The Old Ways limited-time event is now live in Apex Legends, adding a Bloodhound-themed town takeover and new epic and legendary cosmetics to the battle royale game. The patch notes for the update reveal that's not all, though--Season 4: Assimilation's new character, Revenant, is also getting a massive buff.
Since his release, Revenant's offensive-focused abilities have marketed the legend as an aggressive attacker, but the less-than-stellar utility of those skills have limited his usefulness. "Player feedback that Revenant wasn't feeling viable enough has been loud and clear and game data showed the same," Respawn wrote in The Old Ways update patch notes. "Our goal is to bring his effectiveness up to parity with other legends."
To that end, Revenant has been improved in practically every way. His ability-canceling tactical, Silence, now has two charges instead of just one. The orb it fires also lasts twice as long (a whole 10 seconds) and its ability-canceling effect has also been doubled (now going on for 20 seconds). Together, this now allows Revenant to more easily silence multiple opponents at once or lock down narrow hallways by throwing out Silence as a longer-lasting deterrent. It also ups the chances that movement-focused characters like Wraith and Pathfinder will have a significantly harder time escaping a Revenant, given that their abilities will now be canceled for a fairly long time.
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