All Quality of Life changes in Apex Legends mid-season patch (Season 21)

Apex Legends is scheduled to receive a bunch of Quality of Life (QoL) changes in the upcoming mid-seasonal update for Season 21. These updates are ingrained by the developers to solve the problematic parts that don't qualify as bugs but can hinder the overall experience. All in-game functions must execute as intended, and if any one of them fails, it can create a lasting impact.

This article will highlight the QoL changes arriving in the upcoming update for Apex Legends Season 21.

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Quality of Life update for Apex Legends in mid-seasonal update (Season 21)

QoL changes are introduced to improve the gameplay experience for all the members of the community. These updates generally tend to fix minor issues in the game’s User Interface, working of character abilities, and more. Such a step can greatly boost the health of an online multiplayer title like Apex Legends with fewer discrepancies.

Here are all the QoL changes the developers will deploy for Apex Legends in the new update:

• Added a settings option that adjusts the gameplay volume when spectating.

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Alter:

• Added different voice lines for Void Nexus being destroyed by the ring rather than a player.
• Added logic to prevent most cases of placing a Void Passage resulting in falling to your death post-travel. Olympus should be comparatively safer.
• Added rumble to Alter’s Ultimate and Tactical ability.

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• Emote sound effects now play when previewing in the lobby with the option to turn it completely off as well.

Health Wheel can now be closed on Controller with LT in addition to

• Circle on PlayStation.
• B on Xbox.

Health Wheel items can now be used on Controller with RT in addition to

• Square on PlayStation.
• A on Xbox.

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Mixtape

Gameplay

• 10-minute match time for all Mixtape modes except Control.

Spawn Logic change: Gun Run, Lockdown, and TDM

• Decrease spawning in sight of enemies.
• Spawn closer, but not at the same spawn point as teammates.

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Lockdown

• Capture borders change to show the color of the team currently in the zone.
• Lockdown now always awards 5 points per kill and 5 points per capture interval.
• There is no longer special scoring based on kill positioning or extra points awarded for the final/initial capture of zones.

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Map spawn audit: Adjusting positions and angles

• The Core, Estates, Habitat, Party Crasher, and Phase Runner.

You might be interested in: All bug fixes in upcoming Season 21 update

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Graphics

• DX12 PC: additional CPU performance optimizations, up to 10% faster compared to the Season 21 launch.
• Added a new "Very High" choice to the "Model Detail" option in Video Settings, for reduced LOD popping.

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Switch

• Migrated to the Rendering Hardware Interface (RHI), shared by PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC DirectX 12.
• FOV Slider added: may impact performance for players choosing to increase it beyond 70.

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That is everything you need to know about the new QoL updates arriving in Apex Legends Season 21. Stay tuned to Sportskeeda for more news and updates.

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