Apex Legends is celebrating Halloween by bringing us a new season of content, Eclipse, which will also be an opportunity to discover a new map and a new legend. We take stock of the essential information.
[Mis à jour le 31 octobre 2022 à 15h30] With its good ten million weekly players, Apex Legends remains one of the most popular FPS of the past three years. Where other behemoths in its midst, Warzone and Fortnite are starting to see their attendance erode, Respawn Entertainment’s Battle Royale continues to thrive, though the proliferation of cheaters and other Cronus users is beginning to annoy the gaming community. But let’s put those concerns aside while we talk about the game’s new season, Eclipse. A fifteenth addition of content which also marks the arrival of a new card in the Battle Royale.
new legend
A new season of Apex Legends also rhymes with the arrival of a new legend. Meet Terra Smith, aka Catalyst, a defensive and anti-scan specialist who joins the Battle Royale cast of characters. Conjurer of spells, she can allow you to defend a position by reinforcing the doors of a shelter or by deploying a defensive wall thanks to her ultimate skill. A new opportunity that will undoubtedly appeal to Wattson players.
- Real name: Tressa Crystal Smith
- Age: 29
- Homeworld: Boreas
- Tactical Ability: Piercing Tape
- Passive Ability: Reinforcement
- Ultimate Ability: Ironback
New card
Broken Moon is the other big new feature of Apex Legends Season 15. This new map set on a Moon shattered by an asteroid offers a lot of new mechanics. You may have seen it in the trailer above, but Broken Moon features steep terrain, with various points of interest connected by lines of ziplines acting much like open-air subways. A medium-sized map on which players will be perfectly happy to go and fight in unknown territory. Check it out in the trailer below.
Anticheating on Apex Legends?
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.
Season 15 of Apex Legends is scheduled for release November, 1st next around 7 p.m.. A release that many players are impatiently awaiting, and which will put a smile on the face of the Battle Royale’s sluggish statistics. Indeed, over the month of October, the game lost more than 20% of its players, figures that can be observed in particular on the site steam charts. Difficult to know what caused this phenomenon, but we can undoubtedly put forward the hypothesis of weariness, faced with content that is a little too repetitive and faced with ranked games that are both unbalanced and too punitive. Either way, the Broken Moon map should see a strong upsurge in players over the next few weeks.
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.