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EVENT TRAILER
We’ve all learned a little bit about the meaning of Legacy this season, and now we’re ready to take it all the way back to the beginning with the Genesis Collection Event. Play on OG Battle Royale maps, become the king of Skull Town in Arenas, and unlock new looks and rewards in our latest Collection Event.
The Genesis Collection Event kicks off June 29, 2021 and runs until July 13th, 2021.
Read on for details.
EVENT DEVSTREAM
ORIGINAL KINGS CANYON AND WORLD’S EDGE RETURN
Head back to where it all started with the Legacy Maps Apex Takeover.
Season 0 Kings Canyon and Season 3 World’s Edge return for a limited time, taking over the normal Trios and Duos queues in 1 hour rotations. What better way to celebrate the Legacy of Apex Legends than to visit the first iterations of these iconic maps?
Hot drop in Kings Canyon at Skull Town (we know you will) and Thunderdome! Grab that sweet loot on the moving train as it barrels through a pristine Capital City in the era before the Harvester landed in World’s Edge. Show your new Apex friends the terror of rotating through Bridges or the epic multi-team throwdowns in Fuel Depot. It’s all coming back now, isn’t it?
We hope everyone enjoys this throwback Takeover during the Genesis Collection Event!
SKULL TOWN COMES TO ARENAS
We heard you! Five minutes after we announced Arenas, we were seeing pleas for a Skull Town Arena. Well, here it is!
This original Apex hotzone has seen a lot of combat through the years, but this is the first time we can say it hosts a fair fight. Circle the towers as Valkyrie & Pathfinder or trap up the bottom floors as Caustic & Wattson. This location offers a wide variety of tactics and plenty of mayhem.
Skull Town will be added to the Arenas rotation in one hour increments during the Genesis Collection Event. Get in there and break some bones.
GENESIS REWARDS AND COLLECTION EVENT REWARDS TRACKIt ain’t a Collection Event without new unlockables. Let’s start with the freebies. As usual, the Genesis Collection Event brings a rewards track with all-new earnable cosmetics, this time including legendary Charge Rifle and EVA-8 weapon skins among the goodies.
You can earn 1,600 points per day and challenges refresh daily. There are also stretch challenges that reward four unique badges if you complete them during the event. All of these challenges also stack with your Battle Pass, so you can complete multiple at once.
And of course, Genesis also introduces a brand new set of 24 themed, limited-time cosmetics.
All 24 items will be available through direct purchase (for Apex Coins or Crafting Metals) and in Genesis Event Apex Packs for the entire duration of the event. If you collect all 24 event items, you’ll unlock the Revenant Heirloom set.
REAP SOULS WITH REVENANT’S HEIRLOOMEveryone’s favorite spooky murder robot has a new toy. And good golly is it sharp.
After the Genesis Collection Event ends, the Revenant Heirloom will become available via heirloom crafting.
GENESIS COLLECTION EVENT PACKSEach Event Pack will come with one event item and two non-event items at the following drop rates:
Other than that, it’s not too complicated! If you want to learn more about how Event-Limited Cosmetics work, visit our FAQ.
STORE OFFERS
Some limited-time bundles will be available throughout the event. See the image above for the rundown.
LEGEND BALANCE UPDATESOctane
Launch Pad cooldown increased from 60 seconds to 90 seconds.Dev Note: Octane remains the most popular legend by a large margin even after the stim nerf. Turns out jump pads are fun, but with the added utility from the two launch options, it’s only fair to bump up the cooldown.
Revenant
Slightly slimmed down hitbox (specifically his midsection, arms, and upper legs).Stalker climb height significantly increased. It's not literally unlimited now, but... that boy can really climb. Silence duration decreased from 20 seconds to 15 seconds. Reduced the duration of death protection by 5 seconds while using the Death Totem.
Dev Note: Revenant’s large frame places him at a significant disadvantage in gunfights, particularly against smaller legends who no longer have Low Profile. We’re shrinking some of his hitboxes to counteract this disadvantage, while also improving his ability to climb up walls and attack from unexpected angles. (We know this can be frustrating given how silent he is, so we'll continue to monitor and add sound if necessary.) That said, we’re taking this opportunity to reduce some of the frustration that comes when playing against his tactical and ultimate.
Lifeline
Increased hit box size, mostly in the legs and waist.
