{"id":12425,"date":"2019-03-18T21:16:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T04:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/apex-legends-pre-season-weapon-balance-update\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T17:30:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T01:30:14","slug":"apex-legends-pre-season-weapon-balance-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/apex-legends-pre-season-weapon-balance-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Apex Legends Pre-season Weapon Balance Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15070\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15070\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15070\" title=\"Get to know the new Apex Legends Weapon Ballance Update\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/apex-legends-1.jpg\" alt=\"Apex Legends Weapon Ballance Update\" width=\"1200\" height=\"714\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15070\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source: engadget.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Before the start of Apex Legends Season One, the game\u2019s developer Respawn Entertainment has dropped a significant balance update. The update is called the \u201cWeapon Balance\u201d and includes specific changes for the game\u2019s two weapons: Wingman and Peacekeeper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">The Weapon Balance Update also brings in fixed scripts to decrease occasional match disconnection brought by some codes present in the game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Here\u2019s a breakdown of the Weapon Balance:<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Weapon Balance<\/b><\/h2>\n<h3><b>Wingman<\/b><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15072\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15072\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15072\" title=\"Know the update for wingman pistol.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wingman.jpg\" alt=\"Wingman Pistol Update\" width=\"1200\" height=\"668\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15072\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source: www.ign.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">The Wingman pistol gets the following updates:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Its rate of fire is now reduced from 3.1 to 2.6 shot per second.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">The damage multiplier of the Skull Piercer Headshot is reduced from 2.5 to 2.25.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Its base hip-fire spread is increased, and the rate which hip fire spread decays is decreased.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">This weapon\u2019s availability has been reduced in all zone tiers.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Peacekeeper<\/b><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15071\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15071\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15071\" title=\"Learn the update for peacekeeper.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/peacekeeper.jpg\" alt=\"Peacekeeper Update\" width=\"1200\" height=\"666\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15071\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source: www.ign.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">The Peacekeeper shotgun gets the following updates:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Its shotgun bolt chamber rate has been reduced:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Level 1 mitigation &#8211; from 10% to 7.5%<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Level 2 mitigation &#8211; from 20% to 13%<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Level 3 mitigation &#8211; from 25% to 16%<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Its availability is also reduced in all zone tiers.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Aside from the Wingman and Peacekeeper weapons update, it is also noted that the availability of energy weapons and ammo in all zone tiers have been increased.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>Additional Updates<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Some error scripts causing match disconnection were fixed, which includes the following occasional cause:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Caustic throwing his ultimate.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Pathfinder activating his Survey Beacon.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Gibraltar pulling up his Gun Shield.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Players removing an attachment.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Players entering Spectate Mode.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>***<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">All these updates are now live and are made for all platforms. The next set of balance updates for the legends is scheduled during the start of Season 1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Apex Legends is a team-based battle-royale shooter game from Respawn Entertainment and EA for Microsoft Windows <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberpowerpc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">gaming computers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. It was released on February 4, 2019, and since then has gained a massive following of more than 50 million players worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the start of Apex Legends Season One, the game\u2019s developer Respawn Entertainment has dropped a significant balance update. The update is called the \u201cWeapon Balance\u201d and includes specific changes for the game\u2019s two weapons: Wingman and Peacekeeper. The Weapon Balance Update also brings in fixed scripts to decrease occasional match disconnection brought by some&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/apex-legends-pre-season-weapon-balance-update\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apex Legends Pre-season Weapon Balance Update<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":12422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2724],"tags":[5425,5445,5483,5487,5488],"class_list":["post-12425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-apex-legends","tag-apex-legends-news","tag-apex-legends-updates","tag-apex-legends-weapon-balance-update","tag-weapon-balance-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16936,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12425\/revisions\/16936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}