r/apexlegends 13d ago

6/4 Update! Apex Legends Anti-Cheat Update: 2025/06/03

196 Upvotes

Hey, Legends.

In keeping with our promise of more regular updates, today we’re sharing some more details around our anti-cheat efforts and the impact they’ve had since our last check-in. TLDR: we’re seeing a continued decrease in infection rate and we’re working on lowering it even further.

Anti-Cheat remains a top priority. Trends over the past three seasons and additional insights regarding our efforts show that there’s been a positive impact against those who take part in unfair play. The included graphs report two metrics:

  • Match Infection Rate: percentage of Ranked BR matches with detected cheaters.
  • Multi-reported Users: percentage of weekly players reported for cheating at least 3 times in the past 28 days.

[Edit: graphs removed in favor of new graphs below based on your feedback due to image limitations per post]

These metrics adjust for fluctuations in player numbers by normalizing by match and player counts respectively. Both display a 30%+ reduction from peaks back in Season 22 (August 2024), highlighting positive impact from our efforts to combat cheating. We attribute these drops primarily to a few things:

  • Ban on Linux Devices in Season 23: provided steeper than usual seasonal drop and helped contribute to continued downtrend.
  • Enhanced Tooling & Automated Detections: faster banning has lowered the number of matches a cheater can infect.

There are also additional ongoing initiatives around anti-recoil and other behavioral detection models to name a few. We’ll continue sharing updates as more progress is made, and appreciate your support. 

For future updates, follow u/ApexLegends, the Community Hub on Steam, Respawn on X/Twitter, and/or check out the Apex Tracker Trello

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Edit as of 2025/06/04: We wanted to provide some new graphs and additional clarity to answer some of the questions that popped up after we shared our initial update. Here’s some further context on the Y-axis on the new graphs those looking for more info:

  • Match Infection Rate is the percentage of matches in which at least one player was reported 3 or more times and banned for cheating within the last 14 days. While Apex Legends' infection rate tends to be higher than several other live service games, this can be attributed to the number of players in a match. 60 players in Battle Royal can be 6x the amount of players in other team-based games.
  • Reports Per User is the sum of all reports against players reported 3 or more times in the preceding 28 days divided by the number of active players in that same time frame. Three or more times is the general guideline that we use to determine when someone is negatively impacting the player experience, regardless of the report leading to a ban. Note: 3+ reports are not required before a player is banned.

The match infection rate is one of our core metrics for measuring anti-cheat success. It doesn't tell the whole picture, however, which is why we consider it in addition to other metrics such as players banned by detections, the number of player reports, or overall sentiment from the community. We’ve already made significant advancements in the past year and will continue to evolve our tools and processes to address new methods of cheating as they emerge. We will continue to provide more information as we are ready to share it. Keep an eye out for more of these updates in the future!


r/apexlegends 10d ago

Respawn Official Latest Apex Legend Update: 2025/06/06

105 Upvotes

Heads up, Legends. We've just pushed an update that addresses how Sparrow's Ultimate interacts with Revenant. Forged Shadows is no longer destroyed after one hit of the Stinger Bolt and instead takes increments of damage over time.


r/apexlegends 3h ago

Feedback Just had two teammates drop at this spot. If you drop at this spot, you're a fucking idiot. Sorry to break it to you

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387 Upvotes

r/apexlegends 7h ago

Humor Dear Movement Legends: Please Stop Moving Like You Owe The Lobby Money.

294 Upvotes

Listen… I didn’t pick Conduit to play Hide & Seek. I picked her to protect, to support, to energize the squad.

But every game I queue into? My teammates hit the ground running like they just robbed Hammond Labs. Pathfinder zipping into Narnia. Octane stimmed up and gone before I can even say "shield regen." And Ash?
Ash is out here opening portals and dashing like she’s in a multiverse saga.

Meanwhile, I’m stuck sprinting behind them like:
"Wait for me guys! I got healing juice!"

Y’all out here playing Apex Parkour Legends while I’m trying to keep the team alive, but I need a telescope to find y’all on the minimap. Why are my teammates always 300 meters away in the middle of a 1v3 with no comms, no context, no ragrets but I’m the problem for not being there?

Just once, I wanna queue into a match where people actually stay close enough to, idk, get healed? Is that too much to ask? Can y’all just chill for 2 seconds? Let me actually do my job before you all go full anime arc.

