[p]Hey, Legends! [/p][p][/p][p]Would you like a chance to win one of the Sparrow x HYPLAND shirts? All you have to do is comment your favorite Sparrow ability along with #ApexLegendsGiveaway below by Sunday, June 15, 2025 - 10:00 am PST! We will choose 3 winners on Monday, June 16, 2025.[/p][p][/p][p][img src="https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/38098458/6e142c4878743e62f99e379049c6618b84933386.jpg"][TAG-10][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Apex Legends™ Sparrow HYPLAND Shirt Giveaway - Official Rules[/p][p] [/p][p]NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN; A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.[/p][p] [/p][p]You will need a Steam account to participate. If you do not already have an account, you can visit [/p][p]www.steamgames.com[/p][p] to create one for free.[/p][p] [/p][p]This Promotion is sponsored by Electronic Arts Inc. (“EA”), 209 Redwood Shores Parkway, Redwood City, California, USA 94065. Valve Corporation is not sponsoring, endorsing, or associated with this Contest in any way. [/p][p]1. Eligibility. The Apex Legends™ Sparrow HYPLAND Shirt Giveaway (“Promotion”) is offered to promote Apex Legends™ and is open only to: [/p]
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Winners are responsible for any applicable taxes on prizes.[/p][p]Prizes: Three (3) winner(s) will each receive one (1) Apex Legends HYPLAND shirt (ARV US $42; AUS $64.52; EUR € 36.68).[/p][p]Shirt sizes are limited to Small through 3X-Large; winner’s preferred shirt size is not guaranteed. Prizes will be distributed based on preferred sizes, as indicated by the winners, on a first-come first-serve basis in the order in which winner responses are received.[/p][p]4. Winner Selection and Notification. EA or its Agent will conduct a random drawing from all eligible Entries to determine the potential winner(s) on or about June 16, 2025 at 209 Redwood Shores Parkway, Redwood City, CA 94065. All decisions regarding the selection of the potential winner(s) are final.[/p][p]Potential winners will be notified on or about June 16, 2025 by community message on Steam to the account specified in the winning Entry. Participants must comment on the Promotion Post in order to be notified via community message on Steam. Potential winners will have up to two (2) business days, from the date of the winner notification message, to respond. If EA cannot contact a potential winner, the prize is returned as undeliverable, the potential winner is deemed ineligible, or a potential winner fails to sign and return any requested documents or information within the required time period, the potential winner forfeits the prize.[/p][p]If a potential winner is disqualified or ineligible, or the prize is forfeited for any reason, EA will award that prize to an alternate winner by random drawing from all remaining eligible Entries. Only 3 alternate drawings will be held, after which EA may donate the prize to a charity of EA’s choice. [/p][p]5. To Claim a Prize. 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(2) In all other cases, EA shall only be liable in cases of intent and gross negligence. In case of slight negligence, however, EA is only liable for the breach of essential contractual obligations, such as delay or impossibility of performance, for which EA can be held responsible. The liability in the event of breach of such an essential contractual obligation is limited to the typical contractual damage, whose occurrence could be expected by EA upon conclusion of the contract based on the circumstances known at that time. “Essential contractual obligations” are those obligations whose fulfillment is essential to enable the proper implementation of the contract, and the achievement of its purpose and whose observation you as an end consumer may rely upon. The foregoing limitations of liability shall not apply in the case of explicit guarantees by EA, in case of malice and injuries to life, body or health, as well as in the case of mandatory statutory regulations. Nothing in these Official Rules shall deprive you of the consumer protection rights granted to you by the laws of your residence that cannot be derogated from by agreement.[/p][p]7. Privacy and Publicity. Nothing in these Official Rules shall be deemed to exclude or restrict any of your statutory rights as a consumer. If you participate in the Promotion, you consent to EA’s processing your personal information social media handle(s), email address, mailing address, or EA Account name (“Personal Information”) in accordance with EA’s Privacy & Cookie Policy, which you can read at [/p][p]https://www.ea.com/legal/privacy-policy[/p][p]. You also consent to EA’s use of your Entry, personal name, user/screen name, social media handle, likeness, photograph, voice, opinions, and/or hometown and state (“Entry Data”) for promotional purposes. 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[p]If the arbitrator rules in your favor on the merits of any claim you bring against EA and issues you an award that is greater in monetary value than EA's last written settlement offer made before EA makes its final written submissions to the arbitrator, then EA will: pay you 150% of your arbitration award, up to $5,000 USD (or equivalent in your national currency) over and above your arbitration award, and reimburse the arbitration fees that you paid to the AAA.[/p]
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[p]11. Winner List. EA will post the winner list at [/p][p][dynamiclink href="https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1172470/view/524219173974312871"][/p][p] for two weeks following winner verification.[/p]
Apex Legends Anti-Cheat Update: June 3, 2025
In keeping with our promise of more regular updates, today we’re sharing some more details around our anti-cheat efforts and the impact they’ve had since our last check-in. TLDR: we’re seeing a continued decrease in infection rate and we’re working on lowering it even further. Anti-Cheat remains a top priority. Trends over the past three seasons and additional insights regarding our efforts show that there’s been a positive impact against those who take part in unfair play. The included graphs report two metrics:
Match Infection Rate: percentage of Ranked BR matches with detected cheaters.
