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All the Legend and weapon changes coming to Apex Legends Season 16Here’s what each of the revamped Legend class perks do
Here’s what each of the revamped Legend class perks do
Apex Legendsis going to look a little different in a week’s time. Respawn have broken the mould a little bit withApex LegendsRevelry and the game’s four year anniversary - instead of adding a new Legend as usual, they’ve spent their time elsewhere to bring a host of Legend meta and weapon meta changes, alongside the new Team Deathmatch game mode and improving player onboarding thatwe reported on earlier in the week.
Apex Legends Season 16 is going to break a surprising number of targeted adjustments to various different guns, Legends, and abilities. And all that on top of the entirely revamped Legend class system, which gives every Legend a brand new perk (or in some cases two!) to play with. Read on for a full list of all the major changes that are coming to Legends and weapons with Apex Legends Revelry.
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New Apex Legends class system and perks explained
The remastered class system is probably the biggest change to the meta that Apex Legends Revelry will introduce. Replacing the four classes (and one trait) we’re all long accustomed to ignoring, Season 16 will add five all-new classes: Assault, Skirmisher, Recon, Support, and Controller. Here’s what they all do.
Assault class
The Assault class is home to LegendsAsh,Bangalore,Fuse,Mad Maggie, andRevenant. These Legends enjoy two brand new perks which help cement their role as a bastion of high-powered aggression.
Assault Legends have the ability toopen a hidden shelf inside new red supply bins, in much the same way that Lifeline can currently open the hidden shelf inside blue supply bins. Red bins are weapon-focused, and the shelf contains smart loot attachments for the whole squad. The upshot is that this perk gets more powerful the further into a match you get.
Assault Legends can alsocarry an extra stack of ammo per inventory slot. For example, they will now be able to carry 80 Light Ammo in a single slot, instead of just 60.
Skirmisher class
Skirmishers bring to the table an interesting new perk. Each of them will be able tosee the red weapons inside Supply Dropsbefore they’ve even landed. Look into the sky towards an approaching Supply Drop as one of these Legends, and you’ll instantly see whether it contains a Kraber, a Bocek, or some other high value weapon.
This special weapon icon also persists after the Supply Drop lands, which means if it disappears suddenly, you’ll know whether an enemy player has just looted the Supply Drop.
Recon class
Recon Legends are the scanning heroes:Bloodhound,Crypto,Seer, andVantage. These Legends can no longer use their role passive to view the next Ring location - instead, they canscan Survey Beacons to reveal the location of all enemieson the map for a full 30 seconds. Yikes.
The counterplay here is that all enemies on the map will be notified of the exact Survey Beacon you just scanned, which means you might attract quite a lot of attention shortly after scanning. But it remains an extremely powerful perk, possibly the strongest of the lot.
Support class
The Support class contains the LegendsGibraltar,Lifeline,Loba, andNewcastle- characters with powerful team survival and enhancement abilities.
All Support Legends will now enjoy Lifeline’s old passive ability toopen the shelf under blue supply bins. The loot in these blue shelves are now exclusively survival items (healing consumables, heat shields, and so on), and there is a bit of a smart loot system in place with these shelves as well now, so they’ll try to provide items that your team is currently lacking.
But the more exciting perk for Support Legends is this: they can nowuse Crafting Stations to craft dead allies' banners, even if the timer ran out before they could collect it from the ally’s corpse. This means suddenly the old technique of guarding an enemy’s corpse in case their teammate tries to recover the banner is less viable, because if there’s a Support Legend among them, they can just hurry to the nearest Crafting Station instead.
Controller class
Finally, the Controller class. This class contains the LegendsCatalyst,Caustic,Rampart, andWattson- all experts at taking a location (particularly indoors) and fortifying it ahead of a fight.
Controller Legends canscan Ring Consoles to reveal the next Ring location. Yes, you read that right - there is a new gadget type in each of the Apex Legends maps. Survey Beacons are now exclusively for reveal the whereabouts of enemy Legends as Recon heroes, while Ring Consoles are now the go-to device for revealing the Ring placement next round. And Controllers now have access to this ability instead of Recon Legends.
