Apex Legends Patch Notes

Your game has updated, but what’s actually changed? Do the weapons feel different? Do Wattson’s fences do more damage now? Has Fuse’s moustache grown? Well that’s where the Apex Legends patch notes come in, to tell you exactly what’s new.

As with all live service games, Apex Legends receives all sorts of updates – big, small, or somewhere in between. We’ll detail them all right here, from the tiny hotfixes to the new season behemoths. We all know that Apex Legends Season 10 brought big changes to the game, but sometimes the smaller patches can be just as game-changing, so it’s always worth checking back to see what’s changed in Respawn’s battle royale game as of late.

In Apex Legends, patch notes are pretty simple to get your head around. It doesn't matter if you're a fan of Apex Legends' ranked playlists, you're waiting for Apex Legends' Arenas ranked mode, or you just prefer public play; the patch notes will affect you all. There will usually be a few balance changes to weapons and legends, as well as a few events that change the way you play. Various quality of life changes and bug fixes round out the usual contents of a patch. Very occasionally we get a stunning new Apex Legends heirloom - if Respawn fancies treating us, that is. Of course, that can all change, which is why you’re here.

Without further ado, here are the latest Apex Legends patch notes!

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Apex Legends Update 1.84 Patch Notes

The latest update for Apex Legends is 1.84. Here are the patch notes and latest changes:

Apex Legends Season 11 Patch Notes

New season, new patch notes. Arguably the most exciting thing about a new season is studying the patch notes to see exactly what's changed. They shed some light on new additions Ash and the CAR SMG, as well as everything you need to know about the new map, Storm Point.

Here are the Apex Legends Season 11 Escape patch notes in full:

New Legend - Ash

We know all about Ash by now, but here are her abilities in case you missed them:

• Marked for Death - Ash's map shows the location of recent deathboxes. She gets a special prompt on a deathbox, use it to mark surviving attackers (once per box).
• Arc Snare - Throw a spinning snare that damages and tethers the first enemy that gets too close.
• Phase Breach - Tear open a one-way portal to a targeted location. This portal stays open for a short time, during which anyone can use it.

New Map - Storm Point

Check out the details for Apex Legends' new map, Storm Point in our handy guide.

Put short, there's plenty of water, wildlife, and plentiful POIs, but you really have to see it to believe it.

Battle Royale Map Rotation

The battle royale map rotation will be Worlds Edge and Storm Point.

Arenas Map Rotation

Arenas will now only use custom maps and no battle royale locations will be in rotation.

New Weapon - CAR SMG

The CAR SMG can take Heavy or Light ammo, and all appropriate attachments for both. Will it be one of the best guns in Apex Legends? Only time will tell.

Ranked RP Changes

“Skill” in Apex can be evaluated in all sorts of ways. It’s the amalgamation of gun skill, movement, positioning, awareness, legend mastery, and prevailing over everyone else as Champion that separates the lowly Bronze from Apex Predators.

With that in mind, we want to provide more flexibility and nuance to how players can express skill when RP gains are at stake. Before Escape, measurements have been simple and straightforward. We grant RP based on kill points and a placement multiplier. Now, we’re easing back on some RP restrictions to offer other routes to max out kill-related RP in a match.

Summary:

• Kill RP values now take differences between killer/victim Ranked tiers into account.
• The kill RP cap (as we have traditionally thought about it up to this point) is effectively being raised from six to seven. However, this kill-related RP cap can be reached in different ways, depending on tier differences and placement. Placement is still paramount, and you still must place first to have a chance at max total RP.

To expand on the first point, tier differences between the killer and victim will be taken into account when calculating baseline kill point value. For example, if a Plat player kills a Diamond player, that kill counts as 12 instead of 10 RP.

Some points of clarification;

• Victims do not lose more or less points when killed (in terms of entry cost). Only the killer receives the modifier.
• Apex Predator and Master are treated as the same tier.
• An encounter rate with someone of a 3+ tier difference is ultra-rare (less than 0.1%). Ranked matchmaking is staying the same, so in general, you’ll come across identical tiers. In cases where you squad up with a different rank friend or merge into a different tier lobby, your KP will be adjusted appropriately.

After tier differences are taken into account for kill points, a flat per kill bonus is added based on placement.

The maximum kill point RP is 175. Any kill-related RP that exceeds that after placement and tier modifiers are added doesn’t affect total RP. The final step is to add a flat placement bonus. Enough with the math, let’s explain these changes with an example:

As a Platinum player, you party up with your Diamond friend and matchmake into a lobby with similarly skilled players. You snag second place, with 6 kills (and/or assists) against Diamond players, and 3 on Plat players.

