A New Hunting Destination

Layton Lake Cosmetic Pack

Free Outback Update

FULL PATCH NOTES

Additional New Features

• Animals now have a chance to create an interactive audio clue when fleeing.
  
• Interacting with any Audio Clue will now display an estimated distance to the target.
  
• Springbok, European Bison, and Plains Bison have gotten new TruRACs horn designs.
  
• Alligators have gotten more aggressive with the new addition of Saltwater Crocodiles. They will attack more often and are more clever about how and when they will get close and personal with you, so be careful out there!
  
• Alligators and Crocodiles will now float to the surface for retrieval when they die underwater. Lost a kill to the murky swamp water in the past? Never again!
  
• The Harvest Screen has been redesigned.
  
• Players may now tag their favorite Customization Options to make them appear in a favorites menu for easy access.
  
• You may now choose which version of your Trophy Lodge to load into in multiplayer games. You may no longer switch to different lodges after loading into a Multiplayer game. This is to prevent the Trophy Lodge from failing to sync between players.
  

Adjustments & Improvements

• The XP requirement values for various weapons, ammunition, and gear items have been revised to make them less confusing and to make some basic equipment more accessible to new players.
  
• .223 ammunition should be more effective for all .223-compatible weapons.
  
• The Red Deer, Feral Goat, Axis Deer and Fallow Deer have had their furs updated to improve their look.
  
• Alligators in Mississippi should spend more time on land.
  
• Mexican Bobcats will now be out drinking into the wee hours of the morning.
  
• To reflect changes to the updated species, the Springbok, European Bison, Plains Bison, Alligators, and Mexican Bobcat populations will be reset.
  

• Players wishing for a more immersive experience can now disable the Control Hints in the UI by turning them off in Interface Settings.
  
• If the “Hide All Clues” hotkey is activated, a Control Hint will appear showing which key you press to show them again.
  
• The Main Menu has been straightened out and is no longer canted at a jaunty angle.
  
• Animal Harvests in the Hunting Profile have been reorganized to put Great Ones at the top of the list.
  
• Closing the customization menu with unsaved changes will now prompt you to save your changes before leaving.
  

• Added new shadow rendering improvements- Screen Space Contact Shadows. These are on by default on newer Consoles. PC players may activate them by turning on the option in the Video Settings menu.
  
• Shotgun animations were improved.
  

Bug Fixes

• Capercaillie will now react properly to being shot while performing certain aggressive animations
  
• Placed Turkey Decoys will no longer vanish when you leave a reserve.
  
• The Keen Eye skill will correctly be triggered while away from the lookout towers.
  
• The Muscle Memory perk will now work as it should.
  
• We’ve fixed a sight calibration issue with the Hudzik .50 Caplock.
  
• The Grelck Drilling Rifle should no longer leave you unable to fire when switching from Shotgun to Rifle mode.
  
• An issue was resolved where revolvers could become jammed when hip firing with manual chambering enabled.
  Developer’s Note: We made them act like double-action revolvers when hip-firing which improved their stability.
  
• The reward weapons from Parque Fernando will now unlock correctly when the missions are completed.
  
• The “Ultimate Memento” Mission on Medved-Taiga can be completed again.
  
• We’ve fixed an issue with the mission “Mucking it up for Science” on Vurhonga Savannah, where it was difficult to find one of the objectives.
  
• We’ve addressed an issue in the “Cats and Cradles” mission on New England Mountains that caused objectives to be displayed out of order.
  
• Cans shot with rifles and pistols during the “Target Practice” mission in Rancho Del Arroyo should fall over now.
  

• We moved the default Keybind for “Hide All Clues” to “U”.
  Developer’s Note: This action was unintentionally set to “C”. Make sure to reset your keybinds to default to get this change.
  
• The default key for saving a loadout could also be bound to scrolling through items. This has been fixed and saving a loadout is now only bound to “R”.
  
• The keybind for activating the Rangefinder bow sight was the same as the keybind for spotting. The bow sight is now “R” when aiming with a bow, or Y / Triangle on a controller.
  
• We’ve fixed an issue where any items in your inventory, that were not saved in your current loadout, were not kept in the active inventory between gameplay sessions.
  
• The Weapon Wheel UI will no longer display confusing “TXT” strings in place of weapon descriptions when quitting the game with a Scoped Weapon in your inventory if it wasn’t saved to your loadout.
  