Multi-reported Users: percentage of weekly players reported for cheating at least 3 times in the past 28 days.
These metrics adjust for fluctuations in player numbers by normalizing by match and player counts respectively. Both display a 30%+ reduction from peaks back in Season 22 (August 2024), highlighting positive impact from our efforts to combat cheating. We attribute these drops primarily to a few things:
Ban on Linux Devices in Season 23: provided steeper than usual seasonal drop and helped contribute to continued downtrend.
Enhanced Tooling & Automated Detections: faster banning has lowered the number of matches a cheater can infect.
There are also additional ongoing initiatives around anti-recoil and other behavioral detection models to name a few. We’ll continue sharing updates as more progress is made, and appreciate your support.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edit as of June 4, 2025 @ 4pm PST:
We wanted to provide some new graphs and additional clarity to answer some of the questions that popped up after we shared our initial update. Here’s some further context on the Y-axis on the new graphs those looking for more info:
Match Infection Rate is the percentage of matches in which at least one player was reported 3 or more times and banned for cheating within the last 14 days. While Apex Legends' infection rate tends to be higher than several other live service games, this can be attributed to the number of players in a match. 60 players in Battle Royal can be 6x the amount of players in other team-based games.
Reports Per User is the sum of all reports against players reported 3 or more times in the preceding 28 days divided by the number of active players in that same time frame. Three or more times is the general guideline that we use to determine when someone is negatively impacting the player experience, regardless of the report leading to a ban. Note: 3+ reports are not required before a player is banned.
The match infection rate is one of our core metrics for measuring anti-cheat success. It doesn't tell the whole picture, however, which is why we consider it in addition to other metrics such as players banned by detections, the number of player reports, or overall sentiment from the community. We’ve already made significant advancements in the past year and will continue to evolve our tools and processes to address new methods of cheating as they emerge. We will continue to provide more information as we are ready to share it. Keep an eye out for more of these updates in the future.
Latest Apex Legends Update: 2025/06/03
An update was just pushed to our live games that includes the following fixes and changes:
Resolved several crashes related to Season 25
Fixed some minor issues with Ranked Ladders
Adjusted several Legend abilities, including:
Alter
Reduced the delay when following an enemy Alter's Ultimate portal from 8s --> 6s
Increased Nexus re-activation delay from 30s --> 60s
Ballistic
Reduced overheat damage from 30 --> 15
Removed the Ultimate extension gained from knocking other players
Conduit
Reduced Tactical cooldown from 31s --> 21s
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In keeping with our promise of more regular updates, today we’re sharing some more details around our anti-cheat efforts and the impact they’ve had since our last check-in. TLDR: we’re seeing a continued decrease in infection rate and we’re working on lowering it even further. Anti-Cheat remains a top priority. Trends over the past three seasons and additional insights regarding our efforts show that there’s been a positive impact against those who take part in unfair play. The included graphs report two metrics:
Match Infection Rate: percentage of Ranked BR matches with detected cheaters.
Multi-reported Users: percentage of weekly players reported for cheating at least 3 times in the past 28 days.
These metrics adjust for fluctuations in player numbers by normalizing by match and player counts respectively. Both display a 30%+ reduction from peaks back in Season 22 (August 2024), highlighting positive impact from our efforts to combat cheating. We attribute these drops primarily to a few things:
Ban on Linux Devices in Season 23: provided steeper than usual seasonal drop and helped contribute to continued downtrend.
