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Season 19 Preview!
Season 19 is leaving the drop ship next Tuesday (October 31st) and with it comes a new Legend, Conduit along with plenty of changes. Myself and Nxhko had the chance to get a sneak peak and play test the upcoming season. We've made a short summary below of some things coming.
TLDR
New Legend getting added, legend nerfs to Catalyst and Bangalore. Cross Progression. Buffs to snipers. Hemlock nerfed. Storm Point back in rotation with map changes.
Important Links
Official cross progression article - Cross Progression
Map Rotation and Mixtapes
- Regular Map Rotation - Storm Point (updated) --> Broken Moon --> Olympus
- Mixtape - Team Deathmatch: Zeus Station (New Storm Point POI) --> Gun Run: Core --> Control: Hammond Labs --> Team Deathmatch: Skull Town
Cross Progression
You read that correctly. Cross progression is finally here. One account on every platform, if you happen to have more than one account they will be merged together into one ubiquitous account. This means any cosmetics you have across accounts will now be accessible on just the one. So that Pred badge you got on Nintendo Switch can be used on PC!
New Legend: Conduit
Conduit is a support Legend and described as a shield healer. Her abilities are listed below:
- Passive: Savior's Speed - Conduit gets a speed boost when running towards allies out of range of her tactical.
- Tactical (Q): Radiant Transfer - Blast your allies with energy, regenerating temporary shields for them when in danger.
- Ultimate (Z): Energy Barricade - Deploy an array of shield jammers which damage and slow enemies.
We played around with her abilities and will be the first to say she seems very strong.
The passive has an infinite range on it so if your teammates are on the other side of the map you will continue to run fast at them until they are in range of your Q. Think Bangalore passive speed.
Her Q isn't skill based at all, just press "Q" and anyone in range gets the shield. It will heal an ally to full shield (up to red) over a few seconds. It also self heals shields up to ~80 units. This shield is temporary and will fade after a short cooldown. It only replaces missing shields and will provide 0 shields to players with full armor. When the cooldown ends the temporary shields deteriorate over time. During this time you can activate the "Q" again as the cooldown will be reset by this point.
Her ult is very fun to use, it launches in a similar fashion to how you launch the Fuse ult. It places down devices in a line and they activate misty looking shield barrier. You take 10 damage per tick as you cross through it and you can cross in about 2-3 ticks depending on how thick of the shield cloud you are passing through. You also get slowed as you are running through.
The canisters that are released can be shot to create a safe path through the ult.
We got to play a few matches with her and Nxhko notes fighting a team with a Conduit "Q" up is like fighting a team with a moving Wattson ult. Between how much utility she provides in the shield regeneration, how fast she moves around the map, and the width and utility her ultimate brings I would imagine she will have a huge impact on the comp scene and am excited to see who picks her up leading into Y4 ALGS.
Map Updates
Storm point is getting some big changes. There was a major flood on the island so Wattson and team have come to clean it up. There will be 6 new POIs added to the map including a Wattson specific POI. The changes to the map were made in mind to speed up gameplay/combat a bit. The map has decreased in size slightly and the new POIs are all more central in location on the island.
We've got some sneak peak pictures of the new POI's here
Ranked Updates
As we learned earlier this month there will be no more ranked party restrictions so even if you are Silver you can rank up with your friends who are Plat or higher.
Ranked Banners will be added as a reward for ranking up.
Promotional Trials are being introduced. These will be required to rank into the next tier. You will have to complete these challenges to rank up. From what I saw when testing is that the challenges will be win 1 game or get 5 kills/assists and place top 10 three times.
These trials will take place over 5 games and if you fail the trials you will lose a little LP and have to climb back to try them again. The addition of these trials were added to combat some of the gas ratting that was going on.
No More Digi Days!!
No more Digi in crafter anymore. It's going to floor loot only to emphasize the fact that it's supposed to be a rare drop. This will be a huge change for comp, possibly a drop off in Bangalore usage and or an adjustment on how many SMG's teams will run.
Weapon Changes
Snipers - Snipers are getting larger projectile size allowing for easier use. Along with this the Charge Rifle will not have much if any drop off of it's laser anymore.
Bow - The Bow has been tweaked a bit as it wasn't getting taken as much from the care package. The fire rate is a lot faster from him and when ADSing. The shatter caps spread is now a lot tighter.
30-30 Peter - Leaving the crafter and entering ground loot. The hipfire is getting nerfed as it will get less accurate with consecutive hits and has a lower fire rate.
Hemlock - Straight up nerf. Damage reduction from 22-21
Care Package - Care Packages will always have a weapon in them now. L-Star is leaving the Care Package and the Wingman is going in. The Wingman will have modified damage with a digi, boosted loader, and enhanced skull piercer (ignores all helmets)
Crafter - Volt and R301 going in
Legend Changes
Catalyst - The nerfs are here. Piercing Spike will no longer block projectiles and the throw range is significantly nerfed. The limit of spikes has also been reduced to 2 instead of 3. Her ultimate time is also reduced by 5 second. Having played around with her the Q feels heavier now in a way. The Q feels slower when throwing.
Bangalore - Small nerfs across the board. Passive speed boost duration reduced. Smoke lifetime is reduced. Ultimate stun is nerfed as it doesn't stun for as long.
Wraith - Her passive Voices of the Void is "more reliable". We didn't get much info on this but the voice lines warning of enemies should be more robust now.
Pathfinder - Can now scan care packages even after another Assault Legend has already scanned them
Revenant - Big nerf to how long you have to refresh your ult shield with getting assists.
Vantage - Now has 6 bullets on ultimate
Newcastle - Ultimate decreased in how long it takes to land and setup shield and increase in how high you can jump.
***Quick Edit***
We noticed this was in the game when playing but were not able to confirm that this is being implemented as the Devs did not touch on it.
Thanks so much to Respawn for giving us the chance over at r/CompetitiveApex to get a sneak peak of Season 19!
There is more upcoming news we can't quite share just yet, so stay tuned!
u/Nxhko and I will are more than willing to try and answer any questions about the new season so feel free to ask away.
Massive buff to crypto with his insta respawn with drone and Loba
Iām going to try running it more. I love that thing
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Double tap makes it worse imo