Apex Legends Season 22 patch notes: E-District map, Revival, Aim Flinch remove, and more

Apex Legends Season 22 patch notes have officially arrived. The new season called Shockwave will be released on August 6, 10 AM PT, and it will be one of the biggest ones in recent times. From bringing a brand new map named E-District to introducing a Warzone Resurgence-like mode called Revival, there is a lot to explore. The new update will also remove Aim Flinch completely from the game.

To learn more about the Apex Legends Season 22 patch notes, read below.

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Apex Legends Season 22 patch notes

NEW MAP: E-DISTRICT

• This map was designed to offer players a fresh and innovative experience. While it retains the core elements that define a great Apex map, we also pushed the boundaries by incorporating numerous buildings, emphasizing verticality, and creating varied landscapes. These changes ensure some of the most diverse fights and end-ring locations across the map.

SHOCKWAVE MAP ROTATION

The following maps will be available in Pubs and Ranked for the first half of this season:

• Broken Moon
• E-District
• Storm Point

"As an introduction to our newest map, E-District will be the dedicated featured map for a limited time. Let the energy of the neon lights energize your squad with each Pub match for the first week and each Ranked match for the first 72 hours of the season."

CONTROLLER & RECON CLASS PERKS

• This season we’re beginning a much more intentional push on what classes mean to the core of the game by bringing new tactical class passives to the Controller and Recon classes. Both will continue to bring strategic depth to their squad via interactions with Survey Beacons and Ring Consoles, but they’ll now have new intrinsic power that better supports their role on the team.

CONTROLLER CLASS

NEW CLASS PERK:

• Zone Overcharge: Controller Legends now have extra shield capacity when playing in the zone.
• The Zone automatically grants an overcharge of 25HP shield capacity.
• This capacity is permanent while the player remains in the zone (white ring area on the map).
• Overcharge is lost when leaving the zone (after a 5s delay).
• Overcharge can be healed with cells, batteries, and abilities while in the zone.
• If a player enters the zone at full shields, the overcharge pip will fill automatically.
• If a player acquires a shield core that overcharges beyond this extra zone capacity, that additional overcharge will still drain normally but the zone overcharge will remain.
• Zone Overcharge will never enhance Legend Armor beyond the maximum (red) capacity.

NEW QUALITY OF LIFE:

• Remote Pick-Up: Controller Legends can now remotely pick up their undamaged Tacticals by looking back at them and pressing a button.
• Additionally, if the player abandons the area, they will prompted to recover ALL possible objects.
• Remotely recovering these objects will restore the Tactical charge.

RECON CLASS

NEW CLASS PERK:

• Threat Vision: Recon Legends now gain threat vision when aiming down sights.
• Threat vision will highlight enemies that the character has Line of Sight to whenever using ADS (aim down sights).
• This ability will not work through walls or smoke, and it’s limited in range by the type of scope or zoom range of an ability.

SURVEY BEACONS:

• Faster to use ~3s (was ~7.5s).
• Shortened range of ~500m (was scanning the entire map).
• No longer randomly distributed and all will now be turned on with every map.
• Scanning now grants 75 EVO (was 200 EVO).
• Now pulses 3 times over 15s, with each pulse taking a snapshot of enemies in range for 5s.
• Now release a large in-world scan wave that players can spot to identify an activated beacon (enemies no longer receive a scan message).
• Enemies scanned will display along the edges of the mini-map even if not in.

UPDATE: STAT TRACKERS

• We've made a huge quality-of-life upgrade to Stat Trackers and are separating out the Stat and the Art. You'll now be able to set these on your Legend Banner Cards separately. The Art on your trackers has also been made universal, which means they can be applied to any Legend Banner Card. We wanted to give players more ways to customize their Banner Cards and let you show off more than just one Legend there. It’s also a great way to show off your Legend ships!
• Login at any point during Shockwave to automatically unlock three new Stat Trackers to add to your mix-and-match collection.

