Apex Legends: Marked Season Explained — Bloodhound's Rework, World's Edge and Weapon Changes

Apex Legends' Season 30, subtitled Marked, launched on August 4, 2026, and it reshaped more of the game than almost any update in recent memory. Bloodhound received a ground-up kit overhaul, World's Edge got a visual and layout refresh, and Respawn rewrote how loot, attachments and energy ammo work across every match. If you stepped away from Apex over the summer, or you just want the full picture of what changed and why, here is everything Marked added, explained section by section.

This guide covers the season's launch changes in detail. If you want the Legend tweaks and hotfix adjustments that landed partway through the season, we've also broken down the Marked midseason patch and Split 2 hotfix separately.

1. What Is Apex Legends Season 30: Marked?

Marked is built around a single theme: turning Bloodhound into the game's definitive hunter. Respawn's own patch notes frame it as making Bloodhound "the hunter of Legends," with better tracking tools and a new Ultimate built for stalking and ambushing. Around that headline change, the season also delivered a World's Edge map update, a new high-tier attachment rarity called Corrupted Attachments, a full rework of how energy weapons handle ammo, and buffs for Loba and Rampart.

None of this arrived quietly, either — Respawn backed the launch with a full gameplay trailer showing the new Ultimate, the map changes and the reworked loot pool in action.

2. Bloodhound's Complete Rework: Passive, Tactical and the New Ultimate

Bloodhound's changes are the deepest rework any Legend has received in a single update. According to Respawn's own developer notes, Bloodhound remained one of the least-picked Legends at Gold rank and above even after a Season 28 pass, so Marked rebuilt all three of their abilities around proactive hunting instead of passive scanning.

Passive: clearer trails, farther ravens

Bloodhound's passive now shows a red trail near fresh enemy clues to guide you toward them, while less useful clue types were removed to cut down on visual clutter — only traversal clues and eliminations remain. White ravens can now fly out to 400 meters (up from a 190m baseline), and you can activate one remotely just by looking at it for a moment.

Tactical: more scans, less downtime

The Tactical's full-body scan now lasts three seconds, and once it finishes it automatically fires four follow-up "snapshot" scans spaced 1.5 seconds apart — giving you a rolling picture of enemy positions instead of a single snapshot.

Ultimate: Allfather's Cloak

The biggest change is a brand-new Ultimate, Allfather's Cloak, which replaces Beast of the Hunt entirely. It throws down a device that cloaks any Legend — ally or enemy — who enters its range. Cloaked players aren't fully invisible, but they gain a 20% movement speed boost and stay hidden for up to 12 seconds after leaving the cloaked area, or until they take damage or fire a weapon. Three new Upgrades build on it: Hidden Sight refreshes your Tactical when you use the Ultimate, Bird's Eye splits your white ravens toward the two nearest enemy squads, and the level-3 True Predator upgrade means firing your weapon only interrupts the cloak instead of breaking it outright.

3. World's Edge: New and Returning Points of Interest

World's Edge got a visual overhaul to match Bloodhound's story — the map now shifts toward "old-god" aesthetics, complete with an aurora borealis glowing in the night sky over parts of the map.

Three brand-new points of interest joined the map:

• Climatizer — claimed by Bloodhound's own tribe, built with East Village-style architecture around a large Longhouse.
• War Camp — takes over the old Survey Camp location with a tight, arena-style layout built for close-quarters showdowns.
• Tree Settlement — adds new vertical movement options that weren't previously available in that part of the map.

Two fan-favorite locations also made a comeback: Sorting Factory returned to compete with Fragment as a popular drop spot, and Construction Stacks re-emerged inside Fragment itself. Rampart's Big Maude also found a new resting spot on top of Landslide.

