The Apex Legends Season 28 mid-season patch notes feature updates to Gibraltar, Wraith, and Wattson, the Hemlok Breach weapon, and more.
Electronic Arts (EA) has revealed the Apex Legends Season 28 mid-season patch notes. The patch includes audio system changes, updates to Gibraltar, Wraith, and Wattson, the new Hemlok Breach weapon, the Aftershock event in Wildcard, and so much more. Read on for all of the Apex Legends Season 28 mid-season patch notes and details.
Apex Legends Season 28 mid-season patch notes
In terms of legends updates, Apex Legends Season 28 midcycle includes changes to Gibraltar, Wraith, and Wattson. According to EA, Gibraltar’s buffs improve his mobility and defenses after falling behind in pick rate. His kit now has faster resets and more flexible upgrades as well.
“With a new passive that will allow him to traverse and rotate quicker, some quality-of-life updates to his base kit and some meaningful upgrades to let you choose your playstyle,” EA explained, referring to the legend’s new Momentum Boost passive. “The Dome of Protection has become easier and easier to push these days so we wanted to give Gibraltar some better defenses and faster resets. We also wanted players to be able to upgrade into more versatility with his ultimate.”
As for Wraith, she gets major buffs to her base kit thanks to reduced cooldowns for both her tactical and ultimate. She also gets faster ultimate activation and upgrades that improve team utility. Wattson, meanwhile, gets unique ways to interact with Hardlight meshes.
Apex Legends Breach mid-season patch notes
Gibraltar
| Update | Details |
|---|---|
| Passive | Momentum Boost (New): If Gibraltar maintains sprint speed for a couple of seconds, then he will get a speed boost. This will only trigger while unarmed or if the weapon doesn’t have a sprint speed restriction. |
| Gibraltar’s punch will deal double damage to Hardlight. | |
| Tactical | Cooldown on Dome of Protection reduced (was 17s, now 13s). |
| Ultimate | Integrated the size increase upgrade into his base kit, increasing radius by 20%, call-in time for the missiles has been sped up, and Gibraltar can now throw his ultimate before the ultimate equip animation finishes. |
| Upgrades | Thunder Dome (Level 2): The dome becomes electrified when placed and will deal 50 damage and slow the first enemy to enter it. |
| Healing Dome (Level 2): Dome duration increases 4s and any player within the healing dome will get double small meds healing. | |
| Triple Bombardment (Level 3): Splits the ultimate into 3 charges, reducing the radius and number of missiles for each. | |
| Removed Big Bruddah, Bubble Bunker, and Baby Bubble |
Wraith
| Update | Details |
|---|---|
| Tactical | Integrated the tactical cooldown reduction upgrade into her base kit (was 20s, now 15s). |
| Ultimate | Integrated the ultimate cooldown reduction upgrade into her base kit (was 2.5 minutes, now 1.5 minutes). |
| Increased casting speed animation for quicker activation. | |
| Upgrades | Phase Dome (Level 2): When Wraith starts channeling her ultimate, she will create a Phase Dome. This dome will last for 30s or until Wraith places her portal. Anyone who enters the Phase Dome will go into the void. |
| Phase Jumper (Level 3): Wraith will stay in the void for longer when using her tactical (was 4s, now 6s) and will gain double jump while in the void. |
Wattson
| Update | Details |
|---|---|
| Tactical | Placing a fence in front of a Hardlight mesh will reinforce it. If the mesh is broken, then the fence will rebuild and reinforce it. |
| Increased fence damage (was 20, now 35). | |
| Reduced fence deployment time (was 1s, now 0.5s). | |
| Ultimate | When Wattson’s ultimate is placed, it will reinforce Hardlight meshes in the zone of the pylon. If the mesh is broken, then it will rebuild and reinforce the mesh. |
Apex Legends S28 mid-season patch notes: Weapons, Olympus, and audio
In addition to the aforementioned Hemlok Breach weapon, this patch features changes to the 30-30 Repeater, RE-45 Burst, P2020, EVA-8, and Prowler PDW. It also includes changes to Olympus as Elysium moves to the northeast corner near Rift to remove the forced contest with Somers University in ranked and competitive. The surrounding terrain has adjustments as well, including the removal of a minor point of interest (POI).
As for audio updates, the volume of Hardlight mesh shattering gets a reduction based on community feedback. Enemy footsteps, according to the patch notes, are louder when outside the player’s field of view, with volume increasing as they move from beside to directly behind.
| Weapon | Update | Details |
|---|---|---|
| AR | Hemlok Breach (Elite Weapon) | Removed Burst and Single firing modes. New Firing Mode: Automatic – Slow fire rate – Body Damage: 23 – Headshot Damage: 32 – Integrated Silencer New Firing Mode: Breach Charge – Single shot explosive – Cooldown: 15 seconds – Damage to players: 38 with radial falloff – Damage multiplier to Hardlight and structures |
| Marksman | 30-30 Repeater | Base damage increased from 41 to 43. |
| Pistol | RE-45 Burst | Elite version is now the default. Removed Elite weapon visual treatment. |
| P2020 | Decreased points required to unlock Hammerpoints to 425 (was 500). Base magazine size increased to 9 (was 8). | |
| Shotgun | EVA-8 | Improved reload speed. |
| SMG | Prowler PDW | Burst fire delay reduced. Improved recoil. |
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