Dev Note: Unlike Revenant, Lifeline excels in gunfights given her small hitbox. Even with the res shield gone, it’s no surprise the smallest character in the game saw an uptick in performance with the removal of Low Profile. She remains small, but these hitbox changes bring her closer to the medium sized legends.
Bloodhound
Eye of the Allfather scan revealed time decreased from 4 seconds to 3 seconds. Beast of the Hunt duration decreased from 35 seconds to 30 seconds. Time can still be added by downing enemies.Dev Note: Bloodhound has remained a popular and powerful pick for multiple seasons now, mostly because of the sheer amount of information that can be gained with one tap of their tactical. Shortening the scan duration still provides a snapshot of information for Bloodhound’s team without stifling all enemies caught anywhere in the large range for a full 4 seconds.
Wattson
Major Buff: Wattson can now place more than one Nessie on the map at a time with her Epic emote.Dev Note: There can now be up to 20 Nessies active at once on any given map. Until that cap is reached, any Wattson can place as many as she likes. When the cap is hit, the oldest Nessie belonging to the Wattson who currently owns the most Nessies is removed.
WEAPONS BALANCE UPDATESP2020
Increased Fire Rate from 6.25 -> 7.0 Increased Base Ammo from 12 -> 14 Increased Lvl 1 Mag from 14 -> 16 Increased Lvl 2 Mag from 16 -> 18 Increased Lvl 3 and Lvl 4 Mag from 18 -> 21
Spitfire
Increased Hip Fire spreadDev Note: The Spitfire has continued to over perform so we're hitting it's close range hip fire accuracy which should help bring it in line.
30-30 Repeater
Slightly increased projectile speed Reduced charge time from 0.5s -> 0.35s
Longbow
Damage increased from 55 -> 60
ARENAS UPDATESARENAS PRICE ADJUSTMENTS
The figures below represent changes to the cost in materials to unlock or upgrade weapons, utilities, and Legend abilities in Arenas matches.
Weapon Prices
P2020 Lvl 1 Upgrade: 50 -> 25 P2020 Lvl 2 Upgrade: 125 -> 75 P2020 Lvl 3 Upgrade: 200 -> 150 RE45: 250 -> 200 EVA: 250 -> 300 Mastiff: 500 -> 400 R99: 550 -> 500 Volt: 500 -> 550 Spitfire: 550 -> 600 L-Star: 400 -> 500 R301 Lvl 2 Upgrade: 300 -> 350 G7 Scout: 350 -> 400 G7 Scout Lvl 3 Upgrade: 250 -> 200 30-30: 350 -> 400 30-30 Lvl 3 Upgrade: 250 -> 200Utility Prices
Arc Star: 100 -> 125 Gold Backpack: 250 -> 300Legend Ability Prices
Crypto EMP: 600 -> 500 Crypto Drone: 100 -> 50 Revenant Death Totem: 600 -> 500 Lifeline DOC Drone 50 -> 75 Fuse Knuckle Cluster 150 -> 75 Bloodhound Ult 350 -> 450
ARENAS BALANCE CHANGESLegend Ability Adjustments
Pathfinder’s Grapple starting charges reduced to 2 charges from 3. Pathfinder’s Zipline round cooldown increased from every round to every other round. Rampart’s Sheila round cooldown reduced from every 3 rounds to every other round. Wattson’s Interception Pylon round cooldown increased from every round to every other round. Octane’s Launch Pad cooldown increased from every round to every other round. Octane’s Stim starting charges reduced to 2 charges from 3.Other
Added a scoreboard to the map screen.You can now report players by pressing [SPACE / Y] in the map screen
From Round 3 and onward, you’ll now start with a shield battery in addition to 2 syringes and 2 shield cells. Care packages will also land 5s earlier to make the contained weapons a more viable option before the round closes out. 6x scope moved from base sniper weapons to Lvl 1 upgrade.
ARENAS MAP ADJUSTMENTSParty Crasher
Adjusted circle logic to favor downtown a bit more. Simplified the minimap’s visual language.
Phase Runner
Raised cover height on certain props throughout the map to prevent unfair advantages to large rig Legends. Added a few trees to reduce the ease of spawn sniping (looking at you, Reptar…).
ARENAS BUG FIXES The UI for Purple devotion now shows the attached turbocharger. Players will no longer be chosen as Jump Masters during the legend select screen. Updated the sniper stock to show an empty slot when needed. Can no longer get stuck in the crouch position after dying while reviving a teammate during a round in Arenas.
