Apex Legends’ new Hunted replace is sort of right here, and it brings with it a giant map change, the same old stability updates, and a brand new playable Legend character. The replace will start the sport’s 14th season, and can launch Tuesday, Aug. 9, at 10 a.m. PDT/1 p.m. EDT.

Right here’s a take a look at all the main modifications within the patch. For a whole listing of patch notes, preserve scrolling.

Vantage

Vantage is unquestionably the largest addition with Hunted, as all new Legends are. Vantage excels at sniping enemies from afar with scoped weapons, and is accompanied by somewhat bat good friend, Echo.

Vantage’s passive provides her pictures a bullet drop indicator, serving to you hit long-ranged pictures extra simply. Her tactical capacity, Echo Location, permits Vantage to maneuver Echo to a location after which launch towards him. Lastly, Vantage’s final is Sniper’s Mark, which permits her to mark enemy targets, which gives bonus harm to your total group.

Kings Canyon replace

Kings Canyon will get a sizeable replace on this patch. Particularly, Cranium City and Thunderdome — areas which were lacking since season 5 — will make their triumphant return, giving gamers a brand new, but acquainted, place to battle it out.

Elevated degree cap

Gamers who’ve reached degree 500 can now improve their degree even additional with three new tiers. This provides 345 extra Apex Packs gamers can earn — assuming they put the time in to achieve the brand new degree cap of 500 Tier 3. Whereas this variation solely impacts essentially the most hardcore Apex gamers, will probably be a godsend to those that want it.

Steadiness modifications

As all the time, this season of Apex Legends comes with a bunch of modifications to each weapons and Legends. The Bocek Compound Bow is getting a harm improve, and the Wingman will now use sniper ammo. Valkyrie, Newcastle, and Mad Maggie are all getting sizeable modifications to a number of talents.

For the whole listing of modifications, try the whole patch notes under.

Beneath are the official patch notes for Apex Legends season 14, Hunted:

NEW LEGEND

Vantage – Survivalist Sniper

Xiomara “Mara” Contreras is a survivalist who can see a risk coming from down her sniper scope from hundreds of meters away. Born to a wrongfully-convicted felony who gave beginning to her alone on the barren ice planet Págos, Vantage has grown into the final word survivalist. Compelled to stay off a hostile land, she grew to become unfathomably good with a scoped weapon.

PASSIVE: Spotter’s Lens

Purpose down sights to scout together with your eyepiece (unarmed or with mid- to long-range scopes) and use a bullet drop indicator to see the place your pictures will land.

TACTICAL: Echo Location

Place your winged companion Echo after which Launch in direction of him. Will need to have line of sight to Echo for Launch.

ULTIMATE: Sniper’s Mark

Use your customized sniper rifle to mark enemy targets which applies a harm bonus for you and your group.

Watch all of Vantage’s equipment in motion right here.

REFORGED KINGS CANYON UPDATE

In Season 5, Cranium City and Thunderdome had been sunk by an enormous explosion attributable to Loba. Now that the Salvage operation is full, the Syndicate has rebuilt the realm for the Apex Video games. Dredging machines have refilled the house with sand from the ocean flooring, and a brand new battleground has been rebuilt with the long-lasting cranium as its centerpiece. Learn the complete breakdown of the map replace for Kings Canyon right here.

LEVEL CAP INCREASE

Gamers can now degree previous account degree 500 by means of 3 further tiers of 500 ranges bringing the efficient degree most to Stage 500 Tier 3. This improve provides 345 further Apex Packs earnable by way of account leveling, and ensures that everybody can earn an heirloom simply by enjoying the sport. The entire variety of Apex Packs earnable by way of account leveling is now 544.

BATTLE PASS

Sure Battle Cross challenges can now be accomplished in both Battle Royale or non-Battle Royale modes, supplying you with the pliability to finish the Battle Cross your means.

