Season 1 of Apex Legends will quickly be upon us, and one of many confirmed new options set to reach with the brand new Season is the brand new character referred to as Octane – the so-called “High Speed Daredevil” whose skillset presents one thing moderately totally different to what we’ve skilled with another character up to now (if rumours are to be believed). Our Apex Legends Octane information will delve into every part we learn about this new Legend, analysing every of their talents together with hypothesis concerning hitbox measurement and different particulars. So let’s get caught into studying about this new character that appears to dwell life on the sting – fairly actually.
For full particulars and opinions on all the characters collectively, check out our Apex Legends characters information for every part you want. Alternatively, when you’re on the lookout for a targeted information like this one however on a special Legend, then merely check out the desk beneath and click on on a hyperlink to be taken to the hero of your alternative. We’re onerous at work filling these pages up with probably the most helpful and in-depth data, so keep tuned for particulars in your favorite Legends.
| Bloodhound | Gibraltar | Lifeline | Pathfinder | Octane (NEW CHARACTER) |
| Wraith | Bangalore | Caustic | Mirage |
Apex Legends Octane information – new character, talents, data
We’ve received a good quantity to cowl with Octane, the potential ninth character to enter Apex Legends’ vibrant and various roster of heroes. To skip to a specific part, merely click on on any of the hyperlinks beneath to be introduced straight there.
Click on the above picture to view it at full decision.
Apex Legends Octane launch date – when will Octane be added?
First, let’s get the apparent out of the best way: when can we anticipate to have the ability to begin enjoying as Octane? Well, whereas we don’t know for sure, it appears pretty clear that this would be the new character that we have been promised to obtain alongside the grand opening of Apex Legends Season 1, set to reach someday this month. Octane’s Launch Pads have already been silently added into the map (extra on this beneath!), so we will’t have too lengthy in any respect to attend!
Whenever Octane is launched, you’ll be able to after all anticipate everybody and their moms to all be clamouring to check out the brand new Legend, so you could must depend on being first to choose amongst your teammates if you wish to attempt them out – although right here’s to hoping Respawn can have added the power to enter Training Mode with totally different characters for Season 1 – and presumably the power to play Solos or Duos too. Now wouldn’t that be good?
For full particulars on every part to anticipate with Season 1, check out our new and in-depth Apex Legends Season 1 information.
Apex Legends Octane character overview
So, above is a more in-depth have a look at what Octane will appear to be after they arrive onto the Apex Legends stage. Kitted out with goggles and a gasoline masks harking back to Caustic (although a bit of extra… toothy), we’re not precisely certain if Octane is completely human. The vibrant inexperienced tubing and Matrix-esque sockets embedded into their abdomen and arms point out that they use chemical substances to reinforce their fight prowess (suggesting they’re not less than partly natural); however every part beneath the waist appears to be like very decidedly metallic.
It’s seemingly that we’re a cyborg with an air of secrecy and hazard about them, alongside the traces of “no one has ever seen their face and lived to tell the tale” form of hazard. Meanwhile, their talents, which we’ll have a look at in nearer element in only a second, all revolve round self-damage and really excessive mobility and repositioning potential, making Octane very appropriate for gamers with an aggressive, high-risk-high-reward playstyle in the case of coping with enemy groups.
Click the above picture to view it at highest decision.
Octane hitbox vs different Legends
The above is a composite of assorted hitbox images created by YouTuber “SookieSpy”, which deliver to mild the unimaginable discrepancies in character hitboxes in Apex Legends.
There’s clearly a really clear distinction between the tiny mannequin and hitbox of Wraith and the large slab that’s Gibraltar – and Respawn have promised that Season 1 will deliver modifications each to hitboxes and to character talents as a way to compensate for this discrepancy.
Seeing as Octane is trying like they’ll arrive with Season 1 alongside these modifications, it’s seemingly we’re a hitbox for Octane that lies someplace in the course of this chart, in order to not additional widen this discrepancy. Judging from the leaked pictures up to now, their construct and stature places them roughly alongside Bloodhound, Mirage, and Bangalore by way of hitbox measurement – a really respectable measurement, notably if you begin to take into account the Bangalore-esque motion velocity enhance that Octane will obtain with their Tactical skill.
Click on the above picture to view it at full decision.
Octane talents leak
Now the query is: will we imagine this so-called “leak”? Well, we’ll hopefully discover out quickly sufficient both method, however we’ve purpose to imagine the notion of the skills themselves are correct (although we might after all see modifications to precisely how they take impact, stats, and so forth). A current dataminer found the strings “octane_stim_inject” and “octane_stim_release” inside Apex Legends’ game information, corroborating on the very least the current information of Octane’s Tactical skill.
Let’s take a more in-depth have a look at every of those talents in flip and the way one may use them when Octane lastly arrives in King’s Canyon.
Passive skill: Swift Mend
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Swift Mend | While not taking harm, Octane restores well being over time. |
Analysis
Octane’s Passive, Swift Mend, would be the solely different type of therapeutic in a capability moreover Lifeline‘s Tactical Drone, and it is utterly integral to Octane’s total construct when you think about their talents collectively. The skill permits Octane to routinely restore well being over time each time they don’t seem to be taking harm. Sounds fairly nice up to now.
Now, there are some things to take into consideration right here. First is that it feels like this skill will solely have an effect on well being, not shields. Which is sweet when you consider it, as a result of it means Octane can prioritise Shield therapeutic objects over Health consumables, serving to with total stock administration (for more information on all of the totally different therapeutic objects within the game, check out our Apex Legends healing items information).