• Option to “save” a loadout will now work correctly when the select loadout menu is open.
  
• We’ve fixed a UI issue that could happen when changing scopes in the weapon wheel while reloading.
  
• Weapon Customizations from the Hunter Power Pack have been renamed to better indicate their origin.
  
• Customizations applied to the Caversham Steward 12G will no longer also be applied to other, similar 12G shotguns.
  
• Animal harvests are now being recorded correctly in the hunting profile.
  
• Green Wing Teal will no longer display the wrong icon when viewed in the trophy lodge.
  
• We’ve solved an issue with the on-screen button prompt missing when attempting to pet the dog in a Trophy Lodge. Because they deserve all your pets.
  
• When editing a trophy placement, only the base of the chosen trophy will be highlighted to make selection easier.
  
• “Points of Interest” icons from birds spotted with the Tag skill will now properly disappear from the map.
  
• Motion blur now correctly applies to the sights while using a scope.
  
• The map icon for the Parque Fernando reserve has been accurately placed on the world map.
  
• Entering invalid login info while signing into your Apex account or signing in after using “Forgot Password” will no longer cause the game to become unresponsive.
  
• When purchasing the New England Mountains Veteran Cosmetic Pack on the Epic Game Store, you will now properly unlock the coresponding cosmetics.
  
• We’ve fixed an issue where the “Thank you for your purchase” message would remain stuck on the Trophy Lodge menu if a player bought Trophy Lodge DLC from there.
  
• Trophies of animals with no medal will no longer show as a Bronze medal in the trophy lodge UI.
  
• Owned DLC will no longer show up as recommended after purchase.
  
• Corrected a typo in the codex entry for “Serpent Players Playhouse”.
  
• On the Windows Store PC version, we’ve fixed an issue that caused UI Keybinds to save incorrectly.
  Developer’s Note: As a result, Windows Store players will have their keybinds reset to default after the update.
  
• If you started a new game after progressing part of the Hunt Club beta event, you can now properly claim your rewards.
  
• The “Scarecrow” achievement description has been updated to specify that the player must scare 1000 unique animals.
  Developer’s Note: The “animals scared” statistic in the codex shows the number of times the player has scared an animal, regardless of whether they’ve scared them before, which is why these numbers don’t necessarily match up.
  

• Gray Wolves, Red Deer, Red Foxes, and Feral Goats should have audible calls again.
  
• Reduced the occurrence of the “zone transition” audio to prevent it from spamming when players move back and forth across a zone border.
  
• Audio should now be in sync with the animation when another player fires a rifle from the hip.
  

• Various animals should no longer slide around and look odd in Multiplayer. We’ve taken away their skates.
  
• An issue that would cause a Moose to look odd when starting to move from idle has been resolved.
  
• We’ve fixed an issue with Female Alligator animations.
  
• Animation issues that could sometimes happen when animals were stopping have been addressed.
  
• Existing Geese models have been adjusted to make their necks more closely resemble actual geese.
  
• Cinnamon Teal models have been fixed.
  
• We’ve fixed some issues with the Springbok skeleton when viewed in X-ray on the harvest screen.
  
• We’ve corrected a minor visual problem with the Melanistic Mallard Models.
  
• We’ve fixed a clipping issue with one of the Bobwhite Quail trophy poses.
  
• A Trophy Pose for Mouflons has been added to fix a bug where their horns weren’t being shown accurately.
  
• We’ve fixed an issue that could cause the dog’s head to spin around… we’re sorry you had to see that.
  
• The dog will not longer become invisible while performing “play” or “pet” interactions with certain graphics settings.
  
• Skin tones on the lower arms are now properly matched while wearing the Africa Outfit.
  
• Wearing the Africa Outfit will no longer give certain player characters a bald spot.
  
• We’ve fixed an issue with half-transparent “phantom trees” appearing on Te Awaroa at low graphics complexity settings.
  
• We’ve addressed an issue with Fog Rendering that made it look weirdly pixelated, particularly when rendering with thin vegetation.
  
• We've fixed an issue on PC where the cursor would not stay locked inside the game window during gameplay if the player had multiple monitors and the game was being displayed on a monitor other than the primary one.
  
• The TAA Sharpness setting now applies properly even when FSR is disabled. With this change things should look smoother than ever!
  
