Apex Legends patches out magazine dump exploit and Sentinel rapid-fire abuse

Respawn's anti-cheat team has pushed fixes for several weapon exploits in Apex Legends, targeting bugs that had been spreading through community videos earlier this week.

Two specific exploits were squashed: one that let players dump an entire magazine in a single shot, and another that allowed abnormally fast firing and reloading on both the Sentinel sniper rifle and the C.A.R. SMG — well beyond what either weapon is designed to do. The clips had been circulating widely before the fixes landed.

Respawn framed the patch as part of a continuous anti-cheat effort that runs across multiple fronts simultaneously — exploit fixes, new cheat detections, and reinforcing existing systems. The team noted that a lot of this work happens in the background and isn't always visible to players when it ships.

No specific timeline for further fixes was given, but the studio signaled that competitive integrity work is ongoing and won't stop at this batch of patches.