Apex Legends has launched its Season 2 update, bringing with it a new character, a totally revamped Battle Pass, Ranked Leagues, and tons of other changes. All the big-ticket updates launching with Season 2 came alongside a number of smaller tweaks to factors like weapon balance, and Respawn has outlined all those in the patch notes. Read on for the full list and a look at some of the stand-out additions and on the Apex Legends subreddit, the patch notes are extensive. It outlines a few of the major changes-namely, significant adjustments to the map and the addition of a new playable Legend named Wattson-but then goes into the nitty-gritty detail. There are several balance adjustments to Legends and weapons, some quality-of-life changes, and bug fixes. New hop-ups are also available, including disruptor rounds that deal additional damage to shielded targets, hammerpoint rounds for unshielded targets, and a change to the skullpiercer. Want us to remember this setting for all your devices? Sign up or Sign in now! Please use a html5 video capable browser to watch videos. This video has an invalid file format. Sorry, but you can't access this content! Now Playing Apex Legends Season 2 Patch Notes Include Free Apex Packs And More - GS News Update The patch notes also detail some free rewards you can get simply by playing Season 2-no need to purchase the Battle Pass. Those include a Hot Rod skin for Wattson, five Apex packs, and stat trackers for each Legend. You can read the full patch notes below, or check out our wrap-up of all the big changes in Season 2. Also be sure to keep up with how King's Canyon has changed and the revised challenge system, which ties into the new Battle Pass that's available for purchase this season. Aside from the new Legend Wattson, we've seen hints of a second new Legend coming to the game this season as Legends Season 2 Patch NotesBATTLE PASSTo get the Battle Pass, jump into Apex Legends and head to the Battle Pass tab in the store. Grab the Battle Pass for 950 Apex Coins or the Battle Pass Bundle for 2,800 Apex Coins containing 4,700 Apex Coins’ worth of content!, and you’re all on Daily and Weekly Challenges to score bonus Battle Pass XP and level up even faster. Read more CONTENT TYPESSkydive emotes, music packs, and unique loading screens are now part of the rewards LEGENDARIES AND CRAFTING MATERIALSGrab even more Legendary skins from the reward track and earn enough Crafting Materials to create a Legendary item of your REWARDSEveryone who plays Apex Legends Season 2 can earnSeason 2 stat trackers for each Apex Wattson Hot Rod new things to discover on Kings Canyon!KINGS CANYON CHANGESThe Leviathans have breached Kings Canyon and it’ll never be the same! Many areas have been affected by our new guests. Enjoy exploring the new changes!NEW LEGEND WATTSONWattson has entered the arena and is available for 750 Apex Coins or 12,000 Legend Spark of GeniusUltimate Accelerants fully charge Wattson’s ultimate. Standing near the Interception Pylon boosts Wattson’s tactical recharge Perimeter SecurityCreate electrified fences by connecting nodes. Fences damage and slow Interception PylonPlace an electrified pylon that destroys incoming ordnance and repairs damaged shields [can place up to 3 Pylons at one time].RANKED LEAGUESOne thing we forgot to mention in the blog post Players abandoning in Ranked will be penalized both with a matchmaking penalty, as well as have any potential RP gains zeroed out. On top of that, they will pay an additional penalty RP cost equal to their match entry cost. For example if a Gold player gets 4 kills and would have finished top 5 but abandons his or her match on purpose, that player will get 0 RP for kills and placement, pay the 2 RP entry cost, and on top of that pay another 2 RP abandon penalty Airdrop Weapon L-STAR EMG Fires large high-damage plasma projectilesWill overheat if player fires for too longComes with its own limited ammo supplyOnly available in AirdropsNew Hop-Up Disruptor RoundsIncreased damage to shielded Alternator / RE-45New Hop-Up Hammerpoint RoundsIncreased damage to unshielded P2020, Attachments Energy MagsIncreases magazine reload speed at rare and Havoc, Triple Take, default mag sizes on compatible Hop-Up Upgraded to gold tier & increased 16 -> 19P2020damage 12 -> 13Triple Take x Precision Chokechoke time -> 13 -> 15recoil mitigation increased for all barrel 125 -> 145headshot scale -> damage scale -> increased rarityArc Star TweaksIncreased ignition delay from to a full health player with no armor will now down at the edge of the explosion no longer get their shields completely Stack SizesShotgun max stack reduced from 64 to 16. Players now need multiple stacks of ammo to run a max stack increased from 60 to 80; now matches Light/ Heavy Gold WeaponsFlatlineAlternatorRE45MozambiqueP2020Airdrop Weapon Spawn RatesL-STAR added to airdrop weapon loot weapon spawn rates now change based on early/ mid/ late game. For example, early game will spawn more Krabers, end game will spawn more OptimizationsImproved performance when firing weapons, especially for multi-projectile weapons like shotguns and Triple our testing this has contributed to delivering a smoother overall experience on both server and client, particularly during early game combat fixesFixed exploit where players could use weapon inspect to cancel out other weapon ADS recoil now resettles back to starting point instead of a randomized offset of the starting Grenades fixed an issue where players downed with thermite could be invincible to thermite after being [ Gibraltar, Caustic ]Damage reduction increased 10% -> 15%Fortified Legends are now immune to slow effects from weapon Profile [ Wraith, Lifeline, Pathfinder ]Low Profile increases incoming damage by 5%.BloodhoundEye of the AllfatherEnemies scanned now are tracked in real time instead of leaving a ghost image behind. The tracking lasts for the angle of the scan to 110 from clue duration to 90 seconds from 60 a bug where energy weapons wouldn’t leave behind weapon fired a bug where movement clues would sometimes not be ActMirage can now cancel out of his ultimate cloak now has a small delay when disabling GasThe magnitude of the slow is reduced by 50% when effecting of ProtectionIncreased the duration by 3 the hit box to better conform with the base are also planning to make adjustments so his hitbox better