Apex Season 30 Marked Explained: Night World’s Edge & Energy Weapons

Season 30, “Marked,” lands with no new Legend — the headline changes are a nighttime World’s Edge with three new points of interest, a full energy weapon overhaul, and a new Corrupted Attachments system that adds risk to looting. This guide covers everything except Bloodhound, whose full ability rework already has its own breakdown linked below, so the focus here is the map, the guns, and what to actually do with them on launch night.

If you’re only checking one thing before you log in: Bloodhound’s rework is the closest thing to a “new character” this patch has, and even that is a full retool of an existing kit, not an addition. Season 30 does not add a new Legend, new weapon, or new map, with Respawn focusing Marked on reworks and systems instead. The next new Legend is targeted for Season 32 in February 2027.

Loba and Rampart both got attention too, though nothing on Bloodhound’s scale. Loba’s Black Market Ultimate gets a reduced cooldown, letting aggressive support players cycle it far more often, and her Tactical bracelet moves faster and covers more distance. Rampart now moves faster while carrying Sheila, and her Amped Cover walls build faster and absorb more damage before breaking. Neither buff changes how you play the game on its own — the map and the loot economy do that.

World’s Edge returns with a darker, colder look tied to Bloodhound’s tribe — a nighttime aesthetic with an aurora borealis filling the sky and old-god visuals throughout. That’s not a cosmetic footnote. Night lighting changes how far you can spot squads across open ground, how loud your rotations feel, and which sightlines actually hold up compared to the daytime version you’ve memorized for years. Bloodhound’s tribe has claimed Climatizer, which now features East Village-style architecture and a massive Longhouse at its center; Survey Camp has been replaced by War Camp, built as a tight arena showdown space; and Tree Settlement brings vertical movement gameplay to a map that has traditionally been fairly flat.

The returning locations matter just as much for rotations. Lava Siphon has been removed to make way for the return of Sorting Factory, and this iteration is a hybrid that integrates modern rotation pathways and adjusted choke points rather than a direct replica of the original. The heavily contested Five Stack building is returning to its original location within Fragment to help distribute player landing densities — which is the part that actually touches early fights, since Fragment has been a single-building brawl for a while and now has a second contested structure pulling squads apart. Big Maude is relocating to the center of the map at Landslide. If you play ranked, this is also the moment to relearn your rotation guide rather than trust muscle memory — the ranked climb guide is worth a re-read once you’ve seen the new layout in a few matches.

The biggest mechanical change to guns this season has nothing to do with damage numbers. Energy Weapons switch from ground ammo to regenerating internal batteries. All firearms that use energy ammunition will now regenerate ammo over time, so if you run out mid-fight, you just have to wait before engaging again. That kills the old problem of energy weapons feeling clunky because ground loot skewed light or heavy in a given match — the ammo economy is now self-contained per weapon instead of dependent on what’s on the floor.

The clearest confirmed example of how deep this goes is the Nemesis. Energy weapons get a complete overhaul, with guns like the Nemesis moving from a fixed ammo count to a percentage-based model. That’s a structural shift, not a number tweak — magazine size, reload logic, and how “empty” even reads on your HUD all change for weapons on this system. What that means gun-by-gun for other energy weapons hasn’t been fully detailed. The Season 30 blog is an early preview rather than the complete patch notes, so expect finer balance numbers to land closer to launch. Treat any “S-tier energy loadout” claim you see on day one with suspicion until you’ve actually felt the regen rate in a real fight.

Corrupted Attachments are the headline weapon feature, and each one is a trade-off — it raises one stat on a gun in a big way while lowering another to compensate, and you can only fit one Corrupted Attachment per weapon. They effectively replace the old top-tier attachment tier: Gold attachments are replaced by Corrupted Attachments that offer significant tactical tradeoffs, arriving alongside early game loot progression that’s intentionally slowed by removing extended supply bins and initial armory access.

The one concrete example Respawn has shown publicly is on the Triple Take. The Corrupted Stock for the Triple Take shows that it will reduce the magazine size by one, meaning more time spent reloading, but it will increase the rate of fire, reload speed, and handling. Only one Corrupted Attachment can be added per weapon, so creating an entirely custom gun isn’t possible yet, and these attachments are rarer, appearing more as the match progresses. To make the tradeoff readable in the heat of a fight, weapons now display visible stat numbers, so you can see exactly how an attachment changes performance instead of guessing from a vague description.

Here’s the whole season condensed into one table. If you only read one section before dropping in tonight, make it this one.

This one is confirmed and separate from the gameplay changes, but it lands the same day so it’s worth a paragraph. Starting August 4, 2026, Apex Legends will no longer be playable on the original Nintendo Switch system, though players could jump in as normal right up until that date. Players can use any existing balances from Nintendo Switch on Nintendo Switch 2 — everything earned or purchased, including Apex Coins and cosmetics, carries over even if you buy the Switch 2 after August 4, 2026. Beginning that date, in-game premium currency is no longer purchasable on the original Switch, though any existing balance can still be spent before the cutoff.

Myth: A quiet Legend season means a quiet patch

It doesn’t. The Legend roster stays the same, but the map, the loot economy, and the energy weapon ammo model all changed at once — that’s a bigger shift to your actual gameplay than most single-Legend seasons deliver.

Myth: Energy ammo is now unlimited

It’s regenerating, not unlimited. You still run dry mid-fight if you spray carelessly — the difference is you don’t need to scavenge for more energy cells afterward, you just wait for the stockpile to refill.

Myth: Corrupted Attachments are strictly better than what they replace

They’re a trade, not a straight upgrade. A Corrupted Attachment that boosts fire rate and handling while shrinking your magazine can be worse than a plain attachment if your playstyle depends on mag size — read the visible stats before you slot one.