Second is the caveat that the heal solely happens if you find yourself not taking harm. In actuality, that is prone to imply there’s a hidden delay of some seconds after taking harm if you gained’t profit from this Passive; and every new occasion of harm resets this delay. So you’ll be able to’t depend on therapeutic your method by means of a struggle like you’ll be able to utilizing Lifeline’s Drone. And you additionally gained’t be capable to use it to fight harm inflicted by the Apex Legends Ring.
Third – we don’t know the speed of Octane’s therapeutic. It’s seemingly to not be very quick in any respect (or it will be overpowered) – and contemplating its synergy with Octane’s Tactical, which takes away 10% of your Health every time you employ it, the therapeutic price is prone to be one thing within the area of 1-2 Health per second (or per 1.5 seconds, like how Ring harm works), to make sure that the downside of utilizing your Tactical isn’t utterly negligible.
But regardless, this looks like a really helpful and dependable Passive skill that ought to delay your survivability whereas nonetheless forcing you to have good game-sense and decision-making in the case of when to struggle or duck behind cowl.
Tactical skill: Adrenaline Junkie
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Adrenaline Junkie | Move 30% quicker for six seconds. Costs 10% well being. Immune to slows whereas lively. |
Analysis
Here’s the place Octane’s skillset begins to look actually interesting – not less than in my view. But then I’m a sucker for mobility and motion augmentations of any variety. Hence my maining as Wraith, Bangalore, and Pathfinder.
It’s additionally good as a result of right here we’ve received some precise stats to speak about as properly. Octane’s Tactical, Adrenaline Junkie, permits them to sacrifice 10% of their well being as a way to transfer 30% quicker for six seconds, whereas additionally being resistant to slows whereas this skill is in impact. Amazing, notably when mixed with their Passive. But let’s break this down little by little.
Costs 10% well being. Now wait: is that this present well being, or most well being? I’d assume most well being – however then why not say “10 health”? Why say “10% health”? There are three attainable solutions right here:
- I’m studying an excessive amount of into this.
- It’s 10% of your present well being.
- It’s 10% of your most well being, and the truth that they put “10%” as an alternative of “10” suggests Respawn are trying into totally different well being swimming pools for various characters.
It’s in all probability the primary possibility, however nonetheless… That’s received me much more to see their plan for Season 1.
Anyway, 10 self-damage is nothing for a 30% velocity enhance for six seconds. To put this into perspective, Bangalore’s Passive presently permits her to maneuver 40% quicker for two seconds, although Respawn are bringing this all the way down to 30% for Season 1. Bloodhound’s Ultimate permits them to maneuver 25% quicker. Wraith’s Ultimate… is unclear, however seems to be very barely quicker than Bloodhound’s Ultimate.
So Octane’s motion buff will really be stronger than Bangalore’s Passive in Season 1 – and rightly so, because it prices 10 well being every time. But the true kicker is that you just’re resistant to slows equivalent to from Arc Stars, Nox Gas, Bangalore’s or Gibraltar’s artillery strikes… Presumably this additionally implies that if you’re hit by such a gradual, you’ll be able to pop your Tactical as a way to instantly take away the impact. Now that’s fairly candy.
Those leaked game file strings, “octane_stim_inject” and “octane_stim_release” point out to me that there can be a brief wind-up animation earlier than the power takes impact (as you inject your self with some form of fantastic adrenaline cocktail, little doubt), which can present one other slight draw back to this skill. But then, it’s the identical with Wraith’s Tactical, and an important many different talents in Apex Legends that also present nice advantages. Regardless, a Wingman-touting Octane strafing back and forth with a 30% motion buff goes to be a reasonably rattling scary factor to cope with.
Ultimate skill: Launch Pad
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Launch Pad | Deployable leap pad that catapults customers by means of the air. |
Analysis
Launch Pads are right here! No, actually – they’re right here, proper now! You can discover them clustered across the large Marketplace constructing close to the centre of King’s Canyon. And due to this, we don’t really need to take a position about precisely how this skill will work, as a result of we will merely attempt it out!
Octane+Pathfinder is going to be fun as hell from r/ApexLegends
We can assume that you just drop the Launch Pad at your toes like Gibraltar’s Dome or Caustic’s Nox Gas Traps, and it rapidly transforms right into a Launch Pad which you could leap onto the ship your self careening by means of the air.
It’s a little bit of a disgrace that it doesn’t ship you greater and/or reactivate your Rocket Boots for a short while, and up to now it appears a bit of underwhelming for an Ultimate skill. Compared to Wraith’s and Pathfinder’s Ultimates – each of that are additionally mobility-focused – Octane’s Ult doesn’t mean you can journey practically as rapidly as both.
However! I’m holding out hope that this skill can have a number of costs, very similar to Bangalore’s Smokes, and which you could deploy one other Launch Pad simply as you’re touchdown to form of hopscotch your self by means of the air. This would give the power rather more flexibility and utility in the case of crossing massive distances or dizzying your enemies together with your acrobatic feats.
I’d additionally prefer to know whether or not activating your Tactical beforehand (or whereas within the air) will enhance your momentum and the gap you’ll be able to journey as Octane utilizing considered one of these Launch Pads. It appears as if your momentum does play a component already, as a result of sliding onto the Launch Pad sends you additional than when you merely sprinted over it.
All I’ll say is that it doesn’t sound fairly as helpful or secure as Wraith’s Portals, so it must have a decrease cost time to compensate for this. I’d like to see Launch Pad have the identical brief 1m 30s cost time as Pathfinder’s Zipline Gun, so there’s an actual deal with bouncing everywhere in the map. It appears to suit Octane’s – ahem, high-octane playstyle.
And that’s all we’ve got for now on Octane, however as extra information piles in (and naturally, with Octane’s launch) we’ll be including tonnes extra data and tricks to this web page so you’ll be able to actually get probably the most out of Apex Legends’ newest character.
