Apex Legends: Overclocked Midseason Patch Notes (Jun 22, 2026): what changed

Ballistic now respawns with his Sling weapon in all game modes.

Overheat now only applies to one weapon.

• If a player has a weapon out when hit by Whistler the overheat debuff applies only to that weapon.
• If the player is unarmed when hit by Whistler it applies to the weapon in the first weapon slot.
• Overheat no longer degrades when not firing or swapping to another weapon.
• Overheat does not increment when swapping to another weapon and shooting.

Overheat damage increased from 15 to 50.

Overheat debuff duration increased from 12 to 15.

Tactical charges increased from 1 to 2.

Decreased time between firing and when homing activates.

The overheat debuff no longer re-applies if you hit someone who is already overheating and you cannot apply it to multiple guns on the same player.

Ballistic and teammates within range get a sprint boost when his Ultimate is activated. (Previously only Ballistic got a speed boost)

• Sprint boost will only apply a speed boost while sprinting and will not speed up other types of movement.

Extra Bullet: Gain an additional Tactical charge.

Trap Mode: When placed in the world, Ballistic's KTactical lasts 15 seconds and deals 35 damage if an enemy walks into it.

Quiet Time: Ballistic's Tactical no longer applies overheat. Instead it adds silence and slow on hit. It also has a longer cooldown.

Killing Time: Now moved to level 3, still provides a 15 second extension to Ballistic's Ultimate.

Pathfinder now tucks in his legs while riding horizontal ziplines.

• This should make him a little harder to hit when riding on his Ultimate and other ziplines in the world.

Tactical charges increased from 1 to 2.

Removed the progressive cooldown and it is now a flat 20 seconds.

Increased launch speed of the zipline projectile.

Reduced cooldown from 3 minutes to 2 minutes.

Field Research: Now grants all Recon perks instead of just the survey beacon scan.

Ringmaster: Now grants all Controller perks instead of just the ring console access.

Landing Gear: Grants more air control and faster recovery from hard landings. This replaces the 2 Tactical charges Upgrade.

Increased the activation speed of the heartbeat sensor.

Decreased the interval time between heartbeats.

Decreased activation time for unarmed ADSing

Made the delay when aiming more consistent between weapon and unarmed.

• This means the heartbeat sensor will appear at the same time regardless of the weapon you're using.

Reduced the delay between the launch and hit.

Improved the slow on hit, should now halt faster moving Legends more effectively.

Upon deployment, there is now a quick 2 second scan of the area which will highlight any enemy in the area.

• Enemies that enter the area after it's deployed will also be scanned for 2 seconds.

Cloaked enemies will now show footsteps if they are within the Ultimate zone.

Reduced max in-world count from 3 to 2.

Reduced hp from 150 to 100.

Knocked players can no longer slide across zip codes as Axle or while under the effect of a Nitro Gate. They can still boost through a Nitro Gate, but once the effect times out, they will slow down accordingly.

"Super Slider" Upgrade no longer grants a second Tactical charge. Instead, it now grants Nitro Gate a 5 second cooldown reduction and +1 max in-world count.

Kickstart now displaces victims on a parabolic arc based on their velocity at the moment of impact, instead of straight up.

Reduced enemy highlight duration slightly to better match stun duration.

Increased Cooldown from 22 seconds to 28 seconds.

The speed boost granted from running on the pucks dropped by the wrecking ball has been replaced by a sprint boost.

• Will no longer speed up all movement, just when sprinting.

Removed the recent improvement, which allowed her to land faster from skydiving.

Decreased Regen Rate from 15/s to 10/s

Increased Regen Duration from 6s to 8s

Decreased Ally Total Regen from 90 to 80

Decreased Conduit Total Regen from 60 to 56

Instant Barrier: Increased Regen Duration from 4s to 6s

Increased Cooldown from 27 seconds to 30 seconds

Enduring Barrier: No longer grants regen through ring damage

White magazine reduced from 21 to 20

Blue magazine reduced from 24 to 22

Purple and gold magazines reduced from 27 to 25

Small increase to handling speed.

Small increase to handling speed.

Available on: Peacekeeper and Mastiff

Knocking an enemy with the weapon grants 50 shield regeneration over 5 seconds

375 points to unlock

Removed from: Longbow DMR, Wingman and Mozambique

Added to: Flatline and Volt

Broken Moon Wildcard (6/‌23/26 - 6/‌30/26)

Olympus Wildcard (6/‌30/26 - 7/‌7/26)

Kings Canyon Wildcard (7/‌7/26 - 7/‌14/26)

You will still see your team on the Your Squad screen then immediately load into the dropship.

Fixed issue where bots would never loot weapons. Bots will now loot weapons a few seconds after landing.

Fixed the Beam Saber being partially visible while cloaked from Mirage revive

Players won't get stuck if respawned under low geometry.

Deathbox attachment exploit fixed.

Hop-up weapons are properly restored when a player is respawned from Deathbox.

Akimbo weapons are restored properly.

Fixed issue where the Bocek, Rampage and Sentinel could sometimes not be energized while Infinite Ammo was active.

Fixed issue where gold shotgun bolts did not properly apply fire rate increase when Double Tap Trigger was enabled.

C.A.R. Gold magazine now reloads while stowed, as intended

Axle's "Jump Gate" Upgrade now respects the Movement Ability keybind.

Added proper voicelines for pinging Axle's abilities in-world.

Most objects can no longer be attached to Axle's Kickstart drone.

Fixed Ballistic Tactical not affecting an enemy if they were hit while healing.

Fixed an issue with Mad Maggie's Wrecking Ball bouncing off cloaked enemies without knockback or damage.

Fixed a bug causing a crash on startup for some PlayStation and Nintendo players, when loading local save data.

Updated the Bocek's first person arrow effects.

Out of bounds timer now appropriately triggers on 10+ spots across the map.

Addressed several collision locations to improve movement and gameplay flow.

Adjusted lighting across multiple zones to improve readability.

Fixed exploits that allowed Alter to access unintended areas using her abilities.

Out of bounds timer now appropriately triggers in multiple spots in and around popular POIs.

Out of bounds timer now appropriately triggers in several spots across popular POIs.

Addressed cases where Alter could use her abilities to reach unintended locations.

Improved lighting in key areas to improve gameplay readability.

Deathbox Respawn In-Progress sound increased in volume and audible radius for enemies.

Adjusted the volume of Fuse's Mythic skydive trail in response to community feedback.

Players can no longer hide inside tree bushes, which could be fairly easily done using Revenant wall-climbing skill.

Better prediction logic around triggers, such as Octane's jump pads or Horizon's gravity lifts, reducing misprediction hitches when interacting.

Implemented a fix to address framerate hitching when banners cycle in the world.

Made adjustments to shadows and highlights on Broken Moon.