Season 18 of Apex Legends, dubbed “Resurrection,” is bringing a lot of new things to the table. Like any new season, there are quality of life changes like matchmaking tweaks, refining ranked gameplay, balancing weapons and abilities, and so on. However, what makes this season particularly interesting is its focus on storytelling; both through in-game missions and events, as well as through a serialized miniseries called “Kill Code.”
The story will begin with the launch of Season 18 and play out over the course of 2023. During the virtual press event for this upcoming season, the development team talked a lot about how they’ve enjoyed experimenting with in-game storytelling through things like Node Captures and cinematics, but they felt like taking a more ambitious approach. One big part of this approach would be through the Kill Code miniseries, which has already released the first two parts. The only question left was which legend will the story focus on, and the team at Respawn decided on Revenant, an underutilized character that the team felt deserved a second chance.
Respawn always felt that Revenant was important to every part of the Apex Legends experience, but it was clear that his kit was struggling to evolve alongside the meta. This combination led to the decision to completely rework Revenant from the ground-up, giving him completely new abilities, visual design, and vocal performance. The goal of these changes was to reinstate the sense of horror and fear he brings to the Apex Legends universe by incentivizing aggressive, high-risk, high-reward gameplay.
Revenant’s new passive ability is “Assassin’s Instinct,” which increases his mobility through speed and wall-climbing, as well as granting him the ability to see and mark low-health enemies if they are within a certain range. His new tactical ability is “Shadow Pounce,” which, as the name implies, allows Revenant to pounce a long distance to either escape combat or take a distant enemy by surprise. Finally, his new ultimate, “Forged in Shadows,” creates a wall of shadows that absorbs incoming damage and increases Revenant’s damage output. To further encourage aggressive gameplay, the wall of shadows will dissipate unless Revenant continuously deals damage. Overall, this is an ambitious rework of his character that will be free to all players throughout the season, however, players must complete all of his character challenges in order to fully unlock him for use in later seasons.
Respawn is continuing their efforts to refine ranked gameplay, though some of these changes may prove to be controversial. The change that may receive the most push-back will be the adjustments to how players will earn LP once reaching Diamond rank. While the team didn’t get into specifics, it was stated that their will be additional rules and conditions around gaining LP at Diamond rank and beyond, specifically highlighting increased LP loss for poor performance; among other harsh penalties. The reason for…
2023-08-08 19:24:03
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