4. Corrupted Attachments and the Weapon Loot Overhaul

Marked introduced an entirely new attachment rarity above purple: Corrupted Attachments. Each one trades a significant downside for a stat boost no normal attachment offers, and only one Corrupted Attachment can be equipped per weapon at a time. Respawn's patch notes list five at launch:

• Overflowing Magazine — a bigger magazine than any Purple Magazine offers, at the cost of slower reloads.
• Headseeker Barrel — more headshot damage and Purple-Barrel-level recoil control, but worse hipfire accuracy.
• Tactical Laser — faster reloads and Purple-Laser-level hipfire accuracy, at the cost of ADS recoil control.
• Agile Standard Stock — removes the weapon's move-speed penalty entirely and improves ADS movement, but shrinks the magazine.
• Rapid Sniper Stock — a faster rate of fire with Purple-Stock-level reload and handling, in exchange for a smaller magazine.

Corrupted Attachments spawn rarely in the core loot pool, show up in round 2 and 3 care packages, and have better odds at high-tier loot locations like the World's Edge vaults. Beyond the new rarity tier, Respawn also streamlined general looting by removing Support and Assault Bins, Explosive Holds, loot bin resets and wildlife loot, and rebalanced the remaining loot sources around fewer, more meaningful choices. Gold-tier loot and mythic bins were removed entirely, the Gold Weapon Rotation was scrapped so gold weapons aren't limited to a small rotating set, and the care package pool shifted too: the G7 Scout moved back to floor loot while the 30-30 Repeater took its place in care packages.

5. The Energy Ammo Rework

Energy ammo as a lootable item is gone. Instead, every energy weapon now carries its own self-regenerating stockpile, similar to how the Bocek or care package weapons already worked. Stockpile size is measured in magazines' worth of ammo and varies by weapon — the Havoc, Nemesis and Devotion each carry 3 magazines' worth, the L-Star carries 4, and the RE-45, Volt and Triple Take each carry 2. If a weapon's magazine size increases through an attachment, its total stockpile scales up to match. Once a weapon's stockpile runs dry, it regenerates a full magazine's worth of ammo over 18 seconds.

Respawn's own reasoning: removing the need to hunt for extra ammo frees up inventory space and loadout flexibility, but it also means energy weapons are built to dominate short fights and gradually lose their edge in longer, sustained engagements where a stockpile can run empty.

6. Loba and Rampart Get Buffed

Bloodhound wasn't the only Legend to change. Loba and Rampart both received buffs aimed at making them more viable alongside Marked's other changes.

Loba's Tactical now takes 0.4 seconds to equip instead of 0.6, with roughly 15% more projectile range and about 30% less travel time, so her Black Market jump is quicker to throw and covers more ground. Her Ultimate's cooldown also dropped from 150 to 120 seconds, and her level-3 upgrade now grants purple bags instead of gold ones, since gold bags no longer spawn at all.

Rampart now gains locked hop-up progress 50% faster from her passive, her walls have more health at lower EVO tiers, amped wall health went up, and her wall deployment time dropped by half a second. Her Minigun, Sheila, also got a mobility buff: base move speed while firing or spinning it up jumped from 70 to 104, matching what used to require the Ramped Up upgrade — which now stacks on top for an even higher 139.

7. What's Next: Ranked Updates on the Roadmap

Marked also extended ranked ladders from their previous length out to five days each, giving players more time to climb within a single ladder before it resets. Looking further ahead, Respawn used the season to confirm that a dedicated Ranked Update — originally teased for a later season — is now planned to arrive in Season 31, ahead of the bigger overhaul still scheduled further down the 2026 roadmap.

Quick Tips Recap

• Bloodhound's new Ultimate, Allfather's Cloak, rewards aggressive pushes — use it to close distance or cover a retreat, not just to scan from a distance.
• Energy weapons now reward short, decisive fights; don't rely on one if your stockpile is already low heading into a prolonged engagement.
• Look for Corrupted Attachments in round 2+ care packages and World's Edge's high-tier loot spots rather than hoping for one on the ground early.
• If you're newer to the game, our beginner's guide to Legend classes, currencies and every mode is a good place to get oriented before jumping into Marked's changes.
• Marked also arrived alongside the EA Javelin anti-cheat rollout and, later in the season, the Street Fighter 6 crossover event — both worth knowing about if you're catching up on the whole season.

Official Resources

• Apex Legends: Marked — full official patch notes (EA)
• Apex Legends: Marked — season overview (EA)
• Apex Legends official site
• Apex Legends on Steam

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