Season 16 of Apex Legends is only some days away, and it guarantees to be one of many greatest seasons the builders at Respawn have ever cooked up for his or her gamers. There isn’t a brand new character arising, with the devs taking an low season to be able to ship an enormous variety of changes to existing characters, game modes, the consumer interface, and extra.
Gamers received’t have to attend lengthy for a brand new legend, nonetheless. Rumors have swirled for some time now about the likely new legend set to affix the struggle in season 17. However latest leaks have additionally indicated {that a} present legend is likely to be getting a full rework—or be “changed” utterly, in a means.
Apex Insider Thordan Smash revealed a few of these leaks on his YouTube channel, and the character in query is being referred to as “Revenant Reborn” in some inner builds of the sport, in accordance with Thordan and his supply.
It’s unclear if that is presupposed to be a rework for Revenant or a brand new character altogether, however it’s necessary to notice that “Revenant Reborn” reportedly replaces Revenant in these builds, and isn’t given its personal character slot. The brand new Revenant comes full with a depraved final as properly: as an alternative of making a Loss of life Totem, Revenant Reborn throws a projectile. Whoever he hits with it will get transported to the Void with Revenant—and apparently, the 2 gamers then duke it out in a one-vs-one battle.
If true, this could be the primary time a Void-based capacity wouldn’t be related to invulnerability. The entire level of Wraith’s capacity equipment and Ash’s final capacity are to place gamers quickly within the Void the place they can not take injury whereas transferring from one place to a different. This Void final appears utterly completely different, and suits into Revenant’s “artificial nightmare” description fairly properly.
Revenant has appeared ripe for a full rework for some time now. He’s a personality whose equipment may be very annoying to struggle in opposition to, with an extended Silence tactical that disables enemy skills and an final that forces groups to successfully kill a Revenant group twice. These annoying qualities additionally make the character harder to get into a great place balance-wise, as any adjustments both appear too weak to make him helpful, or increase his worth an excessive amount of and make him utterly overpowered. The brand new rumored final as an alternative locations all emphasis on a one-vs-one battle of talent with no need to fret about teammates or enemy groups, which ought to make Revenant really feel a bit much less annoying whereas additionally sustaining the concern issue that the character possesses.
It’s not completely clear when any reborn Revenant would possibly come to Apex, though Thordan’s supply indicated that it might almost certainly come to the sport in season 19 or 20. If the rumors are true that season 16 might be a very quick one, that will make the top of 2023 or the start of 2024 the almost certainly time for this model of Revenant to seem, if he involves the sport in any respect.
It won’t be the Forge reboot that followers had been hoping for, however it’s actually an attention-grabbing idea that might be heading for Apex quickly.