Each kill on those Diamond players is worth 12 points instead of the typical 10, because they are one rank tier higher than you. That leaves us with (12 × 6) + (10 × 3) = 102 RP.

Now let’s take placement into account. In second, the per kill bonus is 10, so our 9 kills (including assists) × 10 = 90 RP.

We’re curious to see how these changes affect the ranked grind. Jump into Storm Point this first split and let us know how they feel. Stay tuned; this is only the start of what we have in store for Ranked improvements.

Ranked Arenas

We learned a lot from the first season of Ranked arenas and are eager to bring you some improvements:

• Arenas Ranked now has 2 splits, similar to Ranked Battle Royale
• Along with each new season and split, there is a soft MMR reset and new placement matches. New seasons require the usual 10 placement matches while a new split only requires 5 placement matches.
• Improvements have been made to matchmaking for finding similarly skilled teammates.
• Reduced the AP amount gained or lost from MMR differences between teams.

Wattson Balance Changes

• Improved the reliability and responsiveness of placing Wattson's Tactical and Ultimate in-world objects.
• Wattson can place her Tactical and Ultimate objects on valid surfaces above Wattson's eye level (to a reasonable extent).
• General hitbox size increase, to compensate for the removal of low profile in the Legacy update.

Tactical - Perimeter Defense

• Increased damage on crossing a Fence by 33%. (15 to 20)
• Increased debuff duration on crossing a Fence by 100%. (1.5 to 3 seconds)
• Increased the time allowance to be hit again by a subsequent Fence effect by 100%. (0.5 to 1 second).
• Decreased recharge time by 50% (30 to 15 seconds).
• Increased placement range by 50%.
• Decreased the delay between Fences shutting off and reactivating after an ally passes through them by 60%. (1.0 -> 0.4 seconds)
• Wattson now moves at Unarmed-speed while readying/placing Fence nodes.
• Fence nodes can now be placed as soon as the weapon is readied, instead of waiting for the animation to finish.

Ultimate - Interception Pylon

• The Pylon output has been significantly reworked.
  • Reduced the number of active Pylons Wattson can place from 3 to 1.
  • The Pylon now lasts forever (instead of timing out after 90 seconds).
  • The Pylon now has a pool of 250 Shields that can be distributed to nearby players, instead of effectively infinite Shields.
  • Increased the Pylon shield recharge rate by 150%, and smoothed regen rate. (2/second -> 5/second, or more accurately: 1/0.5 seconds -> 1/0.2 seconds)
  • When a Pylon is out of Shields, it no longer recharges players' Shields, but can still zap incoming ordnance.
  • Taking damage while regenerating Shields via the Pylon delays continued regeneration by 1 second.
• The UI on the ground and HUD elements now displays the amount of Shields that remain in the Pylon.
• Pinging a friendly Pylon will now display the percentage of Shields remaining in the Pylon.
• Pylon ordnance-zapping has been moderately reworked.
  • Ordnance is now zapped when the Pylon detects that it would hit any surface within range and line of sight of the Pylon, instead of being zapped as soon as it comes within range.
  • As a part of the changes, current issues where the Pylon doesn't reliably zap ordnance (particularly concerning airstrike abilities, and ordnance that bounced off surfaces near the Pylon) should now be addressed.

Weapons Balance Changes

Supply Drop Rotation

• This season the Triple-Take returns to floor loot and taking its place is the G7 Scout. The Scout enters the Supply Drop with its old friend the Double-Tap Trigger equipped.

Hop Ups

• Dual Shell - Each round loaded into the Mastiff or the 30-30 Repeater is doubled.

Fully Kitted Rotation

• Added: Mastiff 30-30 Repeater, R-301, CAR, Longbow
• Removed: Peacekeeper, Rampage, RE-45, Flatline, and Charge Rifle

EVA-8

• Fire rate reduced from 2.1 to 2.0

Peacekeeper

• Slightly increased pellet size
• Choke up time reduced from 1.5s to 1.25s
• Choked up shots remain tight for slightly longer when exiting ADS

Longbow

• Damage reduced from 60 to 55

L-Star

• Reduced barrel effectiveness at all rarity tiers
• Significantly reduced projectile collision size
• Damage reduced from 18 to 17

