EA and Respawn Entertainment share the patch notes with all the news and changes: 100 new items, legendary skins, Apex Packs and more.
Apex Legends celebrates its first anniversary with the launch of its Season 4 known as Assimilation, a new event loaded with news with more than 100 new objects, new weapons and equipment, the new Revenant legend, legendary skins, Apex Packs, Music Packs, screens of cargo and much more. Therefore, EA and Respawn Entertainment have shared the patch notes with everything you need to know about the new season of such a popular Nattle Royale.
New legend: Revenant
We started with the new legend, Revenant, a cyborg that appeared recently and by surprise after killing what should have been the new character of Season 4, Forge. Thus, Revenant is able to use supernatural powers to hunt down his enemies and kill them. Their skills are:
Passive
- Harasser: you crouch walking faster and you can climb higher walls.
TACTIC
- Silence: Throws a device that deals damage and deactivates enemy abilities for 10 seconds.
DEFINITIVE
- Totem of death: drop a totem that protects users from death. Instead of being killed or shot down, you will return to the totem.
LOW PROFILE
- Revenant takes + 5% damage.
New sniper rifle: Sentinel
The Sentinel is a bolt sniper rifle, effective at medium and long range. Said weapon is capable of displaying a state charged with energy in exchange for consuming energy from the legend's shield. In this state, the Sentinel fires projectiles that cause massive damage to the shields. Of course, these projectiles reveal the position of the character through visual and sound signals.
The Sentinel has a limited amount of energy that is consumed slowly over time and loses a large amount of it for each shot. Once the energy runs out, the energized state ends.
Map update
With the aim of proposing new challenges to Apex Legends players, the map has received a series of updates such as a new planetary collector from Hammond Robotics and a greater amount of lava flowing from the fissure in Capitol City and through which we can move , with 25 damage from heat and embers and ascending at low speed and in the third person. On the other hand, a new reconnaissance camp has been established in the vicinity of Skyhook with new shelves of weapons.
Qualifying Series 3
As a great novelty, Kings Canyon returns to the qualifying games, yes, from the second mtad of the season, from March 24 to May 5. On the other hand, mid-season there will be a restart of the rankings while a new Master level between Diamond and Predator will be added.
Anniversary Rewards
During the first week of Season 4: Assimilation (from February 4 to February 11), all users who log in will receive their anniversary reward, which includes:
- Origami Flyer Year 1
- Loyalty Badge Year 1
- 10K XP for your first game of the day (available every day)
Booty
All sniper rifles work with the new type of ammunition:
- Sentinel
- Longbow DMR
- Tripletake
- Charge Rifle (now uses a charge per shot)
- New attachment: extended magazine for sniper ammunition.
- Ammo power
Now give 30 ammunition per collection instead of 20. Most of the ammo players that collect come from packages that are generated alongside the energy weapons on the ground. Now that there are only 2 weapons of energy ammunition in Apex, we needed to increase ammo by brick to prevent energy ammunition from being too scarce.
Objects deleted
The following items have been removed from the game:
- Hop-up turbocharger
- Extended Mags for Energy Ammo
- Gold backpack
Update of the user interface to better transmit to the player when he is using or reviving with the perk.
Weapons
The goal of the developers is to balance the difference between the strongest and the least strong weapons.
The updated weapons for Season 4 are:
- Longbow DMR
- Tripletake
- Charge rifle
- Sentinel Sniper Rifle
- Havoc
- R-301
- Flatline
- Spitfire LMG
- R-99
- Alternative
- Mozambique
- Mastiff
- RE-45
- Wingman
G7 Scout
- Change class from sniper rifle to assault rifle
- Now only accepts AR optical elements and accessories
- Still accept the double jump touch
- Contributes to the progress of statistics / challenges for the advancement of AR
- Rate of fire reduced 4.5 to 4.0
- Increased time between shots for double tap 0.425 to 0.475
- Fixed a bug where G7 had 0 air propagation ADS, making it the only gun that was perfectly accurate in zip lines, etc.
L-STAR
- The L-STAR is no longer a box weapon and can now be found around the map
- Use energy ammo
- The recharge has been removed and the L-STAR will overheat after a sustained fire, so it is better to shoot in short bursts to control overheating and recoil
- Damage reduced per shot 19 to 18
- Shooting speed decreased from 12 to 10
- Less horizontal vision when the gun fires
Devotion
- Devotion is now a box weapon
- Magazine size: 54
- Total Ammo Stock: 162
- Turbocharger Functionality
Havoc
- Horizontal recoil has been reduced and is now easier to control
- It no longer accepts the hop-up turbocharger but can still equip Select Fire
- Decreased time between shots when using Select jump fire from 77 to 56
R-99
- Reduction of damage per shot from 12 to 11
- Larger charger size for the first 3 levels
- Base: 18 to 20
- Frequent: 20 to 22
- Rare: 23 to 24
- Epic: 27 to 27
Prowler
- Increased damage per shot from 14 to 15
Hemlok
- Increased single shot speed from 5.6 to 6.4
Wingman
- Adjusted Magazine Sizes
- Base: 4 to 5
- Frequent: 6 to 6
- Rare: 8 to 7
- Epic: 10 to 8
EVA-8
- Double tap jump: reduced delay between bursts from 0.85 to 0.80
Mastiff
- Fixed a bug that gave some players an advantage in certain situations.
Gold weapons
New set of gold weapons for Season 4:
- Havoc
- P2020
- Sentinel
- Prowler
- R-301
Legends
Bloodhound
- Reduce without killing the rivals adds 5 seconds to the Beast Timer of the hunt. It is possible to exceed the start time with successive murders.
Crypto
- EMP no longer destroys the friendly shields of the Gibraltar dome.
- Dome Shields can no longer adhere to the Crypto Drone.
Error correction
- Fixed a bug that caused players who reached level 500 to block their inventory or store.
- Corrected the error in which the player level text appeared on the insignia of the level 100 badge.
- Fixed a bug in some cases where players could not equip weapons in care packages when trying to exchange it with an existing weapon.
- Fixed some negative points in World's Edge where players got trapped or reached places they shouldn't.
- Fixed a bug in which sometimes, when the Jumpmaster disconnected, the followers of his squad floated in the air and could not stop following.
- General stability of the game.
Game quality of life
- Fixed when approaching the edge of the circle caused the players' screen to turn almost completely white.
- Updated color blindness setting based on player feedback.
- Community request: A random Favorites option was added for unlocked masks that can be found in the Legend personalization menu.
- Option for unlocked favorite masks.
- By choosing the Random Favorite option from the mask menu, the favorite legend masks chosen between games will be randomly alternated.
- Increased timer for when you can still be credited for assistance after inflicting damage: from 5 seconds to 7.5 seconds.
- The sphere that falls from the loot drone with reduced damage and damage radius and new visual additions are nervous.
- The Objective Compensation and Melee Compensation options have been moved to the Advanced Aspect Controls menu.
Penalties in qualifying mode
Loss of RP limited to once per day upon leaving the game, with a maximum of three times per day.
Error DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG
Some players experience a problem in which Apex Legends crashes with the error message DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG. Respawn Entertainment works closely with NVIDIA to help determine the cause of the problem and provide players with a solution (through an updated controller or game patch) as soon as possible.
Pairing update
Skill-based pairing has existed in Apex since its launch and its creators intend to continue working to add improvements in the future.
