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Season 8 launches February 2nd 7 PM PT and it's gonna blow you away! So join the designers as they discuss all the new stuff coming in Apex Legends Season 8 and breakdown the biggest changes coming to legend and weapon meta.
NEW LEGEND: FUSE
Meet Fuse! He's our newest legend, an explosives expert and pyromaniac who lost his arm in...uh, it was that girl who...well...frankly even we don't know what the hell this trailer was about.
Passive: Land Down Under
Men at work's 1981 hit "Land Down Under" will play when Fuse is close by.
Tactical: World Turn'd Upside Down
G'day, mate! Fuse turns the map upside down to mimic what it's like in Australia.
Ultimate: Nuclear Holocaust
Fuse fires a B-83 Hydrogen warhead from his missile launcher, creating a blast of nuclear hellfire so destructive that all legends are instantly killed and all computers/consoles running Apex Legends violently explode, wiping out the Apex Legends playerbase forever.
NEW MAP: OBLITERATED KING'S CANYON
The Legends will return to a fan favorite: King's Canyon! And guess what: Skulltown is back! Haha, just effin' with ya. We don't want you to have TOO much fun, amiright?
Instead, we've replaced all POIs with Chick-fil-As. (Yes, EA just partnered with Chick-fil-A, the place to "eat mor chikin," but no, this has nothing to do with our map changes. Promise!)
Olympus will be coming back unchanged in the second ranked split.
CLUBS
We've raised the cap on club members from 1 to 2.
BATTLE PASS
The Season 8 Battle Pass is all about ORANGE. SO MUCH ORANGE. EVERYTHING IS ORANGE. YOU WILL BE ORANGE. I WILL BE ORANGE. u/DanielZKlein WILL STRIP BUTT NAKED AND PAINT HIMSELF ORANGE AND COME TO YOUR HOUSE TO PLAY APEX WITH YOU.
Level up your battlepass to unlock skins like the Bloodhound "Orange."
QUALITY OF LIFE UPDATES
AUDIO IMPROVEMENTS
We hear you (get it?) We're also frustrated with footstep audio not reliably playing, sounds cutting out, and legends saying the wrong voicelines - but worry no more, legends, because we've solved the problem (and showed solidarity with the deaf community) by removing sounds altogether.
SERVER OVERHAUL
- Added seven new servers on Mars
- Doubled number of hamster wheels in our US-based server architecture
Misc
- Added middle-finger emote for when teammate takes your pinged loot
- Changed ring to an isosceles triangle
- Your ultimate will now activate at random
LEGEND META
Caustic
- Tactical: Gas will now completely blind your character for the rest of the game.
Dev Note:
Fighting in Caustic Gas is one of the most frustrating things in Apex Legends, and yet we need the gas to represent a meaningful threat or else enemies will just ignore it. To that end, we believe the best solution is to give players a black screen when they enter Caustic's gas.
Horizon
- Tactical: Gravity lift removed
Dev Note:
The dev team realized that gravity lifts don't exist yet, so for realism, we're removing it from the game.
Wraith
- Hitbox increased
Dev note:
Wraith has always been a powerful Apex Legend. We don't want to nerf her abilities and reduce the fun players have playing her, so we've decided on another, more creative approach: Giving her an absolute dump truck that would put Loba to shame. Wraith's juicy cheeks will now account for 90% of her overall hitbox and are visible from half a mile away.
Lifeline
- Revive shield: removed proximity activation
Dev Note:
Lifeline's kit is still too weak. Her tactical being able to instantly shield and revive allies with zero cooldown is clearly not OP, so Lifeline no longer has to be next to her downed teammate to revive them. An "Press X to revive teammate" prompt will appear regardless of how far away lifeline is.
Rampart
- Sheila: Reduced damage from 12 --> 1
- Amped Wall: Now made out of legos
Dev Note:
In patch 6.1, we were still unsure how to treat our newest legend. It's now clear that she's completely overpowered, leading to our decision to slightly nerf her tactical and ultimate.
Bloodhound
- Now speaks only in Mandarin Chinese
Dev Note:
您好，我叫猎犬，我现在是中国人。您好，我叫猎犬，我现在是您好，我叫猎犬，我现在是中国人。!!!
Pathfinder
- Removed
WEAPON META
Fully Kitted Weapons
- Removed: Sentinel, G7
- New: P2020, Longbow, AK47,
Hemlok
- Added fully automatic mode
- Reduced recoil to 0
Dev Notes:
Git gud
Havoc
- Updated recoil pattern. Kicks up, then right, then left, then up again, then down, left, up, right, slightly left, 40 degrees north, west, left, down, up, then left, then right up, and down again.
Dev Notes:
Streamers will still memorize this on day 1.
Volt
- Increased damage 16---> 723495686890143689014
Dev Notes:
N/A
BUG FIXES
Pathfinder
- Fixed an issue with him being in the game
Revenant
- Removed rare voice line containing vitriolic racial and sexual epithets
Wattson
- Baguette
Code: Net and Code: Leaf
- Replaced error message with "Code: F**k you," because that's how it feels sometimes to be passionate about and spend money on a game that doesn't seem to care about me as much as I care about it.
Devstream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opyPkipNNhE&ab_channel=BBCEarth
Edit: The wonderful awards, comments, and countless dms tell me that this post made a lot of people smile - myself included. u/BaltimoreKnots will be back again soon... :)
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