Season 7 of Apex Legends landed earlier this week with a new map, legend and vehicles, and while most of the new content seems to be going down well with players, one thing definitely hasn’t – and that’s the updated battle pass system.
Respawn decided to overhaul the system in an effort to make it “more streamlined and rewarding” for Season 7, but players have expressed frustration with the pass, arguing the new system has turned the battle pass into a real grind. In the face of these complaints, it seems Respawn has tweaked the battle pass to make earning rewards a little easier – yet not everyone is satisfied.
As explained in the official Respawn blog post, Season 7 changed the challenge rewards from CP to stars. Each star is worth a tenth of a battle pass level, and once the meter is full it rewards a level and then resets. But players took issue with the sheer amount of XP required to earn a star, which initially needed 10k XP, meaning a battle pass level was worth 50k XP (without doing challenges). The loss of weekly recurring challenges for completing dailies has removed further chances to earn battle pass levels, and players say challenges are now much harder, with far worse rewards. Respawning five squadmates in Season 6 would have earned a battle pass level, for instance, but you now must respawn 15 teammates for two stars – effectively 20 per cent of a battle pass level.
“Proud to announce that after all five daily challenges, 20k XP, three top fives, and one win with eight kills, I have finally hit battle pass level two,” said one enormously popular Reddit post yesterday.
“I’ve finished all of my daily quests and I still haven’t leveled from one to two until I get my bonus star from XP,” said another user called looseygoosey11. “It takes 10k XP to get one star… so 100k XP for one BP level. Previous BP XP track was 9/18/27/36/54… so basically we’re getting one battle pass level for every four we would have gotten last season.”
And of course, there have been plenty of jokes about the situation.
“The battle pass finally makes sense”, said user CailHancer. “Think about it, Horizon was stuck in a black hole for 87 years. A clever reference by Respawn how you also need about 87 years to comfortably complete the battle pass.”
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Unsurprisingly given the strength of the backlash on Reddit and Twitter, Respawn has now rolled out a change to reduce the amount of XP required for a star from 10k to 5k, and weekly challenges will take less time to complete from next week.