Apex Legendsrecently released its latest patch notes, and it’s now made private matches available to all players. This was previously exclusive to esports organizations, as well as content creators who wanted to host their ownApex Legendstournaments.
In order to make aprivateApex Legendstournament lobbybefore, players would need to email Respawn and submit details about their tournament. Once it deemed that the event followed EA’s rules on hosting community tournaments, players will be provided a tournament admin code that they can share to participating teams. It’s a difficult process that could take time to be approved, plus it also meant that professional players couldn’t arrange private scrims to practice before their tournaments.
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With the latest patch coming on January 10, EAannounced on theApex Legendswebsite that private matches will be available for all players. This means that players will be able to generate their own tournament codes without having to go through Respawn and EA, and host their own custom matches with up to 20 teams. There’s still limited information on this feature, but EA will be posting FAQs to expound on private matches further before the next patch goes live.
Along with this announcement,Apex Legendswill also launch the Spellbound Collection Event, which features 24 limited-time cosmetics including Legendary skins for Vantage, Seer, and Mad Maggie. Players can also getSeer’s heirloom called Showstoppers, which are dual handheld sickles, once they unlock all 24 Spellbound cosmetics before the event ends. Control, the 9v9 game mode, will also make a comeback in this event, along with other quality-of-life updates and bug fixes.
Since Season 15: Eclipse launched in early November,Apex Legendshas had a few patch updatesto fix some gameplay issues, including bugs that affected Legends like Catalyst, Wraith, and Crypto. Respawn devs seem to be looking at fixing other issues in Season 15, especially now that it’s considered the longest running season so far.
There’s still no date forApex LegendsSeason 16, but players could already expect significant changes. There was a rumor recently thatApex Legendsmight have spawn changesin the next season where players might be equipped with a P2020 pistol; other rumors include an overhaul to the class system and a new weapon. Respawn has not confirmed any of these, but if these updates do happen, they might just change the game.
Apex Legendsis available for PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
