Apex Legends Season 12 'Defiance' patch notes - nerfs, buffs and map changes

Apex Legends 12th season 'Defiance' has finally gone live and it has brought with it some major changes to the game's meta.

This includes some legends receiving major buffs while others have suffered some crippling nerfs which will change how players utilise different abilities.

Most notably, Crypto has received a few major buffs that will hopefully increase his pick rate in games - players can now toss his drone in a straight line without being forced to control it.

Meanwhile, Caustic's gas traps have suffered a substantial nerf that now allows players to destroy them after they have been activated - the traps will have 150 HP and its effects will last for two seconds after being destroyed.

Hopefully, this will prevent Caustic players from utilising corners with their traps and camping for most of the match.

A couple of Apex's maps have also seen some changes to cater to an array of common complaints that have been coming out of the community recently.

Find below the patch notes from Apex Legend's website for Season 12.

Drone View HUD and other Quality of Life updates:

Neurolink changes:

Surveillance Drone changes:

A developer noted: "Crypto has been off the grid in terms of pick rate. The goal of these changes was to make his kit more accessible and engaging. With a new deployment option, we lowered drone health to prevent reckless drone deploy.

"Crypto is still a methodical, calculating legend, and manually piloting Hack should still be the primary way to access macro-level recon. The drone view HUD updates should help here as well.

"Crypto’s never been weak per se; we’re cognizant of his strengths at high-level play and will be keeping an eye on his usage and performance."

Nox Gas Traps are now destroyable after