Apex Legends Season 17 Arsenal is loaded with tonnes of new features
Apex Legends Season 17 Arsenal is going live today at 10:30 pm IST with some major changes to the rank mode of the game. Respawn Entertainment, the developer of Apex Legends has promised to address notable changes in season 17 of the game as the game has previously faced several issues, especially with cheats. Apex Legends Season 17 Arsenal has several changes in the Ranked Mode, and new features including the introduction of its latest legend, Ballistic. Season 17 also promises to bring changes within its gameplay by introducing a new Weapon Mastery system, and massive physical transformation to World’s Edge and Firing Range.
New features of Apex Legends Season 17 Arsenal
Apex Legends Season 17 Arsenal is bringing several Ranked updates; however, it is primarily focused on two main goals:
- To allow consistent competitive matchups with the Evolving Matchmaking.
- More focus on playing the Battle Royal game as a team by adjusting the scoring system.
The game has also several other changes as promised by the developer such as:
- Introducing a New Scoring system to emphasise more teams winning the Battle Royale.
- Matchmaking has changed to a secret Matchmaking Rating (MMR) system, with skill modifications made for prepared squad sizes to reflect the advantages in competition.
- Introduction of a new bonus system that will reward players after they win and compensate them if they lose.
- There will be no split reset as a full season reset has already started with 10 provisional games.
Firing Range
The Firing Range of Apex Legends Season 17 Arsenal has been restructured completely where players can now customise their training routines based on their gameplay style. It will help players to effectively train themselves and dominate the game. The training routine offers training simulation, death-box armour swaps, duel pits, and movement training for the players.
Consistent Competitive Matches
Apex Legends Season 17 Arsenal has enabled matchmaking in the Ranked system which is completely based on the hidden Matchmaking Rating (MMR). It will ensure that the players can have the right level of Ranked experience in matchmaking because of MMR. The new matchmaking is intended to bring fairness to the gameplay by creating similar party builds such as solos vs solos, solo + duo vs solos vs duos, and so on.
New Scoring System
Apex Legends Season 17 Arsenal has introduced a new scoring system using the Ranked Points and Ladder Points (LP). The new scoring system will compensate for the LP losses and award the LP wins using three bonuses.
- Elimination Bonuses: This bonus is given when a team eliminates other players. The Assist Timer has also been increased to 30 seconds from 15 seconds.
- Skill Bonuses: This bonus is given when a team performs exceptionally in tough gameplay or interacts with a strong opponent.
- Rating Bonuses: This bonus is given when the hidden MMR of the players critically outperforms their Ladder Points. This bonus helps the players to catch up with their gameplay when the game system feels like helping them.
Ranked Structure
Apex Legends Season 17 Arsenal has removed the ranked split reset which generally takes place during the mod-season. The ranking of the players from now on will only be reset at the start of a season.
Apex Legends Season 17 Arsenal is loaded with a lot of features along with several changes which are implemented based on the review received from the players of its previous season. Apex Legends Season 17 Arsenal will be available on all leading platforms which can be accessed through the EA app and Steam.