Apex Legends Update 2.56 Patch Notes For Season 21

Season 21 of Apex Legends, also called ‘Upheaval’, is about to launch for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Sequence X|S, Nintendo Change, and PC tomorrow, and we have lastly acquired the complete patch notes from Respawn Leisure.

The replace will see the arrival of a brand-new Legend to the Apex Video games, often called Alter. Outfitted with some distinctive dimension-bending talents, Alter can be Apex Legends’ first new Legend since Conduit joined the Apex Video games in Season 19. Alongside a brand new playable character, gamers also can count on to see the return of Solos mode, huge modifications to Damaged Moon, and loads of steadiness changes to present Legends and weapons.

There’s nonetheless yet one more day to go till Season 21 launches, however for these keen to search out out what’s new, we have the complete change log beneath.

Apex Legends Season 21 Patch Notes

NEW LEGEND: ALTER

Alter is an agent of chaos, primarily involved with having enjoyable and bringing in regards to the finish of the world. Every part is a sport to her, and she or he is at all times in search of a bonus. Her package provides a wholly distinctive dimension to the Apex Video games, permitting her to create void passages by means of geo or escape by means of the Void to her Nexus when her enemies consider they’ve the higher hand. Her skill to craft unsuspecting rotations by means of the world will sow new ranges of dysfunction within the ring and she will’t wait to observe the entire place burn.

For extra particulars on our latest and most devious Legend, try our Highlights Weblog. Learn extra about her talents beneath.

PASSIVE: GIFT FROM THE RIFT

Can remotely work together with a deathbox to say one merchandise. Can’t be a defend core.

TACTICAL: VOID PASSAGE

Creates a portal passageway by means of a floor.

ULTIMATE: VOID NEXUS

Create a regroup level that every one allies can remotely work together with to open a section tunnel again to that location.

UPGRADES

SOLOS TAKEOVER

In case you missed it, Solos can be taking up Duos from Might 7, 2024 to June 24, 2024. We’ve taken elements of a few of our hottest modes and built-in them to maintain issues fascinating: use your Battle Sense to detect close by enemies, tear issues up with pre-kitted weapons and attachments, and maintain the combat going with auto heal and Second Probability mechanics.

UPHEAVAL MAP ROTATION

The next maps can be out there in Pubs and Ranked for the primary half of this season:

• Damaged Moon
• Kings Canyon
• World’s Edge

BROKEN MOON MAP UPDATE

Learn the complete breakdown of the Damaged Moon updates in our Upheaval Highlights weblog right here.

APEX ARTIFACTS

The pantheon of Apex Artifacts is increasing. Take a look at our devoted weblog for all issues Apex Artifacts together with lore connections and customizations.

PATCH NOTES

BALANCE UPDATES

Care Package deal

• Wingman returns to the ground
  • Projectile measurement diminished to pre-care package deal values
  • Injury diminished to 45 (was 50)
  • Skullpiercer Elite eliminated
  • Hipfire accuracy diminished
  • Now takes Boosted Loader Hop-Up
  • Now not takes magazines as an attachment
• Devotion enters the Care Package deal
  • NEW Reverse Hipfire: sustained hipfire will tighten accuracy as an alternative of widen
  • Injury elevated to 16 (was 15)
  • Journal measurement elevated to 54 (was 48 at purple)
  • Reserve Ammo: 324
  • Empty reload time considerably diminished

Gold Weapons Rotation

• Nemesis Burst AR, Triple-Take, Peacekeeper, Prowler PDW, Longbow DMR

Assured Weapons out of Loot Bins

• The primary loot bin opened by an unarmed participant will at all times comprise a weapon

Dev Be aware: Bringing knuckles to a gunfight isn’t essentially the most participating gameplay, so we’re enhancing weapon acquisition consistency within the early sport. When utterly unarmed, opening a bin will assure at the very least a low tier weapon.

Retrieving Banners from Dying Bins

• Accumulating a banner will not lock the participant out of crucial gameplay actions
  • Operating, capturing, punching and reviving will all escape of the banner gather animation whereas nonetheless registering as a profitable assortment
  • Gamers can instantly work together with a Dying Field a second time whereas the animation is taking part in or proceed holding the work together button to gather and enter a Dying Field in a single stream

Dev Be aware: It’s occurring, it’s lastly occurring! I’ve died, you’ve died, we’ve all died making an attempt to assist our allies get again within the combat, however at the very least now we will’t blame grabbing the banner! Accumulating banners is a constructive motion in Apex and for too lengthy we’ve punished that motion with a quick second of pure helplessness. We’re placing your gun fairly actually again in your arms, so get on the market and avoid wasting Octanes and Wraiths!

