Apex Legends Season 17 Adds Weapon Mastery, Rewarding Skilled Gunplay

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Apex Legends Season 17 will add a weapon mastery system, giving players another form of progression in the game. Starting in Season 17, getting kills with a firearm will eventually unlock a series of trials for said weapon, encouraging you to expand your skillset and destroy other players in unique ways. Completing these trials will unlock special cosmetic rewards like legendary weapon skins and banner frames.

«For the most part, the weapon trials are all bespoke designs,» Apex Legends experience design director Aaron Rutledge told GameSpot. «So it's not like the second trial for every gun is going to be the same. They're not that simple. They're designed to evoke the nature of the gun and what the gun is good at. I don't want to reveal any specific trials because they are hidden at launch, so they're all locked and you don't know what they're going to be.»

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Rutledge said that players will unlock their first weapon trial when they reach level 20 with that weapon. Rutledge is hoping to keep these challenges a secret--though he joked that he assumes «they'll all end up on a wiki somewhere»--but revealed that, as an example, one of the weapon trials for the Mastiff shotgun is to «knock two people within a certain amount of time.» As he put it, these trials are designed to encourage you to use each gun for what they're each good at.

Unlike the daily and weekly challenges unlocked in each season's battle pass, every player will unlock the same weapon trials