Over the past couple of weeks, battle royale game Apex Legends had been dropping a number of hints across the map about the upcoming update. While many assumed we would be introduced to a new map, the next major update – Season 6 – bring along a slew of updates to the existing World’s Edge map. It introduces a new Indian-origin defensive legend called Rampart, a new gun, crafting, and a lot more. This is a major update that will definitely be loved by battle royale fans.

  • New Legend: Rampart

First up, Apex Legends welcomes a new legend called Rampart. She’s of British Indian origin and an expert modder in the Outlands. If you play this game, you would already know that each legend has a passive, tactical, and ultimate ability. Here are Rampart’s abilities:

New Legend: Rampart

Ultimate – Sheila. That’s what Rampart calls her mounted machine gun, which can be deployed at any time and is available for use to all. It has high ammo capacity and long reload times.

World’s Edge Fortified

While Apex Legends developer Respawn was rumored to introduce a new map called ‘Olympus’ with Season 6, but we get a revamped World’s Edge. There’s now a rocket ship in Dome, drill site has been replaced with Countdown, and a number of other amazing points of interest.

New Weapon: Volt SMG

Evo Armor For All

One of the biggest meta changes in Season 6 will have to be the armor. Each player will drop with a Level 0 Evo armor (one that evolves as you deal damage). All the standard white, blue, and purple armors are being swapped out with similar-color Evo armors. This means you can farm damage to take any armor to red (the highest level) to have extra 25 health as compared to the purple or gold armor. Yeah, the gold armor is still present in the game and its availability is still rare.

  • Crafting

Another gameplay change is the introduction of crafting in Apex Legends. You can now collect materials (via loot bins and material stations) to craft weapons, level up shields, attachments, and much more. Some items will change daily while others will come and go on a weekly basis. You can read all about crafting this season right here.

Crafting

Legend: Buffs/ Nerfs

Grab the Battle Pass and complete challenges to unlock Legendary items like Built for Speed Pathfinder, Road Warrior Bloodhound, and the Hypersonic reactive G7.

Much like any other season update, Apex Legends has adjusted the abilities of each of the legends to change the teamwork. The focus is on the recon class this time around. Bloodhound and Crypto, apart from Pathfinder, can now scan survey beacons to know the position of the next ring. The latter can use his drone for this task. The former can now scan for nearby enemies every 6 seconds while using his ultimate.