APEX Legends Season 5: Reconnect Feature, Mirage Buffs and More

The fifth season in APEX Legends has already begun! The new major update introduces a new legend, multiple major changes to Kings Canyon, balance adjustments, reconnect feature, and much more. The most notable changes of the update are listed below.

• New legend Loba, which is able to teleport, see rare loot through walls and loot items from a distance
• New Battle Pass, which is very similar to the previous ones. One notable difference: this season the pass does not include location-based challenges
• Multiple Map Changes to Kings Canyon, including the removal of Skull Town
• Charge Towers – devices located across Kings Canyon, which allow to grant your ultimate bar to full
• Story-based Season Quest, consisting of 9 PvE-missions unlocked by collecting daily treasures
• Start of Ranked Series 4
• Reconnect feature, which allows to re-join unexpectedly left match in progress. The feature is available for competitive game modes
• Legends Updates:
• Mirage: decoys of both tactical and ultimate abilities now can mimic player’s movement; passive now makes Mirage invisible when using respawn beacon and reviving a teammate
• Bloodhound: duration of Sonar Detection increased from 3 to 4 seconds, cooldown decreased from 35 to 25 seconds
• Crypto can now ping banners while in drone to warn teammates of nearby squads.
• Lifeline: increased Lifeline bin ratio to 20%, removed Knockdown Shields from Secret Compartments
• Caustic: friendly gas lo longer slows teammates
• Octane: Launch Pad cooldown is reduced from 90 seconds to now 60 seconds
• Gibraltar: reduced Dome Shield duration from 18s to 12s.
• Pathfinder: the cooldown for Grappling Hook has been increased from 15 seconds to 35 seconds
• Weapon and Loot Changes:
• Gold Weapons for Season 5: Longbow DMR, Hemlok, Spitfire, EVA-8, RE-45
• Mastiff now can be found in the world, its power was reduced accordingly
• Peacekeeper can now be looted from care packages only, its power increased accordingly
• Alternator: mag sizes slightly increased
• RE-45: slightly increased damage and reduced reload time
• Havoc: vertical and horizontal recoil increased
• Added Skullpiercer Hopup for Longbow and Wingman
• Anvil Receiver removed
• Gold Armor now increases the amount of heal instead of increasing healing speed

Other changes include a number of bug fixes, new UI for deathboxes, CPU and GPU optimization and more. The full list of changes can be found on the official website.