• FXAA and TAA Anti-Aliasing settings have improved to reduce ghosting - yet another fix which will smooth out the graphics.
  
• Players will no longer awkwardly slide around while crawling and looking through the binoculars in 3rd person.
  
• Backpacks have gotten several improvements to look better in 3rd person on ATV’s and on other players.
  
• Landscapers were sent to Hirschfelden to clean up trees near the bridge at the shooting range. They even took a trip to Parque Fernando to remove a tree blocking targets at the archery range!
  
• Tritium Sights no longer become hidden when swapping ammo after equipping one.
  
• The Zarza .308, Grelck Drilling Rifle, and Crossbow look better when viewed in 3rd person.
  
• Mission objects should disappear more smoothly after being picked up. [waves and disappears]
  

• On Steam, we’ve fixed an issue that allowed players to “join” their friends’ games even if they were set to “private”.
  Developer’s Note: This also disables the ability for players to send invites using the SHIFT+TAB overlay in private games. To account for this, a new “Invites” button has been added to the in-game multiplayer menu that allows the host to see their Steam friends list and send invites from there.
  

• We’ve fixed a couple of crashes connected to using the dog in multiplayer.
  
• Auto-saving frequency has been reduced.
  Developer’s Note: We want to strike a balance between ensuring that the game always saves when important things happen, but not saving so often that it’s writing data non-stop. With these improvements, it is possible that some minor data (like statistics) will become inaccurate after suddenly closing the game (e.g. using ALT+F4 or Task Manager). Always use the in-game “quit to main menu” option when leaving the game to ensure that it saves and shuts down gracefully.
  
• On the Windows Store PC version, we’ve fixed a bug that causes the game to occasionally crash during startup.
  

Emerald Coast Australia

Paid DLC

Key Features

• Explore the Australian outback, subtropical bushlands, and tropical rainforests, and experience the natural wonder of its stunning wilderness.
  
• Hunt some of Australia's most iconic fauna, including the Magpie Goose, Banteng, Saltwater Crocodile, and Eastern Grey Kangaroo.
  
• Make new friends and work together to protect the region's beautiful but fragile ecosystem through side and story missions focused on conservation, cooperation, and community.
  
• Expand your hunting arsenal with the new Zagan Varminter .22-250 Bolt-Action Rifle. Light and comfortable to shoot, it's the perfect companion for any hunting trip.
  

Outback Update

Free Content

Key Features

• A new outfit based on the Emerald Coast will be available to purchase for all hunters with in-game credits.
  
• Additionally, this update introduces a new 'Great One'. Sightings of this majestic animal have been reported in Emerald Coast and Hirschfelden Hunting Reserve!
  
• Tents and Ground Blinds can now be personalized using the Customization System. All previously unlocked paints, sprays, camos, wraps, and materials can be used.
  
• Players may now tag their favorite Customization Options to make them appear in a favorites menu for ease of access.
  
• The audio clue system has been expanded, and players may now occasionally see indicators for "fleeing" calls, in addition to "mating" and "warning" calls.
  
• Two new Multi-mounts have been added for species found on the Emerald Coast.
  
• …and more!
  

Explore Emerald Coast Soon

GET THE EASTER THEME COSMETIC PACK BEFORE IT DISAPPEARS

• Have or upgrade to a full Apex Connect account (you can do this in-game or via the Apex Connect portal in your browser)
  
• Have Hunt Club enabled
  
• Be connected to the internet
  

Bug Fixes

• Addressed a rare issue that could cause the game to crash after switching loadouts, and further prevent it from launching before reaching the main menu.
  
• Developer’s Notes: The crash was related to specific files in the player’s save game, and removing them (or the entirety of the save data) would allow the game to launch again. The fix rectifies the underlying issue so that save data will be usable again.
  
• Fast traveling with the Hunting Dog in multiplayer occassionally caused the game to crash, but we sniffed out the problem and removed it.
  
• In rare circumstances pressing “Continue” in the main menu or changing Reserves will no longer lead to the game crashing.
  
• We fixed a crash that could happen to a very small number of players when accessing the Hunt Club menu.
  

• Points of Interest icons will now be correctly hidden after using “Hide POI Icons” option.
  

