

The entire Firing Range has been remade from the ground up as an actual map with multiple buildings and environments made to create a mock battleground for players to warm up and practice in. The Firing Range went through a pretty decent change last season, with the customizable dummies and hitfire feedback, but now it’s been reworked to be even bigger. Valkyrie’s ultimate is still the better choice but at least this option is available if you don’t have a Valk on your team. This Tower is not permanent and will disappear after a certain amount of time and can also be destroyed if you or enemies shoot at the balloon so you’ll have to be careful when using the Tower to escape. Anyone in the area can see when the Evac Tower is raised since it will deploy with a rocket upward to place the Tower and anchor it. It’s a mobile redeploy that can be set anywhere on the map to raise a redeploy balloon for you and your team to use. There will be a new Survival Item called the Evac Tower. Additionally, Mirage’s party boat Mirage a Trois is now permanently only in World’s Edge. The map rotations for Season 17 include World’s Edge, Kings Canyon, and Olympus.

There’s also been a new vault added to Skyhook to improve the loot around World’s Edge and Trials has been changed to also improve loot health. For example, the lava underneath Harvester has been raised so you can’t fall off into the middle anymore and it has a new center section with additional loot. Lava all across the map have been raised so you can now travel across it, so there are no more chasms. The Warehouse from Fragment has also been relocated to where Lava City once was, between Dome and Big Maude, and is called Stacks. This museum has actual exhibits detailing the history of the Apex Games and features almost a bunker-like structure that has sniper nests accessible via ziplines inside the museum. The notorious Fragment East and West (the Point of Interests in the middle of the map) are getting a facelift with a new POI addition planted on site called the Monument, the Museum of Apex Legends. World’s Edge is getting some massive reworks as a refresh for Season 17. As an additional note, the weapon Ballistic puts into his Sling slot can be switched out with any weapon he has in his inventory but that weapon will lose all of its attachments and the previous Sling weapon’s attachments will still have to be looted unless the attachments on the swapped gun match the Sling weapon. This will extend the buff time for all teammates.īallistic is an incredibly strong Assault Legend that is certainly going to change the game. Tempest’s ult time can be extended if you secure a kill while buffed, kind of like Bloodhound’s ultimate.The charge time for Tempest is around 3 minutes and the duration of Tempest is 30 seconds.Tempest also temporarily set his third gun (the one with no attachments) to become a gold, fully-kitted weapon for the duration of the ultimate. Ballistic deploys an area of effect buff to him and his nearby teammates that grant them unlimited ammo, faster movement speed, and faster reloads.Whistler deals 20 damage on hit and will do an additional 30 damage if the enemy overheats their weapon.If Whistler misses, it will r emain on the floor or surface of the area (Like Ashe’s tactical) and if an enemy runs into it, it will deal 5 damage.

Whistler can be held to lock-on to an enemy but can be dodged if you break line of sight with the tactical. An indicator on the affected enemy’s hud will show how many shots they can shoot before the gun will overheat, causing them to pause firing for a short cool-down animation.
