Apex Legends: Marked Midseason Patch Notes (Sep 14, 2026): what changed

Added preview visuals on the shield bar to indicate how much Temp Shield will be generated by the end of the regen period.

Various aspects of the Ultimate's deployment have been smoothed out, meaning it fires faster and gets you back to guns sooner.

Can now toggle orientation while targeting to deploy jammers in a forward line.

Added a new HUD element to better inform players if their deployment location will cause jammers to break.

• Also, individual jammer indicators now turn red if they would break at the current targeting location.

Jammers now spawn higher and slightly closer together, creating a tighter formation that covers more vertical space.

Jammers activate significantly faster, establishing the barricade's threat area quicker.

Both Level 2 Upgrades, Battpack and Bigger Jam, have been removed.

NEW: Concurrency (Level 2)

Refire Energy Barricade once with no cooldown within 10s of initial firing.

Jammers spawn in a tighter formation with 2 less jammers.

NEW: Jammed Up (Level 2)

Added 25% Explosive Damage Resistance at base and can see ordinances highlighted in the world within 30m of him.

Fuse can now Knuckle Jump at base.

• Jumping no longer provides Tactical cooldown reduction.
• Jump power moderately decreased, so Fuse will gain less momentum when jumping.
• Now displays a visual indicator that signifies the radius where the jump can be activated.

Significantly decreased the time it takes to return to guns after firing.

Players can now ADS while aiming to zoom.

Slightly decreased the raise time.

Adjusted the firing arc with the focus on the main explosive projectile landing more quickly and responsively.

• Added an indicator to visualize the radius of the initial and subsequent explosions.

Decreased the time it takes for the mini-bombs to explode, speeding up the rollout of explosions.

Decreased the damage falloff on the initial explosion, meaning enemies closer to the edge of the radius will take a higher percentage of the maximum damage.

Knuckle Jumper (Level 2) and Wreckless (Level 3) have been removed.

Reignition has been moved from Level 3 to Level 2.

Doubled the radius of the persistent flames.

Decreased Ultimate Recharge Rate from 1s per 2 explosive damage to 1s per 3 explosive damage.

Knuckle Cluster's explosions cover a 50% larger area.

Knuckle Cluster's initial projectile is 25% larger and sticks to enemies. Every 7 hits on an enemy reduces Knuckle Cluster's cooldown by 1s.

Catalyst is no longer immune to other Catalysts' abilities.

Now automatically reinforces or rebuilds doors if colliding with a valid door or doorway on placement.

Decreased Cooldown from 20s to 15s.

Increased Spike Height, meaning that players can less easily jump over them.

Hitting enemies with the projectile will now deal damage to them.

Significantly decreased firing time, making it smoother to deploy and raise the wall.

Allies are no longer slowed or blinded when passing through the wall.

Sole Piercer (Level 2) has been removed.

Hidden Spikes has been moved from Level 2 to Level 3.

Resilient Veil and Ferro-Door have been moved from Level 3 to Level 2.

Now also increases max reinforced doors from 4 to 6.

Now also decreases Ultimate Cooldown from 150s to 120s.

Your max Spike count is increased by 1. Spikes are 50% smaller, but deal faster tick damage.

Reduced cloak visibility while in dome.

Ring damage no longer drops cloak.

Added 1 extra second on scan length.

Tweaked to provide more frequent snapshots, but the snapshots fade over time.

Sonar snapshots begin fading more quickly.

Sonar snapshots should disappear more readily when seeing the head of either the snapshot or the player being tracked.

Nitro Gate launch speed reduced from 750 to 700.

Ultimate HP reduced from 200 to 150.

Base Ultimate cooldown increased from 90s to 120s.

Ultimate knockback arc widened and max height reduced.

Ultimate stun duration reduced from 1.5s to 0.25s.

Jump Gate replaced with a new Drone Deployer Upgrade that brings the Ult cooldown back down to 90s.

Removed turn slow when hit by the Tactical

Increased availability of healing items.

Slightly decreased availability of ammo.

Increased average count of items spawned per bin

Updated loot bin logic to significantly reduce the possibility of empty loot bins spawning in game.

The weapon pool for Weapon Assist (opening your first loot bin of the match while having no weapons in your inventory) now has the chance to spawn all base weapons.

• Previously could only spawn a selection of pistols, shotguns, and the Alternator.

Increased rate of fire while in ADS.

Blue magazine increased from 8 to 9.

Increased arrow stockpile from 40 to 60.

Increased explosive arrows per energize from 7 to 10.

Increased max distance damage from 99 to 110.

Max damage occurs at >200m.

Decreased selectfire damage penalty from 40% to 25%.

Reduced cost to unlock from 375 to 275.

EVO gained when no weapons are equipped will now grant that EVO towards progression on the first weapon you equip.

Added a new audio menu option to toggle weapon dialogue on/off. It will appear if you own a talking weapon skin

Resolved an issue resulting in abnormally loud audio in interior spaces on Olympus and E-District

Smoke trails (from effects like Valk's Ult) now match the color of your squad (for example, orange for Tiger Squad). Previously, every squad's smoke trail was a slightly different shade of blue.

Fixed an issue where players could get persistent Infinite Ammo after being respawned.

Fixed an issue where players could activate Respawn from Deathbox from behind a wall.

Fixed an issue where Locked Hop-Ups would not always grant the correct point value after respawning.

Bloodhound: Fixed a bug with True Predator where the timer UI would not show up in certain situations where you were uncloaked but eligible to re-cloak.

Bloodhound: Fixed some issues where the Allies Cloaked stat tracker was counting improperly.

Catalyst: Fixed Hidden Spikes not revealing themselves after applying a slow to an enemy that did not have line of sight to the core.

Catalyst: Fixed being unable to pick up Piercing Spikes from range after they had been activated, then deactivated.

Catalyst: Fixed several Friendly Fire interactions in the Firing Range.

Catalyst: Fixed Piercing Spikes not affecting Firing Range Dummies.

Conduit: Fixed Energy Barricade repeatedly applying overlapping third-person VFX to enemies who took successive damage hits.

Fuse: Fixed Fuse being able to Knuckle Jump while in phase.

Fuse: Fixed Knuckle Jumping toward the end of the jump window causing a loss of momentum.

Fuse: Fixed The Motherlode not dispersing smoke and gas.

Fuse: Fixed Pyro Techniques not dealing damage to enemies that stood still in the center flames.

Fuse: Fixed Pyro Techniques not dealing damage to Mirage decoys.

Fuse: Fixed The Motherlode's initial projectile passing through enemies when fired at a breachable surface while in breach mode.

Wattson: Fixed Fuse's The Motherlode not being intercepted by Interception Pylon.

P2020: Fixed a bug where the Tactical Laser sight would not properly reduce the recoil control.

East Village: Fixed a hole in terrain where players could hide.

East Village: Added and adjusted some cover.

Monument/Fragment: Restored missing railings on the bottom level of construction stacks.

Sorting Factory: Fixed a bug where players could clip into the moving crates using an Alter portal.

Fixed inconsistent behavior with vertical ziplines at East Village, Tree Settlement and Sorting Factory.

Fixed bug with cloak rendering on consoles and PC with TSAA enabled, making it consistent for all visual options.

Fixed bug where joining another player's party could sometimes fail and leave you stuck in a zero-player party.

Fixed missing footstep audio during 3rd person movement when using Sparrow's Hunt Target upgrade.

Fixed overly loud interior spaces in Olympus and District.

Valkyrie: Improved the responsiveness of the enemy targeting while skydiving.