Hit some delays on Xbox, but it should be downloading shortly if not now.

Update is delayed on Xbox and we're investigating. Apex will still be playable, but you'll be on the old season.

We're working with them to get this sorted. This delay isn't ideal, but cheers for the patience.

We're working with them to get this sorted.

Hey Legends,

We’re sharing today that Linux (and Steam Deck using Linux) will no longer be able to access Apex Legends. 

Our dev team wanted to provide a bit more context into this and share some of the decision-making process that happened along the way. As mentioned in our prior anti-cheat dev blog, competitive integrity is a top priority for our team and there are many ways in which we’re battling cheaters—this is one to add to the list. We remain committed to more regular updates on topics like this and appreciate your continued reports.

Read on to hear from our Anti-Cheat Team.

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all the time. this community is invaluable in so many ways. Speaking for myself, there have been numerous times when folks here have helped me rapidly debug an issue, allowing me to fix it much faster than I might have otherwise. Again speaking just personally, the hardest part is when I'm asked a question that I know the person asking knows I can't really answer. Absolutely I understand the frustration with certain things. I don't know what a question like, "are you going to fix [insert really big and complex issue here]?" is meant to achieve. But I also feel bad not addressing those questions, because I don't think we should shy away from those discussions. Those are hard conversations that require a lot of grace and empathy from both sides, and that is just really hard on the internet.

Yes. That's what I was referring to here:

The bug I remember was the BR win streak badge counted arenas by accident

That's the only big I remember with any of the streak badges 

I know we played other squad sizes when Arenas was being developed. But so much of apex is based around trios that I don't think there was a ton of investment in larger groups. But maybe with more varied squad size modes now it might play better. 

As a player I'd love to see arenas come back too. I played it almost exclusively for about three seasons. Still nothing quite like it. But I really have no idea. I don't work much on game modes stuff. I do mostly meta games systems. But I can say there are certainly still a lot of arenas fans. Both among the player base and internally. Arenas at its best was something truly special. Sudden death wins and losses were some of the hardest hitting games I've ever had. 

Can confirm there are a few legit 100 win badges. Not many - and I don't have the exact count offhand. But there certainly were a few. I remember the first one, we were tracking it internally ourselves waiting to see if the player would get it. Was pretty cool when it happened. Makes me want to go dig up who it was. I don't think this badge was ever bugged. The bug I remember was the BR win streak badge counted arenas by accident. 

acknowledged. we're on it.

The drop rate of shards is decoupled from the 500 pack guarantee. I.e., the drop rate is not 1/500. We keep track in the backend to ensure that if you have opened 499 packs and have not gotten shards, on your 500th pack you are *guaranteed* to get shards. This then resets that counter, as does receiving shards purely at random from a pack.

The guarantee was part of the level cap raise to 2000. If you reach level 2000, you are guaranteed to get 544 packs just from the standard progression flow. And because of that, you are therefore guaranteed to get shards. But it's the 2000 level cap, not the old 500 level cap.