Apex Legends Evolution Collection Event: Release date, Rampart Heirloom, patch notes, more

The Apex Legends Evolution Collection Event where Rampart is hosting a town takeover and will receive her own Heirloom is finally here. Here’s everything that’s arrived and the full update and patch notes.

Apex Legends Season 10 has been a roaring success for EA and Respawn Entertainment, with an impressive content drop and many new eyes arriving after top streamers such as Nick ‘NICKMERCS’ Kolcheff have switched over for the foreseeable future.

Apex Legends is now about to get even more entertaining as the Evolution Collection Event had dropped, bringing a Rampart town takeover and her Heirloom to the game.

Here’s everything you need to know about Season 10’s Collection Event.

Apex Legends Evolution Collection Event release date & time

The Apex Legends Evolution Collection Event is now live. So hop into Respawn’s hit shooter and get stuck into the content and dates.

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And there is no end date for the event just yet, but we’re likely to know once it goes live.

Apex Legends Rampart Town Takeover

Collection Events and town takeovers have been a staple part of new seasons in Apex Legends since Octane’s Gauntlet was introduced on Kings Canyon back in Season 2.

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Although Season 9 did introduce changes to Olympus at the midway point of the season and a collection event with Revenant’s Heirloom, we did not receive a town takeover.

However, the new town takeover hosted by Rampart is here. For this takeover, “Big Maude,” a huge landcrawler which Rampart will use as her workshop, has arrived near World’s Edge’s Lava City.

Devs revealed that the inside features a paintball course and players can purchase Custom Modded Paintball Weapons from the new Vend-it Machines. They explained that “this should give players a reason to rotate here mid-game if their weapons just aren’t as upgraded as they’d like.”

Rampart Arenas Takover

Rampart has also taken over Arenas, allowing players to purchase “modded weapons at special discounts.” These deals update frequently, and when they’re there they will replace the base version, “making lower tiers of that weapon unavailable.”

Rampart’s Problem Solver Heirloom

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As with every new season, not only are players treated with new updates to Legends, weapons, and items with the Battle Pass, but players can also expect a new Heirloom to enter the game.

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As part of the Evolution Collection Event, Rampart has finally got her own Heirloom with the Problem Solver. This pipe wrench will be able to batter the competition and even dispense bubble gum for Rampart to chew on.

For those interested in getting the Problem Solver or any of the other prestigious Heirlooms, check out our article on how to track your Heirloom progress, as players receive enough Heirloom Shards to purchase one on their 500th pack.

Apex Legends Evolution Collection Event cosmetics

The collection event also brings various new event-limited cosmetics that give Wraith, Octane, Pathfinder, Fuse, Bangalore, Rampart, and Lifeline a futuristic makeover.

Apex Legends 1.80 update & patch notes

Balance Changes

Rampart

• Sheila has gone mobile!
  • Rampart will now be able to run around with Sheila out, and shoot while walking. The spin up is longer, and she only gets 1 magazine in this mode.
  • Once Sheila is out, you can put it away and pull it back out until you run out of ammo (or hit the cooldown time). 
  • At any point, you can still place Sheila down for your teammates to use. Once placed, it has infinite reloads and acts just like the previous version. You cannot pick it back up.

Dev Note: A legend based solely on a defensive position is hard to get right in Apex Legends. We think Rampart has a place as the ultimate defensive Legend, but we wanted to give her a little more ability to be reactive and push with her team. As usual, we’ll be watching to see how this plays out and will adjust accordingly!

Revenant

• VFX (similar to the pulse on Loba ult placement) added to increase visibility for when a totem is placed nearby.

Octane

• Reduced jump pad horizontal distance by 10% – 15%.
• Reduced the rate of Octane’s Stim regen from 1.5 to 1.0 hp/sec.

Bloodhound

• When Bloodhound pings a clue from their passive, it will now show their teammates in quickchat how long ago the event took place

Bocek Compound Bow

• Draw speed slightly reduced from 0.56 to 0.54
• Arrows per brick increased from 14 to 16
• Arrows per inventory stack increased from 28 to 32

Hemlok

• Reduced hipfire spread
• Hipfire resets slightly faster

Dev Notes: The Hemlok’s hipfire effectiveness was reduced a few seasons ago and since then the weapon has seen a steady decline in use. Bringing back some of that hipfire strength (but not all) should help the weapon feel more consistent in close quarters without being dominant or affecting its medium-range excellence.

Shatter Caps – Bocek Compound Bow

• Damage per pellet increased across all draw strengths
  • Short draw damage: 4 to 6
  • Medium draw: 7 to 9
  • Full draw: 11 to 12

Shatter Caps – 30-30 Repeater

• ADS Strafe speed increased to shotgun strafe speed while Shatter Caps are enabled
• Charged pellet damage multiplier increased from 35% to 50%

Dev Notes: When Shatter Caps work they feel amazing, but currently it can still feel a little punishing to swap into the mode. Increasing the damage potential and improving the CQC flow of the 30-30 should help Shatters feel a little more accessible and rewarding.

