Respawn has released a new Apex update 2.94 for PS4, PC, and Xbox One. According to the official Apex 2.94 patch notes, the Wild Iron event brings explosive chaos with the Mythic Flatline, eight new Wild Cards, and powerful loot. Legends Ash, Mad Maggie, Seer, and Sparrow receive major balance changes. Ranked play is fairer with entry cost removal, while SDR improves match stability by cutting DoS attacks. Today’s Apex version 2.94 also includes gameplay performance improvements.
Apex 2.94 Patch Notes – September 15, 2025
Apex 2.94 Summary of Key Changes
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New Mythic Flatline: Explosive abilities including time-bomb knockdowns and AoE blast every 5th shot.
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Wild Cards: Eight new craftable abilities available in Replicators for explosive squad advantages.
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Legend Updates: Major reworks for Ash, Mad Maggie, Seer, and Sparrow to balance power and utility.
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Game Stability: Steam Datagram Relay reduces DoS attacks by ~90% in Ranked Diamond+ matches.
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Ranked Changes: Entry cost removed from Ladder scoring for fairer progression.
Wild Iron Event (Sept 16–30, 2025)
New Content
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Mythic Flatline (Rampart Care Package):
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Knocked enemies become time bombs.
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Every 5th bullet deals double damage + AoE blast.
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Explosive Loot:
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EPG-1 grenade launcher in Mythic bins.
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Increased Bocek spawn rates.
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New Wild Cards (Replicators):
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Crackerjack: Instant reload on knock.
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Down Bad: Knocked enemies explode.
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Extra Ordnance: +1 ordnance capacity.
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Good Doctor: Revive with extra shields.
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Gren-Aid: Explosive hits mark enemies.
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Sent Packing: Increased frag knockback.
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Shield’s Up: Gain Epic shield.
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Stowed Reload: Auto-reload after delay.
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Event Rewards
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Event Packs: Contain one Wild Iron item + two standard items.
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Legendary Skins: Lifeline, Pathfinder, Vantage, Mastiff, Bocek, Nemesis.
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Reward Shop: Earn cores from daily challenges. Rotating rewards and four event badges.
BALANCE UPDATES
EVO Harvesters (Previous Hotfix)
- Spawn rate increased to 10-11 depending on map size (was 7-8)
- Reduced likelihood of multiple EVO Harvesters spawning in a single POI
Ring Exploit Prevention
- Adjusted to prevent system abuse
LEGENDS
Assault Class
- Stowed Reload: time to reload while stowed increased to 4s (was 2s)
ASH
Abilities
- Passive: Predator’s Pursuit
- Increased dash cooldown to 12s (was 8s)
- Dash gives less of a boost when not dashing in the direction you’re moving
- Tactical: Arc Snare
- Breaks more easily, base duration now 6s (was 8s)
- Less pulling strength
- Doesn’t deal extra damage to shields
Upgrades
- Level 2
- Dual Breach & Marked for Death: removed
- NEW Longer Reach: increases Phase Breach range by 25m
- NEW Ultimate Cooldown: reduces Phase Breach cooldown by 30s
CAUSTIC
Nox Gas
- Damage from gas ramps up more slowly, increases every 2 ticks (was every tick)
- Removed aim punch when taking damage
MAD MAGGIE
Abilities
- Tactical: Riot Drill
- Firing animation sped up by 10%
- Drill now comes out immediately after releasing the button (was delayed by a few frames)
- Ultimate: Wrecking Ball
- Throw animation sped up 25%
- Wrecking Ball is now more reliable at moving around/over obstacles
- Explosions deal up to 25 damage (was up to 20)
- Reduced lifetime to 7s (was 10s)
- Speed pads increase movement speed for 3.5s (was 2s)
- Speed pads give fortified buff for the duration, doesn’t stack with already fortified Legends
- Speed pads last 20s (was 60s)
- Speed pads deactivate 6s for the player using it after being used
- Speed pads no longer drop from the final explosion
Upgrades
- Level 2
- Shots Shots Shots: removed
- NEW Gunrunning: Passive movement speed increase also works with SMGs and Pistols
- Fire Ball: now drops magma patches along the ground as it moves and Mad Maggie takes 50% less fire damage from all sources
SEER
Abilities
- Passive: Heart Seeker
- Long View upgrade now permanent, increasing range for Passive + Tac to 75m (was 50m)
- Now one constant heartbeat instead of differing beats for each enemy
- UI and audio pulse to indicate when the heartbeat scans happen
- Directional waveforms are now taller or shorter depending on whether the enemy is close or far from where you are aiming
- Improved UI visibility
- Tactical: Focus of Attention
- Reduced weapon holster time by 60% when activating Tac with a gun out
- Scanning someone with Tac now gives Seer a speed boost for 4s
- Scan duration increased to 4s (was 2.5), slow duration to 1s (was 0.5s), and silence duration reduced to 2.5s (was 8s)
- Cooldown reduced to 20s (was 30s)
- Increased delay before the scan goes off to 1s (was 0.7s)
- VFX adjusted including extra clarity on AOE effects that let you know where the scan will hit
- Ultimate: Exhibit
- Artist’s Reach upgrade now permanent, increased throw range to ~50m (was 15m)
