Apex Legends: Takeover Patch Notes (Feb 10, 2025): what changed

Carry extra ammo per ammo stack

Have two new grenade-only slots in inventory

Retain access to Red Extended Supply Bins

All 1P weapons muzzle flashes have been updated

• 95% less visual noise over the line of sight (sparks, smoke, glows etc)
• Noise/visuals kept below line of sight
• Reduced size of muzzle flashes
• Optimized particle count
• Cleaned noise from shells ejects
• Cleaned lingering elements (smoke, sparks, etc)
• Light toned down to avoid flickering on weapons and environment models

R-99 returns to the floor (balance details below)

Peacekeeper enters the Care Package (balance details below)

Max level achievable by earning EVO is now Level 3 (Purple Armor)

• Red Armor no longer earnable through leveling

EVO required to reach Level 3 increased to 1700 (was 1350)

Assists with an Accelerated Weapon equipped will no longer grant the extra 30% ult charge in Mixtape Modes

Stations across all POI's on every map with fixed locations

Ammo type provided randomizes each match

Equipped with an enhancing terminal that upgrades one weapon matching the ammo type per Arsenal

• Enhancing grants an upgraded attachment and provides an optic if one is missing

Cells now take 2.5s to complete (was 3s)

Syringes now take 4s (was 5s)

Players now start with 4 Cells and 4 Syringes (was 2 each)

Battery and Medkit spawn rates have been slightly increased

White, blue, and purple have been removed from the loot pool

Players no longer start with a white helmet

Reworked into Gold Armor Upgrade Helmet

Offers Improved Minor Healing perk that doubles the output of Cells & Syringes

Sets the player's Armor to 100 regardless of Level

Leveling still required to unlock Legend Upgrades, but no longer affects armor while equipped

No headshot damage reduction

Chance to appear in Gold Bins after Bin Reset

Red tier introduced

Sets player's armor to 125 regardless of level

Leveling is still required to unlock Legend Upgrades, but no longer affects armor while this item is equipped

Red helmets offer no headshot damage reduction

Appears in the Mythic Bin & late game Care Packages

Significantly increased crawl speed while knocked with and without knockdown shield raised

Now able to see the name and loot tier of each POI projected over the POI during first drop

Also includes Arsenal info to help drive drop choice

Hop Ups: Hammerpoints have been removed from the loot pool

Gold Magazines: time to reload while stowed decreased to 2s (was 5s)

Optics: 1x Holo optic has been removed from the loot pool

Replicator: reduced the amount of ammo to 1 stack per weapon (was 2 stacks)

Damage increased to 21 (was 18)

Headshot damage: 27

Beam Shot damage increased to 70 (was 53)

Damage increased to 20 (was 19)

Headshot damage: 26

Damage increased to 17 (was 16)

Headshot damage: 22

Damage increased to 14 (was 13)

Headshot damage: 18

Damage increased to 19 (was 18)

Headshot damage: 25

Damage increased to 16 (was 15)

Headshot damage: 20

Damage increased to 20 (was 18)

Headshot damage: 25

Damage increased to 21 (was 19)

Headshot damage: 26

Damage increased to 30 (was 26)

Headshot damage: 38

Reduced the decay rate of the revved state over time

No charge damage increased to 43 (was 39)

Full charge damage increased to 58 (was 53)

Slightly increased projectile size at long range

Damage increased to 75 (was 70)

Headshot damage: 120

Fire rate slightly reduced

Removed Deadeye's Tempo passive

Shattercaps damage per pellet increased to 13 (was 12)

Damage increased to 35 (was 33)

Headshot damage: 56

Fire rate slightly reduced

Slightly increased projectile size at long range

Damage per bullet increased to 22 (was 21)

Headshot damage: 105 (all bullets)

Slightly increased projectile size at long range

Damage increased to 24 (was 21)

Headshot damage: 30

Damage increased to 14 (was 13)

Headshot damage: 18

Damage increased to 48 (was 45)

Headshot damage: 72

With added magazine - White: 6, Blue: 7, Purple/Gold: 8

Damage increased to 18 (was 16)

Headshot damage: 22

Damage increased to 14 (was 13)

Headshot damage: 17

Added Laser Sight barrel attachment

Damage increased to 16 (was 15)

Headshot damage: 19

Damage decreased to 13 (was 14)

