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Apex Legends // 'You kill me, you're better. I kill you, I'm better.'
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
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Tesseract
Banned
Fight Night Collection Event Patch Notes
2020 is last year’s news. Let’s start talking about 2021, beginning with our plans for the 7.2 patch, which hits 8pm PT on January 5th.
In short, today we’ll be telling you about:
The Fight Night Collection Event brings another set of 24 themed, limited-time cosmetics to Apex Legends.
[insert asset showing full track]
All 24 items will be available through direct purchase (for Apex Coins or Crafting Metals) and in Event Apex Packs for the entire duration of the event.
Each Event Pack will come with one event item and two non-event items at the following drop rates:
If you want to learn more about how Event-Limited Cosmetics work, visit our FAQ.
If you collect all 24 event items, you’ll get the Gibraltar Heirloom.
After the event ends, the Gibraltar Heirloom will become available via heirloom crafting.
As with previous events, this event brings a rewards track with all-new earnable cosmetics:
Pathfinder Town Takeover
Drop your weapons and get ready for a brawl in Pathfinder’s Town Takeover: Fight Night style.
[Pathfinder Town Takeover image asset]
Entering the ring will prevent any player from using their weapons and any of their abilities. The only way to beat someone is via a bit of fist o’ cuffs. Oh, and don’t worry about any outside ring interference—no outside projectiles, grenades, or abilities can penetrate the ring’s force field.
[another Pathfinder Town Takeover image asset]
Punchout the loot balls contained within the ring to scoop up some rare loot. Just remember you can’t use it until you leave!
Airdrop Escalation Takeover
With this update, we’re testing a new approach to LTMs. Instead of launching as its own playlist, the Airdrop Escalation LTM will be a “takeover” of the normal “Play Apex” game mode. It’s classic Battle Royale, but with way, way more supply drops. Immediately after you leave the Jumpship, you’ll find a cluster of four supply drops across the map. During each round, more will drop—they land at the same speed as Lifeline’s Care Packages.
[airdrop takeover image asset]
Each supply drop contains a fully-kitted weapon of different tiers, depending on the round. For example, Round one’s drops feature level two kitted weapons while Round four’s drops include red armor and crate weapons. As with regular fully-kitted weapons, you can’t break them down or swap their attachments onto other weapons. And, of course, regular weapons and weapons will still appear as ground loot.
[another air drop ltm asset]
We’re curious to see what y’all think about the “takeover” approach to LTMs, so let us know!
Loot MRVNs
After having been previously decommissioned, MRVNs are now programmed to reward Legends in the arena. Only appearing in Olympus, these friendly guys will give you loot after interacting with them. They’ll produce tiered loot equal to what is shown on their screens.
[Loot MRVNs image asset]
[another Loot MRVNs image asset]
Pick up your loot and thank your friendly MRVN. Or, if you’re feeling toxic, shoot them. When you do, they may drop their arm for you to store in your inventory. Taking this to another MRVN with the missing piece may get you a reward. Hi-five?
Meta Updates
Legends
There’s nothing too meta-shaking this time around; we’re giving Season 7 some extra time to shake out. Horizon released strong, but not overpowered. The below buffs are aimed at small power increases. Rampart still needs overall power, and the Caustic buff is an extra bit of compensation for the loss of vision blur from gas in Season 7. Note that looking at our data, the Season 7 change was a solid buff for Caustic, but he’s not quite where we want him to be.
Rampart:
Amped Cover: Decreased cooldown from 30 seconds to 20 seconds
Caustic:
Nox Gas Trap: Decreased cooldown from 25 seconds to 20 seconds
Weapons
Hemlok:
Decreased damage from 22 to 20.
Mastiff:
Spread out 3rd/4th pellets to decrease max range of 4 pellet hits
Prowler:
Reserve bullets increased from 175 to 210
Quality of Life
Bug Fixes
Bloodhound
Bangalore
Mirage
Crypto
Revenant
Loba
Rampart
Horizon
That’s all for now. See you in the Arena, Legends.
2020 is last year’s news. Let’s start talking about 2021, beginning with our plans for the 7.2 patch, which hits 8pm PT on January 5th.
In short, today we’ll be telling you about:
- The Fight Night Collection Event, and its associated rewards track, collectible cosmetics, and the new Gibraltar heirloom.
- The Pathfinder Town Takeover
- A new temporary game-type, the “Airdrop Escalation Takeover”
- Newly generous loot-granting MRVNs
- And a whole host of balance changes and bug fixes
The Fight Night Collection Event brings another set of 24 themed, limited-time cosmetics to Apex Legends.
