Apex Legends Season 20, Breakout, celebrates the game’s fifth anniversary with new mechanics, locations, and a collectible event. As always, a new season also brings a new battle pass, complete with tiers of cosmetics to unlock.
Here’s what time Apex Legends Season 20 will be released in your time and what to expect from the new season.
What time does Apex Legends season 20 release?
Based on previous release times, Apex LegendsSeason 20 begins Tuesday February 13, 2024, all over the world at the same time. Here’s when the game will be released in your time zone:
- 10am PST off the west coast of North America
- 1:00 PM EST off the east coast of North America
- 6:00 PM GMT for Great Britain
- 7:00 PM CET for Paris
- 3 hours JST on February 9 for Tokyo
As with all online launches, be prepared that queues and delays may impact the above launch times.
What’s new in Apex Legends Season 20?
Season 20 is highlighted Apex Legends‘ fifth anniversary, and celebrates the occasion with new EVO mechanics, a new map, Performance Mode and more.
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- A new card, Thunderdomecomes to Mixtape mode. Past Thunderdomethere are no new cards.
- Legend upgrades This allows you to upgrade your legend within a match (it resets every match) as you earn EVO, including EVO from the new EVO Harvesters and EVO Caches. These upgrades do things like improve your armor layer.
- Speaking of armor, body shields are nothing more in Battle Royale. Instead, everyone has Legend Armor, powered by interchangeable Shield Cores, each with their own HP.
- Ranked game is being updated Ranked reload: Scoring places an emphasis on eliminations over placement, the limit on eliminations counting toward your score is lifted (but you get half points for eliminations after sixth), and you get bonus RP if you finish fifth multiple games in a row or gets better. Ranked matchmaking will be more RP based.
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- You can earn gifts and rewards by playing as unlocked Legends and completing challenges.
- Performance mode let the current generation of consoles focus on 120 fps.
- Clubs are retired and replaced with three to four characters labels.