Apex Legends Version 2.42 Patch Notes

Respawn has released a new Apex Legends version 2.42 on PS4, PS5(1.000.055), PC, and Xbox. According to the official Apex Legends 2.42 patch notes, the latest update adds Apex Legends & FINAL FANTASY™ VII REBIRTH Event. Apart from this, today’s Apex Legends update 2.42 also includes stability fixes.

Previously, Apex Legends update 2.17 added new features and changes to the game. Recently, Apex version 2.18 and Apex version 2.20 was also released with minor tweaks. Unfortunately, players are still experiencing a number of issues with the game. Today’s Apex Legends patch 2.42 will fix a few of these issues.

Read more details below.

Apex Legends 2.42 Patch Notes

BALANCE UPDATES

Crafting Rotation

• R-301 and Volt leave the crafter and are back on the floor
• Hemlok and Alternator enter the crafter

WEAPONS

• Mastiff
  • Tactical reload time reduced to 0.9 (was 1.03)
  • Empty reload time reduced to 1.6 (was 1.7)
  • Draw Time reduced to 0.45 (was 0.8)

• R99
  • Damage reduced to 11 (was 12)

• CAR SMG
  • Damage reduced to 12 (was 13)

LEGENDS

Catalyst

• Piercing Spikes
  • Now require line-of-sight to an enemy player to activate
  • Spikes that have not been activated will still slow players

Horizon

• Improved Horizon audio to make “falls” less silent
  • Hard landing audio adjusted to match other legends
  • Soft Landings now play audio in world (not just for Horizon)
  • Gravity Lift exit audio range increased to make it easier to hear characters who exit

Newcastle

• Castle Wall: impact will now destroy Conduit’s Energy Barricade mines
• Mobile Shield: can now be destroyed by enemy Crypto EMP
• Delayed balance adjustments from the season 19.0 patch are now fully integrated

Rampart

• Amped Walls are no longer destroyed by friendly Crypto EMP or Mad Maggie’s Wrecking Ball

MAPS

Storm Point

• Added and adjusted cover at ZEUS Station & ECHO HQ
• Added Ring Console to Coastal Camp
• Added Trident to Barometer
• Adjusted the position of the Ring Console, Survey Beacon and Crafting Station at Lightning Rod
• Reduced volume of ambient audio at ZEUS Station & ECHO HQ
• Removed Ring Console, Survey Beacon and Crafting Station from Thunder Watch
• Resolved a number of additional bugs and rat spots
• Restored missing Ring Console at Command Center
• ECHO HQ
  • Added four new staircases at ECHO HQ to improve vertical navigation around the perimeter
  • Rooftop of ECHO HQ is now out of bounds, Zipline and rooftop hatch has been removed
• Wattson’s Pylon
  • Adjusted position of the ziplines at Wattson’s Pylon to improve consistency of mantle jumping
  • Reduced amount of ultra rare loot at Wattson’s Pylon
• ZEUS Station
  • Added additional cover and ziplines at ZEUS Station for mixtape modes only
  • Increased the speed of the redeploy balloon zipline at ZEUS Station by 25%

MIXTAPE

Map Rotation

• Control
  • Hammond Labs and Production Yard are out
  • Lava Siphon and Caustic Treatment are in
• Gun Run
  • The Core, Estates, and Wattson’s Pylon are out
  • Skulltown, Fragment East, and ZEUS Station are in
• TDM
  • ZEUS Station, Skulltown, and Phase Runner are out
  • Wattson’s Pylon, Party Crasher, and Overflow are in

New

• Added new Legend voice lines that occasionally play on respawn
• Lowered Ratings reward for assists in Control 5 per assist (was 20)
  • This is in response to a recent change where we started counting assists in Control and TDM based on the whole team and not just within your individual squad

WORLD SYSTEMS

• Extended Supply Bins
  • Added a cap to the number of heat shields a team can receive from the secret drawer
  • Added a cap to the number of medkits a team can receive from the secret drawer

BUG FIXES

• Firing Range: players dying with a Nessie in their inventory will no longer find the Nessie deleted.Sorry Nessie Hunters!
• Players no longer get stuck due to spamming holosprays while skydiving
• Players no longer drop out of Wraith’s portal before reaching the other side
• Resolved small chance of getting 5 items in secret drawer of Extended Supply Bins
• Resolved bug preventing audio engine from properly utilizing fast storage drives when reading compressed audio data
• Startup logo video audio volume now respects the master volume slider
• Storm Point: players should now be able to use Evac Tower through the ceiling hatch in Command Center
• Trident collision should no longer occasionally push players through walls and floors