Survival Gadgets + Help Bins

• Survival objects now solely spawn from a assist bin’s tray if the crew is in want

Dev Be aware: Survival objects have been feeling ample recently so we’re decreasing their frequency in assist bins by solely spawning them when gamers meet particular necessities (like needing a Cell Respawn Beacon whenever you’ve acquired eradicated allies)

WEAPONS & ATTACHMENTS

30-30 Repeater

• Skullpiercer Hop-Up eliminated

Dev Be aware: The 30-30 has been dominating the mid-long vary for a couple of seasons and our latest changes weren’t fairly sufficient to dethrone it. Eradicating the Skullpiercer ought to create some house for different Marksman and Sniper rifles to shine.

Cost Rifle

• ADS recoil improved and stabilized

Dev Be aware: The Cost Rifle stays a excessive risk-reward weapon, nevertheless the danger barely outweighs the reward. We’ve taken a smoothing go at its recoil so it shouldn’t be fairly so unwieldy when firing.

Longbow DMR

• Skullpiercer Hop-Up eliminated
• Barrel Stabilizer attachment eliminated
• Base recoil considerably improved
• Projectile gravity diminished
• ADS out and in time diminished

Dev Be aware: We’ve at all times thought of the Longbow a terrific entry degree sniper that’s simple to run. Over time, we’ve come to comprehend that being an excellent entry degree weapon and requiring a lot of attachments to come back on-line are at odds with each other. Simplifying the Longbow’s loot chase to make it extra base degree approachable is meant to enhance its early sport effectiveness and general consistency as a sniper.

Triple-Take

• Now takes Boosted Loader Hop-Up

Dev Be aware: The Triple-Take is a powerful weapon on paper, however it may possibly really feel a bit sluggish to maximise injury output. Offering fast reloads and additional ammo within the magazine permits gamers to maintain pressuring for longer with extra probabilities to punish.

Hop-Ups

• Skullpiercer faraway from the loot pool
• Boosted Loader added to the loot pool
  • Reloading whereas close to empty will pace up reloading and overload the subsequent journal with further rounds

1x Digital Menace Optic

• Faraway from loot pool and all locked set weapons

Dev Be aware: The Digi represents a pointy energy spike in Apex—a single loot merchandise that each counters and synergies with a particular Legend. Its energy ebbs and flows with the Legend meta in a approach that proves very tough to tune. We’re giving the 1x Digi a hiatus whereas we examine more healthy optic based mostly perks.

LEGENDS

Ash

• Arc Snare
  • Modified to left-hand solid
  • Now not stows weapons or interrupts consumable use when launching
• Section Breach: impressed by some Alter tech, close by enemies can be highlighted for gamers touring by means of the Void

Dev Be aware: It’s about time, huh? Permitting Ash to fireside her Arc Snare together with her off-hand has been one thing we’ve needed to do for some time now. Holstering and redrawing her weapon to make use of the snare put Ash at a drawback in fight and minimized loads of her play choices. Ash ought to now be capable of be rather more lively together with her snare and apply stress extra aggressively when profitable.

Ballistic

• Whistler: injury from a planted good bullet elevated to 10 (was 5)
• Upgrades
  • Care Package deal Perception: eliminated
  • NEW Sling-Shot: improves Ballistic’s base sling weapon to a blueset at Degree 2 and a purpleset at Degree 3

Dev Be aware: We’re changing a lackluster perk with one thing extra fascinating, particularly for these Ballistic gamers that like tapping into their sling weapons in non-Ult eventualities. Three Tac associated upgrades is loads, let’s make some room for that third weapon.

Bloodhound

• Beast of the Hunt
  • Cooldown elevated to 4m (was 3m)
  • Knocks with Ult lively not lengthen length
• Upgrades: Degree 3
  • Tactical Cooldown: eliminated
  • Style of Blood: buffed HP achieve on knock to 50 (was 25)
  • NEW Lengthy Hunt: knocks lengthen Beast of the Hunt length

Dev Be aware: Beast of the Hunt has loads of energy baked into it contemplating excellent imaginative and prescient by means of smoke, elevated transfer pace, and a beneficiant extension timer. We needed to interrupt that all the way down to see if gamers lean into a particular playstyle and ax the uninteresting hidden energy of a decreased Tac cooldown. Bloodhound synergizes very nicely with two of the preferred Legends on the comp degree, however we wish to be conscious of their attraction throughout talent bands. We’re not doing something huge to this approachable Legend till we gauge their place on the top-end in a digi free world.

