This is a nice, niche buff to his recon capabilities. With the first change, Crypto can now look in care packages from a distance to see if it is worthwhile for his team to take what is inside. Can no longer use his drone to ‘hijack’ respawn beacons currently in use.Crypto’s drone can now scan and open care packages.This should take it back to its original visuals, very slightly buffing the legend. In previous patches, the smoke was accidentally thinned and players were able to see through it more easily. The smoke from her tactical ability has been thickened.This buff will allow him to deny more space and pressure teams with his explosives, but they are keeping an eye on it so that it does not become overpowering. Knuckle cluster now has 2 charges and the cooldown was reduced form 25 to 20 seconds for eachįuse has had the lowest win rate across all legends for Season 8.Only time will tell if they decide to do the same with the Fortified passive for Gibraltar and Caustic. However, after removing it from Pathfinder in Chaos Theory, the developers feel like they can balance legends just using hitboxes and kit changes. This passive made smaller characters take 5% more damage from all sources. Low profile has been removed from Wraith, Lifeline and Wattson.Image Courtesy of Respawn Entertainment Buffs This should let players take advantage of her extreme mobility now, but at the cost of using the ultimate ability slightly less. Previously it was extremely buggy to the point of being unusably unpredictable. In addition to these, there have been many bug fixes to the bracelet. It also no longer has a slow effect after exiting the animation She can now move at full speed when using her tactical Bracelet.Ultimate ability Black Market Boutique has had the cooldown increased from 90 to 120 seconds.Taking this away is a major nerf, but they have buffed her tactical and ultimate to try and compensate. Lifeline’s shielded revive has been too powerful for some time now, to the annoyance of many players. Care Package guarantees an upgrade (if possible) in the categories of Body Shields, general equipment (Knockdown Shield, Backpack, and Helmet) or Weapon attachments.Cooldown of the ultimate Care Package is reduced from 6 to 5 minutes.Deploy time of the tactical drone is reduced by 33%.The heal rate of her tactical drone is increased from 5 to 8 HP per second.

Her drone revive no longer deploys a shield.Here’s the highlights you need to know for the May 4th launch. With the advent of Apex Legends’ new season on the doorstep, the developers at Respawn Entertainment have released the Apex Legends Season 9 patch notes a few days early.

Apex patch notes