Five years of live-service success are cause for celebration, and Respawn Entertainment is bringing the party to Apex Legends <\/em>with its 20th season, Breakout. The roster will retain its size, but players will see far-reaching changes to Evo shields and the addition of legend upgrades.<\/p>
To celebrate, Respawn is additionally hosting an in-game event with six free legends up for grabs, a new limited-time mode, a prize tracker with free items made by the Apex<\/a> <\/em>community, and 150 Heirloom Shards as a prize if you buy the full collection of cosmetics. These elusive items can be used to purchase any permanent Heirloom set<\/a> or Prestige skin.<\/p>
Once the event kicks off, players are looking at what game designer John Larson called the “single largest change to legends since the game launched”: the new legend upgrade system, which grants upgrades mid-match and adds multiple functionalities to all legend abilities. This, in turn, comes with an overhaul to how the game handles Evo Shields<\/a> and evolving in general, tying both new systems together\u2014and making way for an entirely new gameplay space.<\/p>