Catalyst

• Piercing Spikes
  • Cooldown decreased to 20s (was 25s)
  • Lengthy Solid improve built-in into base Tactical
• Darkish Veil
  • Darkish Veil size elevated to 45m (was 40m)
• Upgrades
  • Lengthy Solid: eliminated
  • Lengthy Veil: moved to Degree 2
  • NEW Ferro-Door: absolutely rebuild and reinforce lacking doorways with Passive.

Dev Be aware: Catalyst may use some love after her Ult nerfs, and Sister Spikes wanted some competitors. Hopefully making Tac costs extra out there with a baseline cooldown buff and making a situationally sturdy different through passive improve helps strike a steadiness. Now that the Ult upgrades are decoupled, there are some tough decisions to make at each ranges that we suspect are influenced by match stream. Will you hunker down with a pleasant zone pull, or will you want an upgraded wall to assist with rotations?

Caustic

• Fuel injury and sluggish now stops instantly after Caustic’s squad is eradicated
• Fuel injury ramps from 4 → 10 max (was 5 → uncapped), injury on knocked gamers all the way down to flat 4 (was 5)

Conduit

• Radiant Switch
  • Can not goal a Revenant whereas Cast Shadows is lively
  • When Revenant prompts Cast Shadows, any short-term defend technology ends instantly. Revenant will maintain any short-term shields generated earlier than activating his Final.
• Upgrades
  • Battery Assortment: eliminated
  • NEW Battpack: can stack as much as 3 Defend Batteries per stock slot (doesn’t stack with Gold Backpack)

Dev Be aware: Conduit maintains a wholesome decide price and has cemented herself as a powerful Help decide even after her final spherical of nerfs. We don’t wish to hit her effectiveness as a Legend that pushes the tempo in fight. It is a focused nerf to one in all her synergies that felt extra exploitable than we’d like.

Crypto

• Neurolink
  • Community Visitors improve now built-in into base package
  • Squadcount banners at the moment are seen anytime the drone is in a deployed state
• Upgrades: Degree 2
  • Tac & Final Cooldowns: eliminated
  • Community Enlargement: moved to Degree 2
  • NEW Fast Ping: improved drone dealing with (quicker accel/decel)
• Upgrades: Degree 3
  • NEW Satellite tv for pc Imagery: drone scan persists for a further 1.5s
  • NEW Hackathon: lower the drone cooldown in half, achieve a pace enhance anytime he makes use of his Ult or the drone is destroyed

Dev Be aware: Crypto’s upgrades initially of Season 20 left quite a bit to be desired. We hope this suite of modifications resonates with a pair totally different playstyle sorts—notably on the subject of gamers’ affinity to pilot the drone extra actively vs. passively.

Fuse

• Upgrades
  • Large Bang: eliminated
  • NEW Ring Grasp: achieve entry to Ring Consoles
  • Scar Tissue:
    • Simplified and buffed injury mitigation to take away lingering burn results
    • Take a flat 20 injury when crossing The Motherlode as an alternative of 37 (50% of 75 hp) over time
  • Wreckless: fastened explosive injury mitigation not being utilized on steady Knuckle Cluster hits (ought to solely take about 32 injury from a full Knuckle Cluster now with Wreckless)

Dev Be aware: Fuse is destruction and chaos. The aim of those modifications, whether or not or not it’s a brand new strategic-level improve or a simplification of a convoluted injury mannequin, is to convey some methodology to the insanity.

Newcastle

• Cell Defend: throw anim pace elevated (~2.5x quicker)
• Citadel Wall
  • Will now destroy incoming projectiles headed in the direction of the entrance of the wall whereas energized. It won’t destroy projectiles fired from behind the wall nor bombardments from different Legend’s Final projectiles.
  • Citadel Wall energized length elevated to 1m (was 30s)
• Improve – Stronghold: elevated energized length to 3m (was 2.5m)

Dev Be aware: The Citadel Wall’s in-game power hardly ever matches the grandeur of its presentation. As a rule, the wall serves as a grenade beacon to surrounding threats figuring out that Newcastle simply jumped to an ally in misery. An Final-level wall mustn’t fail as a lot because it does, particularly on a Help Legend that’s constructed round turning the tide when his squad begins dropping the benefit. The wall now requires extra calculated counterplay and makes the Stronghold improve a extra compelling possibility. We had been additionally discovering the lengthy wind-up when tossing his Cell Defend left him fairly weak making an attempt to get again to his weapon, so we’ve sped up the animation to let him be extra reactive with it.

