Apex Legends Season 17: Ballistic Abilities and All Patch Notes Explained

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Apex Legends Season 17, or Arsenal, is coming May 9th and brings in a brand new Legend, major map changes to World’s Edge, new Firing Range, Weapon Mastery, and an overhauled Rank System. Every season, Respawn aims to improve and bring meaningful updates to Apex and Season 17 is looking to be an especially ambitious one. Here’s everything you need to know about everything coming to Apex Legends Arsenal on May 9th.

Let’s go over the new Legend, Ballistic, first. I have a separate lore video for him that you can watch on this channel. Ballistic is an Assault Legend so he gets the passive benefits of unlocking the class specific Assault bins throughout the maps and can additionally carry more ammo per stack in his inventory.

Here’s how Ballistic’s kit works:

Ballistic is an incredibly strong Assault Legend that is certainly going to change the game. As an additional note, the weapon Ballistic puts into his Sling slot can be switched out with any weapon he has in his inventory but that weapon will lose all of its attachments and the previous Sling weapon’s attachments will still have to be looted unless the attachments on the swapped gun match the Sling weapon.

Weapon Mastery is a new way to level and get additional achievements in Apex in Season 17. Similar to how Call of Duty does Weapon Camo challenges, Apex’s Weapon Mastery will involve specific challenges to level the weapons to unlock new weapon trackers, banner frames, and Legendary skins for each weapon when you master them.

All weapons will start at level one in Season 17 even if you’re a long-time player. You level your weapons through playing the game and the leveling will not reset over seasons. Every 20 levels, a weapon trial will unlock that will grant you a reward