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July 29, 2026

Apex Legends Season 30 'Marked' Lands August 5 With a Major Bloodhound Rework

🇯🇵 Originally reported by GAME Watch

Translated from Japanese with commentary

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BODY: Six years in, and Apex Legends is still tearing up its own foundations. Electronic Arts has confirmed that Season 30, titled "Marked," goes live August 5 at 2:00 a.m. JST, and it arrives swinging at two things veterans thought were untouchable: an original launch legend, and the way you get your gear.

The headline change is a substantial rework of Bloodhound, one of the eight legends who shipped with the game back in 2019. The Technological Tracker has drifted in and out of the meta for years, and this overhaul aims to make the Norse hunter feel relevant again rather than a nostalgic pick. For a character this old, a "大幅リワーク" (major rework) is no small statement of intent.

Just as significant is a change to the supply system — how weapons, attachments, and consumables are delivered into a match. Loot distribution is the invisible skeleton of any battle royale, dictating rotation, aggression, and who gets to fight on even footing. Tweaking it reshapes the flow of every single game, not just one legend's kit.

The season lands across the full platform spread: PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC, and — notably — Nintendo Switch 2. That last inclusion signals EA is treating Nintendo's new hardware as a first-class citizen for its live-service tentpole.

The insider take

From Tokyo, the timing is worth flagging: a 2:00 a.m. JST launch is standard for EA's global-simultaneous rollouts, which means Japanese players are once again syncing to a North American clock. Bloodhound holds particular affection here — the legend's gender-nonbinary identity was handled with unusual care in Japanese localization, and the character enjoys steady fan-art presence on Pixiv and at Comiket. A rework that keeps Bloodhound competitively viable matters to a JP community that has stuck with a hero many Western players quietly benched seasons ago. Whether the supply changes calm or inflame the region's ranked grind is the real question come August.

Originally reported by GAME Watch (Japanese).

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