Apex Legends Update 1.67 Patch Notes

May 4, 2021

Apex Legends 1.67 update is now live on both PC and console. This patch update provides a new Legend named “Valkyrie” along with weapon changes and bug fixes.

Here is the full patch note, released by the developers:

Apex Legends 1.67 Patch Notes

Legend Updates

Low Profile Characters

Low profile no longer exists! This trait has been removed from Wraith, Lifeline, and Wattson.

Lifeline

Combat Revive: No longer deploys a shield. Can now revive two players at the same time. Can now cancel active revives in progress to allow your teammate to defend themselves with their knockdown shield.
D.O.C. Heal Drone: Heal rate increased from 5hp per second to 8hp per second. Deployment time before healing begins reduced by roughly 33%.
Care Package: Cooldown reduced from 6 minutes to 5 minutes. Now guarantees an upgrade (if possible) in three categories: Body Shield, Other Equipment (Helmet, Backpack, and Knockdown Shield), and Weapon Attachment, based on your team’s current gear when the Package arrives.

Octane

Stim: Reduced cooldown between stims from 4s to 1s. Increased health cost from 12hp to 20hp.
Increased bullet spread while in the air and shooting from the low Launch Pad trajectory.

Loba

Burglar’s Best Friend: Can now run and slide at full speed while aiming the bracelet and while the bracelet is in the air. Loba will no longer be slowed after translocating.
Fixed a lot of bugs that caused bracelet tosses to fail.
Black Market Boutique: Increased cooldown from 90s to 120s.

Horizon

Gravity Lift: Reduced lift speed by 30%. Reduced side-to-side acceleration. Limited the time you can sit at the top of Gravity Lift to 2 seconds. Increased cooldown from 15s to 20s.
Horizon’s abilities will now get zapped by Wattson pylons.

Fuse

Knuckle Cluster: Fuse now has two stacks of Knuckle Cluster. Reduced cooldown from 25s to 20s.

Bangalore

Smoke Launcher: Thickened Bangalore’s smoke.

Bloodhound

No longer receives assists from Eye of the Allfather.

Crypto

Crypto’s drone can now scan and open care packages.
Can no longer use his drone to “hijack” a respawn beacon that’s already in use.

Weapons Updates

Marksman Weapon Category

The G7 Scout and the 30-30 are currently in the Assault Rifle weapons category, but they are a bit strange in that category due to their firing style and some of their handling values. Similarly, the Triple Take felt a little out of place in the Sniper category.

With the introduction of the Bocek bow, we felt it was a good time to introduce a new weapons category, Marksman Weapons, which will include the G7, 30-30, Triple Take, and Bocek. Weapons in this category are precision weapons that are most effective up to medium-long range, and are the sort of in-betweens of Assault Rifles and Snipers. This allows us to begin moving the settings of these weapons towards more consistent value for the class, and make the settings of ARs and Snipers more consistent with less outliers.

For starters, we are increasing the movement speed while aiming down sights for marksman weapons; They were at sniper speeds, and will now be between sniper and AR speeds. Additionally, we have done some targeted normalization of hipfire spread amounts.

Supply Drop Rotation

This season, we’re taking the Peacekeeper out of the supply drop and putting the Triple Take in its place. Of course, with any supply drop change, these weapons will have their stats updated. See how each weapon changes down below.

Crate Weapon Drop Rates:
Since we are exchanging a shotgun with a marksman weapon, now was a good time to rebalance the drop rates of crate weapons. The Kraber will spawn less often in the early game and more often in the mid game to better accommodate its power. The Triple Take will be the most common early game crate weapon, with the Prowler being the most prominent late game crate weapon.

Fully Kitted Rotation

Added: Wingman, Bocek, R99, Hemlock, and Sentinel
Removed: R301, 30-30 Repeater, Mozambique, Longbow DMR, and Spitfire

Hop Ups

Shatter Caps – Fire select to toggle between standard mode and shatter mode. In shatter mode, rounds split into a blast pattern on firing. This hop up will be equipable to the 30-30 Repeater and the Bocek.
Deadeye’s Tempo – Firing at the perfect moment increases fire rate. This can currently be attached to the Sentinel and the Bocek.
To make room, the Hammerpoint and Skullpiercer hop ups are being vaulted for now, and won’t be available.