• The game will no longer create a new save file on PC if a player’s save data has somehow disappeared. It will now try to restore the data from backups instead of creating a brand-new file.
  

• The in-game DLC Store will now work correctly.
  

Tsurugi LRR .338

Malmer 7mm Magnum

Olsson Model 23

Hunter Power Pack Exclusive Cosmetics

Introducing Hirschfelden Cosmetic Pack

Highlights

Say Hello to your Free Trophy Cabin!

Spend less time prepping and more time hunting with Loadouts

Full Patch Notes

ADDITIONAL NEW FEATURES

• The Apex News Feature has been added. Now players will be able to see the latest news as a pop-up in the main menu.
  
• Trophy Lodges can now be renamed!
  
• A keybind option to toggle Clue highlights on/off has been implemented.
  
• We’ve added a Sharpness slider to the Graphics Quality settings.
  
• We’ve added a Press & Hold indicator for skipping intro cinematics.
  
• Players can now add waypoints when looking through binoculars.
  
• The in-game DLC Store is now available for players who bought the game on Epic Games Store.
  
• An extra screen with DLC details has been implemented in the in-game DLC Store on PC.
  
• A new multimount Trophy has been added: Bison Bonanza!
  

ADJUSTMENTS & IMPROVEMENTS

• Textures and selected models for plaques and plinths in Trophy Lodges have been improved.
  
• PlayStation players should no longer experience crashes when accessing the Storage menu.
  
• The distances at which animals will spook when hearing gunshots has been adjusted.
  
• Lever-Action Rifle (Whitlock Model 86 & Coachmate) reload animations have been updated.
  
• Mission items in the Codex menu have been categorized.
  
• The estimated distance to an animal can now be seen on the spotting widget in the UI.
  
• Ranger has become a passive Perk that increases the estimated distance accuracy shown in the UI.
  
• Information about an animal's state is now visible by default when they are spotted.
  
• Zeroing can now be acquired as a tier-two perk.
  
• Various character transparency issues have been resolved.
  Developer’s Notes: Specifically, this fixes a bug where antlers would seem to twitch in odd directions while the player was moving.
  

• We added some general improvements to The Hill Caller Skill.
  
• The zero distance of the Crosspoint CB-165 crossbow has been increased from 10/30/50m to 20/40/60m.
  
• We’ve increased the bleed damage caused by .22LR truncated cone bullets to ensure quick kills on small birds, even on flesh wounds.
  
• On top of a couple of additional minor tweaks, some animal awareness states will now be available for all players to observe instead of only players who have selected the Spotting Knowledge Skill.
  Developer’s Notes: All players will now be able to observe animals in three key states: Calm, Alerted, and Fleeing or Aggressive. Those who decide to take on the Spotting Knowledge Skill will be provided with an additional range of states visibility information. With these changes, we hope to improve First-Time User Experience and keep things balanced and exciting for our existing community!
  
• Animals will stop in their tracks more accurately.
  

• Spanish special characters will now be displayed correctly in the Russian translation of the game.
  

• We’ve adjusted the dog's responsiveness to the gunshots and added a reaction to thunder.
  

• Choosing the low preset quality now also updates shadow quality, terrain detail tessellation, and scene complexity.
  
• Small visual improvements to the sky when raining have been added.
  
• The Volume Fog Quality has been optimized on PC and no longer appears pixilated, regardless of the chosen graphics setting.
  

• Memory usage while switching reserves has been improved.
  

BUG FIXES

• The Hunting Dog realized it doesn’t have gills and no longer lies down underwater.
  
• The Moose Great One now spawns with Great One-fur types only.
  
• The Hunting Dog will now respawn on land if pushed into the water.
  
• A number of issues causing need zones to disappear after game updates have been addressed
  
• We fixed an issue with waterfowl failing to flee when there's no valid threat.
  
• Animals no longer teleport while drinking.
  
• An issue with alligators despawning incorrectly has been resolved.
  
• We fixed an issue whereducks sometimes did not leave high altitudes.
  
• Using the Keen Eye Skill will no longer discover invalid points of interest.
  
• Toggling between the x-ray and regular view no longer changes the reset view.
  
• Players can now interact with the trash bin for the New England Mountains main mission, Second Home, without having to quit and re-enter the game from the main menu.
  
• We’ve fixed an issue for the Parque Fernando mission, Shot for Shot, where two out of the four targets werenot visible unless the player was zooming in at a specific spot.
  