PATCH NOTES

SEASON 13 RANKED RESULTS

For Break up 1 of Season 13, we now have the next max tier distribution amongst gamers who performed greater than 10 hours of Ranked (versus Season 12’s Break up 1):

• 10.80% Bronze (0%)
• 28.78% Silver (3.78%)
• 44.45% Gold (25.12%)
• 14.60% Platinum (39.52%)
• 1.25% Diamond (26.63%)
• 0.10% Grasp & Apex Predator (4.95%)

As of August 2nd 2022, we now have the next max tier distribution amongst gamers in Break up 2 who performed greater than 10 hours of Ranked (versus Season 12’s Break up 2):

• 2.22% Bronze (0.01%)
• 15.22% Silver (4.28%)
• 41.50% Gold (25.48%)
• 32.57% Platinum (42.80%)
• 8.05% Diamond (23.56%)
• 0.45% Grasp & Apex Predator (3.87%)

14.0 Ranked Adjustments

• Entry Price: +5 to all.
• Kill RP: Eliminated diminishing returns on eliminations .
• Rank Reset: No change. Resuming ranked reset of 6 divisions.

BALANCE UPDATES

Laser Sights

• New attachment to interchange barrels for SMGs and Pistols.
• Decreased hipfire unfold.

Crate Rotation

• G7 Scout returns to the ground.
• Volt SMG returns to the ground.
• Bocek Compound Bow enters the crate.
• Rampage LMG enters the crate.

Crafting Rotation

• Wingman returns to the ground.
• CAR SMG returns to the ground.
• Devotion LMG enters the crafter.
• RE-45 + Hammerpoint combo enters the crafter.

Gold Weapon Rotation

• Longbow DMR, G7 Scout, Mozambique, R-99, Hemlok

SMGs

• Base hipfire unfold elevated.

Assault Rifles

• Base hipfire unfold elevated.

EVA-8

• Recoil enhancements.
• Now takes shares.
• Eliminated 1 pellet from blast sample.
• Hearth price elevated to 2.3 from 2.0.
• Pellet harm elevated to 7 from 6.
• Bolt price of fireside bonuses elevated.
• White: 1.1 to 1.1.
• Blue: 1.15 to 1.2.
• Purple: 1.2 to 1.3.

Bocek Compound Bow

• Harm at full draw elevated to 70 from 60.
• Tempo draw velocity elevated to 0.38 from 0.32.
• Shattercaps pellet harm elevated to 12 from 11.
• Fired arrows can now not be collected.
• Arrows spawns have been faraway from the ground.

Rampage LMG

• Harm elevated to twenty-eight from 26.
• Rampage comes with a Thermite Grenade.

Volt SMG

• Harm decreased to fifteen from 17.

CAR SMG

• Not takes barrel attachments.

G7 Scout

• Harm decreased to 34 from 36.
• Headshot multiplier decreased to 1.75 from 2.0.
• Double Faucet hop-up burst fireplace delay elevated to 0.4 from 0.375.

LSTAR

• Elevated projectile velocity.
• Elevated variety of pictures earlier than overheat at base to 24 from 20.
• Eliminated vibrant pink flash when hitting non-armored targets.

RE-45

• Elevated ironsight FOV to 70 to be according to different pistols.
• Elevated strafe velocity by 5% to be according to different pistols.

Wingman

• Wingman now makes use of sniper ammo and magazines.

Sniper Ammo

• Sniper ammo stock stack elevated to twenty-eight from 24.
• Sniper ammo bins now comprise 14 rounds as an alternative of 12.

Spitfire

• Recoil changes to extend vertical barrel climb.
• Spitfire now makes use of gentle ammo and magazines.

30-30 Repeater

• Twin Loader has been labored into the bottom 30-30 Repeater.
• Now takes Skullpiercer Rifling.

Mastiff

• Projectile development decreased.
• Base fireplace price decreased to 1.1 from 1.2.
• Twin Loader eliminated.

Sentinel

• Deadeye’s Tempo has been labored into the bottom Sentinel.

Hop-Ups

• Double Faucet
• Provides burst fireplace mode to EVA-8 and G7 Scout.
• Skullpiercer
• 35% headshot harm improve on Longbow, Wingman and 30-30 Repeater.
• Eliminated Deadeye’s Tempo & Shatter Caps from flooring loot.
• Boosted Loader has been decreased to Epic high quality from Legendary.

