– Season 5 of Apex Legends has already started and we want to give a short overview of the most important changes in the patch notes. There is also a new Battle Pass.

The new – Season of Apex Legends started at the beginning of the week. Fortune’s Favor brings a brand new playable legend: Loba. The nimble thief’s abilities focus on loot. The new legend received several video reveals, with the last one giving us a good impression of her abilities.

Chances are that the new legend will be constantly picked on for the first few weeks, until everyone understands her. It wouldn’t be too surprising to see some nerfs or buffs in the near future, as with all new characters. Her abilities are the following:

Tactics Ability – Thief’s Best Friend.

Teleports Loba to hard-to-reach locations or quickly get her to safety by throwing the jump drive bracelet.
Passive Ability – Trained Gaze

Epic and legendary loot nearby is visible through walls. The range is equal to “Black Market Boutique”.
Ultimate Ability – Black Market Boutique

Places a portable device that can teleport nearby loot into inventory. Each allied or enemy legend can take up to two objects.

Battle Pass
The brand new – Season introduces a brand new Battle Pass. As usual, there is a free version and a premium version. The latter costs 950 Apex Coins, or about $9.50. The difference between the two is quite significant, with the premium version offering significantly more rewards. A video has also been released for the new Battle Pass.

Reconnecting is now possible
A big issue in the game was dashboarding, a term used for intentional game crashes by some players. Now it is possible to reconnect tor a dropped game, though there is still a time limit for doing so:

“Players who have left a game unexpectedly can now rejoin their game in progress”. “Unexpected” means exiting the game through means other than the system menu, including crashing, using Alt+F4 on PC, or “dashboarding” to exit the game on the console. To reconnect, simply restart the game and enter the lobby. The game will automatically attempt to reconnect if the game is still valid, your squad is still alive, and the time limit to reconnect has not yet passed. Reconnect will be available for all competitive modes,” Respawn said.
Legends
Of course, we’ll just take a look at the most important changes.

Mirage

Mirage was one of the Legends that desperately needed an overhaul and – Season 5 did not disappoint.

Tactics Ability – Psyche Out: Mirage can control its reflection. While controlling it, it mimics any of Mirage’s activities. The mirror image lasts for 60 seconds.
Passive Ability – Now You See Me…: Mirage now cloaks when he is downed, when he uses a revive station, and when he revives a team member who is also cloaked.
Ultimate Ability – Life of the Party: Mirage creates multiple mirror images that mimic him. They persist for 60 seconds.
These are actually some good improvements, especially the cloaking when reviving. The fact that the illusions last so long now, and that Mirage can control them, will make it really hard to tell which one is the real one.

Bloodhound

Tactics Ability – Eye of the Allfather: enemies are now revealed for 4 seconds instead of 3, and the cooldown is reduced from 35 to 25 seconds.
Crypto

The drone can now ping banners to warn teammates of nearby enemy squads.
Lifeline

Knockdown shields have been removed from secret compartments.
Caustic

Developer note: “This is a small experiment. We’ll keep our eyes open to make sure this change doesn’t cause degenerate player behavior.”
Gas no longer slows teammates down and noxgas traps are no longer triggered by doors.
Octane

Developer Note: “This is a first step in bringing more team utility to Octane. We have more updates planned, but they didn’t make the cutoff for this patch.”
The cooldown for jump pillows has been reduced from 90 seconds to 60 seconds.
Gibraltar

Developer Note: “Internal data shows that Gibraltar’s performance is good in one-on-one fights, but we want to reduce his performance in team fights a bit.”
Reduced duration of protective dome from 18 to 12 seconds.
Pathfinder

Developer Note: “Given the power of quick repositioning in Apex, the ability to use the Pathfinder grappling hook multiple times in a fight is both too strong and too hard to read.”
The Climbing Hook’s cooldown was increased from 15 to 35 seconds.
Caustic’s gas was one of the most requested changes and the developers have finally fixed it. Whether it will stay in the game like this remains to be seen. After the nerfs to Wraith’s Into the Void cooldown, it only makes sense that Pathfinder would meet the same fate. The two Legends were picked for their superior mobility, which is why the friendly robot has been in every match so far.

Weapons
– Season 5 Gold Weapons

Longbow DMR
Hemlok
Spitfire
EVA-8
RE-45
Mastiff

The Mastiff is taken out of the care package and added to the normal loot and weakened accordingly.
Damage per bullet reduced from 18 to 13.
Headshot multiplier reduced from 2.0 to 1.25.
Fire rate reduced from 1.3 to 1.0.
Projectile size adjusted to other shotguns.
Number of cartridges increased from 4 to 6.
Projectile velocity adjusted to other shotguns.
Peacekeeper

The Peacekeeper disappears from the normal loot pool and becomes a care package weapon and receives a corresponding buff.
Tighter dispersion pattern.
Rechamber reduced from 1.2 to 0.9.
Reload time reduced from 2.65 to 2.45 and from 3.6 to 3.35 when empty.
Projectile size increased to provide consistency at short range.

