EA and Respawn Entertainment share the patch notes with all the news and changes: 100 new items, legendary skins, missions and more.
Apex Legends today receives the long-awaited Season 5 known as Favor and Fortune, a new event loaded with new features with more than 100 new items through the new Battle Pass, the new game mode Mission with great rewards, the Fourth Series of the Qualifying Series or the new legend, Loba Andrade, a cunning thief who enters the Apex Games in search of revenge, to hunt down her great enemy Revenant. And coinciding with the release of the new battle royale update, EA and Respawn Entertainment have shared the patch notes with everything you need to know about the new season of Apex Legends.
New Legend: Loba Andrade
We start with the new legend, Loba Andrade, a thief who recently appeared alongside the main novelties of Season 5 and from whom we already know her main abilities. And it is that his tactical ability is a thief's trick, with which he can teleport to places of difficult access. On the other hand, his passive ability is an eye for quality, with which he can peer through walls and discover legendary and epic loot. Lastly, his ultimate skill is Black Market Store, with which he is able to teleport loot close to inventory.
Map update: Canyon of the Kings
Both Villa Skull and the Dome of Thunder have been buried. The rugged coastline now stretches from the Octane Circuit to the cliffs leading to the Water Treatment Plant. A new point of interest has been added to the rugged coastline, called Remains. It is a small industrial platform in front of the Market that holds the old skull of a Leviathan over the sea. Remains is a high level booty arena well connected to the surrounding area. In addition, there is a new bidirectional zip line balloon between Restos and the Circuit with which to cross the huge bay.
Loading towers
For the first time during early exploration of the Capacitor, the Union has converted the Charging Towers for the Apex Games. Cargo Towers are a new addition to the open world of Apex Legends. By interacting with the control panel, you can activate a burst that restores the ultimate ability of all players on the Loading Tower platform.
Seasonal Mission: Fragmented Ghost
Search for treasures and answers in the new Seasonal Fragmented Ghost mission. Those who complete the path will receive great rewards.
Season tab
All Season content has been moved to its own tab in the lobby, where you will find the Battle Pass tabs, missions, and challenges.
Battle Pass
Achieve glory with the Season 5 Battle Pass. Complete daily and weekly challenges to unlock over 100 exclusive items like Legendary Skins, Apex Packs, XP Boosts, Loading Screens, and more.
Series 4 of Qualifiers
This new Season kicks off a new Series of Qualifiers with the arrival of a new feature: Reconnection.
Reconnection
If you disconnect due to an Internet problem, a brief power failure or a game crash, you can now restart and if the session is still open, access it again. We hope this helps you get back to the game fast.
Dialogues between legends
With certain pairings, legends will be spoken in a whole new way. How does Loba thank Revenant for reviving? It sure doesn't say "thank you." There are many couples with new phrases to exchange. Experiment!
Legends update
- Bloodhound
- Crypto
- Lifeline
- Caustic
- Octane
- Gibraltar
- Pathfinder
Weapons and Equipment Update
Fully equipped gold weapons
- Longbow DMR
- Hemlok
- Spitfire
- EVA-8
- RE-45
Mastiff
Peacekeeper
Alternator
RE-45
Havoc
Longbow DMR
Wingman
Hop ups
Gold Armor
Error correction
- Various conditions causing prediction errors were corrected.
- Fixed looting with weapons around.
- Aiming speed corrected during zoom.
- Fixed disabling melee Target Compensation.
- Fixed legend banners that had a black box when AA was disabled
- Fixed a condition where the third character model was missing on screens with three captions.
- Fixed a bug when pinging enemies during skydiving or on the plane.
- Exploitable points against Marauders have been fixed in Bloodhound Trial.
- Fixed Marauders not attacking Gibraltar's shield.
- Fixed death boxes that sometimes did not move on the train.
- Fixed subtitles in Russian appearing in English in Bloodhound test area.
- Fixed Havoc VFX while on the train.
- Fixed depth of field when selecting charms from the load menu.
- Fixed lighting in Legends that was sometimes dark on all menus.
- Fixed tooltip not appearing correctly when highlighting items on menus.
- Fixed firing of Charge Rifle beam from rifle scope while using Hard Coded skin.
- Fixed melee combat not causing any damage by interrupting Sentinel's charge animation.
- Fixed Wingman having higher than normal hip fire accuracy while crouched.
- Fixed Golden Barrel accessory that had more sparkles than expected.
- Stability fixes to reduce crashes and script errors.
- Crypto EMP now affects D.U.M.M.I.E. at the shooting range.
- Fixed Revenant's Death Totem visible through smoke or gas
- Fixed some poses on the Pathfinder banner causing corrupted arts.
- Octane's jump platform has been adjusted to make it more difficult to fall through the cracks during deployment.
- Fixed Caustic's Ultimate not deploying when launched under small surfaces.
- Fixed Bangalore smoke cans getting stuck under the train.
Game quality of life
- We've revised Deathbox's user interface to better split loot so you can find what you need faster.
- Crypto can now ping banners while on drones to warn nearby squad mates.
- Added voiceover to ping enemies that are reviving.
- The Favorites option is now available for weapon designs.
- Observer highlights for tournament matches.
- Location removed based on weekly challenges. This caused players to have mixed motivations from their squadmates, and it did not work well with the map rotation.
- Optimized CPU usage.
- Improved texture transmission quality on GPUs that report less memory than advertised.
- We are pleased to announce that at the beginning of Season 5 we will add Apex servers to the Middle East as we seek to further support our fans in the region.
