Apex Legends 1.1.1 Patch Notes
Respawn launched version 1.1.1 of Apex Legends yesterday, addressing many complaints that fans have had over the past couple of months about a lack of rewards, character & gun balance, as well as bugs and cheating which have both become widespread.
The most impactful changes are the buffs given to Gibraltar and Caustic as well as the gun balancing which attempts to bring more weapons into viability. Respawn made an attempt to fix the problems with hitboxes by reducing the sizes of Pathfinder’s, Caustic’s, and Gibraltar’s in patch 1.1. But, they said the change only had a significant impact on Pathfinder. Many are saying that the change to everyone’s favorite robot has actually broken him, making him unhittable.
So, in 1.1.1, a new feature has been added to both Gib’s and Caustic’s passive. It’s called Fortified and will reduce all incoming damage to the bigs by 10%. Respawn has also stated that if the change doesn’t bring their win rate into line with the other characters, they will “aggressively tune” the feature until it offsets their hitbox sizes.
Gun changes were also introduced in an effort to make distance fighting more viable and to nerf overpowered weapons like the Wingman and Spitfire. It seems that both nerfing and buffing is centered around magazine size at the moment as Respawn probably sees this as the least intrusive way of tackling the problem. Here are the full patch notes for Apex Legends Patch 1.1.1.
Legend Balancing
CAUSTIC:
- Fortified Passive Perk added: reduces damage taken by 10%
- Gas Damage per tick increased: 1 -> 4
- Ultimate Throw distance increased: 28 meters -> 33 meters
GIBRALTAR:
- Fortified Passive Perk added: reduces damage taken by 10%
- Gun Shield health increased: 50 -> 75
WEAPON BALANCING
G7 SCOUT / TRIPLE TAKE / LONGBOW DMR
- Lowered leg shot damage reduction: 25% -> 10%
- Reduced base weapon sway by about 33%
- Reduced base sway speed by about 25%
LONGBOW DMR
- Increased fire rate 1.2 -> 1.6
- Increased magazine size
- Base mag increased: 5 -> 6 rounds
- Common mag extender increased: 6 -> 8 rounds
- Rare mag extender increased: 8 -> 10 rounds
- Epic mag extender increased: 10 -> 12 rounds
HAVOC
- Increased base magazine size: 25 -> 32 rounds
- Charge Beam
- Reduced cost per shot: 5 -> 4
- Increased close range damage: 55 -> 60
- Increased damage at range: 45 -> 50
- Close range damage falloff increased: 35m -> 75m
- Ranged damage falloff increased: 75m -> 125m
WINGMAN
- Reduced magazine size
- Base mag reduced: 6 -> 4 rounds
- Common mag extender reduced: 8 -> 6 rounds
- Rare mag extender reduced: 9 -> 8 rounds
- Epic mag extender reduced: 12 -> 10 rounds
SPITFIRE
- Reduced base damage: 20 -> 18
- Magazine extender attachments reduced
- Common mag extender reduced: 45 -> 40 rounds
- Rare mag extender reduced: 55 -> 45 rounds
- Epic mag extender reduced: 60 -> 55 rounds
ADJUSTMENTS TO GOLD WEAPON ATTACHMENTS:
- Gold Havoc
- Now has Turbocharger
- Now has 1x-2x variable holo site - Gold R301
- Now has 1x-2x variable holo site - Gold Wingman
- Now has digital threat
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