Apex Legends patch 1.57 patch notes (season 8)

Apex Legends Update 1.57 patch notes

New Legend: Fuse

• Passive - Grenadier
  • Stack an additional grenade per inventory slot. Fire grenades farther, faster, and more accurately.
• Tactical - Knuckle Cluster
  • Throw a cluster bomb that continuously blasts explosives on impact.
• Ultimate - The Motherlode
  • Launches a bombardment that surrounds a target area in a wall of flame.

New weapon: 30-30 repeater

This heavy-ammo lever repeater has hard-hitting cartridges that will nail a fleeing Mirage at 200 paces.

The 30-30 sets the benchmark for reliability, designed to withstand sandstorms and temporal instability, which has made it an obvious choice for the Apex Games.

DISCIPLINED TRIGGER FINGER

The 30-30 Repeater forces the user to rechamber their cartridges between shots, bringing a methodical rhythm to the rifle, an analog elegance that modern Outland weapons simply cannot capture.

To further tempt those itchy trigger fingers, the 30-30 Repeater has a built-in charge giving players the ability to deal increased damage with each shot at the cost of a short stack.

The 30-30 recharges one turn at a time, making it a very interesting resource management that you won't find anywhere else, even on the Mastiff.

The 30-30 engagement range offers unique opportunities to reload individual turns between shots. This gives the repeater the ability to apply constant precision range pressure, which guns with full reloads can sometimes struggle with.

Kings Canyon Map Update

Season 8 sees changes in Kings Canyon again. The new main point of interest shows the devastation caused by the crashing ship on the map. Players can now explore beyond artillery, Spotted Lakes takes control of slums and new lookout towers for basic scouting or sniper nest. Read more about the map changes in the map blog here.

Legendary magazines

Season 8 features Gold level magazines. Attaching it to a weapon will automatically reload your stowed weapons after a short delay. Gold magazine has the same capacity as Purple mags and is available for light, heavy, sniper, and energy weapons.

Quality of Life Updates

• Damage counter
  • We have now added a damage marker to the HUD. This feature was in high demand, so we're excited to make it easier for people to track these badges and challenges!
• Ammo pinging
  • Pinging weapons or ammo in your inventory displays your current ammo count as well as “player wants ammo” in a quick chat.
• Update color blind
  • Healing and resuscitation will now follow the rules for color blindness when the color blind settings are enabled
• Lore Blurbs on Canon skins
  • Some of our skins are hot, and some are just for fun. For the skins that are an important part of this character's backstory, we've added a little blurb to describe the importance of this skin in the life of the legend.

Meta legend

• Spectre
  • Hitbox adjustments
• Rampart
  • Sheila angle increased from 120 to 180
  • Wall health in build phase increased from 1hp to 45hp (sniper bullets still go through)
• Horizon
  • Gravity Lift effective cooldown has been reduced from 21s to 25s. The 15 sec cooldown now begins when the Gravity Elevator disappears.
• Octane
  • Launch Pad Remastered: Many players may have been familiar with Octane's “super-jump” that was possible with a well-timed jump by hitting the pad. Once the double hop option was introduced there was an input conflict which led to unreliable use. We decided to add more defined launch options than the old super jump.
    • Hitting the jump mat from a standing position will launch players along a high arc (the speed and trajectory of the old super jump).
    • From a crouched position, players will launch along a low arc, meaning they will fly lower but further in the horizontal direction.
• Cyrpto
  • Remove the ability to glue arc stars to friendly drones.
• Loba
  • Loot inside unopened healing packs can now be viewed with Eye for Quality and can be accessed through the Black Market Store.
• Caustic
  • All gas now dissipates as soon as Caustic's team is eliminated.
• The Mirage,
  • Mirage decoys create footsteps.

Weapon meta

• Fully equipped rotation
  • Removed: Wingman, Sentinel, Havoc, G7, Alternator
  • Added: R-301, Repeater 30-30, Mozambique, Longbow DMR, Spitfire
• Attachments
  • We remove the barrel of gold from the loot reserve
• Hop Ups
  • The Double Tap hop up will be removed from the loot pool
  • The Anvil Rounds hop up will be added to the loot pool
• Volt
  • Bullets damage reduced from 16 to 15
• Alternator
  • Bullets damage increased from 15 to 16
• fire eater
  • Bullets damage increased from 18 to 19
  • Reload speed increased from 2,8 seconds to 3,2
  • Empty reload speed increased from 3,33 seconds to 3,8
• EVA 8
  • Rate of fire increased from 2,0 to 2,1

Bug fixes

• Caustic
  • Sonar capabilities no longer stop viewing Caustic's strengths.
• Loba
  • Fixed some exploitable areas on Kings Canyon that Loba could reach via his bracelet.
• Rampart
  • Jumps in the Octane City Takeover no longer allow Rampart to place Sheila on it.
  • Fixed an issue with Rampart's passive persisting even after changing characters in the shooting range
• Ravage
  • Fixed an issue that caused Havoc to have 100% accuracy when shot at the hip through Rampart's amplified cover.
• Blue helmet
  • Fixed a POV issue that would occur when using Horizon abilities and then immediately entering ADS with a Peacekeeper.
• Clubs
  • Re-enable the ability to invite friends to the club from the friends list
  • Fixed an issue that prevented some users who chose not to participate in 'Last Team Invitations' from appearing in the club's events calendar when they ranked in the Top 5 in a match
  • Failure to connect to the club database no longer leads to a misleading "Kicked from club" message
  • Players will no longer be kicked out of clubs when switching to a different profile on Xbox.
• DIVERS
  • Fixed an issue with mobs not encouraging the takeover of Pathfinder's Town.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented some Heirlooms from appearing in the Heirloom Store.
  • Fixed an issue that allowed Thermites to deal damage through certain walls on Olympus.

Apex Legends is now available on PC, PS4, and Xbox One. For more information on this update, visit the official Apex Legends website.