[insert asset showing full track]
All 24 items will be available through direct purchase (for Apex Coins or Crafting Metals) and in Event Apex Packs for the entire duration of the event.
Each Event Pack will come with one event item and two non-event items at the following drop rates:
If you want to learn more about how Event-Limited Cosmetics work, visit our FAQ.
If you collect all 24 event items, you’ll get the Gibraltar Heirloom.
After the event ends, the Gibraltar Heirloom will become available via heirloom crafting.
As with previous events, this event brings a rewards track with all-new earnable cosmetics:
Pathfinder Town Takeover
Drop your weapons and get ready for a brawl in Pathfinder’s Town Takeover: Fight Night style.
[Pathfinder Town Takeover image asset]
Entering the ring will prevent any player from using their weapons and any of their abilities. The only way to beat someone is via a bit of fist o’ cuffs. Oh, and don’t worry about any outside ring interference—no outside projectiles, grenades, or abilities can penetrate the ring’s force field.
[another Pathfinder Town Takeover image asset]
Punchout the loot balls contained within the ring to scoop up some rare loot. Just remember you can’t use it until you leave!
Airdrop Escalation Takeover
With this update, we’re testing a new approach to LTMs. Instead of launching as its own playlist, the Airdrop Escalation LTM will be a “takeover” of the normal “Play Apex” game mode. It’s classic Battle Royale, but with way, way more supply drops. Immediately after you leave the Jumpship, you’ll find a cluster of four supply drops across the map. During each round, more will drop—they land at the same speed as Lifeline’s Care Packages.
[airdrop takeover image asset]
Each supply drop contains a fully-kitted weapon of different tiers, depending on the round. For example, Round one’s drops feature level two kitted weapons while Round four’s drops include red armor and crate weapons. As with regular fully-kitted weapons, you can’t break them down or swap their attachments onto other weapons. And, of course, regular weapons and weapons will still appear as ground loot.
[another air drop ltm asset]
We’re curious to see what y’all think about the “takeover” approach to LTMs, so let us know!
Loot MRVNs
After having been previously decommissioned, MRVNs are now programmed to reward Legends in the arena. Only appearing in Olympus, these friendly guys will give you loot after interacting with them. They’ll produce tiered loot equal to what is shown on their screens.
[Loot MRVNs image asset]
- White sad face = Common level 1 loot
- Neutral blue face = Rare level 2 loot
- Pleased purple face = Epic level 3 loot
- Very Happy yellow face = Legendary Level 4 loot
[another Loot MRVNs image asset]
Pick up your loot and thank your friendly MRVN. Or, if you’re feeling toxic, shoot them. When you do, they may drop their arm for you to store in your inventory. Taking this to another MRVN with the missing piece may get you a reward. Hi-five?
Meta Updates
Legends
There’s nothing too meta-shaking this time around; we’re giving Season 7 some extra time to shake out. Horizon released strong, but not overpowered. The below buffs are aimed at small power increases. Rampart still needs overall power, and the Caustic buff is an extra bit of compensation for the loss of vision blur from gas in Season 7. Note that looking at our data, the Season 7 change was a solid buff for Caustic, but he’s not quite where we want him to be.
Rampart:
Amped Cover: Decreased cooldown from 30 seconds to 20 seconds
Caustic:
Nox Gas Trap: Decreased cooldown from 25 seconds to 20 seconds
Weapons
Hemlok:
Decreased damage from 22 to 20.
Mastiff:
Spread out 3rd/4th pellets to decrease max range of 4 pellet hits
Prowler:
Reserve bullets increased from 175 to 210
Quality of Life
- Ultimate Accelerants can now be used without opening your inventory. If your ultimate is not currently available, just press the button (or buttons, on a controller) to activate it, and you’ll pull out any stored Accelerant in your inventory and use it automatically.
- When in a lobby, if a party member leaves your lobby for any reason, all party members will be marked as “not ready.” This should stop accidental launches into a match when your buddy dipped out for a second.
- The fabled “Mark All As Seen” button has been added. Click this to remove the pesky (I mean helpful) red dots.
- Pinging the nearest respawn beacon (from spectate) will now always ping the nearest beacon unless you don't have enough time to use it before the ring closes over it, instead of defaulting to the nearest beacon in the next safe ring.
- We now show you how many treasure packs are needed to acquire the next comic page. This should just make it easier to people who are chasing the new bit of lore to know how far away they are.
- Caustic should now smash the door with his Heirloom hammer instead of his leg, if available.
