Earlier this week, the official Apex Legends Twitter account teased their fans on adding a swimsuit skin to the game.

Well, it’s finally time to hit the beach in Apex Legends, it seems! Respawn Entertainment is finally quenching the thirst of their fans with the long awaited swimsuit skins. The battle royale’s next collection event is a summer-themed Sun Squad event which kicks off next week on Tuesday, March 28.

NEW LIMITED-TIME MODE: HEATWAVE

HEATWAVE is a new limited-time mode that turns up the heat on the Apex Games. The game mode will have the usual Trio rules, with a little twist. Heatwaves will periodically happen throughout the match forcing players to take cover indoors or under objects so they don’t take heat damage. If however you are caught out in the open, sliding is the only way to cool you down. Heatshields have been increased in size for this particular event and will protect you from a large area from the sun for moments when you are also caught out. However, they will be destroyed very quickly if used outside of the ring.

Care Packages are said to have an item that helps mitigate the effects of the sun while looking cool doing it.

SUN SQUAD COLLECTION EVENT ITEMS

Fans will have 24 limited-time event cosmetics available for purchase, a free reward tracker that come with various prizes, and an Heirloom for those who buy out the complete event store, and this event collection is for Ash. As usual, all of the event cosmetics will be available to purchase through Apex coins, crafting materials or Sun Squad event packs that you can get from the store. For the first time in a long time, this event features cosmetics that are all new, plus it’s a new aesthetic that’s been highly requested for years in game.

Unlocking them all gets you Ash’s “Strongest Link” Heirloom!

REWARD TRACKER

Players can earn up to 1,600 points per day and challenges also refresh daily. These challenges stack with the Battle Pass so players can finish multiple challenges all at once.

THE STORE

The store will feature limited-time offers including the Sub-Mirage or the Shoreline Savior Bundles available from March 28th to April 11th. There will be weekly offers like Bangalore’s Bring The Pain Bundle available from March 31st to April 4th only and Lifeline’s Breach And Clear Bundle which will only be available from April 4th to April 11th.

PATCH NOTES

WEAPON CRAFTING

• EVA-8 enters the replicator
• 30-30 Repeater enters the replicator
• Longbow DMR returns to the floor
• Volt SMG returns to the floor

LEGENDS UPDATE

Ash – Arc Snare

• Cooldown decreased from 25s to 20s
• Travel speed increased from 700 to 1200
• Tether activation delay and snare grow time decreased by about 50% (The Arc Snare will more reliably hit intended targets)

QUALITY OF LIFE

• Hide in-world item UI’s when aiming down the sight
• Hide in-world crafting UI’s in the center of the screen when aiming down the sight

BUG FIXES

• [Perks] Extended Supply Bins will more reliably give survival items in some cases when they are needed.
• [Perks] Weapon Supply Bins will more reliably give attachments to teammates in specific edge cases.
• [Perks]  Both Weapon and Extended Supply Bins no longer spawn in close proximity to Bins of the same type.
• Fixed a bug where re-rolling Daily Challenges would not produce the intended result of providing a non-mode dependent challenge.
• Fixed issue with players experiencing a loud start-up noise when starting a Team Deathmatch game with reactive weapon skin equipped.
• [Seer] Fixed bug where Seer could always see enemies with his passive since the UI updates to the minimap.
• [Octane] Fixed the bug where players could not cycle their weapons when using the Stim tactical while on a zipline.
• [Pathfinder ] fix for cases when landing onto a Jump Pad after using any length grappling hook will cause it to go extended cooldown.
• Fix for cases where players could not reload their gun when standing close to Wattson’s Pylon and aiming at it.
• [Xbox Series X Only] Fixed a bug with chat messages where the first message would not be received by the other party member who is on Xbox.
• Reduced the smoke VFX for Peacekeeper’s “Frostbite” reactive skin for better visibility in low-light areas.
• [DX12] Fixed bug where the player’s crosshairs would be disabled when Anti-Aliasing is set to ‘None’ and Aspect Ratio is not native.
• [DX12] Game no longer letterboxes when the aspect ratio is greater than 16:0 (in DX12, windowed)
• Fix for cases where the minimap would show a completely different location for Crypto when using the drone.