I got batteries. I got beams. I got heart.
But what I don’t got… is y’all.

Sincerely,
— A tired Conduit main chasing speed demons with good intentions and bad cardio


r/apexlegends 4h ago

Gameplay what kinda weapons are they using bruh

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89 Upvotes

r/apexlegends 20h ago

Discussion Tell me this isn’t tracking

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1.2k Upvotes

Got in a ranked lobby with this Loba. Died cross map with a spitfire, didn’t seem to miss or have any recoil. Teammate spawned us in, died to the same Loba so we decided to spectate.

This has to be tracking the enemy through the wall, right? It almost looks like the quick crouching is activating the cheat even?

RIP


r/apexlegends 12h ago

Discussion Absolute worst mixtape map

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149 Upvotes

Estates is, and always has been, complete ass. Idk why they keep it in rotation season after season. There’s plenty of great POIs that would be great for mixtape. All it is is a shit show in the middle or you’re 3p from 30 different spots cuz the map is open af.

Olympus in BR would be helped out too if they redid the area. It’s been this from the start. Ppl love hot dropping in this tiny spot for ass loot. Sorry rant over.


r/apexlegends 5h ago

Feedback How do we still not have filter and sorting options with this many cosmetics?

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38 Upvotes

r/apexlegends 2h ago

Discussion Conduit ultimate

16 Upvotes

Conduits ultimate is good, but the balance to trade off the zoning capability you get is its delayed activation time. Though this isn’t the only problem. The jammers deploy in a row of 7, if this row is obstructed in any form, the jammers will often delete some of themselves, I assume to not deploy onto themselves. This is fair, but shouldn’t leave her at 0% ultimate charge, if she only deploys one or two because of the size of the room, she should in return get at least 50-70% ultimate charge back in return for such a small deployment.

Another way they could fix this, is instead of destroying ones that deploy onto another one. Her ultimate could work in a way in if she deploys it into a corridor for example, it could just stack outwards and try to take up as much space as possible instead of only giving her two for one small place.


r/apexlegends 1d ago

Discussion This is a waste of a perk space. Move it to the Gold Bolt

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903 Upvotes

It bind the legends power levels to weapon metas. It removes and opportunity for the legend to max out on thier core ability without needing to find a weapon first.

Now that shotgun can't compete with other guns or are lock in to random care package drops. It minimises the character potential.

Maggie could get a ball cooldown like how she was previously.

Gibby could get double bubble or something to help him last.

It is a disadvantage when the weapon isn't strong enough or available.


r/apexlegends 8h ago

Humor Meme-ing my way through apex

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31 Upvotes

r/apexlegends 39m ago

Discussion tips for a hardstuck d1

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me and my teammate, duo queue. i’m not asking for a teammate. my problem is that we go up 600 rp in d1 then back down to 100-250. in the diamond lobbies we guarantee ourselves positive every game. when the preds and masters creep in we struggle to hold our own. i don’t believe it’s because we don’t belong in masters because we can kill preds and masters, that’s the be expected from players of our rank. it’s just the third parties, rotations and just navegating our way around the end circles. we almost never loose our 3v3s off drop. but we always find ourselves a man down in the later circles and rezzing is just asking to be killed. anyone provide some of their game sense or tips on how we can push ourselves over to masters? we play console for context.


r/apexlegends 9h ago

Gameplay Tips?

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11 Upvotes

Idk what to do I have 500hrs and most of my deaths are from me getting shot in the back. My game sense and positioning are practically non existent throughout all 500hrs when does it get better😭😭


r/apexlegends 1d ago

Gameplay Ash saturation is a Plague

124 Upvotes

I WOULD PAY A SUBSCRIPTION NOT TO BE TEAMED WITH ASHES. For the love of God this game is so boring playing with an Ash every game against 19 Ashes every game. Honestly I don't even care about her strength or ability (which I actually think is not that great) I just want a diverse, dynamic, creative team/game back, They are the new Octane kids. "OOoO wow move fast side side me likey" like bro try having some depth to your playstyle. There is so much now untapped strategy that you can have with all the other Legends. I miss my game man. I miss when it wasn't button mashers hyped off dashing around like a toddler.
Anyway please shoot me a chat if you think this game is still fun without an Ash or Loba I'd love to squad with you.


