Apex Legends Season 30 Bloodhound Rework: New Ultimate Explained

Apex Legends Season 30, titled Marked, replaces Bloodhound’s old solo-focused ultimate with a squad-wide stealth ability and rebuilds the passive and tactical around it, turning the launch-era tracker into a full hunter. There’s no new playable Legend this cycle, so the rework is the entire hook of the update, alongside a reworked World’s Edge, an energy weapon overhaul and a new attachment tier. This guide breaks down exactly what changes in Bloodhound’s kit, what old habits stop working, and what else is landing on August 4.

All three of Bloodhound’s abilities are being retuned, and the two biggest shifts are the Passive and the Ultimate. The Passive now makes enemies leave a clear glowing trail as they move, replacing the older, harder-to-read movement marks. White Ravens also fly further and no longer need a scan or physical touch to activate — a quick glance is enough to send them out toward nearby enemies. That alone removes a step from the old “scan, then commit to a raven” loop.

The Ultimate is the headline change. Bloodhound has a new, refined set of abilities including an entirely new ultimate to help them keep up with the faster pace of modern Apex, and the old solo-frenzy ultimate is gone entirely. In its place is Allfather’s Cloak, an ultimate that cloaks any teammates in its range, granting them increased speed and threat vision. In this state teammates become semi-transparent with increased movement speed and improved enemy visibility, and the cloak effect persists for 12 seconds after leaving the ultimate area, or until the player takes damage or fires a weapon. One outlet also reports Bloodhound is getting three new upgrade options to layer onto this kit, adding further customisation to how aggressively or defensively you play them — treat that detail as reported rather than fully locked until the patch notes go live.

The identity stays the same — Bloodhound is still built around tracking enemies down — but the execution shifts from a solo information tool to something a full squad benefits from. Everything about Bloodhound’s kit is being tweaked, though the core identity of their abilities is staying the same: Bloodhound is still first and foremost a tracker who hunts down enemies through scans and hints from ravens, now retuned to keep up with the quickening pace of the game. The tactical scan now leaves full-body snapshots visible for a longer window, so your team can study positioning even after the pulse fades.

Popping the ultimate alone to hunt a single target

The old ultimate rewarded a lone-wolf push — pop it, get vision and speed, go find a fight solo. That behavior actively wastes value now, since Allfather’s Cloak is built for a coordinated group entry rather than a one-person scan. Using it away from your squad means the cloak’s speed and visibility perks go to nobody but you.

Treating the Tactical as a one-time information dump

Veteran players are used to firing the scan, taking the read, and moving on. With snapshot pings extending the scan’s usefulness after the initial pulse, holding position or delaying a push slightly to let the follow-up information land is now worth more than it used to be.

After the rework, Bloodhound reads less like a lone scout and more like an initiator for aggressive squads that want a coordinated push, which pairs naturally with players already grinding the Apex Legends ranked climb and looking for a Legend that can force fights on their terms rather than just gather intel from a distance.

World’s Edge also gets a large update this season: night has fallen on the map, players can now witness an aurora-filled sky, and three new points of interest join the map. The new landing zones are Climatizer, featuring the architectural style of eastern settlements and a sprawling Longhouse; War Camp, replacing Survey Camp; and Tree Settlement, which introduces vertical movement gameplay. Fan-favorite Sorting Factory returns, construction stacks reappear in Fragment, and Rampart’s shop, Big Maude, relocates to a position above Landslide.

Energy weapons receive a complete overhaul, with the Nemesis switching from a fixed ammo count to a percentage-based model. Energy ammunition is being removed from the ground loot pool entirely in favor of a regenerating stockpile system. Corrupted Attachments arrive as a new tier sitting where Gold attachments used to be. They’re the headline addition to the loot economy, offering significant power boosts with real tradeoffs built in, adding a risk and reward layer to how you slot out your loadout mid-match. Alongside them, Respawn is streamlining the loot pool by removing Support and Assault Bins, Explosive Holds, loot bin resets, and wildlife loot.

Rampart gets improved movement speed while deploying Sheila, and her Amped Walls now build faster and absorb more damage before breaking, making her fortified-position playstyle more viable in the faster, cleaner loot economy of Season 30. Loba’s Black Market ultimate now carries a reduced cooldown and faster tactical repositioning, letting aggressive support players cycle the ability more freely during extended fights. Both changes are aimed at helping the two veteran Legends keep up with newer picks like Sparrow and Axle.

Apex Legends Season 30 debuts on August 4, 2026, at 10:00 AM PT (UTC-7), which is 5:00 PM UTC — the exact moment Season 29, “Overclocked,” expires. That’s a same-day rollover rather than a maintenance window spread across a day, so the update should be live for everyone at that timestamp regardless of platform. As with any live-service patch, treat the exact minute as subject to a short delay if Respawn hits deployment issues, but the date and target hour are confirmed rather than a guess.

Buried under the Bloodhound headlines is a hardware cutoff that a lot of players are searching for on its own. Apex Legends’ 30th season, “Marked,” goes live on August 4, 2026, bringing the biggest rework of Bloodhound since launch, a rebuilt World’s Edge, a new Corrupted Attachments system, and the permanent shutdown of the game on the original Nintendo Switch. Season 29 was the last content update that platform received, and from August 4 onward the original Switch hardware no longer connects to Apex servers at all. This does not affect Switch 2 or any other platform — it is specific to the first-generation console.