BALANCE UPDATES

Care Package:

• EVA-8 returns to the floor.
• Blast pattern size slightly increased.
• Damage increased to 7 (was 6).
• Fire rate decreased.
• Now takes Boosted Loader Hop-Up.
• 4 shots remaining activation.
• Quick reload overflows Magazine by 2.
• Slight increase to recoil.
• R-99 enters the Care Package.
• ADS strafe speed increased.
• Improved recoil.
• New Feature: Damage fall-off.
• Damage increased to 14 at close range.
• Damage falls off to 10 at 11+ meters.
• No movement penalty when equipped.
• EVO Cache Spawn Rate in the first wave increased to 100% (was 50%).

Gold Weapon Rotation:

• Mozambique Akimbo, P2020 Akimbo, R-301, Rampage, Sentinel.

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GAMEPLAY UPDATES

Aim Assist:

• Console crossplay into PC lobbies: Aim Assist strength reduced 18%.
• Console performance mode crossplay into PC lobbies: Aim Assist strength reduced 22%.
• Controller on PC: Aim Assist strength reduced 25%.

Aim Flinch:

• Aim Flinch has been removed from all weapons & most abilities.
• Damage from the ring still incurs Aim Flinch.

Loot Bin Reset:

Starting with Shockwave, all loot bins will close and reroll their loot with a significantly increased chance at high tier and rare loot at the mid-way point of the match.

• Bins that have been rerolled will appear slightly differently than ones that have never been opened.
• After the reset, multiple bins will convert into Legendary loot bins that provide smart loot, guaranteeing that the contents to be relevant upgrades for a squad.

Mythic Bin:

• One Mythic bin will spawn into the match with:
• One random Care Package weapon.
• Gold version weapons of those that the squad is running at the time of opening the bin.
• Medical supplies and grenades.
• Large XP bonus to the squad.
• Mythic bins are locked and require players to hold interact on them for a significant amount of time to crack them open for their team.
• Displayed on the map and minimap.

Loot Pool:

• Reduce the spawn rate of Purple and Gold attachments by about 50%.

Reorganization: Death Boxes and Loba’s Black Market:

• Healing items now have a dedicated row and have been removed from the consumables category.
• Shield Cores have been moved to the top of the Gear category.

Traversal:

• Mantling at the same time in the same spot as a teammate no longer forces both players to drop.

BATTLE SENSE

Better Ammo Awareness & Feedback:

• Critical Ammo state will now kick on when a player has 0 relevant ammo in their inventory.
• On screen Low Ammo indicators kick on earlier allowing players more opportunity to find ammo.
• Indicator also now displays the icon of the ammo type.
• Pinging for ammo will now display the ammo icon in the kill feed.
• When emptying a weapon of all reserve ammo it will now automatically ping that the player is in need of ammo.
• When looking at ammo on the ground the tooltip now displays compatibility with any of your currently equipped weapons.

Enemy Health Bars:

• When damaging an enemy, players are now shown the enemy’s Armor and Health state. This Health Bar is only active for a brief time after dealing damage and then fades away. Health Bars, like Enemy Highlights require direct line of sight.

Enemy Highlight:

• Enemy players will now be highlighted with a red outline similar to how allies are highlighted with a blue one. The highlight is most prominent at close ranges and the intensity fades as targets get farther away. Enemy Highlights require a direct line of sight (you can breathe now, Bangalore mains).
• Both Enemy Health Bars and Enemy Highlights can be toggled on/off in Settings.

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MAPS

• Pubs & Ranked Rotation.
• Broken Moon.
• E-District.
• Stormpoint.
• NEW E-District.
• Urban island district of the city of Suotamo on Gaea.
• Features 17 POIs.
• Designed for verticality with areas perfect for CQC.
• Exclusive map at launch.
• Pubs: for the first week after launch, August 6-12.
• Ranked: for the first 72 hours after launch, August 6-9.

MODES

Bot Royale:

• New mode for Apex’s new and learning players.
• Battle as a squad against a smaller lobby of enemy bot squads in a quicker version of a standard battle royale match.
• Game rules are the same as in standard battle royale modes.
• Play with Bots in your squad or bring your own Human friends.
• Bot Legends: overhauled as part of Bot Royale.
• Improvements made to pathfinding, shooting, ability deployment, and interactions with game objects.
• Several Legends were added as Bots in Bot Royale: Bangalore, Bloodhound, Conduit, Fuse, Gibraltar, Lifeline, Octane, Seer, Vantage, and Wraith.