Legend meta changes
Apex Legends Revelry will introduce a number of targeted changes to the abilities of several popular Legends. Some are minor quality of life changes, while others look to give underperforming characters some extra utility - or clip the wings of the strongest Legends in the current meta.
Bloodhound
To compensate for this new buff, Bloodhound’s Ult will no longer refresh and lower the cooldown of their Tactical scan. So we’re looking at a Bloodhound in Season 16 that no longer focuses exclusively on their scans as the source of their power, but instead returns a bit more to their original identity as a tracker.
Seer
Similarly, Seer is receiving a bit of a nerf to his scan potential. His Ultimate will have a longer cooldown and a shorter duration, and hisHeartbeatSensor Passive now no longer provides real-time data. Instead, it only provides infooneach pulse of the heartbeat sensor, making it much harder to do a quick 360-degree scan and find out where every enemy player within 75 metres can be found.
The other juicy nerf coming to Seer with Apex Legends Revelry is that his Heartbeat Sensor is nowaudibleto enemies, so if you’re trying to be stealthy then using your Passive may give your position away.
Wraith
Season 16 is a good time for Wraith mains, as she receives her first big buff in a very long time. To improve her team repositioning Ultimate and put in more in line with the power of Valkyrie’s Ultimate, Wraith’s Interdimensional Portal can now cross twice the distance it could before. What’s more, Wraith herself will speed up as she moves during her Ult.
Pathfinder
In a very similar manner (and for similar reasons) to Wraith’s changes, Pathfinder’s Zipline Ultimate is now greatly improved. The maximum distance of his Zipline is much further than before, and players travel quite a bit faster along them than before - somewhere between the speed of a regular zipline and one of Broken Moon’s high-speed Zip Rails.
Lifeline
Horizon
Horizon’s Gravity Lift is still not where the devs want it to be, so she’s getting a couple of targeted changes to this ability. Accuracy in her Gravity Lift has been reduced, making it harder to target enemies while floating. But on the flipside of this, it now lifts you up faster than before, making it more about the traversal aspect and less about becoming an unshootable floating A/D spamming little shit.
Mirage
Last but not least, Mirage is getting a couple of pretty decent buffs with Season 16. First: when one of his Decoys bamboozles an enemy, that enemy is tracked in real-time for the duration of the effect, rather than Mirage’s team simply getting a static ping of where the enemy was when they shot the Decoy. And the tracking effect lasts a little longer than it used to before.
The other change to Mirage’s toolkit is that when he cloaks to revive a downed enemy, the cloak now persists after revival for a full 3 seconds, for both Mirage and his now-revived ally. This allows them to reposition, find cover, or heal up much more safely than before. The downside is that you must remain unarmed during this time. If you pull out your weapon, the cloak immediately dissipates. So you can’t use it to get the drop on an enemy, but you can use it to provide a bit of extar security for yourself and your teammate.
Weapon meta changes
Alright, now onto the weapon changes for Season 16. Apex Legends Revelry is going to be an interested season for the weapon meta, with the addition of the very powerful Nemesis Assault Rifle already set to shake things up. But that’s not all that’s changing.
The R-301 Carbine is also getting a slight nerf, with its damage being reduced from 14 to 13 per shot. Sadness. But understandable! How long has the R-301 been at the top of the meta now?
The Rampage is coming out of the Supply Drop for Season 16, and replacing it is the Hemlok. The Hemlok was always powerful, but now it’spowerful. So watch out for that. Additionally, the Volt and Longbow are now entering Crafting Stations, which means they won’t be available as ground loot.
And that’s basically all the juicy Legend and weapon meta changes that we know about for Apex Legends Season 16! If you’re itching to get stuck into trying out all these altered guns and Legend abilities, you don’t have long to wait. Apex Legends Revelry is coming out on Tuesday, February 14th. Prepare for its arrival with ourApex Legends tips and tricks, or read up on the current weapon meta with our list of thebest guns in Apex Legends.