Alternator

The magazine size has been increased from 16 to 19. Stage 1 extended magazine now has 22 rounds, Stage 2 has 25 rounds, and Stage 3 has 27 rounds.
RE-45

Damage has been increased from 11 to 12.
Reload time has been reduced from 1.74 to 1.5 and from 2.12 to 1.95 when empty.
Havoc

Vertical recoil increased.
Horizontal recoil slightly increased.
Recoil increased on first two shots.
Longbow DMR

Reduced scaling for head shots from 2.15 to 2.1.
Wingman

Headshot scaling reduced from 2.1 to 2.0.
Hop Ups

Added skullpiercer hop up for DMR and wingman.
DMR with Skullpiercer – headshot scaling 2.1 -> 2.5.
Wingman with Skullpiercer – headshot scaling 2.0 -> 2.25.
Anvil receiver was vaulted.
Gold Armor

New Perk: Shield Cells and Syringes each give double.
Removed Perk: Removes 50% healing speed.
Apex Legends – Season 5 welcomes the Mastiff to the regular loot pool and says goodbye to the Peacekeeper. So long, dear friend, you’ve served well. Perhaps the most notable change in this list is the elimination of the Gold Armor perk. This allowed characters like Lifeline and Gibraltar, who already had a higher item speed, to use things like the Phoenix Kit extremely quickly. Now regular purple armor is almost as good, and EVO shields are a much better choice.

What is actually… “Apex Legends?

Within 24 hours, “Apex Legends” became the most-watched game on Twitch – after one week, over 25 million people were already playing it. What is the battle royale shooter about?

What is “Apex Legends” about?

Scenario: In a distant future, bandits, adventurers, and outlaws settle their disputes in a sporting contest to the death. The setting is a fertile, industrially developed valley on the edge of the galaxy.

• Genre: Battle Royale shooter
• Game modes: survival battle between a maximum of 20 teams of three.

At its core, “Apex Legends” is a classic battle-royale shooter: up to 60 players land simultaneously in teams of three on the game map called “Kings Canyon” – a densely built-up, fertile valley with many accessible houses, bunkers and towers. Once on the ground, unarmed players must search their surroundings for equipment and ammunition. The goal of the game is to stay alive until the end.

To prevent players from hiding all over the map and waiting to automatically be the last one left, the game area shrinks every few minutes. The longer a round lasts, the smaller the area where survivors can move and hide.

Apex Legends refreshes this now classic game formula with some ideas that are unique to the genre: For example, before starting a round, players select one of eight heroes, each of which has two special abilities and facilitates certain play styles.

Bangalore, for example, is the classic soldier who can conceal her position with smoke grenades and call in an artillery strike in an emergency. The heroine Lifeline, on the other hand, can summon a drone to heal teammates – or directly order the delivery of high-value weapons and equipment via aerial drone. This way, all players can find the right hero for their preferred course of action.

How can I play Apex Legends?

Platform: “Apex Legends” is available for PC, Xbox One and Playstation 4.

Price: The battle royale shooter is a “Free to Play” title and can basically be played for free on all platforms.

In-game purchases: “Apex Legends” allows the purchase of cosmetic items and new heroes either by means of in-game currency, which can be earned for free in every round, or with real money. The real-money currency “Apex Coins” can be purchased in five different amounts: The smallest possible amount is 1000 Apex Points for around 9.99 euros, while the largest pack with 10,000 Apex Points content costs 99.99 euros.

The developer emphasizes that it is not possible to buy game advantages with the help of real money: You can only use it to customize the appearance of the heroes, it says, or purchase new heroes.

Age rating: “Apex Legends” does not have a youth rating (USK 18).

Which technical terms should you know?

Respawn Beacon: If a player is shot down, the team members who are still alive have the opportunity to bring the fallen comrade back into the game: Each eliminated player leaves behind a so-called Respawn Banner, which can be collected by the players of the own team and handed in at one of 28 Respawn Beacons, certain locations on the map. If this succeeds, the fallen player returns to the game.

Jumpmaster: At the beginning of the game, one of the maximum three players of a team always takes on the role of the jumpmaster. He decides when and where his team enters the game area.

Ping: Using the middle mouse button, players can alert their teammates to interesting locations in the game world or enemies. These pings are a valuable tool for communicating quickly and efficiently within the team.

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