Apex Legends Season 17 Release Date, Launch Time, Arsenal Update, Patch Notes | games | entertainment

Apex Legends fans are counting down to the release of Season 17 on PS5, PS4, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, and PC. Titled Arsenal, the Season 17 update introduces 17 brand new characters to Apex Legends. This is in addition to new items, gameplay balancing updates, and various map changes. If you’ve been looking forward to Season 17 of Apex Legends, the good news is that you don’t have long to wait. Apex Legends Arsenal release date May 9, 6pm UK time. The new season is launching alongside a big update, which you can see in the patch notes below.

The main new feature is the addition of a new hero character called Ballistic.

The passive ballistic ability allows him to store a third weapon in a launcher, while the Tactician fires a projectile that heats up an enemy’s gun as it fires.

His Tempest Ultimate ability gives nearby teammates faster reloads, moving speed, and unlimited ammo.

Elsewhere, World’s Edge is getting a number of new points of interest, including Monument, which is said to pay homage to the game’s history.

As you can see from the Season 17 patch notes below, Respawn is fixing countless bugs and balancing changes.

Apex Legends Season 17 Update Patch Notes…

Balance updates

Cage rotation

– L-Star EMG enters the box

– RE-45 returns to Earth

• Rotation of crafting weapons

– SMG generator introduces the literal

– The guard enters the craft

– EVA-8 returns to Earth

– 30-30 bis returns to Earth

• Gold weapon rotation

– Flatline, Triple Take, Spitfire, Mastiff, Volt

• Loot sorted

– Improved Vault Loot

– Increased chances of gold spoils

– Light cups have been added to generate the blessing

– Improved cargo lot

– Removed small healing items, mobile Respawn beacon, white shield, white backpack

– Modified Healing and Heatshield spawns to allow more desirable loot

– Removed golden weapons from purple tier charging bots with increased chance of spawning at gold tier

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• L-Star EMG [Crate]

– Added deactivation rounds: 60% increased damage against shields

Base damage reduced to 16 (from 17)

– Projectiles now have a lane: 60% damage kept

– Increased projectile growth

– Improved recoil pattern

– Remove the barrel

Ammunition stock: 324

– Reduce the brightness of the visual effects when hitting unarmored targets

• 30-30 bis

– Increased projectile size when fully charged

• Take the triple

– Increased projectile size

– Improved random shooting spread

– Tighten bullet pattern at full choke

– Ammo per shot reduced to 1 (was 3)

– Magazine sizes have been modified to match the costs of the new ammo

– Purple Magic: increased to 10 shots (from 9)

• R-99 SMG

– One bullet from the base and all magazines have been removed

– The number of magazines has not been reduced to 19 (from 20)

Reduced White Magazine to 21 (from 22)

– Blue Magazine reduced to 24 (from 25 times)

– Purple & Gold magazine reduced to 27 (from 28)

• Charging gun

– Shots per magazine reduced to 3 (from 4)

– Low hatching rate

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catalyst

Dark veil

– Scanner and diamonds are no longer visible through the dark veil

Mirage

• Category changed from Skirmisher to Support

ash

• Weapon racing speed instead of weapon walking speed is now slowed when targeting with tac

assault category

• Adjusted Smart Loot Gain to reduce upgrade level skips

– Now it will be less likely to jump from white to violet or blue to gold

• Optics are now rendered based on team rather than just the Assault Legend unlocking it

• Added a special drop modifier for golden optics

Skirmish category

• Care packages are now automatically tested for the team as they are revealed.

– This includes empty sponsorship packages that have already been looted by another team

support category

• Support Crates will now secure at least one battery in one of the secret compartment slots

• Support Chests will now award MRBs if your ally dies, even if you don’t have their Emblem Card.

• Legend Banners can now be designed by any player who has a Support Class Legend in their squad

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• New platform screens for gun run and control

• Display a message in the Kill Feed if Match Leaver penalties have been disabled due to an unfair match

• Control and Gun Run will mark the team’s best player on the podium

• Control and TDM updated loadouts (Crate Weapon changes and updates based on weapon meta/pick rates/kill rates)

• Gun Run and TDM now have XP rewards for match completion and match completion after joining in progress

controls

• Map rotation: Barometer out, Olympus: Hammond Labs in

• Evo Weapon Change: Evo weapons no longer automatically return when a new rank level is reached. Players now reach the new level and their weapon Evo will play when the player saves their weapon in any form (reload, switch weapon, hand holster, glide ride, perform parachute jump, etc.)

Run a gun

• Updating the weapon track for new crate weapons.

• Added extra experience points for the last gunknife kill

death team

• Map rotation: Skulltown is out, and Phase Runner is in

Bug fixes

• Infiltrator: Fixed aiming while crouching

• IMC Armories: Fixed Specters that deal massive damage from Sagittarius stars

• Fixed the Duo mode showing NBR Challenges instead of BR Challenges

• Fixed contact wheel not usable when game over

• Fixed a bug with players inside loot boxes

• No spectators receiving acoustic queues for all types of launch pads/jumping pads

• Fixed flashing banners during victory and end-of-game screens

• The scoreboard is saved when the game ends now, not the post-podium sequence

• Lifetime Stats numbers no longer stagger more than 7 digits

• Various improvements to the Ultra Wide User Interface in the lobby

Quality of life updates

• The automatic taunt on a killed enemy has been removed

• Ziplines can now be ridden while playing banner pickup animations

• Reducing the effect of bullets on the visual effects on the snow