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 so as to ship an enormous variety of adjustments to current characters, sport modes, the person interface, and extra.
Players gained’t have to attend lengthy for a brand new legend, nonetheless. Rumors have swirled for some time now concerning the doubtless new legend set to affix the struggle in season 17. But current leaks have additionally indicated {that a} present legend may be getting a full rework—or be “replaced” utterly, in a manner.
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 inside builds of the sport, in line with Thordan and his supply.
It’s unclear if that is imagined to be a rework for Revenant or a brand new character altogether, nevertheless it’s vital to notice that “Revenant Reborn” reportedly replaces Revenant in these builds, and isn’t given its personal character slot. The new Revenant comes full with a depraved final as nicely: as an alternative of making a Death 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 means wouldn’t be related to invulnerability. The entire level of Wraith’s means equipment and Ash’s final means 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 totally different, and suits into Revenant’s “synthetic nightmare” description fairly nicely.
Revenant has appeared ripe for a full rework for some time now. He’s a personality whose equipment could be very annoying to struggle in opposition to, with an extended Silence tactical that disables enemy talents and an final that forces groups to successfully kill a Revenant workforce twice. These annoying qualities additionally make the character tougher to get into a great place balance-wise, as any adjustments both appear too weak to make him helpful, or enhance his worth an excessive amount of and make him utterly overpowered. The new rumored final as an alternative locations all emphasis on a one-vs-one battle of talent without having to fret about teammates or enemy groups, which ought to make Revenant really feel a bit much less annoying whereas additionally sustaining the worry issue that the character possesses.
It’s not solely clear when any reborn Revenant would possibly come to Apex, though Thordan’s supply indicated that it could almost certainly come to the sport in season 19 or 20. If the rumors are true that season 16 will likely be a very quick one, that may 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 may not be the Forge reboot that followers have been hoping for, nevertheless it’s actually an fascinating idea that might be heading for Apex quickly.
