Apex Legends Ignite Mid-Season Patch Notes Revealed

BALANCE UPDATES

Crafting Rotation

• R-301 and Volt leave the crafter and are back on the floor
• Hemlok and Alternator enter the crafter

WEAPONS

• Mastiff
  • Tactical reload time reduced to 0.9 (was 1.03)
  • Empty reload time reduced to 1.6 (was 1.7)
  • Draw Time reduced to 0.45 (was 0.8)

• R99 
  • Damage reduced to 11 (was 12)

• CAR SMG
  • Damage reduced to 12 (was 13)

LEGENDS

Catalyst

• Piercing Spikes
  • Now require line-of-sight to an enemy player to activate
  • Spikes that have not been activated will still slow players

Horizon

• Improved Horizon audio to make “falls” less silent
  • Hard landing audio adjusted to match other legends
  • Soft Landings now play audio in world ( not just for Horizon )
  • Gravity Lift exit audio range increased to make it easier to hear characters who exit

Newcastle

• Castle Wall: impact will now destroy Conduit’s Energy Barricade mines
• Mobile Shield: can now be destroyed by enemy Crypto EMP
• Delayed balance adjustments from the season 19.0 patch are now fully integrated

Rampart

• Amped Walls are no longer destroyed by friendly Crypto EMP or Mad Maggie’s Wrecking Ball

MAPS

Storm Point

• Added and adjusted cover at ZEUS Station & ECHO HQ
• Added Ring Console to Coastal Camp
• Added Trident to Barometer
• Adjusted the position of the Ring Console, Survey Beacon and Crafting Station at Lightning Rod
• Reduced volume of ambient audio at ZEUS Station & ECHO HQ
• Removed Ring Console, Survey Beacon and Crafting Station from Thunder Watch
• Resolved a number of additional bugs and rat spots
• Restored missing Ring Console at Command Center
• ECHO HQ
  • Added four new staircases at ECHO HQ to improve vertical navigation around the perimeter
  • Rooftop of ECHO HQ is now out of bounds, Zipline and rooftop hatch has been removed
• Wattson’s Pylon
  • Adjusted position of the ziplines at Wattson’s Pylon to improve consistency of mantle jumping
  • Reduced amount of ultra rare loot at Wattson’s Pylon
• ZEUS Station
  • Added additional cover and ziplines at ZEUS Station for mixtape modes only
  • Increased the speed of the redeploy balloon zipline at ZEUS Station by 25%

MIXTAPE

Map Rotation

• Control
  • Hammond Labs and Production Yard are out
  • Lava Siphon and Caustic Treatment are in
• Gun Run
  • The Core, Estates, and Wattson’s Pylon are out
  • Skulltown, Fragment East, and ZEUS Station are in
• TDM
  • ZEUS Station, Skulltown, and Phase Runner are out
  • Wattson’s Pylon, Party Crasher, and Overflow are in

New

• Added new Legend voice lines that occasionally play on respawn
• Lowered Ratings reward for assists in Control 5 per assist (was 20)
  • This is in response to a recent change where we started counting assists in Control and TDM based on the whole team and not just within your individual squad

WORLD SYSTEMS

• Extended Supply Bins
  • Added a cap to the number of heat shields a team can receive from the secret drawer
  • Added a cap to the number of medkits a team can receive from the secret drawer

BUG FIXES

• Firing Range: players dying with a Nessie in their inventory will no longer find the Nessie deleted. Sorry Nessie Hunters!
• Players no longer get stuck due to spamming holosprays while skydiving
• Players no longer drop out of Wraith’s portal before reaching the other side
• Resolved small chance of getting 5 items in secret drawer of Extended Supply Bins
• Resolved bug preventing audio engine from properly utilizing fast storage drives when reading compressed audio data
• Startup logo video audio volume now respects the master volume slider
• Storm Point: players should now be able to use Evac Tower through the ceiling hatch in Command Center
• Trident collision should no longer occasionally push players through walls and floors

LEGENDS

• Ash: Ultimate can no longer be used with Tridents to get under map
• Bloodhound: Niflheim Hundr skin’s raven now white (was black)
• Catalyst
  • Piercing Spikes ability description now shows the correct max number of traps
  • Piercing Spikes can now be pinged again
  • Ultimate no longer shows as ready in inventory without being fully charged
• Conduit
  • Fixed Energy Barricade V-Shape deployment when looking directly at the ground
  • Tactical can no longer be used on respawning team still in dropship
• Crypto: fixed Crypto taking ring damage while standing in a heat shield if controlling his drone in the ring
• Loba: restored movement speed while holding Tactical if it was activated while standing still
• Mad Maggie
  • Fixed damage numbers not showing correctly when hitting Revenant’s ultimate shroud with Wrecking Ball
  • Passive no longer works through Catalyst’s walls
• Revenant: no longer occasionally becomes invincible during his ultimate if his shroud is broken while marked by Vantage’s Sniper
• Vantage: corrected Sniper Ult bullets damage to marked targets when breaking Gibraltar’s arm shield or Revenant’s ultimate shroud
• Wattson: Ultimate correctly recharges shields when placed after Bangalore’s smoke

MODES

• Abilities that outline players should no longer stop functioning after killing an enemy
• Silence abilities should no longer cancel auto healing
• Voice chat is no longer heard outside of the squad in TDM and Control

Control

• Caustic Treatment: weapons cannot be used on the supply ship
• Damage not taken while inside the respawn ship
• Players no longer occasionally spawn in a skydive state when respawning on Kings Canyon
• Players no longer lose invulnerability while still on the dropship when spawning on the MRB

CODE OPTIMIZATIONS

• Fixed issue with dynamic resolution not reacting fast enough to high graphics load. Improves frame rate stability on consoles
• DX12 (PC) video memory (VRAM) usage is now reduced by 1.5 – 2GB
• DX12 (PC) improved graphics performance with parallelization of rendering workloads
• Upgraded Nvidia Reflex SDK to v1.8 and adds support for latency markers

QUALITY OF LIFE

LEGENDS

Conduit

• Improved visibility for jammers
• Ultimate SFX can no longer be heard in other Firing Range instances

Mirage’s Decoys

• Improved issues against terrain that would cause destruction/floating
  • Any destroyed by terrain will now be refunded
• Improved to more correctly copy the ADS state of the player
• No longer mimic reviving or execution animations

Newcastle

• Voice line added when Newcastle removes one of his own Castle Wall segments

Source: EA.