Apex Legends: Prodigy Patch Notes (May 5, 2025): what changed

Bocek Compound Bow and Havoc return to the floor (details below)

Triple Take enters the Care Package (details below)

Added VO for pinging and interacting with Arsenals

Light, heavy, and energy Arsenals now give two blocks of ammo with each pick-up

Ammo at all Arsenals now takes 20s to respawn (was 10s)

Enhancing your weapon will now give at least two attachments

Added a slight flare to the model to show the Arsenal has reset

Ammo at all Arsenals only takes 10s and grants a full stack of the ammo

Removed scan on shield crack

Healthbar now lingers for 3s (was 4s)

Move speed boost now only applies while sprinting during the active window

Charged Knock: removed Tac charge gained on knock

Press jump while in the air to jump again

Pressing jump while climbing will launch Sparrow up the wall

Carry additional arrows and explosive arrows for the Bocek

Shoot a tracker from your gauntlet that will reveal enemies who walk within its line of sight

These darts can also be used to activate Survey Beacons from afar

Shoot a large arrow that will anchor where it lands. After it charges up, it will shock anyone within its range, causing damage and slowing any opponent it hits.

Extra Traps: gain an additional Tactical charge and +2 traps in world

Hunt Target: Sparrow gains a speed boost when running towards a marked enemy

Alternate Mode: Ult now has 3 charges that fire fewer pulses in a smaller radius

Life Siphon: Sparrow's health and shields are recovered if enemies are damaged by his Ult

Predator's Pursuit: removed Death Box minimap locations/pings

Increased Ult max distance travel time to 2.5s (was 1.4s)

Increased Ult min distance travel time to 0.5s (was 0.3s)

Increased Tac health regen per tick to 4 (was 3)

Increased the number of decoys created during Ult to 6 (was 5)

Grappling Hook: cooldown now variable, ranging from 10-30s depending on distance traveled (was flat 30s)

Integrated Zipline Zen upgrade into base

Damage mitigation increased to 50% (was 25%)

Feeling Zippy: gain a second Zipline Gun charge (replaces Zipline Zen)

Grapple God: gain a second Grappling Hook charge (replaces Grapple Cooldown+)

Decreased the time for Tac to hit targets to 0.8s (was 1.4s)

Decreased the time for Tac to finish to 0.9s (was 1.0s)

New stock tier added: usable with all Sniper and Marksman weapons

• No movement penalty while a weapon with a Gold Sniper Stock is drawn

Improved ADS in and out speed bonus for all levels

Improved raise and lower speed bonus for all levels

Boosted Loader removed from floor loot

Can be equipped by 30-30 Repeater, Longbow, Wingman

No longer usable with Devotion and L-Star

Can now be used with Hemlok

Removed from P2020, Volt, and Wingman

Added to Bocek Compound Bow, Devotion, Mastiff, and Sentinel

Previous Hotfix: Ult charge from knocks and assists reduced from to 20% (was 30%)

Damage decreased to 19 (was 21)

Increase hipfire spread

Recoil increased

Selectfire removed

Increased headshot damage by 2

New perk: equipping a purple tier barrel, stock, and mag will turbocharge the Devotion, reducing its spin-up time

Improved the scaling with high tier barrels

• Blue: improved stability and recoil control (equivalent to old Purple)
• Purple: advanced stability and recoil control

Improved the scaling with high tier stocks

• Blue: improved handling and reload speeds (equivalent to old Purple)
• Purple: advanced handling and reload speeds

Increased purple mag capacity to 52 (was 48)

Increased vertical and horizontal movement in the recoil pattern

Significantly reduced projectile size

Can also be found on Sniper Arsenals

Added Sniper stocks as an accepted attachment

Uses its own reserve of 40 arrows, similar to a Care Package weapon

• Arrows shot into the world can be retrieved to replenish supply
• Arrows shot into players can be retrieved from top of Death Box (4 max)
• Arrows cannot be found in floor looting

Max charge damage decreased to 55 (was 75)

Decreased rate of fire

Shattercaps removed

Frag Grenades can be used to energize the Bocek with explosive arrows

• Must fully draw in order to fire an explosive arrow
• Explosive arrows will stick into the world or a player on hit
• Explosive arrow on hit damage reduced to 40 (headshot: 64)
• Explosive arrows will explode in a 5m radius, dealing 25 extra damage after a 2s delay

Damage per bullet increased to 23 (was 22)

Increased rate of fire

Choke speed significantly increased

Gun Shield Generator added

Previous Hotfix: Decreased damage to 24 (was 25)

Base: decreased to 8 (was 10)

White: decreased to 9 (was 11)

Blue: decreased to 10 (was 12)

Purple/Gold: decreased to 11 (was 14)

Slightly increased rate of fire

Added laser sights as an accepted attachment

Greatly increased rate of fire at base and all bolt tiers

Damage per pellet reduced to 6 (was 8)

Increased headshot damage by 1

Improved hipfire values by normalizing it to the other SMGs

Increased limb damage to 0.9 (was 0.7)

Increased limb damage to 0.8 (was 0.7)

Increased limb damage to 0.9 (was 0.7)