Headshot damage: 16

No longer has damage fall-off

ADS strafe speed normalized to other SMGs

No longer eliminates movement penalty when equipped

Recoil increased

Damage increased to 16 (was 15)

Headshot damage: 19

Damage per pellet increased to 8 (was 7)

No longer deals increased headshot damage

Damage per pellet increased to 16 (was 14)

No longer deals increased headshot damage

Damage per pellet increased to 16 (was 15)

Headshot damage: 60 (all pellets)

Damage per pellet increased to 12 (was 9)

Headshot damage: 135 (all pellets)

Choke speed significantly increased

Fully choked blast pattern is significantly tighter

Pellets pierce dealing 50% damage after the first enemy hit

Base damage unchanged

Headshot damage (min. distance): 135

Headshot damage (max. distance): 198

Autofire headshot damage (min. distance): 101

Autofire headshot damage (max. distance): 149

Limb damage reduced to 70% (was 90%)

Damage increased to 150 (was 140)

Headshot damage: 210

Base damage unchanged

Headshot damage: 108

Limb damage reduced to 70% (was 80%)

Base damage unchanged

Headshot damage: 126

Limb damage reduced to 70% (was 90%)

Removed Deadeye's Tempo passive

New perks: Combat Reserve, Stowed Reload, & Battle Surge (detailed above)

Removed Carry Extra Ammo & Access Weapon Supply Bin perks (now integrated into Combat Reserve)

Heal Expert Removed: Support Legends no longer heal double with small meds or have increased movement speed while healing

Removed ability to scan Death Boxes to reveal killers, but they'll still show on the minimap and map with info on how recently they died

NEW: press the Jump key while in the air to perform a dash

Tether plants at location of projectile on impact rather than the hit player's location

Tether is slightly harder to break and no longer gets instantly broken by some abilities

Range increased to 100m (was ~76m)

Travel time reduced

Improved reliability of placement

Removed one frame delay on placement preview

Now has VFX to show max range when in placement mode

Murder Machine: removed

One Minute to Live: removed

Greedy Snare: moved to Level 2

NEW Dual Breach: adds additional ult charge

NEW Ghost in the Machine: adds additional Dash charge

Now upgrades with Level by default

Can now carry Crate Weapons and they will gain infinite ammo with Ult

Tac now has 2 charges

Smart Bullet on ground damage increased to 20 (was 10)

• This damage is now equal to the direct hit damage

Tempest: squad gains a speed boost when empowered by Ult

Sling Shot: removed (integrated into base kit)

NEW Killing Time: increases duration of Ult by 15s

Extra Bullets: doubles the number of Tac charges (was +1 charge)

Quiet Time: Overheat now also silences enemy for 6s

EMP: once again destroys Gibraltar's Dome of Protection

Ult back to starting at 50% charge

Once again destroys Gibraltar's Dome of Protection

Will now destroy Newcastle's Mobile Shield

Rampart's new experimental care packages deliver three Mythic R-301 weapon variants

Hornet (Yellow): faster movement and reload speed, Tac charge on shield break, Ult charge on knock

Limelight (Green): helps replenish your squad's health and shields when damaging enemies

Vermilion (Red): increases critical hit damage and triggers Thermite on knocked enemies

In collaboration with Creator Commissioner: Ninjayla

Respawn Tokens are a new Mythic rarity Survival Slot item only available in this Takeover. If you are eliminated with this item in your inventory, you'll immediately respawn back into the action

At the start of the match, all players are given one Respawn Token

Collect additional Respawn Tokens from: eliminating other players, Care Packages, and Mythic Supply Bins

No respawn limit and no penalty for respawning multiple times

Usable until the start of the final ring, then any equipped Respawn Tokens will be exchanged for EVO Armor XP

They only last a short while when on the ground, so pick one up if you need one!

