Apex Legends‘the latest season is here and it’s perhaps one of the biggest seasonal changes the game has ever experienced. Season 8’s update includes Fuse, the game’s latest Legend, the new 30-30 Repeater rifle, and a newly destroyed version of Kings Canyon, which offers plenty of fresh areas to explore.
The biggest new addition this season is Fuse, a legend completely dedicated to explosives. With his passive ability, he can hold more grenades than other legends and throw them more accurately. His tactical ability is a cluster bomb that launches small explosions that can stun enemy players, and his ultimate ability brings down a missile barrier that creates a wall of flames around a small area.
This season also brought some big changes to Kings Canyon after a ship crashed on the map and destroyed several of its cities. Players can now explore new areas on the map, including spotted lakes, which have sharpshooters. As for the weapons, season 8 adds the 30-30 Repeater, a rifle with a heavy hit, which has to shoot slowly that has to comb a new round between each powerful shot.
For a look at all the changes that Respawn Entertainment has made Apex Legends season 8 you can see the full notes. The Apex Legends season 8 patch drops when the season starts on February 2 at 13:00 ET.
Apex Legends season 8 patch notes
Quality-of-life updates
Damage counter
- We have now added a damage counter to the HUD. It was a very designated feature, so we’ve excited to make it easier for people to pursue the badges and challenges!
Ping ammunition
- If you throw weapons or ammunition into your inventory, your current ammunition score is displayed along with “player wants ammunition” in a quick chat.
Color blind update
- Healing and revival now follows color blindness rules when color blindness settings are enabled
Lore fades over Canon Skins
- Some of our skins are canon, and others are just for fun. For the skins that are an important part of the background story of that character, we added a little blur to describe the meaning of the skin in the Legend’s life.
Legend Meta
Wraith:
Dev Note:
We know that Wraith will always be a popular choice given the amount of combat uses in her kit. After many adjustments to her abilities and animations, the fact remains that her wish rate remains at the very top as it has been since day one. With the adaptation of the season 7 hit box to Pathfinder, we were able to control its power without weakening its kit. We hope to do the same with Wraith.
Wraith now has a slightly larger hit box than her fellow legends, but the changes remain true to her model. Even with these changes, Wraith remains small and hard to hit. She will maintain a low profile as we monitor her usage and win rates to see if power can be returned in other ways in the future.
Copy:
- Sheila angle increases from 120 ° to 180 °
- Wall health in the construction phase increased from 1 hp to 45 hp (sniper rounds still stick through)
Dev Note:
Rampart has remained at the bottom of our performance benchmarks since its release. Her kit is very built to proactively set a powerful position, but in a game that moves as fast as Apex, we found that her walls also need to have some reactive power. We are watching this one closely.
Horizon:
- Gravity Lift effective cooling increased from 21 to 25. The cooling-off timer for 15s will now start when the Gravity Lift disappears.
Dev Note:
Horizon has issued strong, to the point where she opposes Wraith in the winning rate and the rate. For the time being, we are monitoring its use and seeing if the cooling changes have a significant effect.
Octane:
Launch Pad Remastered: Many players may have known of Octane’s “super jump” which was possible with a timely jump while hitting the road. After the double jump option was set, there was an input crash that resulted in unreliable use. We decided to add some launch options that are better defined than the old super jump.
- By hitting the jump block from a standing position, players will be launched along a high arc (the speed and trajectory of the old super jump).
- From a crouched position, players will jump along a low arc, meaning they will fly lower but further in the horizontal direction.
Crypto:
- Remove the ability to attach arc stars to friendly drones.
Loba:
- Loot in unopened care packages is now visible with Eye for Quality and is accessible via the Black Market Boutique.
Byts:
- All the gas now disappears as soon as Caustic’s team is eliminated.
Mirage:
- Mirage lures create footsteps noises.
Dev Note:
This change was incorrectly mentioned in the Fight Night notes when it actually came with this patch. Mirage decoys will now have sound of footsteps in a limited capacity. There will not be a footstep tornado if an enemy Mirage lands in the vicinity, but it should be a little harder to pick out the real Mirage alone from sound modes.
Weapon Meta
Fully equipped rotation
- Remove: Wingman, Sentinel, Havoc, G7, Alternator
- Added: R-301, 30-30 repeater, Mozambique, Longbow DMR, Spitfire
Attachments
- We take the Gold Barrel out of the outdoor pool
Hop Ups
- The Double Tap hop up will be removed from the outdoor pool
- The Anvil Rounds hop will be added to the outdoor pool
Volt
- Bullet damage decreased from 16 to 15
Alternator
- Bullet damage increased from 15 to 16
Spitfire
- Bullet damage increased from 18 to 19
- The reload speed increased from 2.8 seconds to 3.2 seconds
- Empty reload speed increased from 3.33 seconds to 3.8 seconds
EVA 8
- The burning speed increased from 2.0 to 2.1
Troubleshooting
Byts
- Sonar capabilities no longer stop Caustic’s peak vision.
Loba
- Fixed a few usable areas on Kings Canyon that Loba could reach with her bracelet.
Rampart
- Jumpads in the takeover of Octane’s town no longer allow Rampart to place Sheila on them.
- Fixed an issue where Rampart’s passives persisted even after the characters were changed to Firing Range
Havoc
- A problem has been resolved that causes the devastation to be 100% accurate when fired through Rampart’s Amped Cover.
Peacekeeper
- Fixed a POV issue that occurred while using Horizon’s capabilities, and then immediately went to ADS with a peacekeeper.
Clubs
- Reactivate the ability to invite friends from the friends list to the club
- An issue has been resolved that caused some users who did not select ‘Last Squad Invites’ to appear on club event timelines while in the top 5 of a contest
- Failure to connect to the club database will no longer result in a misleading message of ‘kicked out of club’
- Players will no longer be kicked out of clubs if they switch to another profile on Xbox.
Misc
- A problem solved with the crowd not cheering during the takeover of Pathfinder’s Town.
- Fixed an issue that prevented some heirlooms from appearing in the heirloom shop.
- Fixed an issue that damaged Thermites through certain walls on Olympus.