After more than three months of Season 15, Apex Legends players are eagerly awaiting the arrival of crucial changes planned with its Season 16.
[Mis à jour le 30 janvier 2023 à 17h34] The glory days of Battle Royale seem to be over. Warzone 2.0 is literally hemorrhaging players as Apex Legends enters the third month of its Season 15. Players are waiting for crucial changes to Respawn’s Battle Royale, including its ranked play system which suffers from questionable balance and many high profile cheaters. While waiting for the arrival of this long-awaited season 16 of content, we take stock of its many promises.
While the second part of the split of ranked games has just started, we can already predict the official date of arrival of season 16 on Apex Legends. If the Battle Pass end date is to be believed, Apex Season 16 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.
The exact content of the sixteenth season of Apex Legends is not yet known to players, but we can already be sure of some changes that should arrive next February. Season 16 will be the time for Respawn to change 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 while a new legend will join the catalog of characters available in game.
According to recent leaks, it should be Ballistic, a new assault legend that takes the form of both a support for its 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.
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.