out, meaning it fires faster and gets you back to guns sooner.
• Can now toggle orientation while targeting to deploy jammers in a forward line.
• Added a new HUD element to better inform players if their deployment location will cause jammers to break.: Also, individual jammer indicators now turn red if they would break at the current targeting location.
• Jammers now spawn higher and slightly closer together, creating a tighter formation that covers more vertical space.
• Jammers activate significantly faster, establishing the barricade’s threat area quicker.

LEGEND BUFFS › Conduit › Upgrades

• Both Level 2 Upgrades, Battpack and Bigger Jam, have been removed.
• NEW: Concurrency (Level 2)
• Refire Energy Barricade once with no cooldown within 10s of initial firing.
• Jammers spawn in a tighter formation with 2 less jammers.
• NEW: Jammed Up (Level 2)

LEGEND BUFFS › Fuse › Grenadier (Passive)

• Added 25% Explosive Damage Resistance at base and can see ordinances highlighted in the world within 30m of him.

LEGEND BUFFS › Fuse › Knuckle Cluster (Tactical)

• Fuse can now Knuckle Jump at base.: Jumping no longer provides Tactical cooldown reduction.
• Fuse can now Knuckle Jump at base.: Jump power moderately decreased, so Fuse will gain less momentum when jumping.
• Fuse can now Knuckle Jump at base.: Now displays a visual indicator that signifies the radius where the jump can be activated.
• Significantly decreased the time it takes to return to guns after firing.
• Players can now ADS while aiming to zoom.

LEGEND BUFFS › Fuse › The Motherlode (Ultimate)

• Slightly decreased the raise time.
• Adjusted the firing arc with the focus on the main explosive projectile landing more quickly and responsively.: Added an indicator to visualize the radius of the initial and subsequent explosions.
• Decreased the time it takes for the mini-bombs to explode, speeding up the rollout of explosions.
• Decreased the damage falloff on the initial explosion, meaning enemies closer to the edge of the radius will take a higher percentage of the maximum damage.

LEGEND BUFFS › Fuse › Upgrades

• Knuckle Jumper (Level 2) and Wreckless (Level 3) have been removed.
• Reignition has been moved from Level 3 to Level 2.
• Pyro Techniques (Level 2): Doubled the radius of the persistent flames.
• Reignition (Level 2): Decreased Ultimate Recharge Rate from 1s per 2 explosive damage to 1s per 3 explosive damage.
• NEW: Big Bang (Level 3): Knuckle Cluster’s explosions cover a 50% larger area.
• NEW: Sticky Bomb (Level 3): Knuckle Cluster’s initial projectile is 25% larger and sticks to enemies. Every 7 hits on an enemy reduces Knuckle Cluster’s cooldown by 1s.

LEGEND BUFFS › Catalyst › Barricade (Passive)

• Catalyst is no longer immune to other Catalysts’ abilities.

LEGEND BUFFS › Catalyst › Piercing Spikes (Tactical)

• Now automatically reinforces or rebuilds doors if colliding with a valid door or doorway on placement.
• Decreased Cooldown from 20s to 15s.
• Increased Spike Height, meaning that players can less easily jump over them.
• Hitting enemies with the projectile will now deal damage to them.

LEGEND BUFFS › Catalyst › Dark Veil (Ultimate)

• Significantly decreased firing time, making it smoother to deploy and raise the wall.
• Allies are no longer slowed or blinded when passing through the wall.

LEGEND BUFFS › Catalyst › Upgrades

• Sole Piercer (Level 2) has been removed.
• Hidden Spikes has been moved from Level 2 to Level 3.
• Resilient Veil and Ferro-Door have been moved from Level 3 to Level 2.
• Ferro-Door (Level 2): Now also increases max reinforced doors from 4 to 6.
• Resilient Veil (Level 2): Now also decreases Ultimate Cooldown from 150s to 120s.
• NEW: Ferro-Frenzy (Level 3): Your max Spike count is increased by 1. Spikes are 50% smaller, but deal faster tick damage.

LEGEND BUFFS › Bloodhound › Allfather's Cloak (Ultimate)

• From 8/25 Hotfix:
• Reduced cloak visibility while in dome.
• Ring damage no longer drops cloak.

LEGEND BUFFS › Bloodhound › 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.

LEGEND NERFS › Axle › Nitro Gate (Tactical)

• From 8/25 Hotfix:
• Nitro Gate launch speed reduced from 750 to 700.

LEGEND NERFS › Axle › Kickstart (Ultimate)

• From 8/25 Hotfix:
• Ultimate HP reduced from 200 to 150.
• Base Ultimate cooldown increased from 90s to 120s.
• Ultimate knockback arc widened and max height reduced.
• Ultimate stun duration reduced from 1.5s to 0.25s.

LEGEND NERFS › Axle › Upgrades

• From 8/25 Hotfix:
• Jump Gate replaced with a new Drone Deployer Upgrade that brings the Ult cooldown back down to 90s.

LEGEND NERFS › Seer

• From 8/25 Hotfix:
• Removed turn slow when hit by the Tactical

LOOT & ATTACHMENTS › LOOT SPAWNING › Loot Pool Spawn Rates (Pre-Bin Reset)

• Increased availability of healing items.
• Slightly decreased availability of ammo.

