WELCOME TO THE YEAR AHEAD IN APEX LEGENDS
With Apex Legends’ Anniversary in full-swing, it feels like an excellent opportunity to give you all a lay of the land for what the dev team is cooking up for the year ahead. We want to tell you all about the team’s design philosophy, the goals we’re setting for ourselves and, most excitingly, what content you have to look forward to.
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7 years in the Outlands, and we’re just getting started! We’re celebrating with a Community-Made Reward Tracker and the chance to unlock up to 4 Legends permanently. Time to PARTY, Legends!
COMMUNITY-MADE REWARD TRACKER
Complete daily and weekly challenges to earn points in the Community-Made Reward Tracker and unlock Weapon Skins, Legend skins, Banner Frames, and Stat Trackers made for the Community by the Community.
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BREACH OVERVIEW
Legends, it’s just about time for the newest season: Breach, so grab your squadmates and get ready! As with any new season, there’s plenty of new and exciting changes to look forward to! Breach adds Hardlight Mesh to Apex Legends, encouraging new breach-and-clear gameplay. Also, Fuse is getting a Rework, Catalyst and Bloodhound are getting updates, and we’re seeing the meta continue to shift towards close quarters combat with Marksman nerfs and Shotgun buffs! Plus, we think...
TLDR;
Welcome back to Designer’s Notes! We want to give you insight into our vision for each Legend or Weapon, what challenges we’ve identified, and what changes we are making in pursuit of those goals.
Below, we will discuss:
“Forced Metas”
The state of Apex Legend’s Time to Kill (TTK)
Changes to Fuse, Catalyst and Bloodhound
Adjustments to Marksman Rifles and Shotguns
INTRODUCTION
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AMPED OVERVIEW
We’re starting the hype train for Season 27: Amped, right now, and this is your invitation to get on board! There’s plenty to be excited about this season: major changes to Olympus, Valkyrie retakes the skies, while Rampart and Horizon are getting tune ups, the meta is shifting to close range chaos with a new ‘Double Tap Alternator’ Hop-Up and Gold Laser Sight for pistols and SMGs, and we’re introducing fun updates to Tridents! Grab your friends, squad up and get ready...
NEW UPDATES COMING WITH APEX LEGENDS™: BREACH
Brace yourself: Close-quarters combat just got way more intense. Destructible Hardlight Mesh windows have hit the Outlands—smash through to open up devastating new entry points, or reinforce to hold the line. Crush enemy defenses with fresh updates to Fuse and Bloodhound, or become unbreakable with Catalyst and Controller Legend updates.
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