Apex Legends Season 19 patch notes: Ignite, new legend, weapon balancing, extra

Calum Patterson

The complete Apex Legends Season 19 patch notes at the moment are stay from the builders, detailing all of the modifications, large and small, to Legends, maps, weapons and extra. Try the complete notes for the Ignite replace beneath.

Season 19 of Apex Legends goes stay on October 31, with the spotlight of the brand new season being Conduit, a brand new help legend, after final season skipped out on a brand new character.

There are additionally updates to the Storm Level map, in addition to a bunch of weapon and Legend balancing tweaks.

These are the complete patched notes for Season 19 from Respawn Leisure, which additionally embrace anti-cheat and Ranked modifications, and a listing of bug fixes.

Season 19 patch notes for Apex Legends

PATCH NOTES

• Cross Development can be rolling out in phases throughout present platforms
• Holosprays can now be deployed whereas skydiving

Rolling out the brand new Rendering {Hardware} Interface (RHI) code on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Collection X and S—extra background data on RHI could be discovered through our Reddit put up right here.

BALANCE UPDATES

Crafting Rotation

• RE-45 and 30-30 Repeater depart the crafter and are again on the ground
• R-301 and Volt enter the crafter
• Boosted Loader faraway from crafting rotation
• Digital Menace optic faraway from crafting rotation
• Hammerpoint Rounds added to crafting rotation

Care Package deal Weapon Rotation

• L-Star EMG returns to the ground
  • Eliminated Disruptor Rounds
  • Projectile measurement lowered
  • Improved recoil sample
  • Lowered randomness within the early a part of the recoil sample
  • Injury elevated to 17 (was 16)
  • Barrel attachment improved to match different weapons
• Wingman enters the care package deal
  • New hop-up – Skullpiercer Elite: ignores helmet headshot injury discount
  • Boosted Loader hop-up hooked up
  • Base injury elevated to 50 (was 45)
  • Projectile measurement elevated
  • 110 ammo

Care Packages

• Care Packages will now at all times have 1 weapon in any respect phases of the sport

Gold Weapons Rotation

• Havoc, RE-45, C.A.R. SMG, L-Star, Longbow DMR

Hop-Ups

• Boosted Loader: faraway from ground loot
• Turbocharger: Eliminated 1 injury discount when outfitted

WEAPONS

30-30 Repeater

Bocek Bow

• Sooner preliminary draw pace
• Choose Fireplace button now toggles Shatter Caps
• Tightened Shatter Caps blast sample

Cost Rifle

• Improved bullet drop ballistics
• Elevated projectile measurement

Hemlok

• Injury lowered to 21 (was 22)

Longbow DMR

• Elevated projectile measurement

Sentinel

• Elevated Amped Shot projectile measurement

LEGENDS

Respawn Leisure

Bangalore

• Double Time: lowered length to 2s (was 3s)
• Smoke Launcher: smoke lifetime lowered to 18s (was 23s)
• Rolling Thunder: stun length lowered to 6s (was 8s)

Catalyst

• Piercing Spikes
  • Core now not blocks projectiles, permitting bullets to cross by means of
  • Max in-world depend lowered to 2 (was 3)
  • Throw vary decreased by about 50%
• Darkish Veil
  • Cooldown now begins after the wall comes down
  • Lowered lifetime to 25s (was 30s)

Passive Updates

• Pathfinder’s Insider Information: can now scan Care Packages after allies have already scanned them
• Wraith’s Voices from the Void: lowered look time required to set off (feels extra dependable/constant)

Final Updates

• Newcastle’s Fort Wall
  • Lowered restoration time on touchdown
  • Elevated max leap top
• Revenant’s Solid Shadows: lowered time extension window for assists to 3s (was 30s)
• Vantage’s Sniper’s Mark: bullet depend elevated to six (was 5)

MAPS

Olympus

• Addressed numerous bugs and rat spots
• Addressed recognized exploits to get beneath the map

Kings Canyon

• Addressed a number of rat spots
• Mounted geo holes in world between Relic and Caustic Remedy

Storm Level

• Added two Mixtape maps primarily based on new POIs (ZEUS Station and Wattson’s Pylon)
• Addressed numerous bugs and rat spots

RANKED

NEW FEATURE: PROMOTIONAL TRIALS

In Season 19, gamers will enter a Promotional Trial state once they attain the height of their tier. Throughout a Trial, LP loss and positive aspects are frozen, permitting the participant to concentrate on finishing the trial:

• Finishing the circumstances of a Trial inside the given match depend restrict (both by profitable a sport or finishing the choice) will permit promotion into the following tier with a 250 LP promotional bonus
• Failing to finish the Trial inside the match restrict leads to the Trial ending and a lack of LP primarily based on the participant’s efficiency
• Trials are time restricted to five matches, growing by 1 sport every time a participant fails after which reenters the identical Trial, as much as a max of 10 retries
• Promotional Trials are skipped throughout Provisional matches

RANKED TUNING

For those who missed our latest reddit Dev Staff Replace, we’ve made some tuning changes for Ignite’s Ranked:

• Growing the quantity of Score Bonus given to assist gamers’ rating catch as much as their talent bracket
• Cut back the bonus that’s withheld and thus the problem of climbing, when gamers are actively pushing in opposition to their talent ceiling
• Provisional Bonuses are adjusted to land gamers nearer to the anticipated statistical 1.5 tier drop on the finish of their 10 provisional video games

Rating distinction restrictions for 3 stack premades has been REMOVED. Gamers will now be capable to play with associates irrespective of the place they’re on their climbs—with the caveat that your squad will face harder battles if there’s an even bigger discrepancy between your talent.

