Apex Legends Season 24 release countdown

Apex Legends Season 24: Takeover is almost here, and the community is eagerly awaiting its arrival. Earlier, the release of this season's patch notes generated major excitement, with the promised changes leading to many players hoping better times were ahead.

This article will count down to Apex Legends Season 24's release and explore the major quality-of-life changes coming with it.

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Apex Legends Season 24 start countdown

Apex Legends Season 24 will go live for all regions on Tuesday, February 11, 2025, at 10 am PT/ 11:30 pm IST/ 3 am JST (February 12). Before the release of the seasonal update, players can expect a short downtime as the servers are taken offline for maintenance.

With that in mind, here's a look at when the update comes out in different regions:

Pacific Time (PT)	February 11, 2025, at 10 am
Mountain Time (MT)	February 11, 2025, at 11 am
Central Time (CT)	February 11, 2025, at 12 pm
Eastern Time (ET)	February 11, 2025, at 1 pm
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT/UTC)	February 11, 2025, at 6 pm
Eastern European Time (EET)	February 11, 2025, at 8 pm
Moscow Standard Time (MSK)	February 11, 2025, at 9 pm
Indian Standard Time (IST)	February 11, 2025, at 11:30 pm
China Standard Time (CST)	February 12, 2025, at 2 am
Japan Standard Time (JST)	February 12, 2025, at 3 am
Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT)	February 12, 2025, at 5 am
New Zealand Daylight Time (NZDT)	February 12, 2025, at 7 am

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All gameplay changes coming in Apex Legends Season 24

As per the official patch notes for Apex Legends Takeover, here are the gameplay changes coming with Season 24:

New Arsenals

These stations provide players with easy access to weapons and ammo. Here's how the developers described them:

"In addition to providing our full armory of weapons, Arsenals will also provide relevant ammo and the ability to enhance weapons. You can enhance one weapon per Arsenal and that weapon must match the Arsenal's ammo type."

• Stations across all POI's on every map with fixed locations.
• Ammo type provided randomizes each match.
• Equipped with an enhancing terminal that upgrades one weapon matching the ammo type per Arsenal.
• Enhancing grants an upgraded attachment and provides an optic if one is missing.

Healing

• Cells now take 2.5s to complete (was 3s).
• Syringes now take 4s (was 5s).
• Cells & Syringes now stack up to 6.
• Players now start with 4 Cells and 4 Syringes (was 2 each).
• Battery and Medkit spawn rates have been slightly increased.

Helmets

• White, blue, and purple have been removed from the loot pool.
• Players no longer start with a white helmet.

Gold Helmet

• Reworked into Gold Armor Upgrade Helmet.
• Offers improved Minor Healing perk that doubles the output of Cells & Syringes.
• Sets the player’s Armor to 100 regardless of Level.
• Leveling still required to unlock Legend Upgrades, but no longer affects armor while equipped.
• No headshot damage reduction.
• Chance to appear in Gold Bins after Bin Reset.

NEW Mythic Armor Upgrade Helmet

• Red tier introduced.
• Sets player’s armor to 125 regardless of level.
• Leveling is still required to unlock Legend Upgrades, but no longer affects armor while this item is equipped.
• Red helmets offer no headshot damage reduction.
• Appears in the Mythic Bin & late game Care Packages.

Knocked Down state

• Significantly increased crawl speed while knocked with and without knockdown shield raised

POI Names on Drop

• Now able to see the name and loot tier of each POI projected over the POI during first drop.
• Also includes Arsenal info to help drive drop choice.

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That's everything that you need to know about the release of Apex Legends Takeover and what you can expect this new season to bring. For more related content, stay tuned to Sportskeeda's Esports section.

You can also check out the following links:

• "we want to be the best": Developer hints at potential changes coming to Apex Legends in 2025
• Apex Legends Takeover key art hints at potential Assault-class meta
• All weapon buffs and nerfs in Apex Legends Takeover
• What can we expect from Apex Legends Takeover?