Apex Legends: Marked Patch Notes (Aug 3, 2026): what changed

East Village: Added additional rock and tree cover in open areas around the POI

East Village: Modified the terrain at the base of the Dam for less punishing traversal

East Village: Added additional ziplines to access the Dam rotating from East Village (previously Climatizer)

Tree Settlement replaces The Tree

War Camp replaces Survey Camp

Sorting Factory: Added a central connection to the train tunnel to keep this rotation from Lava Siphon

Sorting Factory: Modified platforms to keep Lava Siphon's bridge leading to Fragment East

Sorting Factory: Added a new tunnel and vertical zipline connection to enter the POI from the southwest near Tree Settlement

Sorting Factory: Added new platforms and ziplines around each train tunnel exit for smoother traversal

Sorting Factory: Added new train cars on the tracks in the station building

Stacks/Lava City: Restored the original camp that existed before Big Maude and placed additional cover nearby

Stacks/Lava City: Placed additional platforms and buildings around the outskirts of the POI to improve rotations and endgames

Countdown: Improved quality of loot in the underground vault

Harvester: Adjusted collision on the angled rooftops of the long modular buildings to prevent slipping

Fixed a large amount of bugs, rat spots and navigational issues

Ranked: World's Edge for 24 hours, then back to normal 4.5 hour rotation

Pubs: World's Edge for 24 hours, then back to normal 90 minutes rotation

Ranked: World's Edge for 48 hours, then back to normal 4.5 hour rotation

Pubs: No change, normal 90 minutes rotation

Purple attachment spawn rate reduced across all game systems

Overall attachment spawn quantity remains the same

Arsenals activate at the same time as Evo Harvesters.

Minimap and In-World icons are hidden until activation.

Reduced the amount of Arsenals per POI

Upgrades one attachment slot by one tier

Provides an Optic if the weapon is missing one

Purple is now the max upgrade tier

Upgrade panels reactivate after Bin Reset.

No longer upgrades loot to a higher tier on reset

Removed possibility of gold tier loot

Gold Attachments removed from the loot pool

• 4-10x Digital Sniper Threat Sight unaffected by this change.

Gold Attachments removed from Gold Weapons

Gold Backpacks removed from the loot pool

Hot-Zone has been removed

Removed possibility of gold tier loot

Spawn fewer attachments

Updated cycling rollers to cycle through white tiered loot as an option

Spawn fewer attachments and weapons

Spawn more consumables

Blue attachments added

Adjusted to spawn more attachments and Amps, fewer backpacks

Removed possibility of gold loot rollers

Reduced chance of purple loot roller spawn from starting the party

Reduced overall tier of loot received from completing the trials

Reduced number of loot roller spawns to 5 (was 7)

Removed possibility of gold loot rollers

Reduced chance of purple loot roller spawn

Blue attachments added

Adjusted to spawn more attachments and Amps, fewer backpacks

Removed possibility of gold loot rollers

Reduced chance of purple loot roller spawn from activating the Phase Driver

Reduced MRVN spawns to 12 (was 24)

Removed MRVN Arm drops

MRVNs are now single use

Removed attachment smart loot from all Wildlife drops

Will now only drop healing and ammo when killed

New Playground tab available via Legend Locker > Weapons

Allows for you to preview information about the weapon, what attachments can go on the weapon, and how those attachments affect that weapon's stats.

• Changes here do not affect any in-game weapon behaviors.

The loot card now shows a detailed breakdown of a weapon's damage, ideal range, rate of fire, firing modes and weapon specific gameplay information.

When looking at a weapon to swap, the loot card now shows a quick comparison between the weapon you are holding and the weapon you would pick up.

Can be disabled by changing Interact Prompt Style from Default to Compact.

For attachments that can be equipped onto your weapon, the loot card now shows the stat change that will occur when equipped.

Can be disabled by changing Interact Prompt Style from Default to Compact.

