Wake up fellas, Apex Legends Season 3 has lastly arrived! No doubt you’ll have learn the complete patch notes by now, however there’s an entire lot of actually game-changing changes tucked away on this replace, and in case you (like us) had been too distracted by the shiny trio of a new Legend, new weapon and new map multi functional replace, we’ve gone by means of all of the necessary need-to-know adjustments for Season Three beneath in our Apex Legends replace and patch notes evaluation.
Apex Legends Season Three replace – full patch notes
Before we begin; I simply mentioned “no doubt you’ll have read the full patch notes by now”? I’m sorry, that was a generalisation, I do know. Here are the full Apex Legends Season 3 patch notes if you wish to learn them. Go on, go forward. Just make sure you come again right here when you’re carried out so we are able to discuss all this cool new stuff that’s arrived!
- New map, new Legend, new weapon!
- New Apex Legends Season 3 Battle Pass
- Gibraltar buffs and character tweaks
- New Hop Ups: Anvil Receiver & Double Tap Trigger
- Legendary Armor perk changes – Body Shield & Backpack
- R-99, Prowler & Longbow nerfed; Scout & Hemlok buffed
- New Quips & Battle Chatter
New map, new Legend, new weapon!
Far and away the highlights of this huge Apex Legends replace are the addition of a brand new Legend, Crypto; a brand new weapon, the Charge Rifle; and a model new map: World’s Edge. I’m not gonna take up your time by speaking about these three, as a result of we do this elsewhere (hyperlinks slightly below!).
But suffice it to say that the brand new map, World’s Edge, is huge, vibrant, and artistic as hell; Crypto is a game-changer who’s hella enjoyable to play (should you can truly get right into a match as him); and the Charge Rifle is a high-skill-ceiling sniper that’s sure to rocket as much as the highest of the long-range meta… give or take a G7 Scout.
For full particulars and breakdowns on every of those improbable new additions, please do take a look at our Apex Legends map and locations information, our model new Crypto information, and our Charge Rifle information for all of your Apex Legends wants.
New Apex Legends Season 3 Battle Pass
Alright, what else has been added to Apex Legends with the Season Three replace? Well, in fact, there’s a brand new Battle Pass. It’s a lot the identical because the earlier Battle Pass, equally jam-packed with Apex Pack unlocks, weapon and Legend skins, Crafting Materials, new Skydive emotes, and several other unique Legendary skins – together with one for the Longbow, known as Reckoner, which you’ll unlock instantly upon buying the Season 3 Battle Pass.
Speaking of buying, the brand new Apex Battle Pass, as with earlier Passes, might be bought in-game beneath the Battle Pass tab in the primary menu for 950 Apex Coins. Play sufficient and also you’ll earn 1000 Apex Coins, absolutely refunding the associated fee (thanks, Fortnite!). You may select to buy the Battle Pass Bundle for two,800 Apex Coins, which is able to instantly unlock the primary 25 Battle Pass ranges and all their rewards for you. So that’s fairly candy – supplied you’ve gotten the moolah.
Gibraltar buffs and character tweaks
Gibby is receiving some much-needed love – once more. This poor hulking tank has been on the backside of the meta just about ever since Apex Legends was first launched; even after quite a few minor tweaks and the addition of the Fortified passive to make up for his elephant-sized hitbox with some injury discount, he’s nonetheless the least in style Legend on the market.
Respawn are hoping to vary this with some focused buffs to the most important Legend. Gibraltar’s Defensive Bombardment Ultimate now has a considerably diminished cooldown (from 4.5 minutes to simply Three minutes), and whereas it lasts solely 6 seconds as an alternative of Eight now, he can throw it over a 3rd once more as far, permitting him to make the game-changing play with out sacrificing his positioning.
But the primary change is to his all-encompassing Dome of Protection; whereas the cooldown has been elevated from 20 to 30 seconds, he can now throw it 60% additional (what an arm Gibraltar has!) and – that is a very powerful bit – gamers within the Dome use therapeutic objects 25% quicker. That’s like a localised Lifeline passive for all allies within the Dome. That’s improbable, and I actually hope it’s sufficient to get folks to start out taking Gibraltar severely. But we have to keep in mind that this alteration will doubtless even have the impact of constructing groups push very aggressively after they see the Dome being positioned down, as a result of now it’s primarily a beacon that claims “this team is healing!”. We’ll see if the professionals outweigh the cons with this alteration.
Aside from Gibraltar, we’ve solely bought minor steadiness tweaks to the varied Legends; Bloodhound’s Ultimate makes them just a little quicker; Bangalore’s Ultimate now offers fairly a bit extra injury per explosion; Pathfinder’s Zipline now has a fairly considerably elevated cooldown. Oh, and Respawn have mentioned that they’re trying into some focused nerfs to Wraith sooner or later to carry her down just a little from the top-tier spot she’s loved for thus lengthy. So I’m excited to say what that entails.
New Hop Ups: Anvil Receiver & Double Tap Trigger
According to Respawn, the magic quantity for Hop Ups is 6; they’re not pleased with the concept of going past this, which is why for Season Three they’ve rotated out the omnipotent and sought-after Disruptor Rounds and Skullpiercer Hop Ups with a purpose to herald two new and actually fairly improbable Hop Ups.
