With just under a week until the start ofApex LegendsLegacy, fans are itching to know what kind of changes will be coming to the game. Luckily, today Respawn released the patch notes for the upcoming Season 9.
Apex LegendsSeason 9 or Legacy is introducing plenty of new things to the game. The biggest addition is obviously the new Arena mode which you’re able to read aboutright here in our preview.
There are plenty of other big changes forApexLegacy alongside the Arena mode. Here’s everything you need to know about theApex LegendsSeason 9 patch notes.
Apex Season 9 Patch Notes
There’s plenty of important things to dive into from today’s patch notes. you may findthe full list right herefrom the officialApexwebsite, but here’s the list of changes coming to each of the Legends:
LOW PROFILE CHARACTERS
After our successful experiment with Wraith’s hitboxes, we are now confident that we can solve balance issues between smaller and larger Legends through changes to their kits and hitboxes. It is finally time for Low Profile to go the way of the dodo. (Sorry dodos.)
Lifeline’s kit was not in a particularly healthy place. The Passive shield was extremely strong to the point of frustration, while her Tactical and Ultimate seemed like they were becoming more and more obsolete. These changes are aimed to redistribute this big power differential between all of her abilities, making D.O.C. and Care Package more powerful and effective, while tamping down on the highly binary and situational Combat Revive.
Octane continues to perform really well after the latest changes. Too well? We still love the frequency of the Jump Pad, but we’d like to make using Stim something Octane thinks about doing at the right time, instead of always slamming it by default.
Horizon is powerful and popular, but that’s not why we’re making these changes. We believe that mistakes in Apex Legends should be punishable, and when Horizon could just get herself out of bad positioning while popping a whole battery, this just wasn’t true. These changes have two goals: 1) make it much more possible for enemies to shoot Horizon as she sits in her gravity lift and 2) make gravity lift less of an impromptu sniper tower.
More help is coming, but we want to be very careful how we buff him so that he doesn’t just become the Legend that kills you with his abilities.
Last patch we optimized Bangalore’s smoke particles and inadvertently thinned them out. This aims to get her back to the original visuals while keeping the optimizations.
BLOODHOUND
Bloodhound’s scan is strong, but the goal of this change in particular is to reconsider assists and their implications for Ranked Points. There’s enough intrinsic value in sonar scans, and it’s a slippery slope to consider crediting assists for other non-damaging abilities. Crypto will remain an exception. The active nature of Crypto’s drone scan is notably different from the passive option with Bloodhound. This should encourage Bloodhound players to act on the information they get from the scan, to eliminate instances where they might try to snag a quick assist without committing to a fight in the same way Crypto has to.