QUALITY OF LIFE CHANGESValkyrie
Updated fuel gauge UI to better indicate when you’re using fuel and when you’re running lowRampart
Will now have custom animations for LMG reload. These have no impact on her current reload times.MISC
Added VO for when your Ultimate is ready, or not ready. When your Ultimate gets to 100%, you’ll be prompted to tell your team with new VO for each Legend. At any point in time, you can ping your Ultimate icon (in your inventory) to show your teammate what percentage you’re at (in quickchat). Added VO for when you enter a Replicator, so your teammates know you are crafting and won’t leave you behind! Probably. Added VO for pinging a friendly Trident, in addition to the neutral and enemy states that already existed. You can now turn off FOV scaling when certain abilities are used. Look in the options. Reduced the frequency of Ring endings near out-of-bounds areas (like canyon walls or map edges). Healing items will now play the entire healing sound when used by other players, instead of just the beginning and ending. Muting players will now also mute text to speech.
BUG FIXESBloodhound
Passive tracker icons will no longer be shown in the end-of-game screen.Caustic
Fixed an issue with enemies not getting highlighted when in Caustic’s Nox Gas.Fuse
Players can now see the number of grenades in the grenades stack when viewed on floor. Fixed the 1P arm color on “Board to Death” to match the 3P view. Fuse will no longer produce a third arm when ADS’ing and using the tactical at the same time.Gibraltar
Being struck by a direct hit of Fuse’s Knucklecluster will no longer cause Gibraltar’s Gun shield to take unnecessary damage. Gibby’s Ultimate will no longer damage a friendly’s Horizon’s Ult. Gun Shield will no longer take additional bleed through damage.Horizon
Horizon’s tactical will no longer ascend Caustic’s gas traps or Octane's Jump pads to the heavens. Fixed an issue with the appearance of Horizon's teeth when using the "Golden Boson" skin.Lifeline
Lifeline will no longer use Wraith’s animations while in the boxing ring. Enemy Care packages will now have loot if the enemy Lifeline leaves the game before it lands. Fixed an issue that was preventing Lifeline's tactical from functioning properly while in Caustic gas.Loba
Completed another pass to prevent Loba from getting into unallowed areas. Fixed an issue causing Loba's tactical to improperly fail on the Phase Runner map in Arenas. Fixed an issue that caused Loba's tactical to be improperly disrupted by Horizon's gravity lift.Mirage
Corrected an issue with Mirage flickering while in the Lobby.Octane
Fixed obstructed ADSing while using the Compound bow and the 3x sight.Pathfinder
Can no longer swap weapons faster if the holster animation is canceled. Did a Zipline pass on Arena Maps to prevent Pathfinder getting into unfair positions.Rampart
Fixed a logic error when using Wraith’s Portal and Sheila at the same time. Did a pass to allow more places to place Amped Walls on Olympus. Fixed an audio issue with Rampart’s Tactical when in close quarters. Fixed an issue with Sheila disappearing off of Rampart’s back if shot during an emote. Players no longer fall under the ground when using Shelia on certain slopes.Revenant
Death Totem can now be damaged in Firing Range.Valkyrie
Did an environment pass to prevent Valk from entering areas not meant to be entered. Amped cover will no longer push players into geo if Skyward Dive is initiated near it. Valkyrie’s Ult UI no longer remains on screen if observer switches to another POV. First person view no longer obstructed when using a shield battery. Fixed an issue with players not being able to cancel being hooked up to Valks Ult.Wattson
Wattson no longer uses Wraith’s animation in the boxing ring. The Nessie that Watton leaves behind with her Epic emote should no longer fall over dead when using a Legendary skin.Wraith
Addressed a bug that sometimes caused Wraith's portal to improperly appear as open after a player entered it just before it closed.Other
Fixed a bug where players have to play one Ranked game after a Season or Split reset for the reset to fully take effect. Note that players who have not played a Ranked game recently before this update will still have to play one more game of Ranked with their RP changing before this bug is completely fixed. Matchmaking will be canceled if the party leader changes the playlist to a mode that a party member is not eligible for. Fixed an issue preventing Switch users from scrolling through all their emotes while in handheld mode. Resolved an issue that was sometimes slowing down controller players' turn speeds when running at high FPS. Addressed some audio issues with Phoenix Kits. Entering the Fight Night ring on Olympus should no longer cause you to experience glitches with gunfire audio. Solved a performance problem caused by having large numbers of friends via Steam and/or Origin. Knocked legends can now open the inner door inside Explosive Holds as normal. Your scope sight should no longer flicker when ADSing using the Bocek Bow while riding a Trident. Similarly to the above, ADSing with the Bocek Bow while riding a zipline should no longer cause flickering. Resolved an issue that was preventing ping VO from playing when at a distance from teammates. Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented players from joining a friend's lobby when using the "join" button from the Friends tab. Solved an issue that was preventing Respawn beacon audio from triggering properly. Fixed some buttons with weird "hitboxes" in the Clubs tab. Rejecting invites from the Clubs tab should now work as expected. Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented loot from appearing as expected in death boxes. The consumables interface should no longer show up on the podium screen. Resolved a rare bug that allowed you to use a Shield Battery even when shields were full. Fixed an issue preventing some colorblind settings from appropriately changing the color of enemy HP bars. Colorblind settings are now properly applied to trackers in the Legends tab. Addressed an issue that sometimes caused the ring to become silent for recently-respawned players. Solved a bug with "Death UI" being shown to players who reconnected early in the match. The "random" music pack should no longer play default music on the match summary screen or the lobby. Fixed some VFX issues with Legendary knockdown shields.
