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Apex Legends Season 29 launch time, Overclocked launch date and full patch notes

Apex Legends Season 29, ‘Overclocked’, begins later immediately on Might 5, 2026. This is the precise launch time so you possibly can bounce into the motion as quickly as doable.

Apex Legends Season 29 ‘Overclocked’ begins tonight on Might 5, 2026 – this is precisely when. (Picture: EA)

Season 29 of Apex Legends is about to kick off later immediately with the Overclocked season bringing a model new Legend character to the sport. Outfitted with talents that present motion boosts to each her teammates and enemies, she appears to be like set to be a pressure to be reckoned with within the area.

Throw in a serious change to the reviving system in addition to a bunch of different high quality of life modifications, and now seems to be a mroe thrilling time than ever to leap into Apex Legends.

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For these trying to bounce into Season 29 as quickly because it begins, this is the precise launch time relying on which platform you play on.

Apex Legends Overclocked UK launch time

The Overclocked season for Apex Legends is about to start at 6pm BST on Might 5, 2026.

That is in keeping with all different seasonal updates for Apex Legends, and there’s no purpose why EA would change issues up now.

The excellent news is that, even in case you have gradual web, it’s best to be capable to bounce into the brand new season similtaneously everybody else when you preload the replace. EA pushed the replace recordsdata to Apex Legends late final evening, so when you load up your console or PC, the Overclocked replace must be out there to obtain proper now.

For extra details about precisely what’s new with Apex Legends Season 29, see the patch notes beneath:

Apex Legends Overclocked patch notes

Deathbox Respawns

  • Respawn useless teammates straight from their Deathbox.

  • Excessive Danger: Respawning at a Deathbox is loud, seen to close by enemies, and takes 7 seconds. You’ll want to clear the world earlier than making an attempt it.

  • Respawn with Your Gear: When respawned out of your Deathbox, any weapons and kit that also stay unlooted are added to your stock robotically.

  • Lockout Timer: Every extra demise will increase the time earlier than teammates can use Deathbox Respawn once more. Keep alive to reset the timer.

  • Respawn Beacon Dropship

    • Animation timing adjusted

    • Dropship arrival shortened so respawned gamers re-enter the sport quicker.

  • Dropship hover time after respawn elevated.

  • Chain Therapeutic

    • Whereas therapeutic, one other therapeutic merchandise might now be queued to robotically start as soon as the present therapeutic motion finishes.

  • There are 3 settings choices (‘Single’ is the brand new default choice) that may be modified by way of the Gameplay settings menu:

    • Off: Disables the characteristic and leaves the present therapeutic system unaffected.

  • Single: Whereas therapeutic, permits the queuing of one other therapeutic merchandise. You have to queue every extra heal manually by urgent the heal button once more, or deciding on a brand new merchandise from the therapeutic wheel.

  • Auto: Whereas therapeutic, permits the queuing of one other therapeutic merchandise. Auto will repeatedly queue that very same therapeutic merchandise, with none additional enter, till the efficient well being pool is full, otherwise you run out of that therapeutic merchandise.

  • Well being Bar Updates

    We’ve overhauled the Well being Bar system to extend reliability and enhance Line of Sight checks when obscuring results are current. Results reminiscent of smoke and foliage will now extra constantly block the LoS examine used for Well being Bars. This implies Well being Bars will seem much less usually in conditions the place an enemy is obscured to you.

    LEGENDS

    NEW LEGEND – AXLE

    Class

    • Skirmisher

    Passive

    • DRIFT: Elevated management whereas sliding.

    • Axle accelerates and strikes quicker than others whereas sliding.

  • She additionally has elevated lateral management.

  • Tactical

    • NITRO GATE: Deploy a velocity gate that sends customers right into a boosted slide.

    • Stepping right into a Nitro Gate forces customers right into a speedy slide, the place they’ve enormously elevated velocity and lateral management.

  • This impact lasts for as much as 5 seconds so long as velocity isn’t naturally slowed.

  • Manually stopping the slide will finish the impact (though it may be maintained by fast b-hops).

  • The gate is staff agnostic, which means it has the identical impact on friendlies and enemies, although Axle would be the just one with elevated slide management.

  • Final

    • KICKSTART: Deploy an enemy-seeking drone that displaces targets on affect.

    • Axle fires a drone straight out in entrance of her, the place it traverses near the bottom in a straight line because it scans for enemies in a large FoV.

  • As soon as an enemy is noticed, the drone seeks in the direction of the goal, closing the hole to get inside detonation vary.

  • If the goal can’t outrun or destroy the drone earlier than detonation, it’s going to knockback all targets in vary up into the air.

  • Victims are revealed whereas airborne, take explosive injury, and are briefly shocked.

  • Upgrades

    • Degree 2

    • Tremendous Slider: Achieve a second Tactical cost.

  • Automata: Achieve a second Final cost.

  • Degree 3

    • Soar Gate: Upgrades the Nitro Gate to provide a double-jump.

    • Just like how Octane’s Triple Soar improve works, this upgrades the Nitro Gate itself.

