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Modified on 09 May 2023 04:38 GMT

Apex Legends has entered its seventeenth season, bringing with it a new playable legend called Ballistic. His unique passive ability, Sling, allows him to carry a third weapon while his tactical whistle heats up enemies’ weapons. In addition to the arrival of Ballistic, the new season introduces map changes to World’s Edge, along with ranked updates and weapon mastery. With balance updates, weapon changes, and legend changes awaited, let’s take a look at the full patch notes.

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Full Apex Legends Season 17 patch notes

Apex Legends Season 17 brings a plethora of changes across the board. From balance updates to weapon and legend changes, let’s take a look at what’s new this season.

balance updates

crate rotation

L-Star EMG comes in the box
RE-45 returns to the ground

weapon crafting rotation

Alternator SMG enters the craftsman
Sentinel enters the crafter
EVA-8 returns to the ground
30-30 Repeater returns to the ground

Golden weapon rotation

Flatline, Triple Take, Spitfire, Mastiff, Volt

Loot Spawns

Improved vault loot
Increased chances of gold loot
Added light mags to the spawn pool
Improved cargo bot loot
Removed small healing items, mobile respawn beacon, white armor, white backpack
Adjusted large heal and heat shield spawns to allow for more coveted loot spawns
Removed gold weapons from purple tier cargo bots, but increased spawn chance in gold tier

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Apex Legends Season 17 – weapons

30-30 repeaters

Increased projectile size when fully charged

Triple recording

Projectile size increased
Improved hip fire spread
Tightened bullet pattern when completely asphyxiated
Ammo per shot reduced to 1 (from 3)
Adjusted magazine sizes to match the new ammo cost
Purple Magazine: Increased to 10 shots (from 9)

R-99 SMG

Removed 1 bullet from the base and all magazines
No Magazine reduced to 19 (from 20)
White magazine reduced to 21 (from 22)
Blue Magazine reduced to 24 (from 25)
Purple & Gold magazine reduced to 27 (from 28)

charge gun

Shots per magazine reduced to 3 (from 4)
Reduced spawn rate

Apex Legends Season 17 – legends

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catalyst

Dark Veil
Scan highlights and diamonds are no longer visible through the Dark Veil

Mirage

Class changed from Skirmisher to Supporter

ash

Now slows to weapon dash speed instead of weapon run speed while aiming her tac

attack class

Smart loot gains have been adjusted to reduce upgrade tier skipping
It is now less likely to jump from white to purple or blue to gold
Optics are now awarded based on team rather than just the attack legend that opens them
Added a special gold look drop rate

Skirmisher class

Care packages are now automatically pinged to the team upon reveal.
This includes empty Care Packs that have already been looted by another team

support class

Support Bins now guarantee at least one battery in one of the Secret Compartment slots
Support Bins now award MRBs when your ally is dead, even if you don’t have their banner card.
Legend Banners can now be crafted by ANY player who has a Support Class Legend in their squad

Apex Legends Season 17 – mix tape

New Podium screens for Gun Run and Control
Displays a message in the kill feed if match leaver penalties are disabled due to an unfair match
Control and Gun Run display the team’s MVPs on the intro podium
Control and TDM have updated loadouts (weapon crate changes and updates based on weapon meta/pick rates/kill rates)
Gun Run and TDM now have XP bonuses for match completion and post-join match completion in progress

control in Apex Legends

Map rotation: Barometer is out, Olympus: Hammond Labs is in
Weapon Evo Change: Evo weapons no longer auto when hitting a new rating tier. Players will now level up and their weapon will become Evo if the player holsters and then unholsters their weapon in any way (reloading, weapon swapping, manual holstering, ziplining, skydiving, etc.).

gun barrel in Apex Legends

Weapon track update for new crate weapons.
Added an additional XP bonus for the final Weapon Knife kill