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Comment by DanielZKlein:
Yeah, we're working on stuff. No ETA because it's still very exploratory, but goals would be to make it more in the moment fun and powerful to play Wattson while removing some of the invisible power (because as I keep saying, Wattson does sport VERY high win rates).
Comment by DanielZKlein:
I *think* that should be fixed. I'll check why the fix didn't make it into the patch notes.
Comment by DanielZKlein:
Last I checked we were still investigating that Loba ult bug. It's not very easy to reproduce so we don't have the greatest confidence that we know what causes it yet.
Comment by DanielZKlein:
We got stuff in flight for him but it wasn't ready for 9.1. No ETA, as always, but hoping to ship something soon.
Comment by DanielZKlein:
Wait until you try out the climb. It's not going to be massively powerful, but it feels so good.
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cries in wattson
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The no-fill bug is seriously not even mentioned? God that is awful
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See Wattson in patch notes
😀
Actually reading it
:'DID: h2wtpsgID: h2weehwSad baguette noises 🙁
ID: h2whjzrThat’s a sad fence :,(
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Why aren’t they mentioning that you can’t get a teammate in duos? I play this game every day and haven’t gotten a duos partner in months
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No fucking way that "no fill" bug in duos will still be around.
ID: h2wft8zBtw, the no fill bug happens in trios too if you are with +1 friend. And don't tell me "Play duos then" because there is no duos in Brazil.
ID: h2wqmwiI played like 20 trio games with one friend, only 2 of them we got another teammate. It is so fucking pathetic that this shit is not fixed for 2 seasons. Not to mention i get no teammates at all every 2 to 3 games when i am soloq
ID: h2wpmm8Looks like we have a new permanent bug to add to audio!
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Any update on frequently not being able to charge sentinel in arenas?
Edit: I know it’s not in patch notes, just hoping a dev sees this.
ID: h2wcgweI didn't see anything about the ping bug or not being able to pick up amped walls either.
I hope they fixed them.amd just forgot to include them in the notes.
ID: h2wfnp2Same with lobas ult being completly useless sometimes
ID: h2wg6luGlad you brought this up on one of the top comments. Hope they see this or at least acknowledge it.
ID: h2wgfbsand loba ult not working
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Those RT legendary guns skins are underwhelming as fuck
CR and Eva again?!
ID: h2x3ptlThey’re running out of ideas at this point
ID: h2x452pWe haven't gotten a Sentinel or 30-30 skin yet
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what about the Valk bug when teammates get stuck in her ult, fly under the map and die if theres any surface above them while launching?
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Did I miss it or is there really no mention of the lag or the no fill bug this season?
I love playing apex but the lag and the no teammates is really making the game hard to play this season.
