Apex Legends: Overclocked Patch Notes (May 4, 2026): what changed

The majority of players will see no difference at all. If you matchmake into smaller pools, for example during off-hours, then you may have to wait up to a few minutes longer than before

Respawn dead teammates directly from their Deathbox.

• High Risk: Respawning at a Deathbox is loud, visible to nearby enemies, and takes 7 seconds. Be sure to clear the area before attempting it.
• Respawn with Your Gear: When respawned from your Deathbox, any weapons and gear that still remain unlooted are added to your inventory automatically.
• Lockout Timer: Each additional death increases the time before teammates can use Deathbox Respawn again. Stay alive to reset the timer.

Dropship arrival shortened so respawned players re-enter the game faster.

Dropship hover time after respawn increased.

While healing, another healing item may now be queued to automatically begin once the current healing action finishes.

There are 3 settings options ('Single' is the new default option) that can be changed via the Gameplay settings menu:

• Off: Disables the feature and leaves the current healing system unaffected.
• Single: While healing, allows the queuing of another healing item. You must queue each additional heal manually by pressing the heal button again, or selecting a new item from the healing wheel.
• Auto: While healing, allows the queuing of another healing item. Auto will continuously queue that same healing item, without any further input, until the effective health pool is full, or you run out of that healing item.

DRIFT: Increased control while sliding.

• Axle accelerates and moves faster than others while sliding.
• She also has increased lateral control.

NITRO GATE: Deploy a speed gate that sends users into a boosted slide.

• Stepping into a Nitro Gate forces users into a speedy slide, where they have greatly increased velocity and lateral control.
• This effect lasts for up to five seconds as long as speed isn't naturally slowed.
• Manually stopping the slide will end the effect (although it can be maintained through quick b-hops).
• The gate is team agnostic, meaning it has the same effect on friendlies and enemies, though Axle will be the only one with increased slide control.

KICKSTART: Deploy an enemy-seeking drone that displaces targets on impact.

• Axle fires a drone straight out in front of her, where it traverses close to the ground in a straight line as it scans for enemies in a wide FoV.
• Once an enemy is spotted, the drone seeks towards the target, closing the gap to get within detonation range.
• If the target cannot outrun or destroy the drone before detonation, it will knockback all targets in range up into the air.
• Victims are revealed while airborne, take explosive damage, and are briefly stunned.

Super Slider: Gain a second Tactical charge.

Automata: Gain a second Ultimate charge.

Jump Gate: Upgrades the Nitro Gate to give a double-jump.

• Similar to how Octane's Triple Jump upgrade works, this upgrades the Nitro Gate itself.
• Players can use up to one double-jump while the Nitro Gate effect is active.

Sliding Shooter: Bullets shot while sliding come straight from inventory instead of magazine.

• Functionally, this allows for longer continuous firing while sliding before having to reload.
• Bullets shot straight from inventory are capped at half the weapon's max magazine size (i.e. if a purple mag capacity is 30 bullets, 15 bullets will get pulled from inventory before instantly transitioning to the active clip).

Tracking a team with Spotters Lens will generate 70% of an ultimate bullet

• 10 second cooldown per team

Vantage is immune to hard landings exiting the tac

Increased velocity from 20 Meters Per Second to 21 Meters Per Second

Increased double jump range from 4m to 7m

Reduced deceleration at final destination by ~25%

Cooldown reduced from 20s to 17s

Toggle fire to equip your Canted Sight: A 2x optic mounted on the side of the rifle

• While canted rechamber time is decreased from 1.2s to 1.1s
• While canted ADS time reduced from 0.5s to 0.4s
• Bullet scaling is drastically reduced in Canted sights (so be accurate!)

Increase aiming responsiveness with Normal sight

• Reduced ADS time from 0.6s to 0.5s

Default Normal scope magnification increased from 3x to 4x

Tactical Cooldown replaced with Herd Tracker: Pinging an enemy will track the entire team

New Effect: If Savior's Speed is active when sprinting toward a Skirmisher, gain an additional 5% movement speed.

Split Charge has been incorporated into her base kit, granting two charges

Decreased Regen Duration from 9s to 6s

Decreased Regen from 20/s to 15/s

Both Radiant Transfer and Split Charge have been removed

Gain a portion of Radiant Transfer's Temp Shields instantly, but Regen Duration is reduced by 2s.

