Apex Legends: Breach Patch Notes (Feb 9, 2026): what changed

At Match Start: Hardlight Meshes are automatically spawned into the world at preset positions on various structures.

Hardlight Mesh defaults to 200 HP.

Hardlight takes increased damage from Explosives (8.5x), Shotguns (2.5x), Snipers (3.5x), and Legend Abilities (10.0x).

Hardlight takes damage from Ring.

Hardlight cannot repair, rebuild, or be Reinforced in Ring.

Upon Reinforce, Hardlight health total is set to 1250HP.

Hardlight cannot be rebuilt immediately after breaking. Rebuild Delay: 4 seconds

Controllers subject to a limit on the number of Reinforced Hardlights: Max 4 Reinforced Hardlights.

• Reinforced Hardlight Decays when the original reinforcing player exceeds Reinforcement Limit.
• Reinforced Hardlight Decays when there are no players nearby for an extended period of time.
• When Reinforced Hardlight Decays, it returns to a standard Hardlight Mesh state it decays to baseline Health 200 HP.

Fuse is no longer slowed when taking explosive damage

Faster weapon stow time when switching to the tactical

Flattened the trajectory to make tap-firing more accurate

Reduced delay before explosions start up (was 1.7s, now 1.0s)

Increased base damage (was 10, now 15)

Reduced the duration by 50%

Refreshed ultimate behavior. Fires a mortar that explodes against the ground, then sprays out smaller bombs around its landing point. When aiming down sights, the mortar can pierce cover up to 13m deep and deliver explosives to the other side.

Pyro Techniques: Your ultimate will drop behind patches of fire for 8 seconds after the bombs explode

Knuckle Jumper: Jumping when next to your own Knuckle Clusters will give you an explosive boost (destroys the cluster afterwards).

Reignition: Dealing explosive damage to enemies recharges your ultimate (for every 2 damage dealt, reduces cooldown by 1 second)

Can now reinforce up to 4 doors (was 2)

Flattened the trajectory, slightly lowered the pitch, and increased the overall range

Increased size by roughly 50%

Reduced the delay before spikes can deal damage (was 2s, now 1s)

Can now have 3 traps maximum (was 2)

This is how close you have to be before the spikes stand up and the core is vulnerable

You can now toggle to deploy the ultimate horizontally

Length increased by 5m

The wall can now build up through standard doors, Lifeline's D.O.C. Halo, and Gibraltar's Dome of Protection.

Can now be placed on steeper angles

Reduced Dark Veil duration when enemies walk through (was 7s, now 5s)

Hidden Spikes: The spike pool is now hidden to enemies while inactive

Sole Piercer: Spike traps activate 50% faster and deal 5 more damage per hit

Enemies outside of 13m no longer block white ravens from spawning (Flock upgrade brought into base kit)

Clues more than 13m away no longer block White ravens (was ~50m)

Total scan duration up to 4s (was 3s), full-body duration remains half the full scan duration (so now 2s, was 1.5s)

Reduced screen coloration during scan

Fewer clues will pop-up on screen when your tactical successfully scans an enemy

Cooldown reduced to 2.5 minutes (was 4 minutes)

Activation time reduced by ~20%

After activation, the wider FOV gradually shifts back to your normal FOV

Knocks while your ultimate is active increase the duration by 5s (will always reset to 10s if below)

(Unchanged) Knocks while your ultimate is active resets your tactical duration

• This has been active for a while but is now called out in the ability description

Taste of Blood: Regen 50 health when getting a knock while your ultimate is active

Raven's Flight: When activating your white ravens, they can ping enemies twice as far as normal

Hunter's Agility: Your tactical is faster to use and has -5s cooldown

Eye of the Allfather removed from level 2

Prevent Power Coupling for 5s after EMP

Reduced charge gained from scanning players from 10 to 5

Feeling Zippy additionally increases allied movement speed on Energized Ziplines from 1000 -> 1350

Feeling Zippy additionally increases allied acceleration on Energized Ziplines from 700 -> 800

Max Duration extension reduced from 6s to 3s

Damage increased to 37 (was 36)

Increased rate of fire

Can be equipped with sniper optics

Max damage decreased to 60 (was 65)

Max energized damage decreased to 50 (was 55)

Increased draw time

Decreased base damage to 41 (was 43)

Decreased charged damage multiplier

Slightly increased charge time

Reduced rate of fire

Slightly increased choke time

Damage decreased to 23 (was 25)

Reduced reload speed

Reduced rate of fire

Increased enhanced hipfire spread

Decreased pellets per blast to 5 (was 6)

Damage per pellet increased to 19 (was 16)

Adjusted blast pattern

Slightly increased rate of fire

Tightened blast pattern

300 Locked Hop-Up Points to unlock

Added to: Mastiff and 30-30 Repeater

500 Locked Hop-Up Points to unlock

500 Locked Hop-Up Points to unlock

Removed from: Tripletake, Hemlok and R301

Removed from: Volt and Mastiff

Added to: L-STAR and Longbow DMR

Decreased points to unlock to 500 on the Devotion (was 600)

P2020 return to the floor (details below)

G7 Scout enters the Care Package (details below)

Reviving Teammates only provides full Evo (100 points) for the first 2 Revives per team per game. Each subsequent Revive will reward 25 less Evo until no Evo is rewarded.