ID: h2wrlc7Same, when people are complaining about the sbmm shit matching them against preds I was like i dont mind playing against preds if you actually give me some goddamn teammates, all i want them to fix is the fucking no teammates bug and the blatant cheaters. I play in Asia servers and there are fucking chinese cheaters in every plat game
ID: h2xhhkcI wouldn’t mind playing against preds if I had preds on my fucking team to even the playing field out. I have no idea how this shit game uses an algorithm, but I’m constantly paired with very, very under-skilled players. And majority of my enemies have kills in the tens of thousands, some over a hundred thousand. Like... having my teammates be level 35 and the guy that killed me having 80k kills is unnecessary. But let’s fix Wattson and her Nessie emotes! Hashtag priorities
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No mention of the no teammate bug? Tired of not getting a 3rd in trios when playing with a friend. Have to quit over 10 games every night night because the game just keeps giving us no teammate. This a huge bug that has been going on for months and they haven't addressed it yet. Wasting time quitting,queuing back up, and then having to quit again to repeat the process gets old quickly. I'd say in a team based game, not having a teammate is a game breaking bug.
EDIT:Just hopped on to play a few games. No 3rd teammate in 8 out of my 10 matches.
ID: h2wdnx6Couldn't agree with you more. It wouldn't be so bad... if it didn't happen all the damn time. Whenever I queue with one friend 4/5 games won't give us a teammate.
ID: h2wkmtcLol, recently in the past 2 weeks I've been queueing alone and even then at least 2 times each day i end up being alone in the party...
Meanwhile respawn fixing shit like "Nessie not falling over..." Cool...
ID: h2wn7goSomebody needs to tell the devs that "duos" means TWO and "trios" means THREE. I'm fine waiting another 30 or 60 seconds if it means I get teammates every time.
ID: h2xmnb2Lmao the lead dev comes in here and specifically DIDN'T address this, despite this being the 2nd most prominent root comment. So they read it and went right to answering the easy stuff. I dont think the playerbase is being unreasonable for wanting acknowledgement (not a promise of a fix or anything) that this game breaking issue exists. It's an especially hard slap in the face due to the denial of solos because "it would be bad for the team_based game" (as if Overwatch Deathmatch doesnt immediately disprove that notion). Literally every single sesh I have with my brother, who prefers trio mode, I give us a budget of 5 games where we dont get a teammate (often times we are the only one to not get one, looking at the 59 players in the top right of the HUD) before we swap to duos.
We play a lot of Duos.
ID: h2wgid1They mentioned it in their last DEV AMA. Specifically: “we resolved issues around this recently and it is in a much better place.”
AKA complete bullshit.
ID: h2x7d8oThe past couple of weeks is the worst it's ever been for me.
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You can now turn off FOV scaling when certain abilities are used. Look in the options.
Octane/Bloodhound buff?
ID: h2wdjsdyeah i was pretty excited when reading that, the fov change when stimming or beast of the hunting would kinda trip me up and fuck up my aim
ID: h2we9rwAlso bangalore.
ID: h2whtmbBang's FOV changes when she's in double-time? I've honestly never noticed it.
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Fixed a bug where players have to play one Ranked game after a Season or Split reset for the reset to fully take effect
About time, only took 2 years...
ID: h2wdob2The post count on this reddit will dive by 45%
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Fixed an issue that was preventing Lifeline's tactical from functioning properly while in Caustic gas.
I thought that was not a bug but intended...
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No fix for Loba's ult in Arenas not grabbing loot occasionally, or Valk's ult sending teammates to the shadow realm?
EDIT: Valk's ult update here
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Wattson....:(
ID: h2waft0They really played with our emotions on that one.
ID: h2wckbomajor buff
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OG kings canyon is back!!!!
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Anyone else who saw the clip of reptar spawn sniping with the sentinel in arenas and to see him mentioned in the patch notes a huge LOL
ID: h2wrmsjI said it earlier but one of the first impressions was.....Wigg Longbow Buff and Reptar Arenas nerf.
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«You can now turn off FOV scaling when certain abilities are used. Look in the options.»
Nice!
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As a Rev main, I think the changes to his kit are pretty fair overall and should help make Revtane less oppressive while also maintaining his unique playstyle.
ID: h2wd18nYeah Rev's problem has always been that he's great to play with a coordinated team but cit isn't fun to take 1-1 fights because of his massive hitbox. People complain about him a lot but it's telling that "Revenant" himself wasn't oppressive until they buffed another Legend (Octane) and then everyone still blamed Revenant as the issue. Supposedly hitboxes are the biggest predictor of a Legend's overall viability, so I'm hoping this makes him a lot more fun to play.
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The free legendries in the prize tracker are the charge rifle and eva again?
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At least Wattson is now straight up the tiniest legend.