Apex Legends Season 19 Patch Notes: Ignite

The Apex Legends Season 19 Patch Notes are finally here. With new map changes, adding a new legend, and other seasonal changes here is exactly what gamers can expect from the newest season.

Apex Ignite Patch Notes

General Updates

• Cross Progression will be rolling out in phases across existing platforms
• Holosprays can now be deployed while skydiving
• Rendering Hardware Interface (RHI) code on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S

Crafting Rotation

• RE-45 and 30-30 Repeater leave the crafter and are back on the floor
• R-301 and Volt enter the crafter
• Boosted Loader removed from crafting rotation
• Digital Threat Optic was removed from crafting rotation
• Hammerpoint Rounds added to crafting rotation

Care Package Weapon Rotation

• L-Star EMG returns to the floor
  • Removed Disruptor Rounds
  • Projectile size reduced
  • Improved recoil pattern
  • Reduced randomness in the early part of the recoil pattern
  • Damage increased to 17 (was 16)
  • Barrel attachment improved to match other weapons
• Wingman enters the care package
  • New hop-up – Skullpiercer Elite: ignores helmet headshot damage reduction
  • Boosted Loader hop-up attached
  • Base damage increased to 50 (was 45)
  • Projectile size increased
  • 110 ammo

Care Packages

• Care Packages will now always have 1 weapon at all stages of the game

Gold Weapons Rotation

• Havoc, RE-45, C.A.R. SMG, L-Star, Longbow DMR

Hop-Ups

• Boosted Loader: removed from floor loot
• Turbocharger: Removed 1 damage reduction when equipped

Apex Weapon Nerfs And Buffs

30-30 Repeater

• Increased hip-fire spread

Bocek Bow

• Faster initial draw speed
• Select Fire button now toggle Shatter Caps
• Tightened Shatter Caps blast pattern

Charge Rifle

• Improved bullet drop ballistics
• Increased projectile size

Hemlok

• Damage reduced to 21 (was 22)

Longbow DMR

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• Increased projectile size

Sentinel

• Increased Amped Shot projectile size

Legends Nerfs And Buffs

Bangalore

• Double Time: reduced duration to 2s (was 3s)
• Smoke Launcher: smoke lifetime reduced to 18s (was 23s)
• Rolling Thunder: stun duration reduced to 6s (was 8s)

Catalyst

• Piercing Spikes
  • Core no longer blocks projectiles, allowing bullets to pass through
  • Max in-world count reduced to 2 (was 3)
  • Throw range decreased by about 50%
• Dark Veil
  • The cooldown now starts after the wall comes down
  • Reduced lifetime to 25s (was 30s)

Passive Updates

• Pathfinder’s Insider Knowledge: can now scan Care Packages after allies have already scanned them
• Wraith’s Voices from the Void: reduced look time required to trigger (feels more reliable/consistent)

Ultimate Updates

• Newcastle’s Castle Wall
  • Reduced recovery time on landing
  • Increased max leap height
• Revenant’s Forged Shadows: reduced time extension window for assists to 3s (was 30s)
• Vantage’s Sniper’s Mark: bullet count increased to 6 (was 5)

Apex Ignite Map Changes

Olympus

• Addressed a number of bugs and rat spots
• Addressed known exploits to get underneath the map

Kings Canyon

• Addressed multiple rat spots
• Fixed geo holes in the world between Relic and Caustic Treatment

Storm Point

• Added two Mixtape maps based on new POIs (ZEUS Station and Wattson’s Pylon)
• Addressed a number of bugs and rat spots

Ranked Changes In Apex Ignite

Promotional Trials

In Season 19, players will enter a Promotional Trial state when they reach the peak of their tier. During a Trial, LP loss and gains are frozen, allowing the player to focus on completing the trial:

• Completing the conditions of a Trial within the given match count limit (either by winning a game or completing the alternative) will allow promotion into the next tier with a 250 LP promotional bonus
• Failing to complete the Trial within the match limit results in the Trial ending and a loss of LP based on the player’s performance
• Trials are time-limited to 5 matches, increasing by 1 game each time a player fails and then reenters the same Trial, up to a max of 10 retries
• Promotional Trials are skipped during Provisional matches

Ranked Adjustments

• Increasing the amount of Rating Bonus given to help players’ ranking catch up to their skill bracket
• Reduce the bonus that is withheld and thus the difficulty of climbing, when players are actively pushing against their skill ceiling
• Provisional Bonuses are adjusted to land players closer to the expected statistical 1.5-tier drop at the end of their 10 provisional games

Ranking difference restrictions for 3 stack premades have been REMOVED.