The first is the Anvil Receiver: a gold-level Hop Up for the Flatline and the ever-popular R-301 Carbine – but it surely actually reveals that Respawn try to encourage extra variety in gunplay with this Season, as a result of this Hop Up solely impacts the single-fire mode for these Assault Rifles, lowering their price of fireside and consuming double the ammo with a purpose to hearth bullets with considerably elevated injury. With this Hop Up, the Carbine can principally double as a G7 Scout, and the Flatline as a Longbow. It’s an excellent thought for a Hop Up, and I actually hope the playerbase takes to it.
The different Hop Up is equally attention-grabbing: the Double Tap Trigger, a purple-level attachment purely for the G7 Scout and the EVA-8 Shotgun, which lets you hearth two photographs in fast succession with each pull of the set off. With each weapons this may be completely devastating; the Scout has been climbing the weapons ladder with nice success lately, particularly with the Season Three adjustments to the weapon (extra on this in a second!); and the EVA-Eight has all the time been a robust weapon that was sadly overshadowed by the Peacekeeper, so hopefully the flexibility to fireside two photographs shortly will even the tides. I’m very excited by any adjustments that can stage the taking part in discipline of weapons a bit extra and enhance the probabilities of all six gamers in a battle carrying totally different weapons by selection, so these two Hop Ups undoubtedly have me excited for this season.
Legendary Armor perk adjustments – Body Shield & Backpack
May not seem to be a lot, however these little adjustments truly blew my thoughts. First: that Executioner Perk that was all the time hooked up to the Legendary Body Shield, and everybody agreed that it was fairly shite? Well, that impact is now one thing each participant can get pleasure from. Finally there’s a correct cause for Executions and finishers: finishing one will absolutely recharge your Shields, it doesn’t matter what Body Shield you’ve gotten geared up. Thirsting is gonna be much more of a factor this Season, apparently.
So what in regards to the Legendary Body Shield? It’s solely gone and been given the Backpack’s ludicrously {powerful} Fast Use perk (consumable objects take half as lengthy to make use of). That was what made the gold Backpack probably the most sought-after merchandise within the game all this time, and now it’s been paired with the Gold Body Shield. It’s an awesome change, as a result of the Gold Body Shield is no longer solely far and away one of the best merchandise within the game, but it surely’s additionally a beacon of hazard, as a result of everybody who sees these gold numbers will need a piece of that Fast Use motion.
Which leaves the gold Backpack with an all-new perk: Guardian Angel. This perk permits you to bestow downed teammates with additional well being and shields (if they’ve armour) upon reviving them. So as an alternative of spawning with zero shields and 20 well being, they’ll spawn with 50 shields and 70 well being. It’s a dramatic however area of interest distinction, and I prefer it rather a lot.
R-99, Prowler & Longbow nerfed; Scout & Hemlok buffed
Coinciding with the brand new map, which is each bigger and extra horizontal than King’s Canyon ever was, is extra of an emphasis on long-range gunplay and sniping than ever earlier than. Which is the explanation, Respawn have defined, for the next gun stat alterations. The R-99 and the Prowler – two of the perfect close-range weapons within the game – have been nerfed with some recoil randomness to your spray sample whereas firing with them.
Ew, proper?
I don’t significantly like several change that injects extra RNG right into a game – significantly a battle royale the place RNG is already a big side. But I do concede that these two weapons actually wanted to be nerfed, as a result of everybody was going round utilizing them – significantly the R-99. That’s additionally why Respawn have additional nerfed the R-99 with some diminished prolonged magazine dimension (from 18/22/26/30 to 18/20/23/27). Now that’s a change I can admire a bit extra.
What’s just a little extra shocking is that the Longbow has been nerfed as nicely. It now offers barely much less injury when hitting an enemy’s leg; and its price of fireside has been diminished a good quantity from 1.6 to 1.Three photographs per second. That’s no small factor, and I believe it’s sufficient to knock it off the highest spot for snipers – particularly now that now we have the Charge Rifle. But wait! The humble and ever-loyal G7 Scout is loving this flip of occasions! Its base injury has been elevated from 30 to 34 (learn: photographs to kill decreased from Four to three), and this coinciding with the brand new Double Tap Hop Up means the Scout is now a severe piece of enterprise.
We’ve additionally seen an identical change to the burstalicious Hemlok, whose base injury has been elevated from 18 to 22 – albeit with a slight lower to fireside price in each burst-fire and single-shot modes. The L-Star LMG is now a lot simpler to land your photographs with because of a sizeable discount in horizontal recoil (but it surely offers barely much less injury), and the Mozambique one thing one thing. You know, I misplaced curiosity when the Mozambique was talked about.
New Quips & Battle Chatter
On a much less shooty-shooty observe, Season Three has additionally expanded the variety of attainable interactions gamers can have with each other. New Battle Chatter may have characters routinely name out after they’re being third-partied (and it appears to work fairly nicely to date, from what I’ve performed); and we’ve additionally bought new additions to the ping wheel for into and kill quips. Which, it’s necessary to notice, close by enemies can hear whenever you use them, so watch out – or use them to intentionally taunt your opponents when they’re close by. That works too.
And with that, I believe we’ve coated just about every part necessary with the monumental replace that’s Apex Legends Season 3! These patch notes are positive to make the game higher in nearly each respect than it’s ever been, and as such there’s by no means been a greater time to up your expertise to the following stage with our collection of Apex Legends guides! Check them out beneath!
