Apex Legends, developed by Respawn Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts, revolutionized the battle royale genre when it came out. But like most games, Apex also has a few bugs and issues of its own.
The Bugs In Apex Legends
Recently an Apex Legends player discovered a troublesome bug that revived downed opponent who killed a Mirage decoy. Legends like Wattson or Caustic can still deal damage when they’re knocked down with their lingering traps. The player found out that dispatching a Mirage clone into those traps revived the downed opponent who destroyed the decoy with those traps. The opponent would instantly get back to full health with a depleted shield, however.
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Someone discovered a Mirage bug where when his decoy is destroyed (and the enemy is downed), the downed enemy revives from r/apexlegends
Another player discovered the same principle could be applied to lingering damage from grenades. The flames from the Thermite Grenade slaughtered Mirage’s clone, allowing the player to revive instantly and enter the fight again.
Another frustrating in-game bug was keeping players from conveniently utilizing Frag Grenades, Thermites, and Arc Stars. The glitch prevented the throwable equipment from appearing on the HUD. It wasn’t entirely a visual glitch, either. Pressing ‘G’, the default bind to equip a grenade, failed to equip the utility too. Neither would the utility manually equip from the inventory.
This is a bug where when you pick up a grenade (and Arc Star/Thermite) it doesn’t show up and pressing G won’t bring up either, the only way is to use the grenade list. Please fix it Dev’s ❤️ from r/apexlegends
The only way around it was to bring up the Grenade wheel and scroll through the varieties and finally equip the desired throwable to the character.
Dozens of players encountered another bug. They reported the game’s Battle Pass challenges not showing up at the weekly reset as they should. The challenges were missing.
All three bugs were widespread across PC, PS4, and Xbox One and encountered by multiple players.
Bug Fixes Announced
Today, the official Twitter handle for Apex Legends stated they have successfully implemented fixes for all the bugs mentioned above.
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Heads up Legends! Since last week, we’ve pushed out a number of bug fixes, including:
🔸Several Mirage bugs related to damaging his decoy as well as his tactical cooldown restored back to 15s
🔸Challenges missing for some players
🔸Picked up grenades not showing up in the HUD— Apex Legends (@PlayApex) April 18, 2020
This is good news for all players who have had to deal with these frustrating glitches. The Apex Legends player-base welcomed the announcement favorably, reflecting from the comments under the thread.
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Apart from the bug fixes, Mirage’s Psyche Out cooldown is also restored back to 15 seconds. Mirage mains will be delighted with this information. Since arriving with the game’s launch, The Holographic Trickster has endured a rough ride.