Octane

• Upgrades
  • Wreckless: eliminated
  • Mad Hops moved to Degree 2
  • Thick Pores and skin: now Degree 2 and three, up to date to take 5 much less Stim injury to replicate that it may be chosen twice (was -25%)

Dev Be aware: Octane has a “Plus Extremely” tattoo, so we shouldn’t inhibit his skill to double down on his tac or ult. Whereas Wreckless was thematically enjoyable, Octane already has among the finest types of explosive injury mitigation that’s much less hidden: stim away.

Wattson

• Upgrades
  • Falling Stars: Pylons will cease spawning Arc Stars when her squad is eradicated
  • Break up Circuit: not reduces defend regen capability

Wraith

• Into the Void and Dimensional Rift: close by enemies can be highlighted for gamers touring by means of the Void

MAPS

• Damaged Moon shattered
  • New POIs: Cliff Facet, Experimental Labs, Photo voltaic Pods, House Port, Quarantine Zone, Underpass
  • Breaker Wharf up to date
  • New rotations to modify issues up and maintain squads on the transfer
• Added new attainable Ring Console, Survey Beacon, and Crafter spawn places to World’s Edge and Storm Level, and additional evened out the chance of a prop spawning at any particular location
  • World’s Edge
    • Added attainable Ring Console spawn places to Mirage à Trois and Survey Camp
    • Added attainable Survey Beacon spawn places to Survey Camp and The Geyser
  • Storm Level
    • Added attainable Crafter spawn location to Command Heart
    • Added attainable Survey Beacon spawn places to The Wall, and the unnamed POIs Northeast of Checkpoint and on the fringe of the map East of Storm Catcher

MODES

Solos

• Six week Duos takeover
• 50 gamers
• Second Probability Respawn
  • Routinely respawn as soon as if you happen to die within the first 4 rounds
  • Second probability transformed to EVO if unused by the spherical cutoff
• Battle Sense: HUD indicator when enemies are inside 50 meters
• Auto Heals
  • Well being regenerates out of fight
  • Auto heal begins after every kill
• Further changes to loot pool, circle sizes, and spherical instances to accommodate solo play

Mixtape

• Lockdown added to rotation: Zeus Station, Monument
• Mixtape Map Rotations
  • Default rotation
    • Management: Manufacturing Yard, Thunderdome
    • Gun Run: The Core, Wattson’s Pylon
    • Lockdown: Monument, Zeus Station
    • TDM: Skulltown, Zeus Station
  • Mixtape rotation (5/24-5/28)
    • Gun Run: The Core, Wattson’s Pylon
    • Lockdown: Monument, Zeus Station
    • TDM: Skulltown, Zeus Station
  • 1st Week of Delight Month (6/1-6/7)
    • Management: Barometer
    • Gun Run: Wattson’s Pylon
    • Lockdown: Zeus Station
    • TDM: Zeus Station
  • Mixtape Rotation (6/11-6/17)
    • Management: Barometer, Caustic Remedy
    • Lockdown: Monument, Zeus Station
    • TDM: Skulltown, Zeus Station
  • TDM 24/7 (6/18-6/24)
    • Guidelines
    • Scorelimit: 35
    • Time Restrict: 10 minutes
    • Elevated well being regen
    • Cranium City, Zeus Station, Monument, Thunderdome, Wattson’s Pylon, Fragment
• LTM Rotations
  • 5/24-5/28 Management: Manufacturing Yard, Thunderdome, Caustic, Barometer, Lava Siphon
  • 5/31-6/3 Management: Manufacturing Yard, Thunderdome, Caustic, Barometer, Lava Siphon
  • 6/11-6/17 Gun Run: Cranium City, Zeus Station, Thunderdome, Wattson, Fragment, The Core

RANKED

• All gamers in a premade Ranked squad should be inside 3 Rank tiers of one another or they won’t be allowed to progress to matchmaking
• No tuning modifications to be made to ranked scoring for the launch of Upheaval

Dev Be aware: Whereas we’re proud of how Breakout Ranked was acquired, there’s some suggestions that we wish to tackle for the beginning of Upheaval. As at all times, we’ll be monitoring suggestions and knowledge for any required tuning modifications throughout the season and any main updates required for the long run.

