Apex Legends greatest season but, Season 16: Revelry is about to launch this coming Tuesday, February 14, 2023, and developer Respawn has simply revealed the total patch notes that present actually simply how a lot has been modified.
We already find out about loads of the large adjustments to come back, however we weren’t absolutely conscious of the specifics across the what and the how for adjustments concerning Legends, weapons, and the gameplay meta.
Now we have now a transparent image as to what’s taking place with every of the Legends which are getting adjustments and the way the nerfs/buffs are being utilized.
You’ll be able to take a look at the total patch notes for your self, right here.
Apex Legends Season 16: Revelry Patch Notes
Patch Notes
Legendary Shotgun Bolt
- New shotgun bolt rarity tier added to ground loot and crafters
- Gold Perk: Robotically reloads rounds whereas sliding. Prompts whereas outfitted or stowed.
Care Package deal Rotation
- Hemlok Burst AR enters the Care Package deal
- Rampage LMG returns to the ground
Weapon Crafting Rotation
- Longbow DMR enters the crafter
- Volt SMG enters the crafter
- G7 Scout returns to the ground
- C.A.R. SMG returns to the ground
Gold Weapon Rotation
- Nemesis, Rampage, PK, Wingman, R99
Anvil Receiver Hop-Up [R-301, Flatline]
- Faraway from ground loot and crafting
Hammerpoint Rounds Hop-Up [Mozambique, P2020]
- Added to ground loot and crafting
- Rarity tier elevated to Legendary
C.A.R. SMG
- Decreased base ammo capability to 19 (was 20)
R-99
- Elevated injury to 12 (was 11)
Assault Rifles
- Considerably diminished hipfire accuracy
R-301
- Decreased injury to 13 (was 14)
Hemlock Burst AR [Care Package]
- Injury elevated to 23 (was 20)
- Headshot Multiplier elevated to 1.8 (was 1.75)
- Improved recoil
- Built-in Boosted Loader Hop-Up
- Boosted Loader: Quicker reloads at low ammo that overload the journal with 9 additional rounds
Mastiff
- Unfold sample adjusted to be tighter
- Added Tactical Shares attachment to enhance reload pace and dealing with
- Elevated projectile dimension at shut vary
Peacekeeper
- Added Tactical Shares attachment to enhance reload pace and dealing with
- Elevated projectile dimension at shut vary
EVA-8
- Elevated projectile dimension at shut vary
Rampage LMG [Floor]
- Reverted to non-Care Package deal model
- Injury diminished to 26 (was 28 in Care Package deal)
- Not auto-energizes when selecting up
- Vitality decays slower when not firing
Legends
Seer
- Passive – Heartbeat Sensor
- Audio from Seer’s passive is now extra audible to enemy gamers
- Activation is now delayed to match elevate animation of weapon or unarmed
- Lock-On indication will now solely present on heartbeat cadence of goal
- Tactical – Focus of Consideration
- Not reveals full physique scan on scanned targets
- Final: Exhibit
- Not reveals on initiation
- Period diminished from 30s to 25s
- Cooldown elevated from 120s to 180s
Bloodhound
- Passive – Tracker
- White Ravens
- Ethereal White Ravens will now often spawn close to Bloodhound when no enemies are round.
- White Ravens may be interacted with or scanned to set off them to fly in direction of the closest enemy participant
- The White Raven will depart a misty path behind for Bloodhound to comply with, and can share this path with their group on the map.