• Crashes in certain locations on various reserves on Xbox have been addressed.
  
• Moose have had their internal organs checked and they all should be valid targets again.
  
• Taxidermized Great One Moose with fabled type furs will now display the correct fur in the Trophy Lodge.
  

• We’ve updated the default keybinds for gamepad when placing waypoints with binoculars.
  
• Various quality-of-life fixes were added to the harvest screen.
  Developer’s Notes: The latest killed animal will now be properly displayed in the Trophy Manager even if the player already has ten harvests saved.
  
• The ability to mute individual players in multiplayer chat has been added.
  
• Metric and imperial range measurements in the Weapon Wheel will now display correctly when toggled.
  
• We’ve fixed a number of mission waypoints that reveal new areas of the map.
  
• Hunt Club events no longer move to the 'Completed' tab before they are finished.
  
• The Great Ones count in the hunting profile of a player's Codex now update properly.
  
• The Equipment Selector now shows up every time as intented when pressing up on the D-pad.
  
• We’ve fixed an infinite loading issue that sometimes appeared if a player changed to another profile from the EULA and Privacy Policy screens on Xbox.
  
• We removed the option to retrieve a Trophy even though the animal was not placed in any Trophy Lodge.
  
• We fixed an issue where the Options menu became locked after a player unlinked their Apex Connect account using a controller.
  
• The unsaved harvest pop-up is no longer closed when a player uses a controller to check "Don't Show Again".
  
• The issue with the Taxidermize button of the last unsaved harvest not working while being accessed directly from the harvest screen has been fixed.
  
• We’ve fixed the issue of the “Claim Reward” prompt not being aligned to the center of the screen.
  
• When assembling a multimount, the last highlighted animal on the list will no longer appear instead of the selected one.
  
• The female Hunting Dog now has the correct picture in the My Dogs menu.
  
• We fixed an issue where the D-pad scroll functionality in the EULA and Privacy Policy screens was occasionally unresponsive.
  
• The issue with numbers on the HUD becoming bigger if the player switches between controller and keyboard & mouse has been resolved.
  
• The in-game currency cost to rename a player's Hunting Dog will now only be deducted if their chosen name change was successful.
  
• Developer's Notes: There were a number of players reporting the re-naming system was broken, causing loss of cash and no name change.
  
• The Mission list no longer overlaps with other UI elements.
  
• We’ve fixed a misaligned image in the Mission Items Codex UI.
  
• Reserve subcategories the Mission Items have been added.
  
• Some truncated text in the Equipment Slots Inventory UI has been cleaned up.
  
• Players can once again select Matmat’s Multi Trophy Mount while using keyboard in a Trophy Lodge.
  
• We fixed an issue where players would sometimes trigger the “Overwrite” option using a controller in the Trophy Manager screen.
  

• The Cacciatore 12g shotgun echo now triggers when fired while aiming.
  

• The player's shadow no longer flickers when spawned.
  
• Graphical corruption no longer occurs when switching ammo while reloading.
  
• Water should no longer occasionally flicker.
  
• We fixed a number of graphical issues occurring when a player automatically reloaded any of the WP6 weapons.
  
• The player's character now properly grips their ATV handlebars in first-person view.
  

• Names should no longer disappear from the Harvest Screen when players leave a multiplayer session.
  
• ‘Twitching’ movements should no longer occur when looking at other players in multiplayer.
  
• The long-standing issue with switching barrels on the Grelck Drilling Rifle in a multiplayer session while being within 1.5 km distance from another player has been fixed!
  
• We fixed a minor third-person animation issue for the Modern Muzzleloader when reloading in a crouching position in multiplayer.
  
• An issue where audio for the Goose and Jackrabbit Callers was being heard twice during a multiplayer session if triggered by another player has been fixed.
  

What does Hunter Power Pack contain?

What will Hunter Power Pack cost?

What are the new Cosmetics?

• Mississippi Acres Dark Gray Paint
  
• Medved-Taiga Dark Blue Paint
  
• Rancho Del Arroyo Dark Green Paint
  

• Mississippi Acres Brush Spray
  
• Medved-Taiga Netting Spray
  

• Animal Stripes Matte Sand Tan Metal
  

• Parque Fernando Woodland Camo