Legends
This patch, Respawn is taking a look at the recon class. A class built around information gathering should be powerful in a BR where knowing where the enemy is is often the difference between life and death, but out of the three Legends in the recon class (Pathfinder, Crypto, and Bloodhound), one dominates in terms of in-game performance. (It’s the robot. The robot dominates.)
In this patch, Respawn is mostly buffing Bloodhound as they needed the help the most. Crypto’s changes are a mixed bag as we also found one bug the publisher had to fix that was giving Crypto a hidden advantage (TLDR: sometimes when you thought you were hitting the drone, you weren’t really hitting the drone). Between the buffs to Bloodhound's ult and the new utility Crypto gains on his drone, Respawn hopes to see a more diverse field of recon legends in game.
Recon Class
All Recon legends (Bloodhound, Crypto, and Pathfinder) can now use Survey Beacons to get the next ring location. Crypto can use his drone to instantly get this information.
Pathfinder
Passive
- Each time Pathfinder scans a survey beacon, the total cooldown of Zipline Gun is reduced.
Numbers
- Zipline Gun cooldown reduced by 10s each time Pathfinder scans a beacon. Up to 6 rings per game means the total cooldown of Zipline Gun can go from 120s to 60s.
Bloodhound
Beast of the Hunt
- Now gains even more duration when Bloodhound scores a knockdown or kill with the ultimate about to run out.
Eye of the Allfathe
- During Beast of the Hunt, Eye of the Allfather now comes out twice as fast and has a much shorter cooldown.
Numbers
- Beast of the Hunt duration extension 5s → [5s - 15s] based on remaining duration
- Eye of the Allfather CD during Beast of the Hunt: 25s → 6s
- Eye of the Allfather total use time during Beast of the Hunt: 1.8s → 0.9s
Crypto
Surveillance drone
- Crypto can now activate respawn and survey beacons from his drone. Doing so is instant instead of requiring a prolonged use.
- Made the surveillance drone slightly more consistent to hit but also doubled its hitpoints.
Drone EMP
- EMP will now slow teammates caught in the blast, even if they had no shields. This means that players who have used Revenant’s Death Totem will also be slowed.
Numbers
- Surveillance Drone 30HP → 60HP
- Surveillance Drone hitbox size: cube of edge length 16 → cube of edge length 24
Other Legends
Revenant
Death Totem
- For 2s after being recalled by the Death Totem, players cannot use Wraith’s Dimensional Rift.
Octane
Stim
- Can now use Stim while healing, but stim will not remove the slow you incur from healing.
Loba
Black Market
- Lowered cooldown from 3min to 90s
Gibraltar
- Defensive Bombardment:Increased cooldown from 3 minutes to 4.5 minutes
Bangalore
- Rolling Thunder:Decreased cooldown from 4.5 minutes to 3 minutes
Wraith
- Dimensional RiftIncreased Ult CD from 150s to 210s (2.5 min to 3.5 min)
Wattson
- Interception PylonTrophy system will now shoot down Caustic barrels in flight if they would have landed inside the range of the trophy.
Apex Legends Season 6 has finally arrived. Between Rampart, the changes to the map, the crafting system and the VOLT weapon, there's a lot to say about this new season in the arena.