Enhanced Tooling & Automated Detections: faster banning has lowered the number of matches a cheater can infect.
There are also additional ongoing initiatives around anti-recoil and other behavioral detection models to name a few. We’ll continue sharing updates as more progress is made, and appreciate your support.
Latest Apex Legends Update: 2025/05/29
We released an update this morning that contains key fixes for a few issues including:
Reactive G7 Scout skins
Ranked Ladder crashes and UI
Class Perk descriptions
VFX flickering in lobby and Thunderdome on Switch
Sparrow’s Ultimate hitbox
Bloodhound Tactical indicator
Arenas crashes
If your game has not automatically updated already, please manually update before jumping into your next match.
Apex Legends™: Prodigy
It's time to Take Your Shot in Apex Legends: Prodigy! Step into the spotlight with new Legend Sparrow, an agile archer with a habit of showing off, set your sights on glory with explosive new updates to the Bocek. Energize it with Frag Grenades to make Explosive Arrows! Now’s your chance to take aim and target greatness!
But that’s just the start. Carve out a new legacy and return to the hallowed grounds of Arenas. You’ll get your chance to stand out with Ranked updates like the new Ranked Ladder and its rewards. Pathfinder even got some new buffs, like double charge on his Tactical and Ultimate abilities. Plus, shine like a rising star with cosmetics from the Prodigy Battle Pass!*
Experience a world of thrill with EA Play. Join to get great player benefits and unlimited access to an unrivaled collection of EA’s fan-favorite franchises and top titles. Members can unlock rewards in the hottest titles each month including Weapon Charms in Apex Legends. Dive into all the game-winning, world-creating, and galaxy-defining moments in The Play List or discover a new favorite with trials of select recent releases for up to 10 hours with no commitments. If you decide to buy, your progress carries over to the full game, ready for what’s next. Plus, members score 10% off EA digital purchases, saving on full games, points packs, and DLC. Find out more about upcoming EA Play benefits at https://store.steampowered.com/subscriptions/ea or follow us on X (Twitter) and Instagram @eaplay.
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ANTI-CHEAT Before we jump into the seasonal updates, here’s a quick progress check-in on anti-cheat. We’ve been focusing on many iterative improvements across an array of efforts including internal cheat detection, automated detections, and third party solutions. Our ongoing work against teaming has continued to have a positive impact on bad behaviour, primarily in Ranked.
We’ve also ramped up efforts combating bot activity performed by automating certain devices, and a decrease in nefarious bot activity should already be noticeable in your matches by the time you read this. This population may be small, but their actions can still disrupt your time in the Outlands and we’re continuing to target actions against these players to ensure that every match is worthwhile.
There’ve also been a plethora of improvements that we’re looking to actively update ranging from bug/exploit fixes to hardening existing prevention measures; we hope to share more on these in the future. Finally, we wanted to thank you for the feedback on our mid-season addition of Report Action Feedback. Please continue to submit in-game reports as they do work both in identifying cheaters and the impact they’re having in your matches.
AUDIO As part of our ongoing efforts to improve audio reliability, we have implemented a system that will allow us to improve how we diagnose audio issues for our PC players. We will now look out for common symptoms of audio issues (ex. footstep audio events being dropped excessively) throughout your matches.
When we detect an abnormally large amount of these situations with in-game audio, we will occasionally offer you the option of uploading a detailed report containing everything our audio engine did throughout the course of your match. Since the scope of this diagnostic information is limited to our audio systems, the uploaded data is completely anonymous; the recording is purely game related audio, and does not contain voice chat nor any information that can be tracked back to you.
MATCHMAKING This season, we’re tackling matchmaking quality through region population management, leveraging skill values in Ranked, and by increasing queue wait times for high-skilled lobbies.
Population management comes in the form of a system improvement that allows auto-merging of players into higher population regions to expand the pool of available players for closer skill matchmaking. Since the available pool on each platform, in each region, and at any time of day can vary quite a bit, we are testing ways to get those players together without sacrificing too much latency. The next two major changes this season focus on matchmaking quality in Ranked.
