Apex Legends: Breach is the latest season of content for Apex Legends, and it's a big one. New close-quarters combat mechanics are sure to make for heart-pounding fights, and changes to Legends will also delight. Sadly, this will be the final season for the Switch, but support will move to the Switch 2. Check out the details below!
New Updates Coming with Apex Legends™: Breach
First details on Hardlight, Fuse’s rework, updates to Bloodhound and Catalyst, the return of dropships in Ranked, and more!
Electronic Arts
Today, EA and Respawn released a new gameplay trailer for Apex Legends: Breach, showing off how players can master intensified close-quarters combat while celebrating seven years of legendary battles.
In this anniversary season, new destructible Hardlight Mesh windows have hit the Outlands, and players can smash through to open up devastating new entry points, or reinforce to hold the line. Plus, new Legend updates allow players to crush enemy defenses with Fuse and Bloodhound, or become unbreakable with Catalyst.
Apex Legends: Breach shatters the meta with in-game updates, including:
- Hardlight Mesh Enters The Outlands
- Hardlight Mesh are the new destructible and repairable windows that turn buildings into close-quarters battlefields.
- When intact, Hardlight provides visibility but blocks movement and gunfire until destroyed. Breaking Hardlight opens up powerful new lines of attack and devastating angles.
- Unbreakable Updates For Fuse, Bloodhound, Catalyst, and Controller Legends
- Fuse crashes through enemy lines:
- The Knuckle Jumper Upgrade lets Fuse to leap past enemy defenses and claim brutal offensive angles.
- Provoke the enemy with his reworked Ultimate to hammer defenders with explosives that clear dug-in positions.
- The Pyro Techniques adds flames into his Ultimate – which is rechargeable by dealing explosive damage with the Reignition Upgrade.
- Hunt down every last survivor with Bloodhound:
- Track enemies with an improved Tactical scan and massively reduced Ultimate cooldown – score a knock during your Ultimate and the hunt extends.
- Legend Upgrades continue with Raven’s Flight granting White Ravens longer range, Taste of Blood healing on knock during players’ Ultimate, and more.
- Catalyst seizes control of the battlefield:
- Piercing Spikes can be thrown further and now trigger faster once deployed.
- Build even more lethal defenses with two new Upgrades: Hidden Traps keeps spikes hidden until triggered, while Sole Piercer triggers them faster with more damage.
- The improved Dark Veil Ultimate is now a defensive powerhouse – deploy it horizontally to seal whole chokepoints, forcing attackers into fortified walls that slice incoming bullet damage in half.
- Build impenetrable strongholds with Controller Legends:
- Fortify defensive positions with Controller’s new abilities, repairing shattered Hardlight Mesh or reinforcing it to increase its original strength.
- Fuse crashes through enemy lines:
- Seven Legendary Years Event
- Break out the big ‘seven’ candle, it’s anniversary time! During the celebratory event, players can claim Community-created rewards, unlock permanent Legends, gear up with elite new SWAT Pilots tactical skins and more.
Apex Legends: Breach will be launching on February 10 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC via the EA App, Epic Game Store and Steam.
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