Apex Ignite World Systems

• Players now respawn with the shields and weapons that they had when they were eliminated
  • Body shield and helmet level are preserved
  • The knockdown shield is reset to white
  • Backpacks are removed
  • Inventory will contain some ammo for their weapons, two syringes, and two shield cells
  • Weapons are maintained, unless that weapon was a care package weapon, and all weapon attachments are removed, including from kitted weapons
• Replicator, Ring Console, and Survey Beacon spawn rates have returned to being even across all POIs

Apex Ignite LTMs

Mixtape Map Rotation

• Control
  • Caustic Treatment and Siphon are out
  • The barometer and Production Yard are in
• Gun Run
  • Skulltown and Fragment are out
  • The Core is in
  • New map: Wattson Treatment
• TDM
  • Fragment and Habitat are out
  • Phase Runner is in
  • New Map: Zeus Station

General Bug Fixes

• Closed an exploit that allowed players to survive ring damage longer than expected using the Phase Runner on Olympus
• Death Boxes can no longer fall into unreachable areas – or lava
• Heat Shields can no longer stick to Tridents
• Heat Shields no longer provide protection above them on higher ground
• Holster weapon UI no longer appears when healing outside the ring
• Knockdown Shield FX no longer remains on while spectating
• Longbow’s Dawn’s Awakening skin no longer has a visible barrel with scopes
• Nemesis’ Demon’s Whisper skin no longer obstructs the player’s view
• The provisional badge icon was restored on the Ranked match summary screen
• Rarity display now updates after equipping from the store or pack opening
• Resolved occasional “[UI] Array index 100000000 is out of range (array size 45)” error when launching the game
• Revenant now faces the direction he is shooting in third person view
• Skydiving into an exiting respawn dropship will no longer propel the player along with it
• Squad sorting is now consistent between HUD and Inventory
• Swapping to lower-tiered armor after taking damage no longer requires refreshing the Death Box

Audio Fixes

• Resolved rare cases where the priority system would kill certain local player weapon sounds at an incorrect time

Graphics

• Fixed squads’ animated poses sometimes ghost slightly on each other
• PC
  • Fixed Intel ARC graphics cards defaulting to suboptimal video settings
  • Fixed issue with low-resolution textures when using adaptive supersampling or after changing resolution
• PC DX12: fixed occasional bad triangle rendering on AMD cards

Legends Bug Fixes

• Loba: Tactical is no longer canceled when thrown on a tower near Containment
• Mirage: resolved not breaking cloak sometimes when switching weapons
• Revenant
  • Assassin’s instinct
  • Digital threats now highlight enemies after being highlighted by Assassin’s Instinct
  • Fixed cases where enemies were not being highlighted correctly
  • Highlight no longer interferes with other legend highlights
  • Highlight now applies to Mirage decoys
  • Forged Shadows shroud no longer gets stuck on indefinitely (previous hotfix)
• Wattson: fences now collapse when the round ends, preventing ongoing damage audio in the post-match screen
• Added Offscreen Portraits setting
• Caustic: restored “Shield Cracked” VO in German
• Firing Range: blue Nessie stays hidden for now… but a new challenger has appeared
• Implemented additional security measures
• Improved PC controller support
  • Controller input will no longer be processed when a different window has the focus
  • Added native support for PS4 and PS5 Bluetooth-connected controllers. Players who have been relying on Steam Input to use PS4 and PS5 controllers over Bluetooth should disable that setting in Steam.
• Mixtape: assists are now awarded for Assisted Kills by ALL Teammates in modes where multiple squads are teamed together
• Pings
  • Ping Enemies on the map: double-clicking the Ping Button will place an Enemy Ping on the map at that position
  • Reply to Enemy Pings with OK, Hold On, and Wait ping reply options
• Rampart: players can now pick up their amped walls while in placement mode
• Revenant 
  • Add vibration support when the Forged Shadows shield is damaged, and when the shield reforms or breaks
  • Improve vibration support when charging Shadow Pounce

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