LOOT & ATTACHMENTS › LOOT SPAWNING › Loot Bin Reset

• Increased average count of items spawned per bin
• Increased availability of:
• Healing
• Ammo
• Survival Slot items
• Amps

LOOT & ATTACHMENTS › LOOT SPAWNING › Loot Bin Logic

• Updated loot bin logic to significantly reduce the possibility of empty loot bins spawning in game.
• The weapon pool for Weapon Assist (opening your first loot bin of the match while having no weapons in your inventory) now has the chance to spawn all base weapons.: Previously could only spawn a selection of pistols, shotguns, and the Alternator.

LOOT & ATTACHMENTS › WEAPONS › Triple Take

• Increased rate of fire while in ADS.
• Blue magazine increased from 8 to 9.

LOOT & ATTACHMENTS › WEAPONS › Bocek Compound Bow

• Increased arrow stockpile from 40 to 60.
• Increased explosive arrows per energize from 7 to 10.
• Adjusted Sparrow’s Quiver accordingly:
• Increased arrow stockpile from 50 to 70.
• Increased explosive arrows per energize from 9 to 12.

LOOT & ATTACHMENTS › WEAPONS › Charge Rifle

• Increased max distance damage from 99 to 110.
• Max damage occurs at >200m.
• Decreased selectfire damage penalty from 40% to 25%.

LOOT & ATTACHMENTS › ATTACHMENTS › (Previously Hotfixed) Agile Standard Stock [Corrupted]

• The movement speed increase no longer stacks with:
• Maggie's Warlord's Ire passive
• Maggie's Gunrunning legend upgrade
• Gibraltar's Fast Shotties legend upgrade

LOOT & ATTACHMENTS › LOCKED HOP-UPS › Executioner

• Reduced cost to unlock from 375 to 275.

MAPS › Pubs Map Rotation

• World’s Edge

MAPS › Ranked Map Rotation

• World’s Edge

MAPS › Mixtape

• TDM: Fragment, Skull Town, Monument, Estates
• Control: Production Yard, Labs, Barometer, Caustic
• Gun Run: Monument, Estates, Fragment, Skull Town

WILDCARD › Wildcard Updates

• EVO gained when no weapons are equipped will now grant that EVO towards progression on the first weapon you equip.

WILDCARD › Map Rotation

• Kings Canyon Wildcard
• Olympus Wildcard
• District Wildcard

AUDIO

• Added a new audio menu option to toggle weapon dialogue on/off. It will appear if you own a talking weapon skin
• Resolved an issue resulting in abnormally loud audio in interior spaces on Olympus and E-District

BUG FIXES

• Mixtape:
• Smoke trails (from effects like Valk’s Ult) now match the color of your squad (for example, orange for Tiger Squad). Previously, every squad’s smoke trail was a slightly different shade of blue.
• Respawn from Deathbox:
• Fixed an issue where players could get persistent Infinite Ammo after being respawned.
• Fixed an issue where players could activate Respawn from Deathbox from behind a wall.
• Fixed an issue where Locked Hop-Ups would not always grant the correct point value after respawning.

BUG FIXES › LEGEND BUG FIXES

• Bloodhound: Fixed a bug with True Predator where the timer UI would not show up in certain situations where you were uncloaked but eligible to re-cloak.
• Bloodhound: Fixed some issues where the Allies Cloaked stat tracker was counting improperly.
• Catalyst: Fixed Hidden Spikes not revealing themselves after applying a slow to an enemy that did not have line of sight to the core.
• Catalyst: Fixed being unable to pick up Piercing Spikes from range after they had been activated, then deactivated.
• Catalyst: Fixed several Friendly Fire interactions in the Firing Range.
• Catalyst: Fixed Piercing Spikes not affecting Firing Range Dummies.
• Conduit: Fixed Energy Barricade repeatedly applying overlapping third-person VFX to enemies who took successive damage hits.
• Fuse: Fixed Fuse being able to Knuckle Jump while in phase.
• Fuse: Fixed Knuckle Jumping toward the end of the jump window causing a loss of momentum.
• Fuse: Fixed The Motherlode not dispersing smoke and gas.
• Fuse: Fixed Pyro Techniques not dealing damage to enemies that stood still in the center flames.
• Fuse: Fixed Pyro Techniques not dealing damage to Mirage decoys.
• Fuse: Fixed The Motherlode’s initial projectile passing through enemies when fired at a breachable surface while in breach mode.
• Wattson: Fixed Fuse’s The Motherlode not being intercepted by Interception Pylon.

BUG FIXES › WEAPON BUG FIXES

• P2020: Fixed a bug where the Tactical Laser sight would not properly reduce the recoil control.

BUG FIXES › MAPS BUG FIXES

• World’s Edge
• East Village: Fixed a hole in terrain where players could hide.
• East Village: Added and adjusted some cover.
• Monument/Fragment: Restored missing railings on the bottom level of construction stacks.
• Sorting Factory: Fixed a bug where players could clip into the moving crates using an Alter portal.
• Fixed inconsistent behavior with vertical ziplines at East Village, Tree Settlement and Sorting Factory.

BUG FIXES › ENGINE

• Fixed bug with cloak rendering on consoles and PC with TSAA enabled, making it consistent for all visual options.
• Fixed bug where joining another player's party could sometimes fail and leave you stuck in a zero-player party.

BUG FIXES › AUDIO BUG FIXES

• Fixed missing footstep audio during 3rd person movement when using Sparrow’s Hunt Target upgrade.
• Fixed overly loud interior spaces in Olympus and District.

QUALITY OF LIFE

• Valkyrie: Improved the responsiveness of the enemy targeting while skydiving.