- Sphere radius increased to 38m (was 34m)
- Seer gains enhanced jumping and ADS hover while inside any Exhibit
- Added threat indicator within 15m of the center that enemies will see
- Adjusted throw’s pitch while aiming so you don’t have to aim as far up to get longer throws
Upgrades
- Level 2
- Artist’s Reach: removed (improved and added to base kit)
- Ultimate Cooldown: removed
- NEW Lasting Beats: enemies who leave the dome have their locations shown for 5s
- NEW Home Base: Tac recharges 4x as fast in your Exhibit sphere
- Level 3
- Long View: removed (added to base kit)
- NEW Energizing Focus: regen 25 shields when hitting an enemy with Tac
- Split Focus: no longer has a downside
SPARROW
Abilities
- Tactical: Tracker Dart
- Tracking duration now 12s (was 15)
- New VFX when aiming to show if your dart will activate a nearby Enemy Scan Beacon
- Ultimate: Stinger Bolt
- Bolt health now 400 (was 550)
- Bolt’s pulsing now slows Sparrow and his allies, not just enemies
- Adjusted the animations when aiming Stinger Bolt to make it easier to see the trajectory
Upgrades
- Level 2
- Extra Traps: now gives 1 additional trap in world (was 2)
LOOT & ATTACHMENTS
ATTACHMENTS
Gold Magazine
- Time to reload while stowed increased to 4s (was 2s)
LOCKED HOP-UPS
Accelerator
- Increased points to unlock to 300 (was 150)
- Removed from: Peacekeeper, L-Star, and Alternator
- Added to: G7 Scout, CAR, and Flatline
Graffiti Mod
- Increased points to unlock to 425 (was 300)
- Added to: Mastiff
Gun Shield Generator
- Increased points to unlock to 375 (was 250)
Selectfire Receiver
- Increased points to unlock to 375 (was 250)
Skull Piercer
- Increased points to unlock to 600 (was 400)
Turbocharger
- 600 points to unlock
- Compatible with Havoc and Devotion
LOOT
Amps (Previous Hotfix)
- Spawn rates reduced at match start
- Icon added to enemy health bar for which Amp they have
WEAPONS
LMG
Devotion LMG
- Removed perk that would turbocharge after equipping a purple barrel, magazine, and stock
MARKSMAN
Bocek Compound Bow
- Decreased charge time to fully nock an arrow to 0.35s (was 0.45s)
- Improved hipfire spread
PISTOL
RE-45 Burst (Previous Hotfix)
- Reduced projectile size to match other pistols
- Reduced magazine size by 3 at all tiers, including base
- Increased horizontal and vertical recoil
Wingman
- Damage increased to 50 (was 48)
- Skullpiercer headshot multiplier reduced to 1.92 (was 2.0)
- Skullpiercer headshot damage stays unchanged at 96
SHOTGUN
Mastiff
- Increased delay before firing when drawing the weapon to better match our other shotguns
Peacekeeper
- Increased size of blast pattern when choked
MAPS
Unranked & Ranked
- E-District
- Kings Canyon
- Olympus
Mixtape
- TDM: Fragment, Skull Town, Zeus Station, Estates
- Control: Hammond Labs, Caustic Treatment, Barometer, Lava Siphon
- Gun Run: Wattson’s Pylon, Monument, Estates, Skull Town
MODES
Duos
- Reduced squad count to 15 (was 30)
- Reduced player count to 30 (was 60)
- Ring starts partially closed, timings adjusted
- Drop ship now starts at the edge of the ring (similar to Wildcard)
- Ring closes 4 times
WILDCARD
Wildcard Trios: Wild Iron (September 16-30, 2025)
- Kings Canyon Wildcard
- Rampart Care Packages: Mythic Flatline
- Increased spawn rate for explosive gear
- Added chance to find EPG in loot
- 8 new Wild Cards available in Replicators (see above)
- Crackerjack
- Down Bad
- Extra Ordnance
- Good Doctor
- Gren-Aid
- Sent Packing
- Shield’s Up
- Stowed Reload
Wildcard Trios: Core (September 30-October 14, 2025)
RANKED
Ranked Ladder Scoring Changes
- Entry Cost no longer included in Ranked Ladder scoring
BUG FIXES
- Ammo notifications no longer broken after dropping the Infinite Ammo Amp
- Increased accuracy when pinging the map when zoomed
- Locked Hop-Ups + Points
- Fixed some strings where the Locked Hop-Up Graffiti Mod was incorrectly named
- Points will no longer occasionally reset when moving between Ballistic’s sling after leveling up
- Locked Hop-Ups once again work as intended after respawning in Firing Range
- “No Ammo” message no longer appears on screen when your knockdown shield’s destroyed
- Players once again spawn with primary weapon equipped in Wildcard
- Switch 2 dynamic mode will no longer occasionally switch joycon modes
LEGENDS
- Alter: “Celestial Essence” skin once again plays effects correctly
- Caustic: fixed an exploit that allowed him to accumulate research points quicker (Previous Hotfix)
- Mad Maggie
- Tac no longer deals up to 33% less damage than intended
- Wrecking ball no longer gets caught/reflected backwards by friendly Mirage decoys
- Rampart: hexagon FX no longer missing from the amped shield
QUALITY OF LIFE
- Added “For You” section in the shop that contains personalized offers that rotate weekly
- Ranked Drop Zones: removed the jumpmaster, now all teammates skydive independently
- Wildcard Respawn notifications
- Reduced the size of the announcements to take up less screen space
- Removed the announcement for when individual teammates have died
- Reworded death banner to read “Last Legend Standing”
ENGINE
- Shader count reduced by nearly 50%, improving performance and startup times especially on PC
- Now uses bindless resources for particle and FX rendering. This reduces CPU usage especially in cases of intense combat with lots of character abilities being triggered.
- PC: fixed an immediate crash when booting the game if the player has an Unknown Display Driver (sometimes the result of uninstalling previous drivers). Note: there may still be other issues with Unknown display drivers.
Previously, Apex Legends update 2.87 added Arenas: Duels, a limited-time 1v1 mode focused on raw gunplay with no abilities until July 15. Unfortunately, since the last Apex patch 2.67, players are still experiencing a number of issues with the game. Today’s Apex patch 2.94 will fix a few of these issues.
Download free Apex update 2.94 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
