Here are the Apex Season 22 Patch Notes.
Full details are here ahead of Season 22 of Apex Legends. We've gathered everything changing in Apex Season 22 into a set of patch notes.
Apex Season 22 details:
Apex Season 22 Patch Notes
New Map: E-District
The first new map to come to Apex Legends since 2022 will be E-District. This is an intense, close quarters city based map. Developers have taken inspiration from eastern countries like Japan to build out POI's on this map. District has been long rumoured in Apex Legends, and this is sure to be a huge shakeup to the Apex Games.
As always, a new map brings new features. E-District introduces 'Gravity Launchers', which act as mini Gravity Cannons and give you a new way to move around the map or reach high places.
This is an incredibly dense map. For lore lovers, there are call backs and easter eggs galore. Devs ask "if you aren't busy getting shot at, please please look around".
Apex Season 22 Patch Notes: Aim Assist Changes
The Apex Season 22 Patch Notes finally brings a change to Aim Assist. This adjustment will apply to controller players on PC. Console only lobbies will be unaffected.
The reduction will be about 25%. Devs hope this will help balance the playing field.
New revival mechanic
Season 22 will introduce a new Revival mechanic for standard matches. When a player dies, a respawn timer kicks in. As long as someone on your team is alive, when the timer hits 0, that player will respawn near the team.
There are ways to reduce the timer too, dealing damage and getting knocks mean less time to wait before you're back at full strength.
This feature shuts off in the final rings, increasing the intensity of the final moments in a match. Developers want to help encourage players to be more aggressive, take risks and still have a chance to make a comeback.
Battle Sense
Battle Sense, that first debuted in Solos, rolls out to the entire game. The features will be as follows:
Better Ammo Awareness & Feedback
- Critical Ammo state will now kick on when a player has 0 relevant ammo in their inventory
- On screen Low Ammo indicators kick on earlier allowing players more opportunity to find ammo
- Indicator also now displays the icon of the ammo type
- Pinging for ammo will now display the ammo icon in the kill feed
- When emptying a weapon of all reserve ammo it will now automatically ping that the player is in need of ammo
- When looking at ammo on the ground the tooltip now displays compatibility with any of your currently equipped weapons
Enemy Health Bars
When damaging an enemy, players are now shown the enemy’s Armor and Health state. This Health Bar is only active for a brief time after dealing damage and then fades away. Health Bars, like Enemy Highlights require direct line of sight.
Enemy Highlight
Enemy players will now be highlighted with a red outline similar to how allies are highlighted with a blue one. The highlight is most prominent at close ranges and the intensity fades as targets get farther away. Enemy Highlights require direct line of sight (you can breathe now, Bangalore mains).
Both Enemy Health Bars and Enemy Highlights can be toggled on/off in Settings.
Bin Refreshes
Loot Bins are getting a change in the Apex Season 22 Patch Notes too. Mid way through the game all loot bins will be re-rolled and closed up, giving you a second chance to loot a POI.
There will also be two new types of Loot Bin. A Gold Loot Bin, spawning rare items and a Mythic Loot Bin. Only one of these will spawn per game, and it will be marked on the map for all players. Immense rewards await for the first team to claim it.
Apex Season 22 Patch Notes Balance Changes
Apex Season 22 Legend Changes
Alter
- Void Nexus
- Channel time when knocked decreased to 2s (was 3s)
- Chase portal duration decreased 8s (was 10s)
- Chase portal opening delay increased to 8s (was 6s)
- Increased travel speed to void nexus by about 40% (was 1800)
- Ult cooldown reduced to 3 min (was 3.5m)
- When knocked, you can travel to a friendly Void Nexus without looking at it by pressing character action (H key/D-pad down)
- Removed option to press character action to destroy your own Void Nexus (H key/D-pad down)
- Upgrades: Level 2
- Ult Cooldown: removed ( Level 2 )
- NEW Ringmaster: gain access to Ring Consoles
Ballistic
- Whistler: lock-on time decreased to 0.1s (was 0.3s)
Huge Crypto buff revealed in Apex Season 22 Patch Notes
Crypto
- Surveillance Drone: cooldown decreased to 30s (was 40s)
- Upgrades
- NEW: It’s called Off the Grid: Crypto becomes cloaked when in drone
- While hidden from sight, Crypto’s cloaking will still emit a close-range cloaking sound to sus his location and ability scans will still reveal his location
- Threat Vision related skills will not reveal Crypto
- Improved Satellite Imagery: Ult now scans anyone it hits for 4s and will track through walls
- Quick Ping: removed, improved handling now integrated into base kit
- NEW: It’s called Off the Grid: Crypto becomes cloaked when in drone
Lifeline
- Upgrade - Gold-Plated: replaced Gold EVO Cache with Battery
Rampart
- Sheila
- Ammo drains from pip charge with use
- Maximum number of place turrets allowed is now 1
- Need 1 PIP of Ultimate change to draw or place Sheila
- No longer requires a full charge to equip
- Now uses an Ammo-Style Ultimate model
Related articles
Seer
- Focus of Attention: healthbars persist for duration of Silence
- Heartbeat Sensor
- Passive move speed has been increased to weapon sprint speed
- Passive is now quieter when active
- Upgrades
- Focus Scan: removed
- NEW Split Focus: gain an additional Tac charge
Vantage
- Echo Relocation: no longer requires LOS to Echo to launch
- Can launch when LOS is blocked
- Can now cancel the tac mid charge
- Tac reticle will turn red when echo is behind you and you are launching
- Will slide-around boxes and geometry as best it can to reach Echo
- Sniper’s Mark
- 2nd Shot Multiplier is now 2.5x (was 2x)
- Can hit "Reload" when in ult to use an Ult Accel
- Spotter's Lens
- NEW Ranged Tracking
- Waypoint on PING within Passive range will track enemy for 10s
- Will not show within 100m (for each ally individually)
- Recon Info
- added to all optics
- expanded passive scanning screen area to be more consistent
- NEW Ranged Tracking
- Upgrade - Ult Reload: now also doubles Ult Accel use speed in addition to providing 2 extra bullets
Wattson
- Upgrades
- Power Pylon: now regenerates shield charge
- Split Current: removed
- Emergency Power - Added
- Increases Shield Regen Rate of Interception Pylon
Two Legend Classes are also getting a big adjustment. The Recon and Controller class might be popular in the ALGS, but are hardly used in Ranked and Pubs.