Season Reset

• The place you resulted in your final season of Ranked will decide the place you begin in Upheaval
  • In case you ended your final season in Rookie, you may be reset to 1 RP
  • In case you ended your final season above Rookie, you may be reset to Bronze IV

Break up Timing

• Break up 2 will happen concurrently the .1 patch, not every week after like in earlier seasons

Upheaval Ranked Rewards

• Your end-of-season rewards will now be decided by the best Rank tier you achieved throughout the whole season
• Break up Rewards: your season-end reward badge can be animated if you happen to match or surpass your Break up 1 Rank in Break up 2
  • If you don’t obtain this, you’re going to get the conventional model of your badge

WORLD SYSTEMS

• Improved finish ring technology system

BUG FIXES

• Equipping an Evac Tower or Cell Respawn Beacon will not shut the inventories of all different gamers within the match
• Firing Vary: fastened some edge circumstances the place Legend change was out there when it shouldn’t be
• Fastened occasional crash when interacting with an enemy’s crafted banner
• “Mischief Medic” not seems as “Highlighted Healer”
• Olympus: gamers can not enter/exit Vault with out key
• Survey Beacons and Ring Consoles ought to now be pingable once more from the map
• When hip firing with the Devotion, it should now correctly monitor its reticle

LEGENDS

• Ballistic: length of speedy whistler restored to 2s
• Bloodhound
  • Passive markers not seem for teammates not on participant’s squad
  • Gamers can as soon as once more be scanned by two Bloodhounds on the identical time
• Catalyst: fastened Darkish Veil not charging for a brief length off of spawn
• Crypto: recall audio when the drone is much away from you is audible as soon as once more
• Maggie: Eliminated drill burn audio for gamers within the space of impact whereas phased
• Eliminated Wraith Shadows from the void if you happen to aren’t taking part in as Wraith
• Wattson: resolved dangerous spawn factors for Arc Stars generated from the Falling Stars improve

QUALITY OF LIFE

• Further safety enhancements
• Airdropping Replicators now mission a beam upwards as they’re descending to assist differentiate them from different airdrops
• Again by fashionable demand, you’ll be able to requeue on the finish of Pubs BR and Mixtape matches
• Ballistic: can now add any locked-set weapon into the sling the place it is going to be transformed to the right locked-set tier and restored to its authentic state when being moved out (red-tier nonetheless not allowed)
• Dying Field Flyers: choice to mechanically ping the situation of the Dying Field can be prompted when knocking it from a Flyer’s grasp
• Improved the selection of consumables which can be auto-selected when both reaching full well being, reaching full shields, or when dropping your final chosen merchandise. The brand new alternative ought to extra intelligently choose defend consumables or prioritize syringes for fast therapeutic. These modifications had been made to assist new gamers have extra optimum outcomes.
• Improved use interactions with doorways when self res is out there
• Map spawn audit for all Mixtape Modes: Section Runner, Habitat, Thunderdome, Zeus Station
• Upgraded to the newest model of Simple Anti-Cheat

Pings

• Ought to now undergo all translucent surfaces like home windows
• Gamers can now request for Grenades (Arc Stars, Frag Grenades, and Thermites)
  • Works just like therapeutic objects: maintain the Grenade button to open the Ordnance Wheel, hover on an ordnance merchandise, choose Ping to request

Thunderdome

• Airdrop location changes
• Management
  • Moved C seize level to touchdown pad
  • Adjusted spawns hooked up to B seize level

GRAPHICS

• Added new “Map Element” PC video setting to regulate the quantity of environmental ornament and set dressing (this will enhance efficiency for gamers with low-spec PCs and people concentrating on excessive framerates)
• Modified the best way gamers opt-in to the DX12 beta: if you happen to’re taking part in through the DirectX 12 beta now, the launch argument “-eac_launcher_settings SettingsDX12.json” needs to be modified to “-anticheat_settings=SettingsDX12.json”
• Improved accuracy and visible constancy of baked surroundings lighting for static out of doors objects
• Improved accuracy of baked lighting for dynamic objects, to keep away from conditions the place Legends would seem unlit
• Considerably improved CPU efficiency of the Rendering {Hardware} Interface (RHI), principally benefitting the PC DirectX 12 beta

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