Each Corrupted Attachment comes with a unique bonus and negative effect

Only 1 Corrupted Attachment can be equipped on a gun at a time

Improves magazine size beyond that of a Purple Magazine

Reduces weapon reload speed

Can be attached to any weapon that accepts a Magazine

Increases weapon Headshot Damage

Improves recoil at the same level as the Purple Barrel

Improves Hipfire Accuracy at the same level as the Purple Laser Sight

Eliminates weapon move speed penalty

Increases weapon ADS move speed

Improves Reload Speed and Weapon Handling at the same level as the Purple Standard Stock

Increases weapon Rate of Fire

Improves Reload Speed and Weapon Handling at the same level as the Purple Sniper Stock

Energy Ammo boxes removed from the game

Energy Weapons come with a stockpile of ammunition

• Similar to the Bocek or Care Package Weapons

Energy Weapon Stockpile Size is comprised of multiple magazines worth of ammo

If the weapons magazine size increases, the stockpile total updates to match

• ex. A Volt with no extended magazine has a maximum Stockpile size of 40
• ex. A Volt with a Purple Magazine has a maximum Stockpile size of 54

Energy Weapons regenerate a magazines worth of ammo over 18 seconds

• Regeneration time does not increase if your magazine size increases
• ex. A Volt with no extended magazine attachment equipped regenerates 20 shots over 18 seconds
• ex. A Volt with a Purple Magazine equipped regenerates 27 shots over 18 seconds
• Regeneration pauses while shooting or reloading the weapon

A new HUD element has been added for energy weapons. This displays how many magazines worth of ammo you have left.

Weapon HUD now displays Energy Ammo count as a percentage

• A setting has been added to swap between percentage or bullet count

Energy Weapons get 1 additional mag worth of stockpile ammo

Energy Weapons regenerate a magazine's worth of ammo over 12 seconds

When Volunteering is active, players will see an option to 'Opt In To Jumpmaster'.

Players can press the corresponding button to Volunteer at any time during Character Selection.

Players who have Opted In to Jumpmaster will be marked on the UI in Character Select.

Players who volunteer for Jumpmaster on a match will be Opted In to Jumpmaster for future matches.

If more than one team member has Volunteered, Jumpmaster will be selected randomly from the group of Volunteers.

Bloodhound can now see a red trail near fresh enemy clues to guide you to them

• This is similar to the red footsteps Bloodhound would see in their previous ultimate, Beast of the Hunt.

To reduce visual clutter, many types of clues have been removed. Traversal clues and Eliminations are the only ones that remain.

• Trails and clues now get hidden when the owner dies, except the Player Killed clue

Adjusted some of the black raven behavior to help them spawn more reliably, and included information about how they work to the ability description

White ravens can fly up to 400m (was previously 190m baseline, 380m with Raven's Flight)

You can now activate white ravens remotely by looking at them for a short time

Tactical now full-body scans for 3 seconds (was a 2 second full-body scan with 2 more seconds of a diamond scan)

After the full-body scan finishes, create 4 "snapshot" scans with 1.5s in between them

If a scan hits a white raven and at least one enemy, cooldown no longer partially refunds

• If a scan hits a white raven and no enemies, it still refunds the full cooldown

Throw down a device that cloaks anyone who gets within range

While cloaked, players also gain 20% increased movement speed and threat vision

Cloaking area lasts 8 seconds

Cloak lasts 12 seconds after leaving the area

Cloak breaks when taking damage, firing your weapon, or when using most abilities

Bloodhound's abilities can be used without breaking cloak

(NEW) Hidden Sight: Using the Ult refreshes your Tactical, and using your Tactical while cloaked hides the visuals effect from enemies

(NEW) Bird's Eye: White ravens will split and fly to the two nearest enemies (on different squads)

Removed Taste of Blood, Raven's Flight buffed and integrated to base kit

(NEW) True Predator: Shooting temporarily interrupts your cloak instead of breaking it

Reduced time taken to equip (was 0.6s, now 0.4s)

Projectile range has been increased by roughly 15% and projectile travel time has been reduced by roughly 30%

Cooldown reduced to 120s (was 150s)

Level 3 Upgrade Brand New Bag now grants purple bags instead of gold bags (since gold bags will no longer spawn)

In addition to the other benefits, she now gains locked hop-up progress 50% faster

Wall health increased at lower EVO levels (was 400/‌600/800, now 600/‌700/800)

Amped wall health increased by 25

Wall deployment time reduced by 0.5s

Increased base move speed while firing or spinning Sheila (was 70, now 104)

• This matches the previous movement speed with the Ramped Up Upgrade. Ramped Up still upgrades base move speed by the same amount as before (takes you from 104 to 139)

Level 2 Upgrade Combat Reserve no longer grants red weapon access (since those are going away). It now grants stowed reloads in addition to its other benefits.