Assault Rifles

Reducing the headshot multiplier for all assault rifles from 2.0 to 1.75

Peacekeeper

It comes with the Precision Choke by default, which can be toggled off
Pellet damage reduced from 10 to 9
Rechamber time increased from 0.9 seconds to 1.1 seconds
Reload times increased (regular from 2.45 to 2.5, empty from 3.35 to 3.5)
Pellet spread increased in general, and spread when charged increased for all charge levels (from 0.65/0.45/0.2 to 0.85/0.65/0.35)
Quickly loses charge after leaving ADS

Triple Take

As a crate weapon, it will come with a 9 ammo clip and 63 reserve ammo
Fire rate increased from 1.2 to 1.3
Time to full charge reduced from 1.1 seconds to 1 second
Retains charge briefly after leaving ADS
Move-speed while aiming down sights has been increased to match other marksman weapons — faster than snipers, slower than ARs
Increased spread while airborne and aiming down sights

Havoc

Increased recoil controllability early in the pattern

Spitfire

Reduced recoil controllability early in the pattern

30-30 Repeater

Increased leg damage multiplier from 0.75 to 0.85
Move-speed while aiming down sights has been increased to match other marksman weapons — faster than snipers, slower than ARs

G7 Scout

Move-speed while aiming down sights has been increased to match other marksman weapons — faster than snipers, slower than ARs
Increased hipfire spread size (reduced accuracy) to be more in line with other marksman weapons

Longbow

Increased headshot multiplier from 2.0 to 2.15

Wingman

Increased headshot multiplier from 2.0 to 2.15

Mozambique

Increased magazine capacity from 4 to 6
Moved the lower 2 pellets inward in the blast pattern

P2020

Increased bullet damage from 15 to 18
Lowered fire rate from 8.5 to 6.25

Arc Stars

Aim and movement slow removed from the initial stick.

Quality of Life

Badges are now sorted by categories and can be filtered by “all” or “unlocked only”. This suggestion came directly from players. Thank you! It’s so much better!
When looting death boxes, players can now see health bars for everyone on the team.
Challenges can now be “favorited” by going into the challenges menu and right clicking a challenge. That Challenge will then be added to a new favorites tab that will appear in the lobby and in the match’s map screen.
Pressing and Holding F2 while in-game will bring up the ability description page for your character. This is only available on PC.
Players can now request better equipment by going into their inventory and pinging a piece of equipment.
Your first Challenge Reroll of the day is now free.
Rerolling your challenges will allow you to choose from either BR-focused challenges or Arenas-focused ones.
Holo Sprays, Quips, and Emotes, can be favorited. These will be used whenever the player is prompted to do a random emote.
Club Invites v2: You can now include what you want to play when you send your clubmates a party invite via the Club tab. Select as many club mates as you want to send the invite to at once via the member list.
Ranked: Fixed edge cases where an abandon penalty would be incorrectly applied due to server errors.
Flight path adjustments: Removing edge dropship flight paths to prevent matches where large portions of the map receive little to no traffic. These screenshots show a before/after comparison of possible flight paths on Kings Canyon.

Ring Update

Ring 4 pre-shrink time reduced from 2:00 to 1:45
Ring 4 shrink speed reduced from 33 second close time to 40 seconds
Ring 5 shrink speed reduced from 20 second close time to 40 seconds
Ring 6 pre-shrink time reduced from 1:30 to 1:00
Ring 6 shrink speed reduced from 1:40 close time to 2:00

Bug Fixes

Bloodhound

Fixed an issue with the Tactical UI not showing while in Bloodhound’s Ultimate.

Pathfinder

Gas Traps and Jump Pads will no longer float into the sky when placed next to a zipline.

Wraith

Slight wall bumps no longer inadvertently cancel Wraith’s tactical.

Mirage

Decoys no longer die after a tick of thermite damage.

Octane

Ordinances will no longer get stuck and disappear when being bounced off of Jump Pads.
Death Totems will no longer bounce when a Jump Pad is placed under it.
Players will no longer have weapons drawn if they are knocked as they enter the Fight Night ring via a Jump Pad.
Updated Octane’s Helicopter emote to correctly remove his leg for which he is using it to do said helicoptering.

Wattson

Fixed the “Extend” prompt for Watson’s fences not appearing in certain situations.
Haute Drop skin will no longer block view when reloading the Sentinel.

Loba

Fixed more areas where Loba’s Bracelet fails.
Red Handed skin on consoles will now properly animate.

Rampart

Mobile Respawn Beacon now has proper collision with Amped Cover.
Jumping on and off a damaged Shiela will no longer transfer the flame effect to your weapon.

Horizon

Players will no longer have weapons drawn if they are knocked as they enter the fight night ring via a Gravity Lift.
1x holo sight will no longer block view when using certain skins.
Fixed an issue with NEWT not getting refunded if it immediately dies due to a bad spot.

Fuse

1x holo sight will no longer block view when using certain skins.

Flatline

Part of the iron sight was being displayed over the whole weapon.

Prowler

Supply Drop Prowler can now toggle fire modes.

Sentinel

Moved tool tips to not overlap hop up icons.
Fixed a graphical issue when swapping to Sentinel.

Misc

Fixed a menu issue with the advanced look options being hidden.
Survey beacons will now appear on the map when teammates are respawned.