Apex Legends Season 5 is dropping tomorrow along with the brand new Season 5 patch that will add a new character, bring map changes, make weapon balances, and more. To help you wade through the numerous changes included in the Emergence patch, we put together the highlights from the patch to give you a birds-eye view of the adjustments.
- New Legend Seer added to the game
- New weapon Rampage LMG added to the game
- A new Map update adds Lava and weather-controlling machines to fight for
- Arenas ranked mode added to the game
Apex Legends character adjustments in Season 5 Emergence
🔺 Fuse
- Enemies inside Fuse's Motherlode ultimate now revealed to his team
- Knuckle Cluster Tactical explosion duration doubled
- Grenadier Passive can be toggled on and off
🔺 Horizon
- Reduced the slow after the initial Black Hole pull
- Increased Horizon gravity lift-up speed
🔺 Caustic
- Gas damage starts at 5 per second, increases by 1 "every other tick"
- Tactical cooldown reduced to 20 seconds
- Ultimate cooldown reduced 3.5m to 3m, duration reduced from 20 to 15 seconds
🔻 Revenant
- Added brief slow after recalling to his Death Totem
- Death totem now has a small visual and audio cue when it nears its end
Apex Legends season 5 weapon meta adjustments
Specific weapon changes
- 🔺 M600 Spitfire LMG damage increased from 18 to 19 damage and has a reduced hipfire spread.
- 🔺 Supply Drop Alternator SMG received disruptor rounds that deal +40% damage to shields
- 🔺L-Star EMG now takes energy magazines, can fire longer before overheating, and has increased hip fire spread
- 🔻Prowler PDW recover time between bursts increased from .2 to .24
- 🔻EVA-8 Shotgun bolt fire-rate scaling reduced for each rarity tier
General changes
- Magazines will no longer upgrade reload speed, instead, stocks will
- Sniper stocks on Marksman weapons will improve stability
- LMGs headshot multiplier reduced from 2.0 to 1.75 and limb shot multiplier improved from .75 to .85
- Pistols handling time improved by 10%
