Vantage changes in Apex Legends

Vantage's tactical has a shorter cooldown, a longer double jump and no hard landings, and the ultimate gets a toggleable 2x Canted Sight, faster handling and a 4x default scope.

Echo Relocation (Tactical): Increased velocity from 20 Meters Per Second to 21 Meters Per Second

• Spotter's Lens (Passive): Tracking a team with Spotters Lens will generate 70% of an ultimate bullet: 10 second cooldown per team
• Echo Relocation (Tactical)
• Vantage is immune to hard landings exiting the tac
• Increased velocity from 20 Meters Per Second to 21 Meters Per Second
• Double jump range 4m → 7m
• Reduced deceleration at final destination by ~25%
• Cooldown 20s → 17s
• Sniper's Mark (Ultimate)
• Toggle fire to equip your Canted Sight: A 2x optic mounted on the side of the rifle
• While canted rechamber time 1.2s → 1.1s
• While canted ADS time 0.5s → 0.4s
• Bullet scaling is drastically reduced in Canted sights (so be accurate!)
• Increase aiming responsiveness with Normal sight: ADS time 0.6s → 0.5s
• Increased weapon handling in both modes
• Holster and Lower time 0.5s → 0.4s
• Deploy and Raise time 1.5s → 1.3s
• Default Normal scope magnification 3x → 4x
• Upgrades: Tactical Cooldown replaced with Herd Tracker: Pinging an enemy will track the entire team

Vantage gets a broad buff: a smaller upper body hitbox, pings on up to 3 enemies that show their health bars, a faster Echo jump with Bat Bounce built in, and an ultimate with a hidden laser and Ultimate Reload built in.

Spotter's Lens (Passive): Spotter’s Lens: Can now ping up to 3 enemies at a time

• Shrank Vantage’s upper body hitbox to better match her character model
• Spotter's Lens (Passive): Spotter’s Lens
• Can now ping up to 3 enemies at a time
• Can see the health bars of targeted enemy
• Pinging an enemy will reveal their position when further than 50m away (was 100m)
• Tactical: Echo Relocation
• Echo will auto-recall after you jump
• Faster jump activation time
• Increased base and max distance Echo can fly by 10m
• Integrated Bat Bounce into base kit
• Time to redeploy guns after jump 0.5s → 0.2s
• Widened the FOV that Echo needs to be in to jump to
• Sniper's Mark (Ultimate): Sniper’s Mark
• Integrated Ultimate Reload upgrade into base kit: Ultimate accelerators are used 50% faster, and provide 2 extra bullets
• Laser is now hidden until Vantage shoots: Laser lasts for 15s, timer refreshes with each shot
• Laser is now more representative of aim
• Upgrades: Level 2
• NEW Controlling my Prey: gain access to Ring Consoles and zone overcharge
• NEW Improved Mark: marked enemy icon is visible through walls, briefly highlights enemies, and reveals their health bar to your squad upon mark
• Upgrades: Level 3
• NEW Tactical Cooldown: reduce Tac's cooldown by 5s
• NEW Sniper Cover: adds Gun Shield to Sniper’s Mark

Vantage's Sniper's Mark uses new animations when reloading with an Ult Accelerant and the rifle stays active during it.

Sniper’s Mark: reloading with an Ult Accelerant uses new animations and keeps the weapon active

Vantage can launch to Echo without line of sight and cancel the tactical mid charge, Sniper's Mark hits harder on the second shot, and the new Ranged Tracking lets pings track enemies in passive range.

Echo Relocation: no longer requires LOS to Echo to launch: Can launch when LOS is blocked

• Echo Relocation: no longer requires LOS to Echo to launch
• Can launch when LOS is blocked
• Can now cancel the tac mid charge
• Tac reticle will turn red when echo is behind you and you are launching
• Will slide-around boxes and geometry as best it can to reach Echo
• Sniper’s Mark
• 2nd Shot Multiplier 2x → 2.5x
• Can hit "Reload" when in ult to use an Ult Accel
• Spotter's Lens
• NEW Ranged Tracking
• Waypoint on PING within Passive range will track enemy for 10s
• Will not show within 100m (for each ally individually)
• Recon Info
• added to all optics
• expanded passive scanning screen area to be more consistent
• Upgrade - Ult Reload: now also doubles Ult Accel use speed in addition to providing 2 extra bullets

TipEcho doesn't need line of sight. Higher multiplier rewards follow-up shots.

Quads replaces Duos, with 15 teams of four, better loot including kitted Blue and Purple weapons, more Replicators, and Legend abilities updated to support a fourth squad member.

• Replacing Duos Playlist for S21.1
• 15 Teams of 4 Players
• Loot Improvements
• Chance to find Blue/Purple kitted weapons
• Increased ammo in Light, Heavy, and Energy ammo boxes
• Increased chance to find ammo, health, shield, scopes, and deployable items
• Replicator starting count 12 → 15
• Lobby supports a 4th player for inviting and ‘Previous Match Squad Members’
• Legend Ability updates to support a 4th squad member
• Mirage Decoy shows 4 squad members when dropping from the dropship
• Valkyrie’s Ult allows for up to 3 additional squad members to attach
• Vantage Passive can spot the armor on all enemy teammates when in ADS
• Loba’s Ultimate has UI to support a fourth player

Newcastle's Castle Wall leaps higher and recovers faster on landing, Revenant's Forged Shadows has a much shorter window for assists to extend it, and Vantage's Sniper's Mark gets one more bullet.

Newcastle’s Castle Wall: Reduced recovery time on landing

• Newcastle’s Castle Wall
• Reduced recovery time on landing
• Increased max leap height
• Revenant’s Forged Shadows: Time extension window for assists 30s → 3s
• Vantage’s Sniper’s Mark: Bullet count 5 → 6

TipNewcastle has more vertical mobility for rotations, Revenant must finish kills immediately for assists to extend effects, and Vantage's spam potential increased.