  • Gamers can use as much as one double-jump whereas the Nitro Gate impact is lively.

  • Sliding Shooter: Bullets shot whereas sliding come straight from stock as an alternative of journal.

    • Functionally, this permits for longer steady firing whereas sliding earlier than having to reload.

  • Bullets shot straight from stock are capped at half the weapon’s max journal dimension (i.e. if a purple magazine capability is 30 bullets, 15 bullets will get pulled from stock earlier than immediately transitioning to the lively clip).

  • VANTAGE

    Passive

    • Monitoring a staff with Spotters Lens will generate 70% of an final bullet

  • 10 second cooldown per staff

  • Tactical

    • Vantage is resistant to onerous landings exiting the tac

  • Elevated velocity from 20 Meters Per Second to 21 Meters Per Second

  • Elevated double bounce vary from 4m to 7m

  • Diminished deceleration at ultimate vacation spot by ~25%

  • Cooldown lowered from 20s to 17s

  • Final

    • Toggle hearth to equip your Canted Sight: A 2x optic mounted on the facet of the rifle

    • Whereas canted rechamber time is decreased from 1.2s to 1.1s

  • Whereas canted ADS time lowered from 0.5s to 0.4s

  • Bullet scaling is drastically lowered in Canted sights (so be correct!)

  • Enhance aiming responsiveness with Regular sight

    • Diminished ADS time from 0.6s to 0.5s

  • Elevated weapon dealing with in each modes

    • Diminished Holster and Decrease time from 0.5s to 0.4s

  • Diminished Deploy and Elevate time from 1.5s to 1.3s

  • Default Regular scope magnification elevated from 3x to 4x

  • Upgrades

    • Tactical Cooldown changed with Herd Tracker: Pinging an enemy will observe your entire staff

    CONDUIT

    Talents

    • Passive:

    • New Impact: If Savior’s Pace is lively when sprinting towards a Skirmisher, achieve an extra 5% motion velocity.

  • Tactical:

    • Cut up Cost has been integrated into her base package, granting two costs

  • Decreased Regen Period from 9s to 6s

  • Decreased Regen from 20/s to fifteen/s

  • Adjusted Cooldown to 27s

    • Normal Radiant Switch was 32s

  • Cut up Cost was 21s

  • Eliminated cooldown begin delay

    • The cooldown will now all the time start after casting, even when nonetheless looking for a goal

    Upgrades

    • Degree 3

    • Each Radiant Switch and Cut up Cost have been eliminated

  • New Improve: On the spot Barrier

    • Achieve a portion of Radiant Switch’s Temp Shields immediately, however Regen Period is lowered by 2s.

  • New Improve: Enduring Barrier

    • Radiant Switch’s Temp Defend Regeneration persists by taking injury.

    ALTER

    Talents

    • Tactical:

    • Elevated Cooldown from 20s to 25s

  • Final:

    • Decreased Vary from 300m to 250m

  • Elevated Recall Time from 2s to 3s

  • Elevated Ally Recall Time from 3s to 4s

  • Decreased Chase Portal Open Time from 6s to 4s

  • Upgrades

    • Degree 3

    • Void Breacher

    • Diminished motion velocity from 30% to fifteen%

    ASH

    Passive

    • Cooldown from 12s to 10s

  • Velocity from 425 to 450

  • New Mythic Common Melee: Twin Razors

    Conventional martial arts weaponry meets lethal laser weapon expertise in model with the brand new Twin Razors Mythic Common Melee beauty.

    These twin melee weapons characteristic deadly rotating laser blades, dealing harmful melee blows for any Legend daring sufficient to wield them. Twin Razors can be found as a doable drop in Overclocked Seasonal Packs, out there all season lengthy.

    LOOT & ATTACHMENTS

    Care Package deal Rotation

    • C.A.R. returns to the ground (particulars beneath)

  • LSTAR enters the Care Package deal (particulars beneath)

  • Gold Weapon Rotation

    • Devotion LMG, Hemlok Breach AR, Alternator SMG, Cost Rifle, Wingman

    Mild Ammo

    • Lowering mild ammo stack dimension to 60 (was 72).

    WEAPONS

    Hemlok Breach Ar

    • Elevated Breach Cost cooldown from 15 seconds to 25 seconds

  • Breach Cost now disperses gasoline and smoke

  • Decreased injury from 23 to 22 (Earlier Hotfix)

  • Decreased journal dimension throughout all tiers by 2 (Earlier Hotfix)

  • All Trophy Techniques ought to now correctly intercept Hemlok’s Breach Cost (Earlier Hotfix)

  • Elevated horizontal and vertical recoil (Earlier Hotfix)

  • Elevated hipfire unfold (Earlier Hotfix)

  • L-Star Emg [Care Package]

    • Injury elevated from 19 to twenty

  • Added Hop-Up: Redline

    • Elevated injury and projectile dimension when near overheating

    P2020

    • Elevated base injury from 23 to 24 (Earlier Hotfix)