Arenas returns, play the classic mode on fan favorite maps Overflow, Drop-Off, and Encore

New round tunings, first team to win 3 rounds wins the match

Original tunings and mechanics but updated to include weapons and Legends that released since Arenas was last active

No Legend perks or upgrades, buy your loadout and fight in intense 3v3 Deathmatch combat

Arenas refresh with updated tunings and mechanics that allow players to focus on combat, firepower, and fresh strategies

Overflow, Drop-Off, and Encore maps return with updated traversal options to get you moving

Every player is given the meds they need for the round free of charge, Supply Bins have been removed from the maps

Each weapon can only be purchased once, try new combinations and plan your loadouts accordingly

Rounds 2 and 4 feature discounted weapons to help you experiment with powerful new loadouts

All Legends have a 1 Round cooldown on their Ults, and store economy and Ring have been tuned

Care Packages have been boosted with Armor, select Boost Kits, and a couple surprise weapons

"Auto" option attempts to adapt the Apex Bots to what is known about your skill and is the default setting at the start of every match

The difficulty selector can only be updated by the squad leader

The difficulty selector can be accessed via the "Customize Bot Royale" tab in the player's inventory menu OR via the Customize Bot Royale button in the in-game menu

The starting Ranked tier and division is now based on your hidden skill value from previous Ranked seasons

• If no skill value exists for Ranked, the Unranked Trios skill value is used to set initial placement

The rule that reset any player that skipped a season of Ranked back to Bronze IV has been removed and all initial placements are based on skill value

When a Ranked Ladder is active, all players in Ranked will compete on a personal skill-based leaderboard for bonus rewards

Your best 10 RP scores during the Ladder will be counted for your leaderboard position, which will determine your final placement and rewards when the Ladder ends. Your lowest score will always be replaced by a higher RP score, so additional matches are beneficial

10 Ranked matches must be completed to be placed on the leaderboard and to qualify for Ladder rewards

All Ranked play continues as normal, allowing promotion and demotion as normal

Reward requirement: all players must now play a minimum number of Ranked matches before they can earn end-of-season Ranked rewards based on their highest tier earned.

Ladder Champion: players who reach champion a minimum number of times in the same split will gain access to the Ladder Champion Dive Trail for a limited time:

• Granted at the start of the next split and can be used for the rest of that split
• Removed at the end of the split unless the challenge has been completed again

Blocked doors should no longer occasionally open towards the player

Certain POIs should now list the correct Arsenals

Control: weapons should no longer occasionally swap after upgrading

Fixed an issue with the 2x-4x sight on the G7 scout Reactive skins

Gold Loot Bins once again spawn loot as they should

Sprinting out of mantle should no longer cause inconsistent sprint speeds depending on settings

Storm Point: fixed some issues with the ring VFX sometimes disappearing

Fixed rare issue where you could shoot while phased after using a Void Siphon

Portal should no longer be created for an enemy that died while being summoned by the Void Nexus

Conduit: fixed crash with Passive when allies disconnected in certain states

Lifeline: D.O.C. should once again deploy sans the broken targeting state (Previous Hotfix)

Loba: Heat Shade skin is no longer too visible at a distance

Cloak while healing should no longer occasionally end early when exiting a Lifeline Halo

Ult cloak should no longer end early when immediately reviving an ally

Wattson: Passive once again recharges extra shields given by Controller class perk

Added additional info panel to some screens

Added sorting ability to some screens: default, rarity, owned, and alphabetical

Lifeline: reduced the intensity of D.O.C.'s teleport trail to reduce visual clutter

Previous Battle Pass Reactive items are now available in the Exotic store

"Progressed and Complete" challenges in Match Summary now show up to 15 challenges (was 5)

Reduced the size and frequency of the Accelerated Weapon screen effects to be less obstructive

Slightly reduced the amount of time you are locked out of ADS after charging a Sentinel

Vantage: moved energizing Sniper's Mark's sniper with an Ult Accelerant to "reload"

Fixed rare cases where "Gameplay Volume when Spectating" would be applied during regular gameplay

Fixed a rare issue where players situated uphill would briefly have occlusion filtering applied

Reduced volume of Pathfinder grapple for player (enemy audio not affected)

Revenant wall climb footsteps clearer in the mix

Slight reduction of Thermite volume over time at distance

Slight reduction in volume for Horizon's Black Hole relative to FOV

Storm Point updated to use a modern GPU-driven terrain rendering system.

• Players may not notice the difference since the overall map content has not been changed, but this system improves CPU rendering time, fixes lighting artifacts throughout the map, and allows for much greater texture fidelity through virtual texturing

Xbox One and Playstation 4 have been migrated to the Rendering Hardware Interface (RHI), which is now being used on all platforms. As a result, Xbox One and Playstation 4 leverage the same multithreaded rendering architecture as PC and current-gen consoles.

Additional improvements to the framerate stability with texture streaming enabled

Fixed an issue that could cause freezes or black screens for some players

Fixed an issue that could lead to incorrect GPU timings for a small number of players, which would cause blurry resolutions when "Adaptive Resolution FPS Target" is enabled

Improved performance of loading asset data onto the GPU (this can fix stutters and issues with missing models for some players)