Numerous Apex Legends players are reporting serious server issues, as well as instances of the game freezing or crashing, after the free-to-play shooter’s latest Double Take Collection event dropped on June 25, 2024.
The Double Take Collection event brings with it a new Quads mode instead of Duos, a new Prestige skin for Lifeline, and a 1.5x increase to all Prestige Skin Challenges. But it also brought with it crippling server issues for many players, with Apex fans sounding off on the game’s active subnet about not being able to get into any games.
Players claim that these server issues started right after updating the game for the Double Take Collection event. And although an additional 9MB update came out shortly after the main patch, this update also didn’t seem to fix anything for players. Some gamers, however, have found luck bypassing Steam entirely and locating and running the r5apex.exe file on their machines – although this would naturally only help PC gamers.
It’s not just server issues with the latest Apex Legends update. Many players also complain about the game freezing or instantly crashing while in the lobby menu. This also only started happening to them after patching the game for the Double Take Collection event.
As of writing, there has still been no official word from Apex Legends developers Respawn Entertainment about theirs official X (formerly known as Twitter) account of what’s going on. The game’s servers also all seem to be working accordingly Apex Legends status, though that can change dramatically and doesn’t necessarily mean all players are out of the woods yet. Let’s hope for official confirmation from Respawn soon that both the server and crash issues have been resolved.
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