L-STAR

• Cool-off time slightly increased
• Overheat lens replacement time slightly increased
• Rounds before overheat reduced at base and all Energy Magazine tiers
  • Base: 22 to 20
  • White: 24 to 22
  • Blue: 26 to 24
  • Purple/Gold: 28 to 26
• Arenas price adjustments:
  • Base: 500 to 600
  • Blue: 300 to 250
  • Purple: 400 to 350

Dev Notes: We’re nudging down the L-STAR’s core stats a bit to smooth out the power progression in what we think is a slightly more healthy top-end. We’ll keep a close eye on the L-STAR and it’s recoil as we enter the second half of Emergence. In Arenas, we’re well aware of it’s prevalence in high-level lobbies and are pricing it out of the first round. These changes essentially increase the blue cost by 50 and keep the purple price the same. If its pick rate remains unchanged, we will hotfix further adjustments.

Shotguns

• EVA-8 and Mozambique headshot damage multiplier reduced from 1.5 to 1.25 bringing it in line with the Peacekeeper and Mastiff.

Dev Notes: The EVA-8 holds a lot of power in its speed and leniency compared to its counterparts, the PK and Mastiff. It’s got the edge with fire rate and consistency so we’re shaving off some of its spike damage to even the playing field. We’re normalizing the Mozambique as well for consistency within the shotgun class and to give the P2020 some space as the more precise early game weapon.

Triple Take

• ADS charge time decreased from 1.0 to 0.8

Quality of Life Updates

• Shortened the out-of-bounds timer from 30 seconds to 15.
  • Your timer should be reset after being respawned.
• Swapping from Red to a Gold Shield with more health no longer requires a long press.
• Evo Shields in deathboxes now show their health.
• Early Leaver Warning has been improved to help people from accidentally leaving before their party is dead.
  • You now need to hold the confirm button down for a small amount of time
  • The highlighting is different colored than other prompts to catch your attention
  • Red text warning showing your leaving penalty added
• Added character portraits to “detected” widget for recon characters.

Bug Fixes

UI

• Fixed a bug where Streamer mode wouldn’t anonymize the names on the scoreboard in Arenas mode
• Fixed issue for when players would randomly get un-readied while matchmaking in Ranked.
• Fix for Ranked Arenas: longest win streak number was incorrect for some players when viewed in the Stats screen.
• Fixed cases where players would still see Ranked icons when switching over to Arenas while inspecting personal stats. 
• Fix for cases where the player would still see the Abandon Penalty countdown when getting other messages like RECEIVED PREMIUM CURRENCY.
• Removed the red speaker icon that would show up on the upper right corner of the screen that served no purpose.
• Fix for when the Playlist Selector would sometimes flicker.
• Players should no longer encounter a string issue in the Timeline when they have a “;” in their username.

• Fixed cases where the name of killed players was not always showing up when a player died.
• Fixed a rare bug that can cause the Observer to get stuck on the Intro Screen at the start of a match.

Fuse

• Motherload ultimate will no longer highlight enemies far below the ring. 

Seer

• Increased the hitbox for Exhibit Ultimate to better match the model.

Loba

• Loba can no longer glitch into Skyhook when using her tactical.
• Fix cases for when Loba’s ultimate visualfx do not appear while aiming down sites.

Rampart

• Fixed bug that could get players stuck under the map after dismounting from Ramparts Turret on a Trident.

Bangalore

• Fix for the times when pinging a Prowler would trigger a voice line that mentions a removed hop-up.

Lifeline

• Switch Only – Fix for cases where players couldn’t complete training due to her Ultimate malfunctioning,

Gibraltar

• Fix for cases where it appeared that Gibraltar’s Ultimate caused dropped audio.

Wattson

• Fixed a bug where Wattson would start matches with 30 fences.

Valkyrie

• Fixed an exploit where players could get continuous missiles after exploiting Valkyrie’s passive/tactical as well as use the Vtol jets infinitely.

Sentinel

• Fix for when players would still see “Amped” or “Revved up” from Sentinel or Rampage after swapping weapons.

Wingman

• Fix for reactive skins, “Precision Calibur” and “Attention to Detail” where part of the skins appeared stuck in place when shooting.

World’s Edge

• Various fixes on World’s Edge cleaning up some bad collisions, exploitable hiding spots, and areas where players could get stuck.

Firing Range

• Fix for the mysterious fire show that could appear in Firing Range and cause a crash.

MISC

• Fix for cases where players were able to reach farther than intended when punching an enemy player.
• Private Match Fix – Observers should no longer get stuck on the intro screen for the duration of the match.
• Fix for Audio fluttering that could happen when killing someone during self-revive.
• Various fixes to improve overall game stability.
• (PC only) You’ll no longer be able to bind forward movement to the Mouse wheel on PC. This previously enabled an exaggerated movement tech known as “Tap Strafing.

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