G7 Scout

• Damage increased from 34 to 36
• Double Tap added to Supply Drop G7 Scout

Supply Drop Weapon Rates

• Early game crate weapon rate increased from 25% to 50%
• Mid game crate weapon rate increased from 50% to 75%
• Late game crate weapon rate increased from 75% to 100%

Hot Zone Gold Loot Drop Rates

• Increased amount of gold loot that spawns in hot zones

Crafting

• Increased ammo from crafting
  • Light Ammo 20 → 60
  • Heavy Ammo 20 → 60
  • Energy Ammo 20 → 60
  • Shotgun Ammo 8 → 24
  • Arrows 16 → 48
  • Sniper 12 → 36
• Crafting Ammo price increased from 5 to 10 per weapon
• Evo Armor Points from crafting increased from 100 to 150
• Evo Armor Points cost increased from 45 to 50
• Replaced a sniper bundle with a shotgun bundle featuring the Dual Shell

Enemy NPC Updates

• Prowler health across the game has gone up from 90 to 114 (Storm Point and World’s Edge)
• Prowlers on World’s Edge and Flyers on Kings Canyon now reward EVO points (25%) ... all damage done to AI now rewards progress to your EVO armor

Arenas

Supply Drop

• Supply drop will now land outside the first ring, if possible, and land 10 seconds earlier.
• Purple weapons now spawn more in earlier rounds
  • Round 1 - 3x blue -> 1x purple + 2x blue
  • Round 2 - 1x purple + 2x blue -> 2x purple 1x blue
  • Round 3 - 2x purple 1x blue -> 3x purple
• Supply drop no longer spawns blue Havoc or Devotion or gold RE-45

Weapon Price Updates

• Moz
  • Blue 125 → 150
  • Purple 200 → 250
• P2020
  • Blue 75 → 50
  • Purple 150 → 25
• RE45
  • Base 200 → 150
  • White 150 → 100
  • Blue 250 → 200
• Prowler
  • Base 500 → 400
  • Blue 300 → 350
  • Purple 400 → 350
• R99
  • Base 500 → 450
  • Blue 250 → 300
  • Purple 300 → 350
• Hemlok
  • Base 500 → 450

Quality of Life

• UI - teammates will now show that they are self-reviving on their in-world game tags.
• Added VO for players to communicate they are out of ammo.
• Updated the Arena Map Rotation Images to show up to five maps.
• Updated Social Awareness Badges to unlock as default for all accounts.

Bug Fixes

• UI/UX / Steam Only: Fixed issue where your online friends playing Apex didn’t count towards total online friends while in matches.
• Fixed bug for Placing a Caustic trap over a Seer Ultimate, that could result in the Ultimate being protected from taking damage.
• Updated Volt skin's charm placement to be moved up so that charms become more visible.
• Fixed bug with players losing extra Boosted Loader extra ammo if the player reloads before getting to base ammo amount.
• Steam: Fixed issue where if a player has a forward slash in their name, a backslash will be added right before it automatically.
• R5DEV-280424 - Legends- Retail - Hitting an enemy with Valk tactical missiles, can result in health damage even with shields equipped
• Fixed issue where players do not see Legend Select when starting a game in Trios and immediately advance to drop ship phase.
• Audio fix for cases where music starts playing in the middle of a BR match.
• Fixed UI error that showed that the Legendary Prowler had the "Shotgun" tag in the in-game info screen.
• Audio fix for cases where VO for map changes doubles up (plays both variants at the same time).
• Audio fix for Rampart Town Takeover where vending machines had no soundFX.
• Fixed bug where Non-Crossplay Steam friends playing Apex would show up with debug text.
• Removed the random rock floating in midair in World's Edge.
• Bug fix for cases where a player could stand up and jump in a knocked-down state after an enemy starts finisher and cancels it.
• Fixed bug where player names would be missing from Legend select.
• Reduced hitbox size for Crafting Material Canisters to better fit its shape.

Legends

• Rampart:
  • Fix for cases where Rampart's "No Mercy" finisher causes her to clip through geometry.
• Wattson:
  • Fixed issue where her Ultimate doesn't always destroy frag grenades when thrown inside the Pylon radius.
• Pathfinder:
  • Fixed issue with players being able to create ziplines much farther than intended.
• Fuse:
  • Fixed bug with his Ultimate cooldown being the same with or without a gold helmet.
• Seer
  • Removed ability for players to be able to bunny hop at full speed while using Passive.

That's it! Who's ready to jump into the new season?

This article was updated on 23rd December 2021 by Kelsey Raynor.