After almost three months of a more than average Season 15, Apex Legends will soon enter its 16th season. A key moment for a game in slight loss of speed.
[Mis à jour le 07 février 2023 à 10h12] The Apex World Championships have just ended with the victory of TSM, the most popular organization in the game. Great news for Apex Legends and its players who are enjoying a renewed attention after this fierce competition in London . But the game is still in dire need of changes, plagued by balancing and cheating issues that are ruining the gaming experience for many players. The good news is that Respawn has finally unveiled “Revelry” or “Festivities” in French, a season that will bring many changes to the Apex game system, while celebrating 4 years of the game.
With the second part of the ranked game split already well under way, Respawn has finally brought us Season 16 of Apex Legends. Revelry should arrive on February 14th next, a date that coincides with the habits of Respawn Entertainment, which tends to upload each new season on Tuesdays around 6 p.m.French time.
Season 16 will be a time for Respawn to continue to deepen its matchmaking formula in order to offer more balanced games to its players. The studio has already claimed to put in place some new solutions which should be deployed in 2023. The split of ranked games will start from scratch on Olympus or Canyon des Rois. And a new legend was to join the fight, and according to recent leaks, it should have been Ballistic.
Ballistic, is an upcoming assault legend that takes the form of both a support for his allies, and an aggressive legend in combat. His passive should be to be able to carry a third weapon without attachments on his back, his tactical ability is a combat debuff applied to enemies in the form of an overheat of their weapon, and his ultimate is a movement speed buff, reload speed and amount of ammo for himself and his allies. The ultimate should also temporarily turn Ballistic’s third weapon into a gold version. Unfortunately, Respawn said it wanted to focus on existing legends in season 16, so Ballistic was postponed to a future season.
The other key information that we have been able to glean in recent days on Reddit and Youtube is the arrival of a huge buff for the in-game media category. Loba, Gibraltar, Lifeline and Newcastle will indeed be getting some love with the arrival of Season 16, thanks to a new passive allowing support legends to be able to craft a resurrection banner in the crafters, even after the end of the season. banner recovery timer. Enough to greatly boost these four legends who will undoubtedly become essential to maintaining a complete team.
In addition, all existing legends will be classified into five distinct classes. Each of its classes will be unified by common skills and liabilities. It includes Assault, Scout, Fighter, Guardian and Support. This simple change is meant to benefit all Legends by creating some form of in-game consistency. and Wraith could benefit from substantial ups.
A new weapon arrives with season 16, it is the Nemesis, an all-new assault rifle with energy bullets and a high rate of fire. The weapon should fire in bursts and is of course expected in the hands of controller players. We also now know that the Team Deathmatch or Team Deathmatch mode will make its permanent entry into the game, having benefited from the work provided by the Control and Arena modes. The latter will unfortunately definitely disappear from the game.
Although Apex Legends already has its own anti-cheat system in the form of Easy AntiCheat, some discussions on the Electronic Arts side have reached our ears about an upcoming deepening of player protection measures. This change, long believed to come in the form of Hyperion, software that protects applications from outside software influence (including Strikepacks and Cronus), will finally come in the form of an all-new anticheat. called “kernel”, ie acting at the base of Windows. Successfully employed by Valorant, this solution could well reduce the diabolical growth of the number of cheaters on Apex Legends recently, and even prevent users of Strikepacks and Cronus from using their recoil control tools or rapid fire, at the Fortnite way. These changes could arrive in the coming months.
It was requested when the game was released in 2019, crossplay was finally implemented on Apex Legends in October 2020, and has since been active by default on all platforms. It does not affect your solo games, but defines the type of players you encounter when playing in squads with your friends. If you are all on the same platform, the players in front of you should mostly use the same console. If you are on different consoles, your lobbies will be populated by a mix of players from different platforms. Console players can optionally disable crossplay in game options.