Apex Legends Season 16 Release Date, Time, Bender Update Patch Notes

Apex Legends developer Respawn is about to release a new season on PlayStation, Xbox, PC, and Nintendo Switch. Titled Revelry, Apex Legends season 16 has a release date of February 14 and a release time of 6pm GMT in the UK. The new season changes things up on the Legends front, adding a new class system along with a game advantage for a higher level of strategy.

Respawn explains further: “Instead of adding a new Legend this season, we’re revamping the Legend Classes, bringing a new element to the Legends you know.

“The Legend Class system divides our Legends into 5 classes. Each class reflects a core playstyle that encourages similar patterns of engagement on the battlefield.

“We also wanted to give each Class their own strategic play ability. Each of our current and future Legends now has a significant role that benefits the team they’re on.”

Classes include Assault, Skirmisher, Recon, Controller, and Support. The Assault class can store more ammo and access hidden weapon supply container compartments. Meanwhile, Skirmiser can get an early glimpse of the contents of a care package.

Recon can use modified survey beacons to reveal a snapshot of all enemy positions, while controllers can plan ahead using ring consoles to find the next ring location. Finally, support characters can retrieve allied banners from crafting stations, even if the banner has expired.

Elsewhere, Respawn will be adding the Nemesis Assault Rifle, which features an increasing burst delay that decreases the time between bursts and simulates a fully automatic weapon.

That’s on top of the usual gameplay tweaks and bug fixes, as well as a new Battle Pass packed with cosmetics.

PATCH NOTES

LEGENDS

Seer

• Passive – Heartbeat Sensor

– Seer’s passive audio is now more audible to enemy players.

– Activation is now delayed to match the weapon’s raise or disarm animation

– The lock indication will now only be displayed on the target’s heartbeat cadence

• Tactics – Focus of Attention

– No longer shows full body scan on scanned targets

• Ultimate: Exhibition

– No longer reveals on initiation

– Duration reduced from 30s to 25s

– Cooldown increased from 120 to 180 seconds.

Hound

• Passive – Tracker

– White Ravens

– Ethereal White Ravens will now occasionally spawn near Bloodhound when there are no enemies nearby.

– White Ravens can be interacted with or scanned to fly towards the nearest enemy player.

– The White Raven will leave a misty trail for the Bloodhound to follow, and will share this direction with your team on the map.

– Using a White Raven will restore 25% Tactical/Ultimate charge

– Scanning a White Raven will fully refund the Tactical Charge

• Tactical: Eye of the Almighty Father

– Full body scan time reduced from 3 seconds to 1 second

– The diamond target on the scanned enemy has not changed

• Ultimate – Beast of the Hunt

– No longer recharges or speeds up the cooldown rate of Bloodhound’s Tactical

– Will launch a White Raven that flies towards the nearest enemy

– Killing an enemy while in Beast of the Hunt will also trigger a White Raven

Horizon

• Tactical: gravity lift

– Increased weapon spread in Gravity Lift

– Increased vertical speed of Gravity Lift by 10%

Mirage

• Passive – Now you see me…

– Mirage and her ally now remain cloaked after reviving for 3s

– Weapons remain stowed while camouflaged

– Taking out your weapon will remove the camouflage effect sooner

• Mirage Clones

– Bamboozles now only proc from bullet and melee shots.

– Enemies that are tricked now get a notification on their screen

– The Bamboozle icon marker now tracks the movement of the Bamboozled player

– Bamboozle icon marker duration increased from 2.5s to 3.5s

Pioneer

• Passive: inside knowledge

– Passive Pathfinder buffs are no longer gained from scanning Survey Beacons

– Pathfinder’s passive buffs (max charge and 10s max cooldown reduction) are now gained from revealing care packages with the Skirmisher ability.

• Ultimate: Zipline

– Maximum range increased by ~60%.

– Maximum speed increased by 66%.

– Acceleration and output speed adjustments.

– Guidance improvements, including updated visual and audio cues.

– You can no longer place the end station in OOB zones.

Ghost

• Ultimate – Dimensional Rift

– The maximum distance of the portal has been doubled (~76m to 152m)

– Portal duration reduced from 60s to 45s

– Wraith now increases speed over time when creating longer portals

Life line

• Passive – Combat revive

– Reduced the slow penalty on Lifeline when initiating a revive

• Ultimate – Care Package

– Decreased the care package drop animation speed from 14 seconds to 8 seconds

– Increased the range of Care Package deployment