Revival: LTM ft. New Respawn Mechanic:

• Respawn into a skydive near your teammates as long as one teammate is still alive
• If all players die, the team is eliminated.
• Respawn Timers:
• Respawn timers increase with each passing round.
• Respawn timers for your squad increase each time a squadmate dies.
• Respawn timers decrease when squad members:
• Deal damage.
• Earn knockdowns.
• Earn kills.
• Execute enemies.
• Killing an enemy will reveal their squadmates for a brief time.
• Players start with blue knockdown shields (knockdown shields removed from the loot pool).
• Respawning ends and all deaths are final upon reaching a specific round.
• Trios Revival: Respawning ends at Round 5.
• Straight Shot Revival: Respawning ends at Round 4.

Straight Shot Revival (Starts August 20, 2024):

• Straight Shot returns as Straight Shot Revival.
• Features new respawn mechanic found in Trios Revival.
• Akimbo P2020 and Mozambique replace the single versions in loot.
• Enemy Highlight and Enemy Health Bars are enabled.
• Purple and gold tier LMGs will include the new Gun Shield Generator hop-up.

MIXTAPE

Akimbo weapons added into all Mixtape Loadouts and Gun Run

• R99 moves out of all loadouts, replaced with akimbo weapon variants.

Mixtape Map Rotations:

August 6-12, 2024

• TDM: Skull Town, Habitat.
• Control: Thunderdome, Production Yard.
• Gun Run: The Core, Monument.

August 13-19, 2024

• Control: Barometer, Lava Siphon.
• Gun Run: Fragment, Skull Town.
• Lockdown: Zeus Station, Thunderdome.

August 20-26, 2024

• TDM: Habitat, The Core.
• Control: Barometer, Lava Siphon.
• Gun Run: Fragment, Skull Town.

August 27-September 2, 2024

• TDM: Habitat, Skull Town.
• Control: Production Yard, Thunderdome.
• Gun Run: The Core, Wattson.

September 3-9, 2024

• TDM: Habitat, The Core.
• Control: Barometer, Lava Siphon.
• Gun Run: Fragment, Skull Town.

September 10-16, 2024

• TDM: Skull Town, Zeus Station.
• Control: Production Yard, Thunderdome.
• Gun Run: The Core, Wattson.
• LTM: Akimbo & LMG Only Loadouts.

August 13-19, 2024

• TDM: Habitat, Skull Town, The Core, Zeus Station.

August 30-September 3, 2024

• Weekend of Lockdown.
• Gameplay Rules: decreased Ult charge while capturing points.
• Zeus Station, Monument, Skull Town, The Core, Thunderdome.

September 3-9, 2024

• Big TDM.
• Gameplay Rules.
• 15 Minute Time Limit.
• Score limit increased to 75.
• Shield Regen activates on kills.
• Thunderdome, Habitat, Zeus Station, Skull Town, Fragment, The Core.

NEW PLAYER EXPERIENCE

Welcome Pass and Challenges:

• For new accounts created after the launch of Shockwave after Apex Legends Season 22 update.
• Complete Welcome Challenges to progress through the Welcome Pass after Apex Legends Season 22 update.
• Challenges can be completed in any BR mode and Bot Royale after Apex Legends Season 22 update.
• Unique set of challenges designed around foundational skills.
• Welcome Challenges do not refresh.
• Receive rewards for reaching each level of the Welcome Pass.
• If the player already has the reward in their inventory, they will receive the Crafting Metals value instead.
• Start with three Legends: Wraith, Bloodhound and Lifeline.
• Unlock Bloodhound, Pathfinder, Gibraltar, and a Legend of their choice through progression.

RANKED

We will implement a brand new reset rule at the start of the new season.

New Season Reset Rules:

• No RP reset for Rookie IV to Rookie I, players will keep the RP they have from the last split
• Bronze IV to Platinum IV will reset to Bronze IV 1000 RP after Apex Legends Season 22 update.
• Platinum III reset to Bronze III 1500 RP.
• Platinum II reset to Bronze II 2000 RP.
• Platinum I reset to Bronze I 2500 RP.
• Diamond IV reset to Silver IV 3250 RP (with +250 demotion protection).
• Diamond III reset to Silver III 3600 RP.
• Diamond II reset to Silver II 4200 RP after Apex Legends Season 22 update.
• Diamond I reset to Silver I 4800 RP.
• Master and above reset to Gold IV 5650 RP (with +250 demotion protection) after Apex Legends Season 22 update.