    C.A.R. [Floor Loot]

    • Eliminated Hop-Up: Galvanic Gavel

  • Journal dimension changes:

    • Blue journal elevated from 25 to 26

  • Purple and gold magazines elevated from 28 to 30

  • LOCKED HOP-UPS

    Double Faucet Set off

    • Elevated factors to unlock from 375 to 500 on the Alternator

    Turbocharger

    • Decreased factors to unlock from 500 to 425 on the Devotion

    MAPS

    Storm Level:

    • Tridents eliminated

    Olympus:

    • Tridents eliminated

    Damaged Moon:

    • Ziprails faraway from most rotations, however stay at majority of POIs

  • Added two Redeploy Balloons to west facet

  • Two new rotation choices added, north of Stasis Array and west of Terraformer

  • Pubs & Ranked

    • Damaged Moon

  • Kings Canyon

  • Olympus

  • Mixtape

    • 5/5/26 – 6/23/26

    • TDM: Fragment East, Cranium City, Zeus Station, Estates

  • Management: Labs, Barometer, Lava Siphon, Caustic

  • Gun Run: Wattson Pylon, Estates, Monument, Cranium City

  • WILDCARD

    Wildcard

    • Olympus Wildcard (5/5/26 – 5/19/26)

  • Kings Canyon Wildcard (5/19/26 – 6/2/26)

  • BUG FIXES

    • Fastened uncommon “SignifierName: ‘Participant’ – shouldn’t be anticipated entity kind “participant” for distant operate” consumer error.

  • Improved interplay between Hardlight and different objects when rebuilding, stopping it from unintentionally destroying some Legend talents.

  • Fastened some Low/No Ammo notifications incorrectly displaying.

  • Fastened Arc Star and Frag Grenade sound results when exploded on Hardlight.

  • Fastened a problem with the Volt’s “Dying Enhancer” pores and skin having seen parts when the participant is cloaked.

  • Fastened a problem the place the akimbo Mozambique’s might generally merge and hearth as a single weapon.

  • Fastened a problem the place weapons in management might generally drop a stage.

  • Fastened a crash when attempting to type random favourite skins.

  • LEGENDS

    • Newcastle

    • Fastened the final word slam not destroying Catalyst’s reinforcements on an empty door body.

  • Added new VO for Able to Rumble and Defensive Line improve

  • Revenant

    • Fastened generally with the ability to cancel your tactical early and prepared your weapons ahead of meant.

  • Lifeline

    • Fastened self revive in Wildcard generally not utilizing the suitable animation and having inaccurate UI timings.

  • Vantage

    • Fastened a problem the place there was a slight delay earlier than having meant ADS accuracy regardless of being totally zoomed into scope**

  • Fastened bug the place Vantage might equip weapons in struggle evening.

  • Fastened how Spotter’s Lens gave decoys a low precedence so the actual Mirage is much less apparent to search out.

  • Loba:

    • Fastened a problem the place black market might steal banners crafted by an enemy squad.

  • Octane:

    • Added new VO for Stim Surge.

  • Mad Maggie:

    • Fastened Wrecking Ball generally failing to destroy doorways when hitting them on the higher edges.

  • Fuse:

    • Fastened Motherload not correctly penetrating some Legend talents.

  • Gibraltar:

    • Fastened a problem the place overlapping Thunder Domes would enable a participant to go right into a dome unhurt.

    QUALITY OF LIFE

    • Firing Vary:

    • New Firing Vary Settings:

    • Infinite Therapeutic Toggle

  • Self-Revive Toggle

  • Rebuild Hardlight Button

  • Fastened thermite interactions.

  • The lacking Nessies have returned from their trip.

  • Improved CPU efficiency on physics calculations, eliminating a supply of stutters, particularly outstanding in CPUs with excessive single-threaded efficiency, like Ryzen X3D chips.

  • Added logic to forestall Valkyrie, or different legends, from getting inside an enemy respawn dropship.

  • Added Legend voice strains for when Hardlight is Bolstered.

  • Added Legend voicelines when cracking a number of enemy shields in fast succession.

  • AUDIO

    • Added the flexibility to tweak particular person voice chat volumes for every participant within the squad menu.

  • Improved voice chat readability.

  • Fastened a problem the place HAVOC Rifle audio might generally minimize out for the participant firing it.

  • ENGINE

    • Graphics

    • Improved occlusion knowledge constructions that had been utilized by Olympus within the final midseason replace at the moment are used for all maps, barely enhancing CPU efficiency.

  • Fastened a problem that would result in an occasional framerate dip when operating at very excessive FPS on PC (e.g. 240+).

  • Cleaner Ambient Occlusion, which incorporates new specular occlusion. This may also be quicker than the earlier Ambient Occlusion usually, besides at Excessive or Extremely settings at excessive resolutions (4K on PC).

  • Improved accuracy of cubemap reflection depth, particularly in shadowed out of doors areas.

  • Improved accuracy of sky ambient lighting.

  • Improved baked lighting accuracy for a lot of props in maps.

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