LEGENDS

• Ash: Ultimate can no longer be used with Tridents to get under map
• Bloodhound: Niflheim Hundr skin’s raven now white (was black)
• Catalyst
  • Piercing Spikes ability description now shows the correct max number of traps
  • Piercing Spikes can now be pinged again
  • Ultimate no longer shows as ready in inventory without being fully charged
• Conduit
  • Fixed Energy Barricade V-Shape deployment when looking directly at the ground
  • Tactical can no longer be used on respawning team still in dropship
• Crypto: fixed Crypto taking ring damage while standing in a heat shield if controlling his drone in the ring
• Loba: restored movement speed while holding Tactical if it was activated while standing still
• Mad Maggie
  • Fixed damage numbers not showing correctly when hitting Revenant’s ultimate shroud with Wrecking Ball
  • Passive no longer works through Catalyst’s walls
• Revenant: no longer occasionally becomes invincible during his ultimate if his shroud is broken while marked by Vantage’s Sniper
• Vantage: corrected Sniper Ult bullets damage to marked targets when breaking Gibraltar’s arm shield or Revenant’s ultimate shroud
• Wattson: Ultimate correctly recharges shields when placed after Bangalore’s smoke

MODES

• Abilities that outline players should no longer stop functioning after killing an enemy
• Silence abilities should no longer cancel auto healing
• Voice chat is no longer heard outside of the squad in TDM and Control

Control

• Caustic Treatment: weapons cannot be used on the supply ship
• Damage not taken while inside the respawn ship
• Players no longer occasionally spawn in a skydive state when respawning on Kings Canyon
• Players no longer lose invulnerability while still on the dropship when spawning on the MRB

CODE OPTIMIZATIONS

• Fixed issue with dynamic resolution not reacting fast enough to high graphics load. Improves frame rate stability on consoles
• DX12 (PC) video memory (VRAM) usage is now reduced by 1.5 – 2GB
• DX12 (PC) improved graphics performance with parallelization of rendering workloads
• Upgraded Nvidia Reflex SDK to v1.8 and adds support for latency markers

QUALITY OF LIFE

LEGENDS

Conduit

• Improved visibility for jammers
• Ultimate SFX can no longer be heard in other Firing Range instances

Mirage’s Decoys

• Improved issues against terrain that would cause destruction/floating
  • Any destroyed by terrain will now be refunded
• Improved to more correctly copy the ADS state of the player
• No longer mimic reviving or execution animations

Newcastle

• Voice line added when Newcastle removes one of his own Castle Wall segments

• Caustic’s Prestige skin now shows his face during the finisher.
• Revenant can no longer damage his Forged Shadows with his own melee but will take damage from his own ordnance.
• Challenges can be rerolled in the lobby.

The following changes were added previously.

THE DRESSED TO KILL COLLECTION EVENT

• Limited-time mode: Armed & Dangerous
• New collection event running from June 20-July 4

LTM: ARMED & DANGEROUS

• Features shotguns and snipers
• Replicator offers Fully Kitted Peacekeeper and Charge Rifle
• Charge Rifle removed from ground loot

COLLECTION EVENT ITEMS

• 24 limited-time cosmetics, including Legendary skins for Crypto, Horizon, Mad Maggie, and more
• Available in exchange for Apex Coins or Crafting Metals
• Obtainable through Dressed to Kill Event Apex Packs
• Unlock all 24 before the end of the event and you’ll automatically receive our latest Heirloom, Horizon’s Gravity Maw.

REWARD TRACKER

• Earn up to 1,600 points per day
• Challenges refresh daily and stack with Battle Pass challenges

STORE TAB

• Die Tired Bundle and Bounty Hunter Bundle available in the Store tab
• Crypto’s [CLASSIFIED] available from June 20 – July 4, 2023

Balance Updates

• Weapon Crafting Rotation changes: R-99 and Rampage LMG added to the crafter, Alternator SMG and Sentinel return to ground loot
• Evac Tower spawn rate reduced to match Heat Shields
• Mobile Respawn Beacon spawn rate slightly increased

Weapon Updates

• Nemesis Burst AR: Reduced projectile speed and increased projectile gravity
• EVA-8: Increased base rate of fire and white bolt rate of fire, unchanged rate of fire with blue, purple, and gold bolts