Backpack Gold Perk

• New Perk: Deep Pockets.
• Deep Pockets: Giant medical provides stacks larger in your stock.
• Batteries and Medkits now stack to three in stock.
• Phoenix Kits now stack to 2 in stock.

Knockdown Defend Gold Perk

• New Perk: Guardian Angel (Earlier Backpack Perk).
• Self Revive faraway from the sport.

Arc Star

• Decreased stick harm on armor to 10 from 40.
• Take away goal sluggish on stick, stays on detonation.
• Detonation harm elevated to 75 from 70.

Explosive Holds

• Added Blue attachments to potential spawns.
• Added Laser Sights to the pool.
• Decreased spawn price of gold magazines.

LEGENDS

Valk

• VTOL Jets
• Acceleration on activation decreased by about 8%.
• Gas consumption on activation elevated by 33%.
• Aerial boosting & strafing take a 20% debuff when hit by slowing results.
• Added a 3rd orange state to the gasoline meter UI between inexperienced (>60%) and pink (<30%).
• Missile Swarm
• Purpose/flip sluggish eliminated.
• Transfer sluggish period decreased from 2.5s —> 2.0s.
• Lowering the explosion radius from 175 —> 125.
• Skyward Dive
• Peak discount of 25%.
• Launch time decreased from 5.5s —> 5.0s. Coupled with the peak discount, gamers in Valk ult now journey upward at a barely slower velocity.

Horizon

• Black Gap: Changes to N.E.W.T’s hitbox to make destroying it extra dependable.
• Black Gap: N.E.W.T. takes 50% extra harm from explosives.

Wattson

• Enhancements to Perimeter Safety placement system.

Newcastle

• Retrieve the Wounded:
• Elevated transfer velocity throughout revive by 25%.
• Decreased flip sluggish whereas reviving by 50%.
• Elevated White Knockdown defend well being from 150 -> 200.
• Improve Blue Knockdown defend well being from 250 -> 300.
• Cellular Defend:
• Elevated hp from 350 —> 500
• Doubled max motion velocity.
• Fort Wall:
• Added flip sluggish to electrical barrier results and elevated the severity of the sluggish impact to motion.

Mad Maggie

• Riot Drill:
• Projectile Launch Pace doubled.
• Wrecking Ball:
• Will journey twice as far whereas dropping the identical quantity of magnets.
• Length elevated from 5 sec → 10 sec.
• Magnet Spawn delay elevated from 0.4 sec → 0.8 sec.
• Wrecking Ball will deal harm to enemy placeable objects: Black Market, Fort Partitions, Exhibit, Loss of life Totem, Cellular Defend, Black Gap, Amped Cowl, and Gasoline Barrels. It’ll additionally destroy Gibraltar’s Dome of Safety.
• Fastened Wrecking Ball not blinding and slowing enemies.

Rampart

• Now ignores pleasant collision on Amped Cowl placement (i.e. inserting partitions round teammates will really feel extra easy).

Caustic

• Fastened gasoline ramping bug the place transitioning from pleasant to enemy gasoline would initially harm for greater than meant.

Mirage

• Mirage Decoys will now be scanned by Valk when skydiving.
• Mirage Decoys will now be picked up by Seer’s Coronary heart Seeker.
• Fastened a bug the place Mirage Decoys had been picked up by Seer’s Exhibit as AI and never gamers.

Revenant

• Loss of life Totem will now present a placement preview when activated as an alternative of inserting instantly.

CRAFTING UPDATE

• Crew-Use Harvesters: When any participant interacts with a Supplies Harvester, all gamers of their group might be given the Supplies..
• Eliminated Shatter Rounds from crafting.
• Eliminated Hammerpoints from base crafting and added to RE-45 Weapon Craft.
• Heavy, Vitality, and Sniper mags value elevated from to 35 from 25.
• Laser Sight added to crafting: 25 supplies.
• Inventory and Barrel value decreased to 25 from 35.
• Added Skullpiercer Rifling Hop-As much as crafting.
• Added Double Faucet Set off Hop-As much as crafting.
• Added Kinetic Feeder Hop-As much as crafting.
• Elevated Shotgun Bolt value from to 30 from 25.
• Decreased 2-4x ACOG optic value to 30 from 35.

