Apex Legends: Season 2 Start Time, New Features, Character

Apex Legends is preparing the launch of Season 2. Respawn has been vocal about learning lessons from its first season, and has already outlined a wide array of changes to expect from the second season. Those include a new character, a revised challenge system, ranked leagues, and more.

Apex Legends Season 2 Start Time And Patch

Apex Legends Season 2 will launch on Tuesday, July 2 at or around 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET / 6 PM BST / 3 AM AEST (Wednesday). Though this time isn’t exact, Respawn has said it will update the community if it changes significantly.

The patch for Season 2 will be larger than usual. On PC it will be more than 18GB, and on Xbox One and PS4 it will be more than 20GB. Respawn says this is to add extra content, but also to add a fresh build of the game that removes outdated parts and replaces it with more efficient code. Respawn says this will not be the norm, but occasionally players may need to download large file sizes.

New Character: Wattson

Just like the last season, Season 2 will introduce an entirely new Legend to play as. This time it’s Natalie Paquette, aka Wattson. The young science genius and daughter of the man who built King’s Canyon grew up around the Arena. She’s important to the lore of the game, and more significantly, she represents a large difference in play style from other characters.

Wattson uses her scientific wizardry to construct defensive electrical barriers and pylons to control the battlefield. You can read more about her playstyle to learn all about the latest addition to the roster.

A recent trailer also appeared to hint at a second playable character coming in Season 2 as well.

How The New Challenges Work

The update will revise how challenges work, with a new series of daily and weekly objectives aimed at keeping players engaged while reducing the grind for rewards. Completing daily or weekly challenges will count toward your Battle Pass, and over half of the challenges will grant a full Battle Pass level. Other challenges will grant Stars which will count as progress towards a Battle Pass levels.

Daily challenges will be groups of three tasks assigned randomly from a pool of 200, such as dealing damage in a particular area or playing as a specific character. Those award 3,000 Stars apiece. Weekly challenges will be doled out insets of seven. These will be much longer and are intended to last multiple play sessions. Four of the seven will reward 6,000 Stars while the remaining three will grant an entire Battle Pass level. An additional three special challenges will also be available and reset on a weekly basis, giving Battle Pass levels and Stars. Read more details about Apex Legends’ Season 2 Challenges.

Ranked Leagues

Season 2 will introduce another new feature, Ranked Leagues. The revised ranking aims to help with matchmaking with a new score system across six competitive tiers: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, and Apex Predator. Each tier has four divisions, except for Apex Predator. Each ranked match will cost a number of Ranked Points (RP) that increases based on your tier. You earn RP during the match from kills and your overall placement in a match. The maximum you can score in a match is 17 RP.

All players will start in Bronze, and you’ll earn rewards. Respawn has said it is still determining what the rewards will be, but for now it knows it will be giving out special badges based on your highest rank achieved.

Other Apex Legends Season 2 Changes

Season 2 will introduce a handful of other changes. King’s Canyon itself will have landmarks destroyed by invading Flyers and Leviathans, making for a very different map. The L-Star will be added as a Legendary Gold energy-based weapon, paying homage to Titanfall 2. Check out a full wrap-up of Apex Legends Season 2 changes.

from GameSpot – Game News https://www.gamespot.com/articles/apex-legends-season-2-start-time-new-features-char/1100-6468184/