Radiant Transfer's Temp Shield Regeneration persists through taking damage.

Increased Cooldown from 20s to 25s

Decreased Range from 300m to 250m

Increased Recall Time from 2s to 3s

Increased Ally Recall Time from 3s to 4s

Decreased Chase Portal Open Time from 6s to 4s

Reduced movement speed from 30% to 15%

Cooldown from 12s to 10s

Velocity from 425 to 450

C.A.R. returns to the floor (details below)

LSTAR enters the Care Package (details below)

Decreasing light ammo stack size to 60 (was 72).

Increased Breach Charge cooldown from 15 seconds to 25 seconds

Breach Charge now disperses gas and smoke

Decreased damage from 23 to 22 (Previous Hotfix)

Decreased magazine size across all tiers by 2 (Previous Hotfix)

All Trophy Systems should now properly intercept Hemlok's Breach Charge (Previous Hotfix)

Increased horizontal and vertical recoil (Previous Hotfix)

Increased hipfire spread (Previous Hotfix)

Damage increased from 19 to 20

Increased base damage from 23 to 24 (Previous Hotfix)

Blue magazine increased from 25 to 26

Purple and gold magazines increased from 28 to 30

Increased points to unlock from 375 to 500 on the Alternator

Decreased points to unlock from 500 to 425 on the Devotion

Tridents removed

Tridents removed

Ziprails removed from most rotations, but remain at majority of POIs

Added two Redeploy Balloons to west side

Two new rotation options added, north of Stasis Array and west of Terraformer

Olympus Wildcard (5/‌5/26 - 5/‌19/26)

Kings Canyon Wildcard (5/‌19/26 - 6/‌2/26)

Fixed rare "SignifierName: 'Player' - is not expected entity type "player" for remote function" client error.

Improved interaction between Hardlight and other objects when rebuilding, preventing it from unintentionally destroying some Legend abilities.

Fixed some Low/No Ammo notifications incorrectly displaying.

Fixed Arc Star and Frag Grenade sound effects when exploded on Hardlight.

Fixed an issue with the Volt's "Death Enhancer" skin having visible elements when the player is cloaked.

Fixed an issue where the akimbo Mozambique's could sometimes merge and fire as a single weapon.

Fixed an issue where weapons in control could sometimes drop a level.

Fixed a crash when trying to sort random favorite skins.

Fixed the ultimate slam not destroying Catalyst's reinforcements on an empty door frame.

Added new VO for Ready to Rumble and Defensive Line upgrade

Fixed sometimes being able to cancel your tactical early and ready your guns sooner than intended.

Fixed self revive in Wildcard sometimes not using the right animation and having inaccurate UI timings.

Fixed bug where Vantage could equip weapons in fight night.

Fixed how Spotter's Lens gave decoys a low priority so the real Mirage is less obvious to find.

Fixed an issue where black market could steal banners crafted by an enemy squad.

Added new VO for Stim Surge.

Fixed Wrecking Ball sometimes failing to destroy doors when hitting them at the upper edges.

Fixed Motherload not properly penetrating some Legend abilities.

Fixed an issue where overlapping Thunder Domes would allow a player to pass into a dome unharmed.

Fixed thermite interactions.

The missing Nessies have returned from their vacation.

Improved CPU performance on physics calculations, eliminating a source of stutters, especially prominent in CPUs with high single-threaded performance, like Ryzen X3D chips.

Added logic to prevent Valkyrie, or other legends, from getting inside an enemy respawn dropship.

Added Legend voice lines for when Hardlight is Reinforced.

Added Legend voicelines when cracking multiple enemy shields in rapid succession.

Added the ability to tweak individual voice chat volumes for each player in the squad menu.

Improved voice chat clarity.

Fixed an issue where HAVOC Rifle audio could sometimes cut out for the player firing it.

Improved occlusion data structures that were used by Olympus in the last midseason update are now used for all maps, slightly improving CPU performance.

Fixed an issue that could lead to an occasional framerate dip when running at very high FPS on PC (e.g. 240+).

Cleaner Ambient Occlusion, which includes new specular occlusion. This will also be faster than the previous Ambient Occlusion in most cases, except at High or Ultra settings at high resolutions (4K on PC).

Improved accuracy of cubemap reflection intensity, especially in shadowed outdoor areas.

Improved accuracy of sky ambient lighting.

Improved baked lighting accuracy for many props in maps.