reflects Legendary Skins as well for cases where it’s not matching heal drone now gets destroyed after 2 damage ticks by the PAGEAdded a stats page. You can access it by hovering over your name while in the Lobby and clicking it to inspect. The page will show you your overall account stats as well as access to your stats for each season and Ranked sure you all will have feedback on other stats you'd like to see here. What we're shipping with Season 2 is just the start and we're planning to build on it. We won't promise anything but definitely let us know what other stats you want shown after you've played around with ISSUES There will be some stats [like assists for example] that will start counting for Season 2 but won’t account for progress before that. This is because until we added the feature, this stuff wasn’t being counted. We’re looking at future improvements to retroactively update these areas that we hope to address down the RINGWith Season 2, we’ll trying out new circle closing speed, size, and damage that now applies to both Ranked Leagues and the normal Apex Damage is now the followingRound 1 2% damage taken per 2 5% damage taken per 3 10% damage taken per 4 20% damage taken per 5 20% damage taken per 6 and beyond 25% damage taken per start and closing speed is now the followingFirst CircleStarts closing after 3 to close 2 CircleStarts closing after 2 minutes 30 to close 2 CircleStarts closing after 2 minutes 15 to close 2 CircleStarts closing after 2 to close 2 CircleStarts closing after 1 minute 30 to close 1 minutes 40 CircleStarts closing after 1 minute 30 to close 1 minutes 40 CircleStarts closing after 2 to close 1 minute 20 CircleStarts closing after 20 to close 1 minute 20 radius for the first circle has been slightly reduced [it’s about 9% smaller than it was before].QUALITY OF LIFEPingsWhen pinging a closed door, the player will now say “closed door here”.When pinging an open door, the player will now say “someone’s been here”.When a player requests a hop up, if the gun only accepts one kind of hop up, the player will callout that specific hop up they are looking for. If the gun accepts multiple hop ups, the player won’t vocalize it but all possible hop ups requested will show up in the obit stars that are stuck to players should no longer fail to do damage when the part of the player it is stuck to is intersecting another visual improvements to the Legends while in the Lobby and character improvements and polish to the Legend’s animations while melee hit detection on the hover tank while it’s server and client performance when firing weapons, especially for multi-projectile weapons like shotguns and doors and Supply Bins can now be used while viewing them from more extreme Effects will now slow players equally regardless of their controller Heirloom will now more reliably show its lightning items will now more reliably show the correct model when switching between different optimizations to improve issue with geometry sometimes flickering when viewed from a long Box rarity colors are now more visible from a distance.“Send Friend Request” tool-tip now shows up when hovering over teammates Banners while viewing the “Squad Eliminated” screen and “Squads” tab during a it so that your weapon won’t play its priming animation when you pull it out after issue with skydive continuing to loop falling soundFX after will no longer swap from full screen to windowed mode automatically if you shift to focus on other applications while Apex is booting issue with players seeing their Origin friends listed as offline when they aren’ improvements to voice chat for issue where you could lose your Steam friends list after restarting Apex on issue where sometimes players would get a black screen during character “Flash Hider” description to the Gold Barrel Stabilizer attachment. It always did this but the information wasn’t provided well so we added it to the description when inspecting the FIXESFixed a hit registration bug that could occur if you fired your weapon while being damaged by an enemy a bug where sometimes load screens would not appear properly and players would temporarily see the training map before loading into a issue with players not always hearing selected quip dialogue when performing a finisher or being issue with Apex not working correctly when SLI or Crossfire is bug with the consumables wheel sometimes appearing bug where players would sometimes get stuck on the Battle Pass Level bug where The Unlock button would be greyed out when it shouldn’t be when trying to view bug where players would sometimes be unable to exit the Battle Pass tab after selecting it from the an exploit where players could jump while issue where sometimes the client would crash to the Dashboard when entering character select on Xbox a bug where pinging a sniper stock in your inventory would show up as “looking for Grip”Fixed a bug that caused players and loot to begin sliding permanently or launching inconsistently onto Supply Ship surfaces after doing melee attacks against the Supply Ship bug that could cause players to shift to a location under the map when switching between players while bug for cases where performing a melee attack while inspecting an item would cause the attack to slow down and not deal damage.[X1 only] Fixed bug where players were not being rewarded “The Player” achievement after hitting level 50. If you have reached level 50 and not received it in the past it should now be awarded the bug that sometimes caused Apex to crash when plugging a PS4 controller into your PC while the game is bug that caused an “Out of Bounds” warning and timer while riding the Supply Ship over certain areas of Kings improvements to game stability related to various script bug where players wouldn’t create movement evidence markers unless they were bug where sometimes energy weapons wouldn’t create weapon fired’ evidence bug where Wraith’s jetpack boosters could still be seen while issue where in some rare cases, performing a Finisher while down player is entering a Wraith an exploit that allowed players to place extra Dimensional a bug that caused throwable items to bounce off a jump pad without actually touching it. GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The products discussed here were independently chosen by our editors. 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