- Controller legends will get a 25HP buff when they are inside the zone. This will allow them to focus on getting into the final zone, instead of having to stay on the edge of zone to gather Evo.
- You will now be able to remotely pick up your tacticals.
- The Survey Beacon will now show different information. The Beacon spawn rate is higher, the scan will update frequently for 15 seconds, but will only scan 500m and reward reduced Evo of 75.
- All Recon Legends will get 'Threat Vision' while aiming down sights. This won't work through Bangalore Smoke.
Weapons
There are a range of changes coming to weapons in the Apex Season 22 Patch Notes.
Akimbo
Dual wield two P2020s or two Mozambiques this season by finding and interacting with a second P2020 or Mozambique to automatically enter Akimbo mode.
- Aiming tightens hipfire spread instead of looking down sights
- Attachments are mirrored to the second weapon
- Both P2020 and Mozambique are automatic in Akimbo
- Increased rate of fire
- Longer reload times
- Magazine size is doubled
- Optics are disabled while in Akimbo
- Toggle select fire to holster your second weapon and re-enable your optic.
LMGs
- All LMGs now benefit from the Reverse Hipfire mechanic found on the Care Package Devotion
- New Hop-Up: Gun Shield Generator (see Hop-Ups section above)
Alternator
- Magazine size changes
- Base: 19 (unchanged)
- White: 23 (was 22)
- Blue: 26 (was 25)
- Purple/Gold: 28 (was 27)
CAR
- Magazine size changes
- Base: 19 (unchanged)
- White: 22 (was 21)
- Blue: 24 (was 23)
- Purple/Gold: 27 (was 26)
Devotion (Care Package)
- Empty reload speed decreased
- Gun Shield Generator added
- Reverse hip fire improved; shots needed for max hipfire reduced to 14 (was 21)
Flatline
- Magazine size changes
- Base: 19 (was 20)
- White: 23 (was 25)
- Blue: 27 (was 28)
- Purple/Gold: 29 (was 30)
Hemlok
- Burst Delay slightly increased
- Damage reduced to 19 (was 20)
- Magazine Size Reduction
- Base: 18 (unchanged)
- White: 21 (was 24)
- Blue: 24 (was 27)
- Purple/Gold: 30 (unchanged)
P2020 (Single)
- Damage increased to 21 (was 18)
- Hammer Point damage decreased to 23 (was 27)
- Magazine size changes
- Base: 10 (was 14)
- White: 11 (was 16)
- Blue: 12 (was 18)
- Purple/Gold: 14 (was 21)
Mozambique (Single)
- Hammer Point Damage for a full blast reduced to 54 (was 60)
- Rate of fire significantly increased
- Shotgun Bolt rate of fire multiplier decreased at all levels
Mastiff
- Damage increased to 15 (was 11)
- Pellet count reduced to 6 (was 8)
Peacekeeper
- Damage increased per pellet to 11 (was 9)
- Pellet count reduced to 9 (was 11)
- Blast pattern shape changed
R301
- Magazine size changes
- Base: 21(was 18)
- White: 23 (was 20)
- Blue 28: (was 25)
- Purple/Gold: 31 (was 28)
RE-45
- Magazine size changes
- Base: 18 (was 16)
- White: 20 (was 19)
- Blue: 23 (was 22)
- Purple/Gold: 26 (was 25)
Rampage
- Increase projectile size while Revved Up
Care Package and Gold Weapons
Care Package
- EVA-8 returns to the floor
- Blast pattern size slightly increased
- Damage increased to 7 (was 6)
- Fire rate decreased
- Now takes Boosted Loader Hop-Up
- 4 shots remaining activation
- Quick reload overflows Magazine by 2
- Slight increase to recoil
- R-99 enters the Care Package
- ADS strafe speed increased
- Improved recoil
- New Feature: Damage fall-off
- Damage increased to 14 at close range
- Damage falls off to 10 at 11+ meters
- No movement penalty when equipped
- EVO Cache Spawn Rate in the first wave increased to 100% (was 50%)
Gold Weapon Rotation
- Mozambique Akimbo, P2020 Akimbo, R-301, Rampage, Sentinel
Stay tuned to esports.gg for the latest Apex Legends Season 22 news.