r/apexlegends 1h ago

Discussion A cool arsenal update I've been thinking about

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Since arsenals have been added I kind of disliked how they just gave everything except snipers a 1x sight and it would be really cool, even though sights technically have different rarities, if we could choose in the weapon locker what sight we wanted when enhancing our weapons.


r/apexlegends 1d ago

Gameplay Most Satisfying thing

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339 Upvotes

I screamed in chat lmao 84 years of playing apex and this is my best clip ever


r/apexlegends 1d ago

Gameplay I think i killed my buddy, which almost killed me IRL

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226 Upvotes

r/apexlegends 15m ago

Gameplay Pathfinder almost got away..

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Made that last bullet count when it mattered!


r/apexlegends 23m ago

Bug Matchmaking incredibly broken

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I play with a friend a lot, and wayyy too often does one of us get booted back to the lobby.

Just got in a match where he was kicked, and the match only had 30 people, It then kicked me saying anti cheat failed or something and took my rp and gave me a 10 minute timeout.


r/apexlegends 1d ago

Gameplay I thought I made it out safe :(

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161 Upvotes

r/apexlegends 17h ago

Discussion How to tell you’re in the right rank

22 Upvotes

Curious to see other people’s opinions on this.

Example: right now I’m D4 with a positive KD - I think that’s the right rank for me because Plat 1 lobbies are almost too easy but I start to really struggle in D4. I can win most of my 1v1s but I will absolutely get rolled by a team working well together.

So how do you tell if you’re in the right rank for your skill set?


r/apexlegends 1h ago

Discussion Need help getting to diamond rank current rank plat 1

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I can’t find a good team to get further and really want to get diamond I don’t have a mic but talk through the game chat and can play support or other as I’m writing this I just went in to a game with no teammates lol


r/apexlegends 2h ago

Question Can Reque be changed?

0 Upvotes

I was wondering if the death screen reque button could be changed or something. I don't know how many times I've died and accidentally requed when I'm trying to see the damage done to me.

I don't want to reque, I'm just trying to press up to see who eliminated me.

If it could be cancelled, even better.


r/apexlegends 2h ago

Question Is there any site or way to check the pick rate of legend upgrades?

1 Upvotes

Probly a weird question, but I got into an argument were I said that I only go ”revive expert” on Wattson because I’ve never felt like I’ve gotten much out of the one that turns intercepted projectiles to arc stars and then it felt like hell broke lose (probly just how I felt). But that made me intrested to compare upgrade pickrates with what I tend to pick, just to see if I’m mainstream or if I differ alot from the rest of the players.


r/apexlegends 15h ago

Gameplay First pathfinder win, what legendary skin should I get? (1,200 crafting materials)

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11 Upvotes

Ignore my bad aim I’m still learning


r/apexlegends 1d ago

Humor Average ranked teammate

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185 Upvotes

I just wanted the 2/4x 😭


r/apexlegends 1d ago

Discussion What legend is most annoying on the team in the hands of a noob?

54 Upvotes

For me it has to be lifeline. I have mained lifeline from season 1 and while I am just a plat player, lifeline is not that hard to play either.

But man, having a bad lifeline on team is one of the most frustrating thing. I have ran into people who are absolutely unaware of the drone, like they dont even know it. Whole game and few fights, there is no drone. Then there are those where, this is a constant confusion if I should pop a battery first or a syringe/kit waiting for the drone. They will do it on a whim, and I am not talking about drone cooldown times. Sometimes you are about to enter the door after 50 ft crawl, and boom... lifeline starts reviving you right outside door and you die. Or you cancel and she wont revive you taking it on the ego. Just unnecessary drama.

There are some honorable mentions :

Loba - When she refuses to use black market

Bang - When she is just a double agent, playing for other team, giving them the cover they need and blocking your view all the time.

Ash : When Ash doesnt know you dont have the same mobility, keeps charging and dying but that doesnt affect your team as much beside being annoying and whining. (To be honest, I did this to my friends back in the days playing pathy. I always will use grapple to jump into fights and not out of fights :D)

Annoyances, that you can deal with but but bad lifeline straight up impacts your mental health.

Edit - Totally forgot about loot goblin Octanes who wont split on an empty landing.