Apex Legends Season 8: Mayhem – Patch notes

Here's a look at everything we learned from the patch notes for Season 8: Mayhem.

Radiant G

Published: Feb 1, 2021 02:57 pm

The newest season of Apex Legends is bringing the boom, and with that, can a brand-new set of patch notes. From big new additions like a new legend and a new weapon, down to the tiniest changes like extra bits of lore attached to select in-game skins. There is no that this season is going to shake the game and the meta up quite a bit. Let’s take a look at everything Season 8: Mayhem has to offer us on launch.

Major Changes

Minor Changes

[Accessibility] All shield and health restoration, as well as reviving teammates, will be better optimized for colorblind mode
[Lore] All skins with relevance to canon lore and/or importance in regards character backstory will now come with a small lore blurb that details why the skin is significant to the character

Bug Fixes

Sonar abilities like Bloodhound’s Eye of the Allfather will no longer interfere with Caustic’s Highlight Vision
Loba no longer able to Jump Drive to areas of Kings Canyon she was not supposed to be able to go
Rampart can no longer place Sheila on the Jump Pads in Octane’s Gauntlet on Kings Canyon
Rampart’s passive LMG ammo buff no longer carries over to other Legends after switching them out in the Firing Range
Removed glitching giving a hip-fired Havoc 100% accuracy when shot through Rampart’s Amped Cover wall
Fixed Point of View glitch that occurred when Horizon used her Gravity Lift or Black Hole and then immediately shifted from hip-fire to Aim Down Sights
Fixed audio issue with crowds not cheering in Pathfinder’s Fight Night Town Takeover on Olympus
Fixed glitch that prevented some of the Heirlooms from appearing in the Heirloom shop
Stopped Thermite Grenades from burning through walls on Olympus
Various bug fixes to Clubs (see link under Major Changes for details)

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Radiant G

Radiant G! is a game journalist, indie game developer, artist, and writer who currently works freelance in the games industry full-time. He is Gamepur's beat writer for Apex Legends coverage, and also runs his own Apex Legends team called Verve. He is also fiercely committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in the games industry, and helms Diverse Gaming Coalition.