Apex Legends‘the latest season is here and it could be one of the biggest season changes the game has ever had. The Season 8 update includes Fuse, the game’s newest Legend, the new 30-30 Repeater rifle and a newly destroyed version of Kings Canyon, which is expected to offer many new areas to explore.
The biggest news this season is Fuse, a legend that is dedicated entirely to explosives. His passive ability allows him to hold more grenades than other Legends and shoot them more accurately. His tactical skill is a cluster bomb that fires small explosions that can stun enemy players, and his Ultimate skill knocks down a missile barrage that creates a wall of flame around a small area.
This season also brought some major changes to Kings Canyon, after a ship collided with the map and destroyed several of its cities. Players can now explore new areas of the map, including Spotted Lakes, which has a sniper nest. As for weapons, season 8 adds the 30-30 Repeater, a heavy, slow-fire rifle that needs to create new ammunition between each powerful shot.
To take a look at all the changes that Respawn Entertainment has brought to Apex Legends season 8 you can check the full patch notes. The Apex Legends Season 8’s patch drops when the season starts February 2 at 1:00 pm ET.
Apex Legends season 8 patch notes
Quality of life updates
Damage counter
- We now add a damage counter to the HUD. This was a highly requested feature, so we’re excited to allow people to track more easily to pursue these badges and challenges!
Dripping ammunition
- Dripping weapons or ammunition into your inventory displays your current ammunition count along with “player wants ammo” in the quick chat.
Colorblind update
- Healing and revival will now follow color blind rules when color blind settings are enabled
Lore Blurbs on Canon Skins
- Some of our skins are canonical and others are just for fun. For skins that represent an important part of the character’s background story, we have added a short synopsis to describe the meaning of this skin in the life of the Legend.
Legend Meta
Wraith:
Developer note:
We know that Wraith will always be a popular choice, considering the amount of combat usefulness in his kit. After many adjustments to his skills and animations, the fact remains that his winning rate remains at the top, as it has been since day one. With the season 7 hitbox settings on Pathfinder, we were able to control its power without nerfying its kit. We hope to do the same with Wraith.
Wraith now has a slightly larger hitbox than his other little legends, but the changes remain true to his model. Even with these changes, Wraith remains small and difficult to achieve. It will keep the Profile Low as we monitor its usage and gain rates to see if the energy can be returned in other ways in the future.
Rampart:
- Increasing the angle of Sheila from 120 ° to 180 °
- The health of the wall in the construction phase increased from 1 HP to 45 HP (sniper shots still pierce)
Developer note:
Rampart has remained at the bottom of our performance metrics since its launch. Her kit is very developed around the proactive configuration of a powerful position, but in a game as fast as the Apex, we determined that your walls should have some reactive power as well. We are keeping a close eye on this one.
Horizon:
- Gravity Lift’s effective cooldown increased from 21s to 25s. The 15s cooling timer will now start when the Gravity Lift disappears.
Developer note:
Horizon launched strong, to the point of rivaling Wraith in victory rate and choice rate. For now, we are monitoring its use and checking whether the cooling changes have a significant effect or not.
Octane:
Launch Pad Remastered: Many players should know about Octane’s “super jump” that was possible with a well synchronized jump while hitting the pad. After the double jump option was introduced, there was an entry conflict that led to unreliable use. We decided to add some launch options that are better defined than the old super jump.
- Hitting the jump block from a standing position will launch players along a high arc (the speed and trajectory of the old super jump).
- From a crouched position, players will launch over a low arc, meaning that they will fly lower, but farther in the horizontal direction.
Cryptography:
- Remove the ability to glue bow stars to friendly drones
Wolf:
- Loot within closed maintenance packages is now visible with Eye for Quality and accessible through the Black Market Boutique.
Caustic:
- All gas will now dissipate as soon as the Caustics team is eliminated.
Mirage:
- Mirage baits create step sounds.
Developer note:
This change was wrongly mentioned in the notes for the Fight Night patch when it was actually coming with this patch. Mirage baits will now have step audio in a limited capacity. There won’t be a tornado of steps if an enemy Mirage comes around, but it must be a little more difficult to identify the real Mirage with just the audio tracks.
Weapon target
Full Rotation
- Removed: Wingman, Sentinel, Havoc, G7, Alternator
- Added: R-301, 30-30 Repeater, Mozambique, Longbow DMR, Spitfire
Attachments
- We are removing the Gold Barrel from the loot pile
Hop Ups
- The Double Tap jump will be removed from the loot stack
- Anvil Rounds jump will be added to the loot stack
Volt
- Bullet damage decreased from 16 to 15
Alternator
- Bullet damage increased from 15 to 16
Spitfire
- Bullet damage increased from 18 to 19
- The reload speed increased from 2.8 seconds to 3.2
- Empty reload speed increased from 3.33 seconds to 3.8
EVA 8
- Fire rate increased from 2.0 to 2.1
Bug fixes
Caustic
- Sonar skills no longer hinder Caustic’s prominent view.
Wolf
- Fixed some exploitable areas in Kings Canyon that Loba managed to reach through his bracelet.
Rampart
- Jumpads in control of the city of Octane no longer allow Rampart to place Sheila over them.
- Fixed an issue with Rampart’s passive persistence, even after changing characters in the firing range
Havoc
- Fixed an issue that caused Havoc to be 100% accurate when fired with the hip through Rampart’s Amped Cover.
Peacekeeper
- Fixed a POV issue that occurred when using Horizon skills and then immediately go to ADS with a Peacekeeper.
Clubs
- Ability reactivated to invite friends to the friends list club
- Fixed an issue that caused some users who chose not to participate in the “Last squad invitations” to not appear on the club’s event schedules when they were in the top 5 of a match
- Failing to connect to the club’s database no longer leads to a misleading “Kicked Out of Club” message
- Players will no longer be kicked out of clubs when switching to another Xbox profile.
Misc
- Fixed an issue with crowds not cheering for Pathfinder’s Town acquisition.
- Fixed an issue that prevented some family heirlooms from appearing in the relic store.
- Fixed an issue that allowed Thermites to do damage through certain walls in Olympus.