Apex Legends Legacy: Season 9 Upcoming Changes

Season 9 and the Legacy Update are closing in for Apex Legends, so there is not better time to be excited for the popular Battle Royale.

The official draft of the upcoming new features list is finally live, and there is a ton of content introduced in Season 9. New modes, maps, weapons, plethora of Legend balancing and a lot more to pretty much overhaul the game for the new season. The quality of life improvements are also a welcome addition, which let’s be honest, the game needs in a couple of fields. That said, Apex Legends is headed into a great new ‘era’ and we are just in the beginning of it. For more details, take a look in the extensive list below.

Apex Legends Legacy: Season 9 Upcoming Features and Changes

New Mode: Arenas

A new 3v3 mode was previously leaked for Apex legends, and now we have confirmation that Arenas will arrive next season. This mode will feature custom-tailored maps, and a completely different playstyle from the battle royale.

Here’s what’s been revealed about it in the patch notes:

• Permanent 3v3 mode
• 2 Custom maps:
  • Party Crasher: Mirage crashed into a downtown plaza
    Phaserunner: hidden experimental zone at the peak of a mountain
• 3 BR-inspired locations
  • Artillery (KC), Golden Gardens, Thermal Plant

New Legend: Valkyrie

This is newest Legend to join battle royale’s roster. She’s the daughter of Titanfall 2’s Viper, and her abilities are based on Viper’s titan, Northstar.

• Passive: VTOL Jets – Press Jump while in the air to engage jetpack. You can switch between hold and toggle in the options menu.
• Tactical: Missile Swarm – Fire a swarm of mini-rockets which damage and disorient the enemy.
• Ultimate: Skyward Dive – Press once to prepare for launch. Teammates can interact with Valkyrie to join the launch. Press again to launch into the air and skydive.
• Class: Recon – Ability to scan beacons and reveal the next circle location.

Olympus Map Changes

Respawn Entertainment teased some new map locations for Olympus, which was first introduced in Season 7. Now we know what will be included in the changes to this area when Season 9 goes live.

Here are all the confirmed map changes for Olympus:

• Olympus has been over by a massive plant flown in by a mysterious aircraft, linked to Valkyrie’s entrance
• Crossroads turned into the Icarus ship
• On scientist corpses, there will be bridge keycards, which allow access to the best loot on the ship
• 2 redeploy balloons have been removed – outside Golden Gardens and outside Orbital Cannon

Legends

• Low Profile removed: Wraith, Wattson and Lifeline will no longer take 5% more damage.

Fuse

• Knuckle Cluster: Fuse now has two stacks of Knuckle Cluster. Reduced cooldown from 25s to 20s.

Lifeline

• Combat Revive: No longer deploys a shield. Can now revive two players at the same time. Can now cancel active revives in progress to allow your teammate to defend themselves with their knockdown shield.
• D.O.C. Heal Drone: Heal rate increased from 5hp per second to 8hp per second. Deployment time before healing begins reduced by roughly 33%.
• Care Package: Cooldown reduced from 6 minutes to 5 minutes. Now guarantees an upgrade (if possible) in three categories: Body Shield, Other Equipment (Helmet, Backpack, and Knockdown Shield), and Weapon Attachment, based on your team’s current gear when the Package arrives.

Loba

• Burglar’s Best Friend: Can now run and slide at full speed while aiming the bracelet and while the bracelet is in the air. Loba will no longer be slowed after translocating.
• Fixed a lot of bugs that caused bracelet tosses to fail.
• Black Market Boutique: Increased cooldown from 90s to 120s.

Octane

• Stim: Reduced cooldown between stims from 4s to 1s. Increased health cost from 12hp to 20hp.
• Increased bullet spread while in the air and shooting from the low Launch Pad trajectory.

Horizon

• Gravity Lift: Reduced lift speed by 30%. Reduced side-to-side acceleration. Limited the time you can sit at the top of Gravity Lift to 2 seconds. Increased cooldown from 15s to 20s.
• Horizon’s abilities will now get zapped by Wattson pylons.

Bangalore

• Smoke Launcher: Thickened Bangalore’s smoke.

Bloodhound

• No longer receives assists from Eye of the Allfather.

Crypto

• Crypto’s drone can now scan and open care packages.
• Can no longer use his drone to “hijack” a respawn beacon that’s already in use.

Weapons

New Weapon: Bocek Bow

The Bocek Bow is part of the Marksman Weapons class. As the name implies, you can use it to fire Arrows at your foes from a distance, and these can be retrieved after firing.

When fully drawn back, the bow will deal 70 damage to body, and 123 damage to the head.

New Hop Ups

Deadeye’s Tempo (Sentinel & Bocek Bow)

• Description: Firing at the perfect moment increases fire rate

Shatter Caps (Bocek Bow & 30-30 Repeater)

• Description: Rounds split into a blast pattern on firing

Care package weapons

• Peacekeeper removed from care packages
• Triple Take goes into care packages

Fully kitted weapons

• Added: Wingman, Bocek, R99, Hemlock, and Sentinel
• Removed: R301, 30-30 Repeater, Mozambique, Longbow DMR, and Spitfire

Peacekeeper

• It comes with the Precision Choke by default, which can be toggled off
• Pellet damage reduced from 10 to 9
• Rechamber time increased from 0.9 seconds to 1.1 seconds
• Reload times increased (regular from 2.45 to 2.5, empty from 3.35 to 3.5)
• Pellet spread increased in general, and spread when charged increased for all charge levels (from 0.65/0.45/0.2 to 0.85/0.65/0.35)
• Quickly loses charge after leaving ADS

Triple Take

• As a crate weapon, it will come with a 9 ammo clip and 63 reserve ammo
• Fire rate increased from 1.2 to 1.3
• Time to full charge reduced from 1.1 seconds to 1 second
• Retains charge briefly after leaving ADS
• Move-speed while aiming down sights has been increased to match other marksman weapons — faster than snipers, slower than ARs
• Increased spread while airborne and aiming down sight

Apex Legends is available on PlayStation, Xbox, PC, Nintendo Switch and Google Stadia. For more information about the game, make sure to check the official website.

 

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