Apex Legends Season 15 starts very soon, and developer Respawn is beginning to outline more and more of what to expect. Season 15 is the final season of Apex Legends Year 4, and Respawn is holding to tradition and adding a new battle royale map alongside a new playable legend (Catalyst), battle pass, and story-driven Quest.

The potential of a fifth battle royale map raises several questions as to how Respawn is going to handle map rotations going forward. As of right now, only one battle royale map leaves Apex Legends’ map rotation per seasonal split, leaving three maps in each rotation. If a fifth map is added, will the seasonal rotation be bumped up to four maps or will Apex Legends start having two maps out of rotation each split? We’ll have to wait and see.

In the meantime, we can at least talk about what we do know about Season 15. Below, we cover everything we know about Apex Legends Season 15 so far, including when the new season starts, who the new legend is, and where the new map is located.

Start date

Respawn is sticking to its pattern and having the new season start on the day that the previous season ends. In this case, Season 14 concludes on November 1, so Season 15 starts on November 1.

New map: Divided Moon

Back during the massive Apex Legends leak in Season 12 that revealed Newcastle, Vantage, Valkyrie’s heirloom, and a whole host of cosmetics that turned out to be true, we got an early look at what appears to be a new battle royale map, codenamed “Divided Moon.” This is probably Season 15’s new map.

The moon in question is most likely Cleo, the shattered moon of Boreas, Seer’s home planet. A meteor struck Cleo on the day of Seer’s birth, destroying most of the moon. For the past 26 years, pieces of Cleo have repeatedly bombarded Boreas, and the partially destroyed moon has resulted in the planet facing massive disturbances in the ocean tides and extreme temperature fluctuations at the poles and the equator. It’s estimated that Boreas will be completely unlivable in 50-70 years.

All of this, as well as Seer’s lack of attempts to fix any of it, was broadcasted across Syndicate space at the end of Season 13 thanks to reporter Lisa Stone, who sandbagged the legend with questions that implicate him in the continued deterioration of Boreas. Seer spent part of Season 14’s Quest striving to fix that misconception and help his home planet, ultimately finding inspiration to move the Apex Games to Boreas to bring money and work to the local community.

As Season 14 wraps up, further implications that the Apex Games are going to Cleo have popped up on Twitter. On October 7, the Apex Legends Twitter account tweeted out an image of Octane and Seer working together on a pitch to bring the Apex Games to Seer’s home, including a tease that it will feature “parte dos” of Octane’s town takeover.

A few days later on October 10, the Apex Legends Twitter account tweeted another image. This one is of Octane’s grandfather, Duardo Silva, working at his desk. We see he’s been in contact with Octane, Seer, Jacob Young (director of PR for the Syndicate, the organization that oversees the Apex Games), and Lisa Stone. He’s also been looking over Octane and Seer’s proposal and is now in the midst of typing up a contract between several entities, which noticeably include the Syndicate, the National Alliance of Boreas, and the Cleo Recovery Council.

On the Apex Legends website, Respawn has teased the new map with the message, “In Boreas’ shadow, the newest home of the Apex Games gleams.” If Respawn isn’t teeing up a new battle royale map for Season 15 that takes place on Cleo, this is the best misdirection the developer has accomplished to date.

New legend: Catalyst

Season 15 adds Tressa “Catalyst” Smith to Apex Legends, a new defender. In her character description, Respawn writes, “The experienced terraformer and defensive conjurer Tressa Smith uses her remarkable control of ferrofluid to manipulate the battlefield.”

Respawn hasn’t officially announced what Catalyst’s abilities are yet, but if we go back to the previously mentioned leak that included early looks at Divided Moon, we can see several characters in various stages of completion, including Catalyst. Granted, this leak is nearly seven months old at this point, so Respawn could have scrapped this version of Catalyst months ago. However, if nothing has changed, then we can expect Catalyst to be a legend who uses her ferrofluid to build constructs for her team, both to shield allies from damage and make it easier to reach certain locations.

These are Catalyst’s abilities, according to the leak back in March:

• Passive: Reinforce – Standing near your ferrofluid structures, doors, and other legends will strengthen their integrity and allow them to take significantly more damage.
• Tactical: Ferro Shot – On impact, the shot creates a ramp of hardened ferrofluid that can be extended with more shots. It can also be used to create platforms on walls.
• Ultimate: Iron Tower – Ferrofluid rises up from below, pushing you upwards while creating a tall solid column under you.

Gift system

Season 15 adds a new Gift system to Apex Legends, allowing you to buy cosmetics with Apex Coins and give them to your friends. With this new system, you’ll be able to gift both single items (like an individual legend or weapon skin) or full bundles.