Apex Legends Season 21 UPDATE patch notes and Upheaval Battle Pass | Gaming | Entertainment | EUROtoday

Fans of Apex Legends are counting down the hours till the beginning of the brand new season. Titled Upheaval, Season 21 has a May 7 launch date on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC. The new Apex Legends season will launch alongside a giant replace at 6pm BST UK time. The spotlight of the brand new season is the launch of recent character Alter, whose Ultimate permits gamers to regroup by making a portal for characters to go by means of. Elsewhere, the Broken Moon map may have quite a few extra factors of curiosity to discover, reminiscent of Cliff Side, Breaker Wharf and Quarantine Zone. That’s on high of six weeks Duos Takeover, new heals, Legends upgrades and Artefacts. Needless to say, a brand new Battle Pass will rewards gamers with numerous new objects, which you’ll be able to see within the trailer additional down the web page. That’s on high of the Season 21 patch notes, which embrace varied high quality of life enhancements, bug fixes and steadiness modifications.

Apex Legends Season 21 replace patch notes…

MAPS

• Broken Moon shattered

– New POIs: Cliff Side, Experimental Labs, Solar Pods, Space Port, Quarantine Zone, Underpass

– Breaker Wharf up to date

– New rotations to change issues up and hold squads on the transfer

• Added new doable Ring Console, Survey Beacon, and Crafter spawn areas to World’s Edge and Storm Point, and additional evened out the chance of a prop spawning at any particular location

• World’s Edge

– Added doable Ring Console spawn areas to Mirage à Trois and Survey Camp

– Added doable Survey Beacon spawn areas to Survey Camp and The Geyser

• Storm Point

– Added doable Crafter spawn location to Command Center

– Added doable Survey Beacon spawn areas to The Wall, and the unnamed POIs Northeast of Checkpoint and on the fringe of the map East of Storm Catcher

WORLD SYSTEMS

• Improved finish ring era system

BUG FIXES

• Equipping an Evac Tower or Mobile Respawn Beacon will not shut the inventories of all different gamers within the match

• Firing Range: fastened some edge circumstances the place Legend change was obtainable when it shouldn’t be

• Fixed occasional crash when interacting with an enemy’s crafted banner

• “Mischief Medic” not seems as “Highlighted Healer”

• Olympus: gamers can not enter/exit Vault with out key

• Survey Beacons and Ring Consoles ought to now be pingable once more from the map

• When hip firing with the Devotion, it can now correctly monitor its reticle

LEGENDS

• Ballistic: period of speedy whistler restored to 2s

• Bloodhound

– Passive markers not seem for teammates not on participant’s squad

– Players can as soon as once more be scanned by two Bloodhounds on the similar time

• Catalyst: fastened Dark Veil not charging for a brief period off of spawn

• Crypto: recall audio when the drone is way away from you is audible as soon as once more

• Maggie: Removed drill burn audio for gamers within the space of impact whereas phased

• Removed Wraith Shadows from the void if you happen to aren’t taking part in as Wraith

• Wattson: resolved dangerous spawn factors for Arc Stars generated from the Falling Stars improve

QUALITY OF LIFE

• Additional safety enhancements

• Airdropping Replicators now undertaking a beam upwards as they’re descending to assist differentiate them from different airdrops

• Back by widespread demand, you may requeue on the finish of Pubs BR and Mixtape matches

• Ballistic: can now add any locked-set weapon into the sling the place it is going to be transformed to the right locked-set tier and restored to its authentic state when being moved out (red-tier nonetheless not allowed)

• Death Box Flyers: choice to mechanically ping the placement of the Death Box will probably be prompted when knocking it from a Flyer’s grasp

• Improved the selection of consumables which are auto-selected when both reaching full well being, reaching full shields, or when dropping your final chosen merchandise. The new selection ought to extra intelligently choose protect consumables or prioritize syringes for fast therapeutic. These modifications have been made to assist new gamers have extra optimum outcomes.

• Improved use interactions with doorways when self res is obtainable

• Map spawn audit for all Mixtape Modes: Phase Runner, Habitat, Thunderdome, Zeus Station

• Upgraded to the newest model of Easy Anti-Cheat

Pings

• Should now undergo all translucent surfaces like home windows

• Players can now request for Grenades (Arc Stars, Frag Grenades, and Thermites)

– Works much like therapeutic objects: maintain the Grenade button to open the Ordnance Wheel, hover on an ordnance merchandise, choose Ping to request

Thunderdome

• Airdrop location changes

• Control

– Moved C seize level to touchdown pad

– Adjusted spawns hooked up to B seize level

GRAPHICS

• Added new “Map Detail” PC video setting to regulate the quantity of environmental ornament and set dressing (this will likely enhance efficiency for gamers with low-spec PCs and people concentrating on excessive framerates)

• Changed the way in which gamers opt-in to the DX12 beta: if you happen to’re taking part in through the DirectX 12 beta now, the launch argument “-eac_launcher_settings SettingsDX12.json” must be modified to “-anticheat_settings=SettingsDX12.json”

• Improved accuracy and visible constancy of baked surroundings lighting for static outside objects

• Improved accuracy of baked lighting for dynamic objects, to keep away from conditions the place Legends would seem unlit

• Significantly improved CPU efficiency of the Rendering Hardware Interface (RHI), principally benefitting the PC DirectX 12 beta