Team Deathmatch in Apex Legends

Map rotation: Skulltown is out, Phase Runner is in

Apex Legends Season 17 – Troubleshooting

Prowler: Fixed ADS when crouching
IMC Armories: Fixed Ghosts taking too much damage from Arc Stars
Fixed Duos showing NBR Challenges instead of BR Challenges
Fixed not being able to use the comm wheel when a game is over
Fixed players glittering in loot containers
Fixed spectators not getting audio queues for all types of launch pads/jump pads
Fixed banner flickering during victory and end of match screens
The scoreboard is now saved when a game ends, not the sequence after the podium
Lifetime stat numbers no longer overlap by more than 7 digits
Various improvements to the ultra wide UI in the lobby

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LEGENDS

Ash:
Footsteps are no longer louder when Heirloom is equipped
Fixed UI loop when aborting stool inspection prematurely
Ultimate now lasts for its entire duration, even if Ash dies while it’s active and while players are still traveling through it
bloodhound: White Ravens that are already in flight can no longer be scanned for free tactical and ultimate charges
Corrosive: Fixed traps being destroyed when placed near closed doors, which are then opened
Crypto:
The drone becomes inaccessible after being knocked
The drone will no longer occasionally teleport behind a wall after you throw it
Fixed drones sometimes spawning in mid-world when thrown against a wall
Loba:
Fixed visibility issue with Black Market when Bangalore Smoke is behind it
Adjusted the number of heads peeking over cover when crouching to be consistent with other legends
Crazy Maggie: Improved reliability when hitting objects that the ball will damage or destroy
Octane: Removed the double jump hint from the launch pad in cases where it was erroneously displayed as an option (e.g. after a Pathfinder grapple)
wall: Multiple decks can no longer be placed in the same spot on a trident
seer: Dummies in the firing zone now have the same stepping behavior as other players when moving within Seer’s Ultimate instead of behaving like other AI (Prowlers, Spiders).
Valkyrie: Ultimate cooldown is no longer set to 75% after being canceled in Deathtotem Protection
Spook:
Fixed Ultimate being able to be used while ziplining
Mythic finisher Whiplash no longer forces players out of play

MODES

Mixtape in Apex Legends
Fixed shields dropped by killed enemies being empty
Fixed players leaving a match no longer attempting to join the same match if the join window is still active
Team Deathmatch in Apex Legends
Fixed grenades not dropping on player death
Fixed the Estates map image showing the night variant of the map in the lobby
Control in Apex Legends
Fixed an issue with the custom game observer where it was difficult to close the map screen if a observer had it open before players spawned into the game
Fixed an issue where the teammate death icon would not appear on the map if the map was not open when the teammate died
Fixed ordnance not auto-equipping ordnance slot when player spawned out of bounds
Fixed the reserve ammo counter not showing up when swapping weapons from Rampart or Vantage Ultimate

QUALITY OF LIFE UPDATES

Removed automatic taunt prompt when enemy is killed
Can now zip line while the banner animation is playing
Reduced bullet impact VFX on snow

LIVEAPI IMPROVEMENTS AND DOCUMENTATION

Support for Secure WebSockets (WSS) server connections
Configurable SSL validation to allow self-signed certificates
Request validation via pre-shared key mechanism, which can be specified via cl_liveapi_requests_psk
Newly added game event transmission delay, affecting only real-time WebSocket connections, configurable via `cl_liveapi_ws_event_delay`
Added additional documentation and snippets to the events.proto file
Contains example values, code snippets in Python, and expected API behavior
Change for API request acknowledgments not behaving as intended
Introducing the RequestStatus message for further explanation
Fix for truncation of payload of 4KB messages mainly occurring when using JSON data format
Fix for the PlayerRevive event where the revived player panel was incorrectly entered as a string instead of a player message
New WarpGateUsed and ObserverAnnotation events
Downgrade most uint64 fields to uint32 to ensure serialization as numbers rather than strings in JSON
All timestamp fields remain as uint64. Developers should take note when using the JSON data format instead of Protobuf.

Apex Legends Season 17 is available now for Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PS4, PS5 and PC via Steam, the Epic Games Store and the EA App.

Edited by
Siddharth Satish

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