Respawn Beacons can still be used to bring back players without Respawn Tokens

In collaboration with Creator Commissioner: Ninjayla

Weapons spawn fully kitted

Only weapons on the ground are Gold and Mythic tier

Sights can be looted and swapped out, but all other attachments come with the weapon

Increased supply drops each round which carry two Mythic tier weapons

• The second Mythic weapon replaces the Evo Caches
• Reduced Evo for scanning Care Packages

In collaboration with Creator Commissioner: Oraxe

Three Strikes returns with a twist modifier

All Legends will be selected for you before entering the Drop Ship

Respawning will select a new random Legend

Squads can have duplicate Legends

With each EVO level up, you'll gain all upgrades for that Level automatically and your Level will be maintained through respawns

Level 20 minimum still required to access Ranked and this is reflected as one of the challenges

Existing players above Level 20 retain access

Party restrictions apply: all members must complete challenges to access Ranked

Notes will appear to assist with Legends, weapons, loot, and gameplay scenarios

Low ammo or health items also receive prompts to ping nearby desired loot items

On by default for accounts below Level 20 and will turn off once that threshold is reached

• Can be manually turned on/off through the System menu under "Tutorial Systems"

Re-designed all trials

Removed weapon level restriction for trials

Fixed an issue where the Mythic Bin could become merged with a Gold Bin

Fixed more firing range realm spawning issues:

• Thermite VFX
• Maggie ball bouncing off of invisible doors
• Mirage decoys getting stuck on invisible doors

Fixed rare issue that could prevent the ring VFX and other particles from spawning

Mixtape: swapping to secondary akimbo weapons from loadouts will no longer play the first draw animation

PK will no longer occasionally lock up after using the Choke

Rechamber times can no longer be bypassed on the Sentinel and PK by swapping attachments

Reactive weapons will no longer lose their reactive state after swapping

Squadmate animations once again play during Legend selection

"View upgrades" button in Legend locker will no longer take you to friends list

Alter / Ash / Wraith: Void Vision (enemy highlighting) no longer applies on enemy portals

Alter: Upgrades Tactical Cooldown+ and Void Vision returned to correct tier placements

Crashing will no longer occur when gliding or using the D.O.C. Heal Drone

Gliding will no longer occasionally lower performance

Pathfinder grapple can once again attach to D.O.C. Halo

Fixed a crash that could occur when using Mirage's Ult near Gravity Cannons

Lifeline's D.O.C. now cloaks properly to prevent revealing Mirage (previous hotfix)

Newcastle: Ult no longer canceled by Ash's snare

Resolved rare crash that could occur when pouncing

Shadow Pounce now plays leap audio when spectating a Revenant

Wattson: fixed upgrade that was allowing the placement of two interception pylons

Valkyrie: Tac now working inside of D.O.C. Halo and near Dome of Protection's edges

Vantage: sprinting no longer available while using Ult Accelerant

Added further hardening to prevent hipfire cheats

XP Gain, Challenge, and Pass progression added to end of match flow

Squad Summary section now picks from a small set of stats instead of always showing "Revives," "Respawns," and "Time Survived" for unranked Duos and Trios

Mixtape: disabled assist Ult gain with accelerated weapons which allowed for some Ults to be used too quickly

Reactive skins now show their effects in the lobby menus

Some Rat Spots have been eliminated across all maps

Can now use geometry in the environment as cover

Can also utilize "peeking" behavior to provide more of a challenge

Plethora of bug fixes across all parts of the Bot experience

Improvements and tuning on Easy and Normal difficulty Bots (E1 - N3 Difficulty)

Added Mono output option for players with limited hearing

• Mono audio combines left and right sound channels into one, making it easier for players with hearing impairments to hear all audio cues. It ensures no important sounds are missed, regardless of ear or stereo positioning.

Friendly footsteps volume and audible distance reduced

Friendly skydive volume reduced to allow for strategizing during drop (enemy volumes unchanged)

Increased importance for zipline attach/detach and doors to ensure they are heard more consistently

Reduced volume of squadmate and ambient audio while enemies are being revived

Reduced volume for Fuse's Tac and Ult

Reduced volume for Survey Beacons and Ring Consoles for self and squadmates (enemy volumes unchanged)

Improved CPU rendering performance on all consoles

Changed the way that ultrawide monitors handle 16:9 and 16:10 resolutions in full-screen mode. They will now have pillarboxing (black borders on left and right) and no stretching. This behavior can be disabled with +mat_wide_pillarbox 0 launch argument, if stretching is desired.

CPU rendering performance improved 5%-10% (situation based) and some frame drops may be reduced

Added a launch argument +mat_minimize_on_alt_tab 1 that allows behavior similar to DX11 where tabbing away from/clicking out of the fullscreen game causes Apex to minimize

Improved loading performance after compiling shaders for the first time (up to 30% faster on some systems). Note that shaders always need to be pre-loaded to minimize gameplay stuttering.

Added a launch notification for players with incompatible GPUs that DX11 support will be discontinued