- Utilizing a White Raven will get better 25% Tactical / Final cost
- Scanning a White Raven will absolutely refund the Tactical Cost
- White Ravens
- Tactical – Eye of the Allfather
- Decreased full physique scan time from 3s to 1s
- Diamond goal on scanned enemy is unchanged
- Final – Beast of the Hunt
- Not recharges or hastens the cooldown fee of Bloodhound’s Tactical
- Will launch a White Raven that flies in direction of the closest enemy
- Killing an enemy whereas in Beast of the Hunt may also set off a White Raven
Mirage
- Passive – Now you see me…
- Mirage and his ally now stay cloaked after a revive for 3s
- Weapons stay stowed whereas cloaked
- Drawing your weapon will take away the cloaking impact early
- Mirage Clones
- Bamboozles at the moment are solely triggered by bullet hearth and melee
- Enemies who’re bamboozled now obtain notification on their display screen
- Bamboozle icon marker now tracks the Bamboozled participant’s motion
- Bamboozle icon marker period elevated from 2.5s to three.5s
Pathfinder
- Passive – Insider Information
- Pathfinder’s passive advantages are not gained by scanning Survey Beacons
- Pathfinder’s passive advantages (Final cost and 10s Final Cooldown discount) at the moment are gained by revealing Care Packages with the Skirmisher means
- Final – Zipline Gun
- Max Vary elevated by ~60%.
- Max Velocity elevated by 66%.
- Acceleration and exit pace changes.
- Focusing on enhancements, together with up to date visible and audio cues.
- Can not place the tip station on OOB zones.
Wraith
- Final – Dimensional Rift
- Max Portal Distance has been doubled (~76m to 152m)
- Portal Period diminished from 60s to 45s
- Wraith now will increase pace over time when creating longer portals
Horizon
- Tactical – Gravity Elevate
- Elevated weapon unfold in Gravity Elevate
- Elevated vertical pace of Gravity Elevate by 10%
Lifeline
- Passive – Fight Revive
- Decreased the gradual penalty on Lifeline when initiating a revive
- Final – Care Package deal
- Decreased the drop animation pace of Care Package deal from 14s to 8s
- Elevated the deployment vary of Care Package deal
Ranked – Map Rotation
Ranked queue will now rotate via all maps in play, 24 hours per map. The maps for the primary cut up are:
- World’s Edge
- Storm Level
- Damaged Moon
Dwell API 2.0
Official launch of model 2.0 of Dwell API for PC previewed throughout 15.1.2. The API is a built-in mechanism for listening to gameplay occasions and programmatically interacting with Apex Legends. This launch consists of:
- Help for WebSockets server connection
- Help for Protocol Buffers (protobuf) to ship and obtain information
- Configuration via each command line and JSON
- 12 new API requests, together with
- 2 gameplay requests: ChangeCamera and PauseToggle
- 10 foyer requests particularly for Customized Match
Extra info, together with technical documentation, may be discovered within the LiveAPI folder of the sport set up.
High quality Of Life
- Added map rotation previews to the sport mode selector within the foyer.
- Gamers can now be any group in Gun Run.
- Elevated the chances of turning into Group Nessie in Gun Run.
- Group Nessie is now viewable for all groups.
- Added new indicator on HUD unit frames for the Rankings Chief in Management.
- Consumables now present a progress bar for teammates subsequent to their unit body on the HUD. Much like reviving.
- Added injury to the scoreboard in Management.
- Elevated the minimal distance between airdropped replicators and different airdrops.
- Map Options when accessing the Full Map now replicate at present chosen Class Perk data. Moreover, the Sizzling Zone map characteristic description is faraway from the Full Map whereas the Sizzling Zone is hidden from the map.
- When in Firing Vary, gamers now regain full well being and shields once they reselect their legend within the legend choose menu.
- Added means to ping for an optic even when the optic attachment slot is crammed.
- Barely elevated audio for enemies attaching, driving, and detaching from Ziprails.
- Including Credit to Gadgets impressed and designed by Creators.
Bug Fixes
- Repair for Crypto’s drone reticle not being centered when on 16:10 resolutions.
- Repair for gamers not with the ability to emote in the event that they have been lifeless in the course of the champion sequence.
- [Control] Fastened a problem the place the MRB disappears if the participant holding it leaves the match.
- Numerous UI bugs and enhancements to the personal match circulation.