MAPS

The maps rotating for public matches throughout Hunted are; Kings Canyon, World’s Edge, and Storm Level.

ALL BATTLE ROYALE MAPS

• Replicators and Crafting Supplies have been rebalanced throughout the maps.
• Ring Changes:
• Ring 1 Harm improve from 2 to three hp/tick (equal to Ring 2)
• Ring 1 Preshrink Time decreased from 180s to 60s.
• Ring 1 Closing Time:
• Kings Canyon — 4:10 -> 4:32
• World’s Edge — 3:42 -> 4:32
• Storm Level — 4:15 -> 4:35
• Olympus — 4:10 -> 4:32

WORLD’S EDGE

• Eliminated some irritating ultimate rings at Staging that had been inflicting heal offs.
• Fragment East Loot buffed from Low Tier to Medium. .
• Added OOB to west rocks at Lava Siphon.

QUALITY OF LIFE

• New Mode/Map title UI component on load display and begin movement.
• “Profitable” and “Champion” tags added to the scoreboard.
• Added capacity to make use of “faucet” work together prompts once they battle with “maintain” (e.g. reloading close to downed teammates is now much more dependable on controller).
• Added flourish to the crafting supplies within the prime proper of the HUD once they improve.
• Added a flourish to gadgets in the event that they grow to be craftable whereas within the crafting station UI.
• Added accessibility change for turning on and off TTS (Textual content-to-speech), defaulting to what your console or system has it set to (the place obtainable)
• When dropping from the dropship, the placement of the POI participant lands in is now displayed.

BUG FIXES

• Hipfire reticles now change dimension primarily based on the FoV
• Fastened bug the place canceling a Lifeline revive would cancel it for different teammates additionally being revived by Lifeline.
• Fastened bug the place gamers couldn’t deal melee harm to Caustic Gasoline Barrels or Octanes Leap Pads.
• Repair for difficulty the place the purchase menu would shut every time a teammate completes a purchase order/and or closes the purchase menu.
• Crypto’s Final now destroys Wattson’s Pylon.
• Repair for difficulty the place Crypto’s heirloom animation audio would play globally when utilizing a survey beacon.
• Repair for difficulty the place gamers may generally get caught whereas crouched between a Replicator and Black Market after crafting.
• Fastened bug the place gamers couldn’t unlock the “Absolutely Kitted” badge.
• Repair for difficulty for Legends dropping performance like meleeing, utilizing a capability, and many others, whereas mantling.
• Repair for bug the place gamers couldn’t change ammo sorts for the C.A.R. SMG.
• Newcastle — repair for difficulty the place Newcastle may get caught of their Final animation whereas using a zipline.
• Newcastle — fastened bug the place throwables positioned on a Cellular Defend would begin floating after the Cellular Defend disappears.
• Newcastle — repair for circumstances the place gamers wouldn’t take harm from ordnance or activate Caustic’s barrels when positioned between a Tactical Defend and its drone.
• Newcastle — repair for bug the place throwable talents positioned on a Cellular Defend may float away after the Cellular Defend disappears.
• Wraith — repair for bug the place Wraith would nonetheless take harm within the Ring whereas phasing.
• Repair for a reload bug with the Mastiff and 30-30 Repeater the place gamers couldn’t ADS till reloading animation was completed.
• Fastened bug the place Crypto’s melee animations wouldn’t present his heirloom whereas in third individual.
• Merchandising Machines in Massive Maude now have purchaser safety.
• Fastened a problem that would trigger some stuttering and framerate spikes on consoles, particularly PlayStation 5 and Xbox Sequence X/S.
• Repair for bug the place the Dropship would generally spawn gamers outdoors the ship.
• Fastened a bug the place Warmth Shields would disappear when positioned beneath a respawn beacon, or cellular respawn beacon, after which the beacon was used.
• Fastened a bug the place Pathfinder’s zipline can be destroyed if positioned on prime of a respawn beacon after which the beacon was used.
• Repair for circumstances when a Warmth Defend may disappear when set beneath a Respawn Beacon that’s activated.
• Repair for a bug the place Mirage decoys wouldn’t present up on scan for a number of Legends.