WORLD SYSTEMS

• Gamers now respawn with the shields and weapons that they’d once they had been eradicated
  • Physique protect and helmet degree are preserved
  • Knockdown protect is reset to white
  • Backpacks are eliminated
  • Stock will include some ammo for his or her weapons, two syringes, and two protect cells
  • Weapons are maintained, until that weapon was a care package deal weapon, and all weapon attachments are eliminated, together with from kitted weapons
• Replicator, Ring Console, and Survey Beacon spawn charges have returned to being even throughout all POIs

MODES

Mixtape Map Rotation

• Management
  • Caustic Remedy and Siphon are out
  • Barometer and Manufacturing Yard are in
• Gun Run
  • Skulltown and Fragment are out
  • The Core is in
  • New map: Wattson Remedy
• TDM
  • Fragment and Habitat are out
  • Part Runner is in
  • New Map: Zeus Station

BUG FIXES

• Closed an exploit that allowed gamers to outlive ring injury longer than anticipated utilizing the Part Runner on Olympus
• Loss of life Containers can now not fall into unreachable areas – or lava
• Warmth Shields can now not persist with Tridents
• Warmth Shields now not present safety above them on greater floor
• Holster weapon UI now not seems when therapeutic outdoors the ring
• Knockdown Protect FX now not stays on whereas spectating
• Longbow’s Daybreak’s Awakening pores and skin now not has seen barrel with scopes
• Nemesis’ Demon’s Whisper pores and skin now not obstructs participant view
• Provisional badge icon restored on Ranked match abstract display screen
• Rarity show now updates after equipping from retailer or pack opening
• Resolved occasional “[UI] Array index 100000000 is out of vary (array measurement 45)” error when launching the sport
• Revenant now faces route he’s capturing in third particular person view
• Skydiving into an exiting respawn dropship will now not propel the participant together with it
• Squad sorting now constant between HUD and Stock
• Swapping to decrease tiered armor after taking injury now not requires refreshing the Loss of life Field

AUDIO

• Resolved uncommon instances the place the precedence system would kill sure native participant weapon sounds at an incorrect time

GRAPHICS

• Mounted squads’ animated poses typically ghost barely on one another
• PC
  • Mounted Intel ARC graphics playing cards defaulting to suboptimal video settings
  • Mounted challenge with low decision textures when utilizing adaptive supersampling or after altering decision
• PC DX12: mounted occasional dangerous triangle rendering on AMD playing cards

LEGENDS

• Many: Tactical is now not canceled when thrown on a tower close to Containment
• Mirage: resolved not breaking cloak typically when switching weapons
• Revenant
  • Murderer’s intuition
  • Digital threats now spotlight enemies after being highlighted by Murderer’s Intuition
  • Mounted instances the place enemies weren’t being highlighted appropriately
  • Spotlight now not interferes with different legend highlights
  • Spotlight now applies to Mirage decoys
  • Solid Shadows shroud now not will get caught on indefinitely (earlier hotfix)
• Wattson: fences now collapse when the spherical ends, stopping ongoing injury audio in post-match display screen

QUALITY OF LIFE

• Added Offscreen Portraits setting
• Caustic: restored “Protect Cracked” VO in German
• Firing Vary: blue Nessie stays hidden for now… however a brand new challenger has appeacrimson
• Carried out further safety measures
• Improved PC controller help
  • Controller enter will now not be processed when a special window has focus
  • Added native help for PS4 and PS5 Bluetooth-connected controllers. Gamers who’ve been counting on Steam Enter to make use of PS4 and PS5 controllers over Bluetooth ought to disable that setting in Steam.
• Mixtape: assists at the moment are awarded for Assisted Kills by ALL Teammates in modes the place a number of squads are teamed collectively
• Pings
  • Ping Enemies on the map: double-clicking the Ping Button will place an Enemy Ping on the map at that place
  • Reply to Enemy Pings with Okay, Maintain On, and Wait ping reply choices
• Rampart: gamers can now decide up their amped partitions whereas in placement mode
• Revenant
  • Add vibration help when Solid Shadows protect is broken, and when the protect reforms or breaks
  • Enhance vibration help when charging Shadow Pounce

LOCALIZED AUDIO

Localized audio is being moved out of the bottom sport package deal on Ps. Customers who play Apex Legends in languages aside from English might want to obtain the free Extra Content material pack that comprises the audio for his or her most well-liked language. In-game textual content is just not impacted by this variation.