Base damage reduced from 25 to 15 (each additional rocket still does 3 damage)

Adjust the missile's attack angle as they approach their target

• This reverts an element of her Season 27 changes, where the missiles were able to fly over tall walls or buildings and dive straight down on top of players

15% Ult base height reduction (reverts the Afterburners Upgrade that was moved baseline in 27.0)

Level 2 Upgrade Eye In the Sky: Reduced through-walls scan distance to 100m (no change if you have line of sight - keeps the full 250m range)

Level 3 Upgrade Supersonic: Reduction in the blast-off time improvement (now reduces launch time by 40% instead of 50%)

Reduced max slide boost time from 5 seconds to 3 seconds

Now affects self & allies (similar to Mad Maggie, Bangalore, and Gibraltar ultimates)

• Axle (self) gets damaged, stunned, and displaced (same as enemies)
• Allies get stunned and displaced, but won't take damage

Replace Automata with Long Haul, which brings the Tac max slide time back up to 5 seconds

Reduced the Home Base (Faster Tact Charge in Ult zone) Upgrade modifier to 2.5. This will make the Tactical cooldown 8 seconds instead of 5 while in the Ult zone.

Moved Home Base Upgrade to level 3

Moved Energizing Focus (Regen shield on tact hit) Upgrade to level 2

Reduced the amount of turn slow that was being applied

G7 Scout returns to the floor (details below)

30-30 Repeater enters the Care Package (details below)

Gold Weapons are no longer limited to a smaller set of weapons

Removed Tactical Charge granted on knock

Double Tap removed

Can no longer equip Sniper Optics

Reduced damage to 33 (was 37)

Base Unchanged (10)

White magazine reduced from 15 to 12

Blue magazine reduced from 18 to 14

Purple magazine reduced from 20 to 16

Increased damage to 51 (was 43)

Reduced ADS Charge Time to 0.25 seconds (was 0.4)

Rounds split into a blast pattern when hip firing

• 7 Pellets per blast
• 8 Damage per pellet (56 Damage total)
• Can Headshot with a 1.25x multiplier

Increased Breach Charge Cooldown to 30s (was 25s)

Reduced damage done to Hardlight and structures by 50%

Reduced damage to 21 (was 22)

Reduced damage to 18 (was 19)

Reduced damage in Double Tap to 14 per bullet (was 15)

Base magazine reduced from 20 to 18

White magazine reduced from 24 to 20

Blue magazine reduced from 26 to 22

Purple magazine reduced from 30 to 26

Reduced damage to 16 (was 17)

Purple magazine reduced from 27 to 24

Reduced damage to 12 (was 13)

Accelerator Hop-Up equipped on all gold weapons without an existing Hop-Up

Gain 15% ultimate charge on knock with the weapon

• Includes a 3 second assist window

Gain an additional 30% EVO from damage done with the weapon

No longer gives ultimate charge from damage done with the weapon

Increased points to unlock on the Devotion to 500 (was 425)

Ranked ladders have been extended to 5 days, to allow for more opportunities to compete and increase your standing

Fixed an issue with Ranked Auras always being marked as new if it wasn't equipped

Fixed an issue with random favorite skins showing different skins in lobby, Legend Locker, and game

Fixed an issue where Alter portal could put the player inside a box on one of the control points on Caustic Treatment

Fixed an issue where the text on Skippy's Mythic Alternator skin was reversed for Switch 2 users

Fixed issues with Caustic's "Clear the Air" skydive animation

Fixed Vantage's Ultimate sometimes not properly multiplying damage on successive shots

Fixed an issue where Crypto's drone could not use mobile respawn beacons

Various bug fixes and performance improvements

Addressed numerous collision, lighting, gameplay and unintended rat spot issues across all maps.

Fixed unintended rat spots across popular POIs

Fixed multiple Alter and Loba exploit locations

Fixed multiple Alter exploit locations

Fixed unintended rat spots

Fixed unintended rat spots