Legends Update

Seer

• Passive: Heartbeat Sensor range reduced to 50m, initial heartbeat delay significantly reduced
• Tactical: Focus of Attention range reduced to 60m, firing speed increased, removed heal cancel, revive cancel, and respawn beacon interaction interrupt, scan time reduced to 2.5s, full body highlight added to scan, enemies hit by Focus of Attention are slowed for 2.5s, silence time increased to 10s, silenced enemies now highlighted with a threat outline to Seer and teammates with line of sight
• Ultimate: Exhibit throw range reduced to ~15m, removed diamond scan markers on enemy movement, exhibit now only shows footsteps of players moving in the zone, diamond markers appear with enemy gunfire for 1.25s

Quality of Life

• Firing Range improvements, including customization options and menu additions
• Audio engine stability improvements
• Bloodhound Trials updated loot on World’s Edge
• Newcastle now destroys Jump Pads and Crypto Drones on Castle Wall Impact
• Extended Supply (Support) Bins have a higher chance to give an MRB to Support legends with dead teammates
• Legends Menu changes, including new Legend Bios tab and removal of classes subtabs
• PC improvements, including new menu option and capped lobby FPS at 60Hz

Bug Fixes

• [CAR] correct active ammo now shows in the inventory when infinite ammo is active
• Fixed “are you sure you want to leave” prompt in states that were not applicable (ex. squad wipes)
• Fixed tops of buildings not registering as out of bounds on World’s Edge
• Fixed Ballistic’s Tempest VFX staying on while cloaked or phase shifted
• Fixed Ballistic’s sling weapon icon not updating for spectators
• Apex update 1.000.041 fixed death recap appearing blank if you were dead or died when the game ended
• Fixed “decoy destroyed” message not displaying when destroying a decoy with Newcastle’s Castle Wall
• Fixed Extended Supply Bin logic to address MRBs not awarding to players with dead teammates and MRBs are in ground loot
• Fixed invisible optic on a primary weapon after swapping it with the sling weapon
• Apex version 2.27 fixed MRB icon being squished in Control on ultrawide monitors
• Fixed occasional client crash when exiting an IMC armory
• Fixed occasional crash when changing legends while emoting as Ballistic in firing range
• Fixed pinging Icarus Bridge on Olympus while holding a vault key displaying incorrectly
• Apex patch 2.27 fixed pinging weapon icons on the map and minimap being squished
• Fixed teams being unable to craft banners if the support legend on the team leaves
• Replicator: players should no longer get stuck when crafting
• Weapon Mastery: badge preview now correctly updates after earning the first one
• Volume sliders now increase/decrease correctly when using controller

Audio

• Fixed certain movement sounds taking priority over footsteps
• Apex 1.000.041 fixed hearing Ballistic’s tactical sound effect in other firing ranges
• Fixed incorrect sound effect when Ballistic hits a teammate with Whistler
• Fixed more issues with server audio dropouts
• Fixed players emitting falling audio after dying

Legends

• Ballistic
  • Backpack no longer stays open when downed while Tempest is active
  • Fixed an exploit where players could get a weapon with attachments into Sling
  • Now auto-cycles to his sling weapon when other weapons run out of ammo
  • Tactical lock-on effect no longer stays if downed while locked on
  • Tactical lock-on effect no longer stays if hit by Seer’s tactical while locked on
• Lifeline: fixed Shinobi Surgeon skin textures
• Newcastle: fixed inconsistencies on landing with Castle Wall
• Rampart
  • Nemesis voiceline no longer plays every time the gun is picked up
  • Placed Sheila turrets no longer keep the fast reloads from Ballistic’s Tempest
• Valkyrie
  • Dummies not scanning in the firing range while skydiving
  • Heartbeat Harmonizer skin no longer blocks ADS with Prowler + 1x Holo
  • Improvements to Skyward Launch avoiding obstacles that appeared above her after she had already started launching
• Wattson
  • Fixed fences occasionally being invisible through doors
  • Solar Static skin is no longer extra toothy
• Wraith: Into the Void no longer prevents skydive from Evac Towers

• Fixed an issue where players getting UI Images error when playing Olympus.
• Fixed an issue where players at certain ranks not receiving the correct ranked rewards for certain seasons.
• Addressed a bug where players that buy Apex Coins don’t get an updated Coin balance until they restart the game.
• Added stability and performance fixes.
• Other minor tweaks.

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