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Aiming for around 10am for patch notes. Hang tight friends we're almost there.

Hey friends,

Season 2 starts tomorrow! We're planning for the update to go live around 10:00am PST [we'll let you know if that changes]. We'll post update with patch notes once we've confirmed it's live. If you missed the trailers and info we've been dropping over the last few days here's a quick recap:

• How Daily and Weekly Challenges Work with Season 2.
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Hey everyone! We’re some of the Apex team responsible for Ranked mode (Tangentiallogic, pinedsman, and SpamminBandies), and we’re here to talk about the new Ranked Leagues feature in Apex Legends. Let’s dive into our philosophy, goals, and the nuts and bolts of how Ranked Leagues will work when they launch with Season 2 on July 2.

We believe that Apex is a dynamic game that takes time and effort to master. Ranked Leagues should be the place where competitive players (or players who feel competitive now and then) can go to prove their skills and gain recognition for their efforts.

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Goals for Ranked Leagues

With Ranked Leagues, we want to bring someth...

The emotes for Season 2 are the skydive ones only. The music is so good! Wait till you all hear it.

Hey all,

Lead Product Manager Lee Horn (Leeeeeee-RSPN) here with an overview of the Season 2 Battle Pass Challenges system. We heard your feedback on the Season 1 Battle Pass, and for Season 2 we’ve created a fun new way to maximize your Battle Pass gains. Challenges will allow you to make significantly greater Battle Pass progress, meaning you’ll unlock that sweet, sweet loot with less grind over less time by returning on a regular basis to complete challenges.

With the launch of Season 2, you’ll be able to complete Daily and Weekly Challenges to level up your Battle Pass. As we’ve previously mentioned, we’re endeavoring to balance gameplay purity with variety and fun, so this Season’s challenges will not require a YouTube tutorial to figure out.

Six of your ten Weekly Challenges will grant an entire Battle Pass level as a reward. The remaining Daily & Weekly Challenges grant STARS which, combined with match XP, contribute to a repeatable Weekly Challenge...

Originally we planned to release the CG trailer today, and gameplay trailer would follow tomorrow. That didn't work out! Given that they leaked, we decided to release both the CG and gameplay trailers for Season 2 today. Leaks are always super frustrating and we're bummed it happened but on the bright side, we're glad to see everyone excited for what we've got coming for Season 2. Thanks all for the kind words and encouragement.

In case you haven't seen them yet or want to watch the official versions we've got them live on the playapex YouTube channel.

• Season 2 Battle Charge CG Trailer: ...

That's not the way it works. We build the plans and do the execution, there is no outside "higher ups" doing all the marketing for Apex. You guys are trying to find some shadow conspiracy where there isn't one. Sometimes mistakes happen, it's as simple as that.

Not true. I've worked on AAA marketing campaigns for nearly a decade across multiple franchises and not once has "intentionally" leaking something ever been part of the strategy. I've had to deal with dozens of leaks over the years and it's never been intended and always frustrating. Maybe other marketing organizations have done this in the past but it's not the case here.

A ton of planning goes into how this stuff is rolled out and leaks can actually be pretty damaging and we always try to AVOID them. Happy to see everyone enjoying the trailers and pumped for the stuff we're bringing for Season 2 but, I've seen this narrative around a bit and wanted to just put it to bed.

Sorry you're having the issue. There's nothing on our end that's showing any outage or updates so it could be related to something else outside of our control. I recommend reaching out to EA Help as well. Hope you can get back online soon and appreciate the kind words.

She never listens to me.

Server patch is live now across all platforms to address the issue with Elite Queue not working correctly. It should now work as intended.

Now as things settle you may experience some strange behavior at first. For example, getting loss forgiveness when you shouldn't. After a few matches things should return to normal status.

Sorry for the issue with this and please let us know if you're experiencing any bugs after playing through it a bit. 

Could be as early as this afternoon but that could change. We'll do another post when it's going out.

We have a fix incoming for that. We'll post when we roll it out - it'll be done via a server patch.

Yep were aware of that. Working on a fix that could come later today in a server patch. We'll keep you folks updated.

all credit goes to the team!

Hey friends,

We have a client patch for PC only that is going live this morning to address a few issues:

• Datacenter improvements to make the list easier to understand and use:
  • List will be sorted by ping by default.
  • The selected data center will be highlighted in orange.
    • Focused/hovered data centers will still be highlighted in grey.
  • Right clicking a data center will no longer make it look selected
    • Right click wouldn't actually select the data center but would still highlight the selection which could be confusing.
• Clients will now send user input to the server at a higher rate.
• Code: Leaf error
  • There is still some work to do on our end to nail down what is causing this error. In this patch we’re adding more telemetry to help us identify specifically how this error is being caused. You may start to get a code:net error instead ...

Nice work!

Hey everyone! I'm Sean Slayback, the principal weapons designer on Apex Legends at Respawn. The weapons team and I are excited to share some info about weapons in Season 2, so let's get into it!

New Weapon: The L-STAR Arrives

This season we're introducing the L-STAR, a rare and powerful LMG. This weapon fires large, high-damage plasma projectiles at a fast cyclic rate. The L-STAR is joining the Mastiff and Kraber in airdrop packages, and quite frankly, it's a beast.

The L-STAR's unique pr...

Noted! We're looking into this, the cursor snapping to center is the intended state.

An update here - per the note in our Known Issues post from last week we've pushed a hotfix today should make the exploit happen much less often. In cases where it does occur, the weapon may appear to auto fire but the server will restrict it and players should still see normal damage numbers popping up. We have a full fix in the works that will come with a future client patch.