[GameSpot] - Apex Legends Season 6's Changes Won't Be Quite As Big As Season 5

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After a year to get its feet wet and establish its identity within the battle royale genre, Apex Legends went through a flurry of changes in Season 4: Assimilation and Season 5: Fortune's Favor. In comparison, Season 6: Boosted seems to be a smaller step for Respawn's battle royale game. There are still plenty of in-game changes and new pieces of content, but Respawn looks to be taking a break from radically altering Apex Legends and is instead taking stock of how to improve the game going forward.

When I spoke to Apex Legends lead game designer Carlos Pineda, he told me that players should expect Season 6 to be "a little bit bigger" than Season 2: Battle Charge and Season 3: Meltdown. However, the changes probably won't be as drastic as Season 4 and Season 5--Season 6 falls somewhere in-between.

"We have some meta changes, not quite as big as Seasons 4 and 5, but Seasons 4 and 5 were targeted at these pain points that people had been complaining about for a while--a lot of our conversations since December have revolved around that," Pineda said. "And Seasons 4 and 5 hit a lot of those so with Season 6 we believe we're in a bit of a better spot so we should just take it easy for a little bit and see how all the changes settle out and begin to see where any new pain points might arise in order to patch them."

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