- We added a small bit of information to the Find Friends box to describe a situation where your friend might not be findable because of their EA account settings.
Bug Fixes
Bloodhound
- Fixed an issue with Bloodhound’s UI disappearing after interacting with Horizon’s Tactical.
- Wraith
- Fixed an issue with Wraith’s Portals getting destroyed by the Trident.
Bangalore
- Fixed an issue with Bangalore’s missile passing through hatch doors when they are closed in Worlds Edge.
Mirage
- Fixed an issue with Mirage’s decoys not making footstep sounds.
Crypto
- Fixed an issue with Hack consuming two Vault keys if two keys were in Crypto’s inventory.
- Fixed an issue with Hack getting stuck within the Trident when deployed as a passenger and the trident is on a ramp.
Revenant
- Fixed an issue causing other players to teleport with Revenant if they punch Revenant when he has very little health.
- Fixed an issue that didn’t allow Revenant to deploy the Death Totem while on the Trident.
Loba
- Fixed a lot of windows in World’s Edge that prevented Loba’s bracelet from passing through.
Rampart
- Fixed an issue that allowed Rampart to place Sheila while in the Phase Runner.
- Fix an issue where UI elements stayed on screen after using Sheila.
Horizon
- Fixed an issue with Horizon’s abilities not affecting Lifeline’s DOC and Crypto’s drone.
That’s all for now. See you in the Arena, Legends.
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
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IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
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Tesseract
Banned
still all kinds of broken, 'least voice is working tho
Werewolf Jones
Member
Not really a roastable offense unless you have all the heirlooms then you have a mental illness.
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RPS37
Member
I’m just now seeing this. Crucial.
Ultimate Accelerants can now be used without opening your inventory. If your ultimate is not currently available, just press the button (or buttons, on a controller) to activate it, and you’ll pull out any stored Accelerant in your inventory and use it automatically.
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
Mista
Banned
Thats a nice QoL!
Ultimate Accelerants can now be used without opening your inventory. If your ultimate is not currently available, just press the button (or buttons, on a controller) to activate it, and you’ll pull out any stored Accelerant in your inventory and use it automatically.
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
Code:
https://youtu.be/eM4_19sRmfo
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Mista
Banned
100%! And not just that, the lore is so damn good.
Werewolf Jones
Member
Finally, another biological male.
Mista
Banned
holy hand grenade sounds absolutely blessed
30-30 repeater, lever-action rifle
Ooooohhhhh I LOVE me some lever-action rifle
Werewolf Jones
Member
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
I like MRVN's origin story.
Back to the game, I'm trying to work out if they've gone Aussie or Kiwi with those accents...
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
Mirage can be such a beast with a little luck and positioning when fighting. Wiped a couple of squads back to back. Skip to 48s for the goods.
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Clinton514
Member
What's Fuse's Passive and Ultimate?
Tesseract
Banned
Data-mined Information
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- Tactical: Airburst Grenade: Fires a grenade with a small launcher on Fuse's right forearm.
- Ultimate: The Motherlode: Fires a missile with the cannon on Fuse's back, that spreads burning flames after the strike.
- Passive: Unknown, may store up to 2 Frag Grenades and/or 2 Thermite Grenades per inventory slot.
Werewolf Jones
Member
I had an easier time believing Fuse is bisexual than I ever did for Loba. Slapping Caustic on the ass got me like 
He is straight though... Maybe. You never know with this game.
He is straight though... Maybe. You never know with this game.
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
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Werewolf Jones
Member
Not at all because of the leaked characters from October.
Also Fuse is the oldest living legend in Apex. He's 54 and he's daddy.
Alx
Member
Technically, Horizon is 124.Not at all because of the leaked characters from October.
Also Fuse is the oldest living legend in Apex. He's 54 and he's daddy.
Boss Mog
Member
Forge was also a leaked character, not to mention they could've just named the woman Fuse.Not at all because of the leaked characters from October.
Also Fuse is the oldest living legend in Apex. He's 54 and he's daddy.
Werewolf Jones
Member
Forge had some text files for abilities and an illustration he did not have a physical finished model like this:
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Boss Mog
Member
Yeah but I can tell you right off the bat that that Blisk model is wrong because he's a lot older in Apex than he is in Titanfall 2 and has white hair. If one thing is wrong then anything can be wrong and nothing in these shots is final, devs can change stuff and replacing a model with another is fairly simple to do.Forge had some text files for abilities and an illustration he did not have a physical finished model like this:
Boss Mog
Member
The game being made using the source engine could have something to do with him plugging it, but maybe I'm reading into it too much.