The official patch notes for Season 16 ofApex Legendshave been released byRespawn Entertainment, detailing some big changes for the launch of the new content update later today.

PlayStation users will be able to pre-load the update roughly 24 hours before it launches, whilst Xbox, Nintendo Switch, and PC users will be required to wait until the new season goes live on February 14th to download the update. According to the official patch notes, which can be found further down this article, Season 16 will include a new weapon, game mode, perks for each Legend class, and plenty of bug fixes.

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Season 16, known simply as ‘Revelry’, will be the first season since Apex Legends launched that a new Legend has not been introduced. Instead, Respawn Entertainment has said they are “taking a break” from releasing a new playable character each season, and will focus on new balance changes for existing Legends. There’s no need to worry though, as new Legends will be introduced in the future.

Apex Legends Season 16 Patch Notes

If you’d like to check out all of the new changes, features, and adjustments being made in the February 14th Apex Legends update, check out the official Season 16 patch notes below:

REMASTERED LEGEND CLASSES

In Revelry, Legends have been reorganized on the Legends Screen according to their Class. You’ll be able to see their associated Class perk on top of that Legend’s unique abilities.

This reorganization will help players identify Legends that play or support the team in a similar manner, and help them understand the new roles easier. There will be 5 Classes:

CLASS PERKS

Every Legend Class also now has an associated gameplay perk that grants the Legends of that class access to new strategic options in the game.

At casual levels of play, these new gameplay benefits will be fun new bonuses to engage with and empower decision-making.

At higher levels of play, a squad make-up now determines what gameplay elements the team will have access to, and what they’re leaving behind.

TEAM DEATHMATCH, PERMANENT LIMITED-TIME MODE ROTATIONS

At the launch of Revelry, we’ll be debuting Team Deathmatch to the Apex Games – a no holds barred brawl between two teams of six – which will be available for the first three weeks of the season. This has been our most requested mode, and we’re excited for players to check in out.

In Team Deathmatch players will be able to select their Legend and weapon loadouts, similar to Control, with respawns occurring automatically after death. The first team to score 30 kills wins the round, and the first team to win two rounds wins the match. Loadouts will shuffle in between rounds, and you can always swap between them and your selected legend while waiting to respawn after death. Make sure to keep an eye out for periodic airdrops throughout the map which come loaded with Care Package and gold-kitted weapons.

MIXTAPE PLAYLIST

Following the first three weeks of Team Deathmatch, we’re thrilled to introduce a brand new way to enjoy some of our more highly requested LTMs on a permanent rotation with our Mixtape Playlist. This new mode queue provides players with the opportunity to jump right into frenetic and engaging combat experiences between our quick respawn modes: Control, Team Deathmatch, and Gun Run. These modes give ample opportunity to experiment and practice with weapons and Legends outside of our core BR experience, with little downtime between fights and respawns.

NEW WEAPON: NEMESIS

It’s been a while since we unleashed a new weapon and the wait will be over when Revelry launches with a new energy weapon: The Nemesis, a new energy class assault rifle that fires four rounds per burst. With a ramping burst delay that decreases the time between bursts and simulates a fully automatic weapon, we’re hoping to see this potentially unseat favorite standbys like the R-301 and Flatline.

ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION EVENT

This month is also the 4th Anniversary of Apex Legends™ and we’re celebrating with the Anniversary Collection Event featuring an all-new community content reward track and lots of celebrations happening in the game including login rewards✝ during the first two weeks of the season, with week one featuring Crypto unlocked and one Crypto Thematic pack for all players that login, and week two unlocking Ash plus one Ash Thematic pack for all players that login. Also, every map in the rotation will have special decorations and we’ll have the return of a fan favorite that we’ll reveal closer to the launch.

FIRING RANGE UPDATES

ORIENTATION MATCHES

New to the Outlands? Try the new Orientation Match system, meant to create an easy introduction where new players can get their bearings and learn the core mechanics of Apex Legends. To participate in Orientation matches you have to be a brand new player or party up with a new player to take out some bots before joining the regular matchmaking queue.

PATCH NOTES

Legendary Shotgun Bolt

Care Package Rotation

Weapon Crafting Rotation

Gold Weapon Rotation

Anvil Receiver Hop-Up [R-301, Flatline]

Hammerpoint Rounds Hop-Up [Mozambique, P2020]

C.A.R. SMG

Assault Rifles

Hemlock Burst AR [Care Package]

Peacekeeper

Rampage LMG [Floor]

Bloodhound

Pathfinder

RANKED - MAP ROTATION

Ranked queue will now rotate through all maps in play, 24 hours per map. The maps for the first split are:

LIVEAPI 2.0

Official release of version 2.0 of Live API for PC previewed during 15.1.2. The API is a built-in mechanism for listening to gameplay events and programmatically interacting with Apex Legends. This release includes:

More information, including technical documentation, can be found in the LiveAPI folder of the game installation.

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