Season 22 “Shockwave” Introduced a new way to use Pistols in Apex Legends with the Implementation of Dual Wielding aka Akimbo, which the community quickly realized was very Overpowered, and they started to make Respawn aware of the issue by letting them know their frustration, and Respawn has finally answered their complaints by pushing a Hotfix update today on October 10 for Mozambique as whole, let’s go over the details that Respawn provided on the Nerf
Akimbo Mozambique Nerf
● Single & Akimbo Mozambique have had their rate of fire reduced at the base and all bolt rarities
(including common, rare, epic & legendary bolts)
● Magazine Size for a single Mozambique is reduced to 5 (was 6)
● Magazine Size for Akimbo Mozambique reduced to 10 (was 12)
● Blast pattern scale increased
● When using Akimbo Mozambique’s, the projectile size is now reduced (normalized to other shotguns)
Here is gameplay footage on the newly updated Mozambique’s in-game
(this gameplay was recorded with non-bolt Akimbo’s and at the end with gold bolt Akimbo)
