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Respawn just released the first ever update for their insanely popular, free-to-play battle royale title, Apex Legends. This first update includes the usual when it comes to the first handful of patches for a game. I'm talking about stability improvements, bug fixes, and some performance optimizations.

In addition, the team also dropped some new Valentines Day cosmetics to the store. These will be available to pick up until February 19, 2019.

This patch is specifically being called the "Preseason Patch 01" because it, well, arrived before the start of the first official Apex Legends season. The first season begins at some point in March. I assume the lead up to the first season will include at least another patch or two as they prepare for the release of their first ever Apex Legends Battle Pass.

Despite the decent amount of fixes, seen below, the team at Respawn does say that they still have "a lot of work to do" and are still working on nailing down some fixes for those that still have crashes and performance issues.

VALENTINES DAYS - Store items will be available starting at 6pm PST on 2/13.
  • Added "Live Die Live" Banner Badge: Revive a member of your squad between 2/13 and 2/19 to earn this limited time badge.
  • Added Valentines Day cosmetic items to the store. They will be live and available in the store starting 2/13 until 2/19 and then they’re gone!
    • “Through the Heart” Longbow Epic DMR skin
    • "Love of the Game" Pathfinder banner frame

STABILITY / BUGS / PERFORMANCE / QoL
  • Various improvements and tweaks to UI.
  • Extended timeout that was causing players with slower hard drives to crash.
  • Addressed a number of client and server stability issues.
  • Fixed exploit where you could keep duplicating items in your inventory.
  • Addressed a number of stability and performance issues.
  • Fixed issue where players would get a gray screen in lobby when connecting for the first time.
  • Fixed issue where your friends list showed all your friends as offline and unable to party.
  • Shortened duration of Bloodhound’s Eye of the Allfather clones to remain in the world by 1 second.
GEAR
  • Arc Star now displays a grenade warning indicator.
KINGS CANYON
  • Addressed a number bugs with map geo like holes you could fall through and areas that players could get stuck in plus a bunch of other polish issues.
PLAYSTATION PLUS PLAY PACK
  • Art updated for the Playstation Plus Play Pack to the Flatline skin and Banner Card and changed the names to Deep Blue. This will affect all players that already have been rewarded the skins as well.