Apex Legends update 1.60 patch notes
New Content
Caustic Town Takeover: Water Treatment becomes Caustic Treatment. It’s a new point of interest with potent fumes. Ring Fury Mode: Standard Battle Royale, but additional Ring Flares appear at different points on the map after each round. Ring Flares do as much damage as the current ring. Ring Flares will increase the longer the event goes on. Heat Shields: These items prevent Ring and Ring Flare damage. They occupy the new Survival Slot, which doesn’t impact your gear. No-Fill Matchmaking: Play in a Duos or Trios queue by yourself if you dare.
Legend Updates
Caustic
Nox Gas Grenade cooldown increased from 2. 5 minutes to 3. 5 minutes. Nox Gas damages at a flat rate of 5hp per tick instead of ramping up from six hp → 12hp.
Pathfinder
Removed Low Profile
Gibraltar
Removed 15 percent faster heal item usage while in Dome of Protection. Damaging a Gibraltar’s Gun Shield now counts as damage towards Evo Shield and statsDamage that exceeds the Gun Shield’s 50hp will now bleed through to damage Gibraltar
Horizon
Increased Black Hole cooldown from two minutes to three minutes
Revenant
Revenant’s Silence now disables Mirage’s cloaked revive & respawn as well as Octane’s Swift Mend.
Wattson
Wattson now has passive shield regen at 0. 5 hp/s (half of Octane’s current health regen rate).
Rampart
Explosives damage Amped Cover normally, instead of inflicting 200 damage. Explosives damage Sheila normally, instead of inflicting 175 damage.
Weapon Update
Weapon Optics
All gold AR and LMG default optics updated to 2x Bruiser.
Mastiff
Pellet damage decreased from 13 → 11. Fire rate increased from 1. 0 → 1. 1.
Wingman
+one bullet to every magazine size, including base.
Hemlok
Increased hip-fire spread.
Quality of Life Changes
Kings Canyon Loot - we’ve done a pass on the loot to bring up the quality across the map, while also maintaining a certain amount of loot after Mirage Voyage has flown away. The wooden shacks across the map should have a few more pieces each, and generally be a little higher quality. Spotted Lake has been reduced to Medium Quality from High. Crash Site has redistributed the loot in the area slightly. The amount stays the same, but the higher quality loot should be in the ship. Caustic Treatment has more loot than Water Treatment, and it remains High Quality. Locked Weapon Optic Swapping - For guns with fully locked attachment slots, like fully-kitted gold weapons and most crate weapons, you can now remove the optic and replace it with a different sight. This does not apply to the Kraber sniper rifle. Assists have been added to the in-game HUD, next to kills. This was already present in Ranked and now has been added to unranked. Assists still don’t contribute to XP. This has replaced the Spectator “eye” icon. Assists and Knocks have been added to your squad’s banners and will show at the end of a match. Club names now appear on Match Summary and Champion screen if all players are part of the same club. Items will no longer “stick” to Crafting Replicator when dropped on the Replicator. Badge Progress - for badges that have longer amounts of progress, hovering over the badge will show you more information. For example, if you’re trying to get 50 wins as Lifeline, you’ll now see that you have 45 instead of somewhere between 15 and 50. Ping My Deathbox - While respawning on a dropship, you can now ping your own deathbox to help locate it easier. Gold Backpack - Players being revived by a gold backpack will have a crackle of energy—based on the tier of armor they wear—while the revive is taking place. They will also display the armor heal FX when the revive is finished. This change should help players prioritize pushing a revive in progress. Players on PC can now go back to the title screen from the lobby to allow switching of data centers without restarting the game. Added numbers to the Advanced Look Controls. This should help people experiment and easily revert back to their favorite settings. When scanning a beacon for Ring 6, you should now be able to see the location where Ring 6 finishes. Inspect Weapon - Since the Survival Slot took its button on controller (we only have so many buttons!), Inspect Weapon has been moved to the emote wheel by default. It can be bound to any key on PC.
Bug Fixes
Gibraltar
Corrected an issue with Gibraltar not getting hit registrations when simultaneously releasing ADS and shooting while his Gun Shield was up
Wraith
Wraith players can no longer cancel Into the Void by jumping at a wallThe New Skydive Emote will now work with Legendary Skins
Caustic
Fixed a bug that was causing Nox Gas to flicker for some players affected by it
Octane
Repeatedly using the same jump pad no longer disables double-jumpsPlayers are no longer allowed to “glide” along a wall after using the jump pad
Crypto
Crypto’s animation to bring out his Drone is no longer skippable by throwing a holosprayCrypto can no longer teleport to a replicatorReloading the Mastiff and 30-30 will no longer be faster while in Crypto’s drone
Loba
Fixed a few areas Loba could teleport into that would get her stuck
Rampart
Players can no longer use Sheila to get under the world when placed too close to the Phase Runner in Olympus
Horizon
Fixed the Gravity Lift falling through the floor when used on the train tracks in World’s Edge’s Sorting FactoryUsing a zipline after a Gravity Lift will no longer increase accuracy
Fuse
Motherload will now damage and destroy jump padsWhen under a small enclosure, players will no longer be pushed out after using MotherloadPlayers can no longer double their grenades after looting a dead Fuse’s deathbox
Mastiff
Dropping and picking up the Mastiff will no longer cause it to be reloaded
3030 Repeater
Dropping and picking up the 30-30 will no longer cause it to be reloaded30-30 will now have spread deviation when ADS firing and jumping
MISC
Fixed a bug preventing Steam users from sending friend requests to each otherUsernames now update when a user swaps between the Origin Client to the Steam ClientFixed a bug preventing players from creating or joining clubs due to their EA Account already being associated with another platform.
The main feature of Apex Legends update 1.60 is, of course, all the new content for the Chaos Theory Collection Event and Caustic Town Takeover. Starting with Chaos Theory, its featured mode is called Ring of Rage. In contrast to Locked & Loaded, which has become a mainstay for years, this is an entirely fresh concept that involves defined ring movement with several smaller rings scattered throughout the map. It’s very different from traditional battle royale, and it makes us wonder if there’s any benefit to risking that additional ring damage. On the cosmetics side, Bangalore finally gets an heirloom too, which is a nice win for those who opt to earn it.
As far as the smaller bug fixes and tweaks are concerned, Apex Legends update 1.60 nerfs Caustic’s gas, makes Pathfinder easier to hit, gives Wattson a decent passive and offers a buff to Rampart that makes her a more viable choice in the current meta. On the Legend side we’re a bit surprised Horizon wasn’t the focus of a major nerf given her popularity, but recent statements from Respawn suggest she’ll be a much more prominent part of the Season 9 update in the coming months. Byond these more obvious changes, though, the ability to switch optics on Gold weapons is also a pretty big deal. This Season 8.1 update has been a long time coming, and it largely delivers on fans’ lofty expectations.
Apex Legends is available now on PS4, Xbox One and PC.
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