Apex Legendsis crashing on start up for players who hop onto EA and Respawn Entertainment’s live-service multiplayer game. Steam players are not being able to move past the loading screen inApex Legends. Respawn had released a patch yesterday that seemingly fixed the issue, butApex Legendscrash issues continue on persist for PC players.
Respawn Entertainment issued a statement last night on August 29 at 11:50 p.m. PT, highlighting that a patch to fixApex Legendscrashes on Steam has been rolled out. The developers also mentioned that this issue occurred due to a previous update.
Steam players: we just pushed a@PlayApexupdate to address a crash that was occurring after today’s update.For some additional context, this is the first of several additional security updates we have planned for this season, but it inadvertently labeled some friendly programs…
Respawn also provided context behind the issue, explaining how the issue occurred due to “the first of several additional security updates” that the developer plans to roll out during the ongoing Shockwave season.
The security update “inadvertently labeled some friendly programs as malicious and was preventing players from launching the game.” Respawn says that it will be rolling out the update once the issue has been resolved. At the time of writing, the issue remains unresolved, despite 18 hours since Respawn’s statement.
Security has lately been the primary focus, with Respawn expanding its efforts to curb cheating inApex Legends. There were over 200,000 accounts permanently banned for cheating between June and July 2024. In total, there are more than 6 million accounts banned inApex Legendssince its launch in 2019.
Respawn has also expanded its team to monitor, review, and take action against suspicious accounts that get reported for cheating inApex Legends.