Removed from loot pool.

Knockdown shield level is now tied to legend level.

• i.e. Legend Level 1 = White Knockdown

White backpack removed from loot pool.

White backpack added to starter kit.

All Ranked matches return to the singular Dropship deploy, with Jump Masters leading your skydives into the BR, putting the game start back into your hands, Legends.

Here are the Wild Cards that will be available this season:

Damage is chained to additional enemies within an affected area

Instantly reload weapon on knock

The player gains the ability to carry +1 Ordnance

Reload weapons and use shield cells faster

When a player revives a teammate, both receive a burst of speed

Revive teammates with additional health and shields

Mark enemies damaged by your explosives

When using a consumable, nearby teammates receive the same health

Explosions have increased knockback.

Drop smoke cover when downed, smoke regens shields for self and teammates

Reveal enemy locations on knock

When players die in quick succession, they will be more aggressively pushed further away from their previous death location and closer towards the center of the ring.

Controller Legends can now remotely pick up their deployed tacticals, just as they can in other game modes.

Bot Royale has evolved, it is now a full BR experience mixing humans and Apex Bots.

Bot Royale Evolved lobbies will consist of 1-5 full human squads and 15-19 Apex Bots squads (20 squads total).

Bot Royale Evolved has the same game length and ring tuning as Unranked BR (whereas the original Bot Royale had shorter matches) for a full BR experience.

XP gains are no longer capped, and the ability to progress your Challenges has been added!

Earning Badges is still restricted, and no stats will advance while playing this mode.

Apex Bots will distribute evenly across POIs, allowing the decision to hotdrop on you - the player!

Apex Bots have a better understanding of the ring, will rotate to safe areas and avoid fighting while in the ring.

When in combat range, bots will strafe to avoid incoming damage

While Apex Bots will still loot, as they survive into further rounds their loadouts will improve with better attachments and better equipment. Making them a tougher target in further rounds.

Apex Bot squads will no longer roam away from their squad, they'll stick close to their squad leader to move as a group and attack as a group.

Bug fix for potential issues on Storm Point where the first Ring could spawn in playable space before closing for Round 1.

Fixed issue where the Power Booster Amp UI would be present even when you did not have the Amp equipped.

Fixed issue where Crate Weapons could lose their infinite ammo when using the Infinite Ammo Amp.

Fixed controller Legends not being able to remotely pick up their tactical in Wildcard

Fixed some effects not playing correctly on the reactive EVA-8 skin "Heart of Brimstone"

Fixed FOV scaling issues with Stim Surge

Fixed Stim Surge sometimes lowering your speed

Fixed Stim Surge being used first if it was previously canceled with a mantle

Fixed a bug where Stim Surge would trigger automatically in a multitude of contexts

Fixed a bug where Daredevil could grant Battle Surge movement speed buff in addition to fast reloads

Fixed the ultimate being blocked by a Trident and leaving the scan on permanently

Weapons will no longer interrupt shooting, healing, or other actions when a player levels up.

• Weapons will now seamlessly update in hand or in their inventory upon level up, matching the way it works in Wildcard.
• The button prompt for manually upgrading a weapon has been removed, as the weapons will upgrade seamlessly.

Ballistic's Sling will no longer interrupt shooting when the Sling weapon is being upgraded/downgraded as part of the Ultimate or when leveling up EVO.

Gameplay menu options have been broken up and reorganized into 5 subcategories (Combat, Movement, HUD UI, Accessibility, Privacy) so they're easier to find.

Added additional voicelines when pinging an Elite Weapon.

Respawn Beacon icons on the map and mini-map will now flash after they have been used by another team.

Improved graphics device selection when multiple are present on the system.

Added a user facing error message if the minimum spec Shader Model 6.0 is not supported, including a reminder that this is likely due to outdated drivers.

Certain Rare, Epic, and Legendary Apex Packs can now be upgraded to Wishlist-enabled packs.

Once these packs are upgraded, your Active Wishlist selections will influence the guaranteed item slot for these packs. All previous rarity drop rates and Apex Pack guarantee rules apply to the upgraded Wishlist pack.

Upgrade Apex Packs into Wishlist-enabled packs in the Pack Inventory Screen using Legend Tokens. The Upgrade button will only show for eligible packs and you can upgrade multiple at a time. If your Wishlist is Unavailable, pack upgrading is also unavailable.