Apex Legends Aftermarket Patch Notes: Cross-Play, New LTM, Legend Changes and More

Published: Oct 06, 2020, 9:55 am Updated: Apr 08, 2021, 8:50 am

Apex Legends Season 6 is already underway, but the game's new Aftermarket Collection Event has arrived with today's patch.

Not only that, but the patch also kicks off the beta for cross-play, meaning you'll be able to play with your friends on any platform.

Check out the patch notes below.

Apex Legends Aftermarket Patch Notes

Patch Size

The patch is a decent size this time around, weighing in at the following:

Origin PC: 4.05GB
Xbox One: 8.91GB
PlayStation 4: 7.6GB

Once you've downloaded it, here's what you can look forward to according to the Apex Legends blog.

Patch Notes

Cross-Play Beta

Since the launch of Apex Legends, cross-play has been one of the most requested features from our players who want the ability to play with their friends on other platforms. During the cross-play beta, players will have full access to cross-play functionality while we collect data, test the feature at scale, and most importantly, listen to you, the fans, for feedback.

LTM - Flashpoint

Aftermarket delivers an all-new limited-time mode, Flashpoint. Played on Kings Canyon, all healing items are removed in favor of massive zones around the map that regen both your health and shields.

Read more on Crossplay Beta and Flashpoint on the Aftermarket blog here.

Collection Event

Aftermarket brings in another 24 item collection event with skins like Wattson’s “Wired for Speed” skin or Wraith’s “Void Prowler” Skin.

Event Prize Track

With a new event, also means a new challenge track! This time around, get a chance to get free cosmetics like Bangalore’s “Blue Chipped” or the Hemlok’s “Performance Boost”.

New Heirloom - Caustic's Death Hammer

Caustic’s Death Hammer is the latest heirloom to be added to the heirloom pool. This nox filled hammer will smash anyone who comes in contact with it.

Legend Meta

Rampart

Increased the rate at which Sheila's bullet spread tightens

Bloodhound

Updated Bloodhound’s tactical cooldown while ultimate is active from 6 seconds to 8 seconds.

Dev Note: The 6.0 changes have been extremely powerful for Bloodhound. Their ultimate is now truly a moment you should fear as the enemy. We think we might have gone a little far with 6s. Against a competent BH, there would only ever be 2s during which you're not scanned. Changing it to 8s means you've got 4s of being revealed and 4s to reposition in between pulses.

Pathfinder

Grapple cooldown is now based on the distance Pathfinder travelled. The shortest possible pull has a 10s cooldown; the maximum cooldown is still 35s, but you're going to have to swing a very long distance to get there. Have fun out there, friends!

Dev note:Pathfinder mains rejoice, the Outlands happiest robot is getting some love. Instead of dropping grapple cooldown back to 15s where it was before, or moving it to 25s as a compromise, we considered a player suggestion (thanks Reddit) to have the Grapple drain energy as it goes, similar to Titanfall 2. The difference here is we're looking at your full distance travelled: from the moment you leave the ground to when you're on the ground again and not sliding at crazy high speeds. What this means is two things:

Bad Pathfinder players, no longer need to fear the faceplant grapple quite as much. If you're not going anywhere, you're not incurring much of a cooldown.If you're really really good at Pathfinder and looking for the absolute max distance grapple, you'll still have a 35s cooldown, assuming you land it. This both buffs Path a little less for the scariest robot players out there and it also opens up room for extra skill expression: can you find useful short distance grapples that'll give you a shorter CD but still do something good for you? Looking forward to seeing what you all do with this one.

Wraith

Updated Wraith’s sprint animation.

Dev note:Wraith is a very challenging Legend to nerf. We look at Legend performance across a number of axes: how often trios with this Legend on them win games/place highly, how often this Legend gets knockdowns vs is knocked down, how often this Legend is picked. Across each and every single one of these axes, Wraith dominates.

And yet each time we hit her abilities (which we've done a lot) she bounces back within a few weeks without bleeding a lot of pick rate. Her kit is uniquely useful both in solo games and in highly coordinated games. Also she's just really cool. We get it.

We don't want to hit her abilities anymore. We think both she and Pathfinder have been pushed to the edge in terms of cooldown and utility nerfs where pushing them any further would make them a lot less fun to play. We don't want that!

So we started looking at other Legend specific things that could give her this power--and discovered that her sprinting animations are unique in how much they artificially shorten her (by hunching over), thus shrinking her shootable area from the perspective of the enemy. It doesn't sound like a lot, but taken together with her already small hitbox, it's a lot of power.

This patch, we're introducing a new set of sprint animations for Wraith. These are much more upright and expose a larger area of her body to gunfire. Now we know her old sprint was iconic and we hate to see it go as well, but we believe this is the best way by far of bringing her in line without having to hit her abilities again. Depending on what we see after these animations go live, we may even be able to put some power back into her abilities (no promises though).

As always, we will be listening to feedback and monitoring data on this change.

Crypto

Crypto’s Drone can now open loot vaults if Crypto has a key in his inventory. It consumes the key as usual.

Loba

Increased range of ultimate & passive from 3100 units to 4500 units.
Loba now starts the match with her ultimate half charged.

Weapon Meta

Devotion

Increasing hipfire spread at a base level and also increasing the spread added while firing.

Spitfire

We try to keep hipfire numbers consistent with similar weapons of the same class. So, the hipfire spread increase on the Devotion is also being applied to the Spitfire. To compensate, we are reducing horizontal recoil on the Spitfire.

Triple Take

Reduced fire rate from 1.4 to 1.3.

Quality of Life

Loot Prompts now show how much damage an evo shield has accumulated, so you can make a better decision when switching.
You are now able to switch to same-level armor that has less health, if it is closer to evolving.
Loot Prompts will now have a small indicator that lets you know if your teammate needs this item, so you can ping it!
Anonymous Mode has been added to the options. Anonymize your name in the champion presentation, obituary, and other locations of living opponents.
Level 0 Evo Armor will now appear as empty in the inventory, so you can ping to request for Armor
There are more banners placed around World's Edge to better support Cryptos ability to see nearby squads in his drone.
Out of Bounds - The out of bounds timer no longer refreshes each time you enter a new out of bounds area. The timer is now a fixed amount of time: 30 seconds. If you enter new out of bounds areas, the timer will steadily decrease. However, if you only have 5 seconds left, the timer will keep refreshing up to that 5 second mark. This should work against people exploiting the timer, while still allowing time for people to get down if they land up there.
Random Favorite selection added for Music and Loadscreen categories
Holo Sprays will now remember which players liked them, and will display a count to the owner. This also prevents other players from spamming “like” on the holo spray.
Legend Tokens have been minimized to a tooltip in the lobby. Hover over your currency to see your amount.

Bug Fixes

General

Added the ability to ping the satellite dish at Crypto’s Map Room from the dropship.

Gibraltar

Fixed an issue with the bubble shield looking white in certain conditions.

Lifeline

Fixed an issue with the “Guardian Angel” Skin having a stretched neck when using Sheila.
Fixed an issue where care packages would not be allowed to be placed on certain parts of Capacitor, Rig, or Salvage in Kings Canyon.

Caustic

Fixed Caustic barrels from being placed at an angle on shipping crates.

Mirage

Fixed an issue that prevented Mirage decoys from being pinged.
Fixed an issue that did not allow Crypto’s drone to highlight decoys.

Octane

Fixed a visual issue that removed Revenant’s shadow form from a player after jumping off an Octane Jump Pad.
Fixed an issue with the Jump Pad clipping into the ground in certain areas