- Numerous bug fixes to some beauty objects.
- Repair for the weapon digital camera within the Loadouts tab not resetting to the right place when exiting a weapon from the Charms subtab.
- Repair for footer buttons within the seasonal quest not being clickable.
- Repair for the gamers’ crosshairs being current typically in the course of the champion sequence.
- The cover hints possibility not hides the waving particular person icon on objects your teammates can use.
- Fastened a bug the place if a group was empty in Gun Run the HUD would show incorrect info.
- [Emotes] repair for emotes digital camera typically passing via partitions.
- Eliminated exploit that allowed gamers to stay out of bounds longer than supposed.
- [Seer]Fastened a problem the place Seer’s final could possibly be crushed by swinging doorways.
- [Seer]Fastened a problem the place Seer’ s final and Crypto’s drones would block giant sliding doorways.
- [Seer] Repair for instances the place Seer would have points scanning Crypto.
- [Seer] Repair for when Seer’s passive heartbeat sensor works via Catalyst’s ult when positioned on uneven surfaces.
- [Seer] Repair for instances right here Seer’s tactical can get customers caught if used when they’re crafting.
- [Valkyrie] Fastened bug the place her animation warps within the in-flight meal emote.
- [Newcastle] Fastened bug the place the Final just isn’t refunded/just isn’t positioned if a consumer is getting hit with Seer Tactical proper when utilizing it.
- [Crypto] Fastened a problem the place Crypto’s drone could be destroyed when he’s knocked however not eradicated.
- [Crypto] Repair for bug the place Crypto’s Drone scanning can block Catalyst from reinforcing doorways.
- [Crypto] Repair for instances the place his Final stops from deploying if Crypto will get downed
- [Catalyst] Fastened bug the place their Tactical makes it tough to work together with ziplines, dying packing containers, and loot bins.
- Fastened bug the place the participant is unable to make use of melee assaults via Catalyst’s Final.
- Fastened a problem the place gamers could possibly be caught after being hit by Seer’s tactical whereas utilizing a crafting station.
- Fastened a problem the place Seer’s transfer pace could be larger when in ADS whereas unarmed with the heartbeat sensor disabled.
- Fastened a problem the place Crypto wouldn’t be scanned by Seer’s tactical whereas he was piloting his drone and the drone was not additionally hit by the tactical.
- [Vantage] Cut back the variety of unintentional tactical activations on controller when pulling out or placing away the final word with each bumpers.
- [Vantage] Enhance visibility of Sniper’s mark by including on-screen immediate, much like scans.
- [Vantage] Utilizing tactical in areas blocked by geo, can lead to the participant getting launched into the air
- Fastened a problem the place when Newcastle’s Final was interrupted it could not accurately refund his Final.
- Fastened a problem the place Newcastle would proceed to focus on allies whereas phased along with his Final.
- Fastened a uncommon situation have been Newcastle’s tactical may get hung within the air and never deploy
- Fastened a problem with the Black Gap that allowed it to tug gamers via partitions and round corners incorrectly.
- Fastened a problem the place swapping legends in Firing Vary would crash if bleeding out as Revenant.
- Fastened a problem the place swapping legends in Firing Vary whereas in Crypto’s drone would crash.
- Fastened a problem the place Newcastle’s final may fail to deploy on touchdown.
- Fastened a problem the place a spectator swapping between two gamers being healed by DOC would crash the spectator.
- [Lifeline] Fastened final cooldown showing to want 101% cost.
- Fastened a problem the place the Final is prepared immediate may seem whereas the participant continues to be skydiving.
- Fastened bug the place the earlier Season rank is being proven on enemy gladiator playing cards.
- Decreased unintentional launches on controller.
- [DX12] Fastened lacking error popup on launch for unsupported {hardware}.
- [DX12] Fastened a problem the place some emissive textures wouldn’t seem in third particular person.
Supply – [Respawn]