Special Cases:

• New Players (complete onboarding and above Level 20): Starting Rookie IV 1 RP.
• Returning Players who didn't play last season (excluding Rookie tier which won’t reset): Starting RP threshold for Bronze IV 1000 RP.

RANKED RUMBLE

Ranked Rumble returns September 13-17, 2024, with a new best-of-10 matches format and free rewards.

• Players can participate in matches without 10 matches limitations after Apex Legends Season 22 update.
• There is no Re-Entry mechanic; play as much as you want after Apex Legends Season 22 update.
• Only your top 10 match results count towards your final standings.
• If you get a better match score, it will replace your current lowest score after Apex Legends Season 22 update.

WORLD SYSTEMS

• Improved end ring generation system.

BUG FIXES

• Can no longer use Death Boxes through walls.
• Cleaning up disconnected players in Mixtape.
• Firing Range: Mythic weapons are no longer taken away after respawning.
• Fixed a storm point zipline that could kick players off too early.
• Fixed bad actor ping crashes.
• Fixed prowler spawn den bullet collision hull.

Adaptive Supersampling:

• Fixed an issue that caused screen tearing after Apex Legends Season 22 update.
• Fixed an issue that caused Legend banner poses to appear distorted after Apex Legends Season 22 update.

Death Boxes:

• Improvements to help stop deathboxes from getting stuck in doorways and blocking exits.
• Should now be lootable in broken doorways after Apex Legends Season 22 update.
• Will now contain a shield core if the enemy disconnects before dying after Apex Legends Season 22 update.

LEGENDS

• Alter's ult can no longer be used for free if you place it onto a moving object and use it immediately.
• Bangalore smoke highlights should no longer get blocked by other players.
• Fixed an issue that let players affected by Catalyst ultimate to see through Bangalore smoke.
• Movement hitch when using Seer’s passive while unarmed should no longer occur.
• No more thefts from an explosive hold without warning, destroying Loba's Black Market.

QUALITY OF LIFE

Mantling in the same location as your teammate won’t knock you down.

Mixtape Gameplay:

• Additional starting grenade added for Control & Lockdown.
• EVA 8 back into Close-Quarters loadout after Apex Legends Season 22 update.
• Faster health regen for all mixtape modes.
• Lockdown Score Limit reduced to 400 (was 500).
• Reconnect match timer reduced to 2 minutes (was 5 min) after Apex Legends Season 22 update.
• Team Deathmatch Score Limit reduced to 40 (was 50).

Mixtape’s Skull Town got a spawn audit (adjusting positions & angles).

Nessies can once again bounce to their heart's content in the firing range (just not anywhere else).

Speaking of, a new Nessie (with an appreciation for cinema) has appeared around the firing range.

GRAPHICS

• Largely optimized Performance Mode on Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5, for more consistent frame rates and fewer resolution drops after Apex Legends Season 22 update.
• Xbox Series X and PS5 can expect 10 FPS or higher improvements in GPU-intensive scenarios after Apex Legends Season 22 update.
• DX12 (PC).
• Fixed several causes of graphical corruption issues after Apex Legends Season 22 update
• Large optimizations to both CPU and GPU performance. With these changes, we expect that the DirectX 12 beta should now perform better than DirectX 11 for the majority of players.
• PC: removed Adaptive Supersampling video settings option. A small percentage of players used this option and those that did received no benefit from it unless they had a powerful GPU and low res monitor.
• Mitigated performance impact of looking at Death Boxes and intermittent performance spikes from champions banners after Apex Legends Season 22 update.

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That covers everything you need to know about the Apex Legends Season 22 patch notes. Check out our other Apex Legends news and guides here,

• Apex Legends Ranked Rumble: How to play and all rewards
• 10 major changes coming in Apex Legends Season 22
• Apex Legends Season 22: New map, game modes, Welcome Pass, and more