The first change is how players are reset each season: initial Rank and tier placement is based on the player’s tracked skill value and not how much RP they had at the end of the season. This will group like-skilled players together, even if they haven’t played in a while. Players new to Ranked will receive their initial placement based on their performance in Apex so far.
The second change is part of our seasonal tuning for matchmaking which this time around means asking our Platinum, Diamond, and Masters (including Predator) players to wait a bit longer while we try to find them opponents that are closer to their RP value. Skill and RP aren’t the same thing, but they are closer than they have been in the past.
LTM: ARENAS Arenas returns at the start of the season to test your skill and cunning in a round-based 3v3 Deathmatch. Experience the classic mode with the latest weapons and Legends. Prepare a loadout at the start of each round, fight your opponents in intense squad battles, and learn your opponents’ weaknesses to prevail. On May 20th prepare yourself for a refresh that puts the focus on firepower over heals, trying out new weapons, getting around the maps in exciting new ways, and boosting those Care Packages. Be sure to come back half way through the season to check out our 1v1 variant—“Arenas: Duels.” Welcome back to Arenas, Legends.
SPARROW: PRODIGY A seriously skilled, but rarely serious archer enters the Outlands.
THE MAN, HIS LEGEND
Enea Davide Guarino was born into the most respected bounty hunter clan in the Outlands, the Clessidra Rossa, known for their unparalleled archery skills and dogmatic moral code. Enea was a promising successor for the head of the order, but he refused to see the world in Clessidra Rossa’s binary terms, and as he got older his family grew concerned over his resistance to their views.
Being raised by such a tightly-wound group made him restless, often leading him to make reckless decisions. One particular choice created a rift between him and his family, and it became clear they would never see eye to eye. Enea was shunned from his family and the Clessidra Rossa.
Enea is heartbroken about leaving his family, but is determined to figure out how to have it all—both a life on his own terms and his family’s acceptance. While bounty hunting on his own to support himself, he’s unexpectedly recruited by Kuben Blisk for the Apex Games—the perfect playground to flex his skills and have fun at the same time. In his heart, Enea hopes that the publicity will help him gain the respect of his family.
RECON WITH ITALIAN FLAIR Sparrow is a very agile Legend who can utilize his double jump Passive to get to vantage points quickly, then he’s able to make full use of his Tactical and Ultimate abilities. With his Tactical, you’ll gain knowledge of the battlefield by selecting clever spots. We recommend utilizing these as traps to cover your flank, choke points, or more actively to track a known target. His Ultimate will help your squad control a large area, flushing enemies from cover or denying a potentially fatal push.
PASSIVE: DOUBLE JUMP
Press jump while in the air to jump again. You can also press jump while climbing to launch Sparrow up walls to gain height quickly. He can also carry additional arrows and explosive arrows for the Bocek.
TACTICAL: TRACKER DART Shoot a tracker from your gauntlet to reveal enemies who walk within its line of sight. Tracker darts can be placed on most surfaces, and enemies will be revealed by a trail that can be seen through walls. If any enemy is over 40 meters away there will be a distance marker over their head. These darts can also be used to activate Survey Beacons from afar.
ULTIMATE: STINGER BOLT
Shoot a large arrow that anchors where it lands. Once charged up, it will damage anyone within its range, causing damage and slowing any opponent it hits. Getting behind cover, leaving the zone, or shooting the arrow are the options enemies have when they find themselves caught in Sparrow's ultimate.
LEGEND UPGRADES Upgrades Level 2
Extra Traps: Gain an additional Tac charge and +2 traps in world
Hunt Target: Sparrow gets a speed boost when running towards a marked enemy
Upgrades Level 3
Alternate Mode: Ult now has 3 charges that fire fewer pulses in a smaller radius
Life Siphon: Sparrow's health and shields are recovered if enemies are damaged by his Ult
LAUNCH CHALLENGES Step into Sparrow’s shoes for yourself while he’s unlocked for all from May 6-20, 2025. Launch Challenges will take place in two batches over the first four weeks of the season with tests to your Legend ability, weapon flexibility, and damage capability.
GET THE LOOK Get ready with Sparrow with a style fit for a Legend in the launch store. Suit up as a masked hero with a matching bow, plus an Epic Skydive Trail and Legend unlock. The slick, super-powered Rift Hunter Wraith skin pairs excellently with Sparrow for your next fashion forward squad.
