Apex Legends 1.55 Patch Notes

The Fight Night Collection is live! Respawn Entertainment has tweaked quite a bit with the balance changes of this patch. So let’s take a look at the 1.55 patch notes!

Apex Legends is enjoying quite a bit of popularity on Steam. The game even won the “Best Game You Suck At” award at the 2020 Steam Awards. The “Holo Day Bash” event came to an end, but Fight Night is already live and with it some new patch notes. 1.55 brings some changes to Legends and . Here’s everything you need to know.

Fight Night
Below you can find all the features that were introduced through the Fight Night collectible event:

Airdrop Escalation Takeover – Care packages are replaced with clusters of increasingly rare loot and fully equipped weapons.

Town Takeover Fight Night – This is a special zone on the Pathfinder map where you can beat each other up in a boxing ring.

Skins: There are 24 unique cosmetic items available via crafting metals, apex coins, and apex packs. If you manage to collect them all, you will also receive the Gibraltar

Heirloom.

MRVNs: Encounter robots on the map that give special loot depending on their color.

Fight Night Prize Track: Complete challenges that unlock rewards like amulets and skins.

Balance Changes

Legends

Rampart:

Amped Cover: Cooldown reduced from 30 seconds to 20 seconds.

Caustic:

Nox-Gas Trap: cooldown reduced from 25 seconds to 20 seconds

Horizon

Gravity Lift: Increased effective cooldown from 16 seconds to 21 seconds

Rampart and Caustic still have deficiencies in pick and win rate according to Respawn, so the buffs are quite appropriate. After all, Caustic also made an appearance in the latest Stories from the Outlands. Horizon’s nerf was not included in the original pre-release patch notes. The latest Legend is still new and as we expected: changes are coming.

Weapons

Hemlok:

Damage has been reduced from 22 to 20.

Mastiff:

Spreads 3rd and 4th pellets to reduce maximum range of 4 pellet hits (was +/- 7.5 degrees, now +/- 10)

Prowler:

Reserve pellets increased from 175 to 210

The Hemlok and Mastiff get some nerfs, which are -10% total damage for the Hemlok and less range on the pellets for the shotgun. At least the Prowler gets a little better with more spare bullets.

Ring Update

“In hopes of spreading the chaos that can occur in the final rings, we are making some tweaks to rings 5 and 6.”

Ring 5 is larger (radius from 1500 units to 2000 units). Time to close is the same.

Ring 6 is the last ring. It will close slowly over 100s somewhere near the center of ring 5.

Quality of Life Changes
Ultimate accelerators can now be used without opening your inventory. If your ultimate accelerator is currently unavailable, simply press the button (or buttons on a controller) to activate it, and you will pull out a saved accelerator from your inventory – you will then use it automatically.

In a lobby, if a party member leaves the lobby for any reason, all party members will be marked as “not ready”. This should prevent accidental launches into a match if your buddy has dived for a second.

The fabled “Mark All As Seen” button has been added. Click it to remove those pesky (I mean helpful) red dots.

Pinging the closest respawn beacon (from Spectate) now always pings the closest beacon. Unless you don’t have enough time to use it before the ring closes over it, instead of defaulting to the closest Beacon in the next safe ring.

It will display how many treasure packs are needed to acquire the next comic page. This should make it easier for players hunting the new piece of lore to know how far away they are.

Caustic should now smash the door with his Heirloom hammer instead of his leg, if available.

Added a small piece of information to the “Find Friends” field to describe a situation where your friend may not be trackable due to their EA account settings.

Bug fixes
Bloodhound

Fixed an issue where Bloodhound’s UI would disappear after interacting with Horizon’s Tactical.
Wraith

Fixed an issue where Warith’s portals were being destroyed by the Trident.
Bangalore

Fixed an issue where Bangalore’s missile would pass through hatch doors when they were closed in Worlds Edge.
Mirage

Fixed an issue where Mirage’s decoys did not make kicking sounds.
Crypto

Fixed an issue where Hack would consume two vault keys when there were two keys in Crypto’s inventory.
Fixed an issue where Hack would get stuck in the Trident when used as a passenger and the Trident was on a ramp.
Revenant

Fixed an issue where other players could teleport with Revenant after hitting Revenant when he is low on health.
Fixed an issue that did not allow Revenant to use the Death Totem while on the Trident.
Loba

Fixed many windows in World’s Edge that Loba’s bracelet was not getting through.
Rampart

Fixed an issue that allowed Rampart to place Sheila while on the Phase Runner.
Fixed an issue where UI elements remained on the screen after Sheila was used.
Horizon

Fixed an issue where Horizon’s abilities did not affect Lifeline’s DOC and Crypto’s drone.

What is actually… “Apex Legends?

Within 24 hours, “Apex Legends” became the most-watched game on Twitch – after one week, over 25 million people were already playing it. What is the battle royale shooter about?

What is “Apex Legends” about?

Scenario: In a distant future, bandits, adventurers, and outlaws settle their disputes in a sporting contest to the death. The setting is a fertile, industrially developed valley on the edge of the galaxy.

  • Genre: Battle Royale shooter
  • Game modes: survival battle between a maximum of 20 teams of three.

At its core, “Apex Legends” is a classic battle-royale shooter: up to 60 players land simultaneously in teams of three on the game map called “Kings Canyon” – a densely built-up, fertile valley with many accessible houses, bunkers and towers. Once on the ground, unarmed players must search their surroundings for equipment and ammunition. The goal of the game is to stay alive until the end.

To prevent players from hiding all over the map and waiting to automatically be the last one left, the game area shrinks every few minutes. The longer a round lasts, the smaller the area where survivors can move and hide.

Apex Legends refreshes this now classic game formula with some ideas that are unique to the genre: For example, before starting a round, players select one of eight heroes, each of which has two special abilities and facilitates certain play styles.

Bangalore, for example, is the classic soldier who can conceal her position with smoke grenades and in an artillery strike in an emergency. The heroine Lifeline, on the other hand, can summon a drone to heal teammates – or directly order the delivery of high-value weapons and equipment via aerial drone. This way, all players can find the right hero for their preferred course of action.

How can I play Apex Legends?

Platform: “Apex Legends” is available for PC, Xbox One and Playstation 4.

Price: The battle royale shooter is a “Free to Play” title and can basically be played for free on all platforms.

In-game purchases: “Apex Legends” allows the purchase of cosmetic items and new heroes either by means of in-game currency, which can be earned for free in every round, or with real money. The real-money currency “Apex Coins” can be purchased in five different amounts: The smallest possible amount is 1000 Apex Points for around 9.99 euros, while the largest pack with 10,000 Apex Points content costs 99.99 euros.

The developer emphasizes that it is not possible to buy game advantages with the help of real money: You can only use it to customize the appearance of the heroes, it says, or purchase new heroes.

Age rating: “Apex Legends” does not have a youth rating (USK 18).

Which technical terms should you know?

Respawn Beacon: If a player is shot down, the team members who are still alive have the opportunity to bring the fallen comrade back into the game: Each eliminated player leaves behind a so-called Respawn Banner, which can be collected by the players of the own team and handed in at one of 28 Respawn Beacons, certain locations on the map. If this succeeds, the fallen player returns to the game.

Jumpmaster: At the beginning of the game, one of the maximum three players of a team always takes on the role of the jumpmaster. He decides when and where his team enters the game area.

Ping: Using the middle mouse button, players can alert their teammates to interesting locations in the game world or enemies. These pings are a valuable tool for communicating quickly and efficiently within the team.

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