Apex Legends maintenance will briefly return the game to season 0

Apex Legends has announced an upcoming server maintenance where, instead of taking the game completely offline for the duration, Apex will be temporarily reset to a state that is essentially Season 0. During maintenance, players can lose access to their inventory, store, and cosmetic unlock, and only default characters will be available.

As the Apex Legends cast has grown to 16 characters over the course of eight seasons, the game initially kicked off its preseason, or Season 0, with just eight characters – six of which were free and two requiring unlocking with Apex Coins or Legend Tokens. It’s unclear whether the default playable characters include the full cast of eight from the preseason, or just the six Legends who don’t need to be unlocked.

Maintenance will take place between 2:30 am PT and end at 5:30 am PT on February 25, giving players a chance to experience the game as it hasn’t been since early 2019. Apex doesn’t normally have this kind of schedule. maintenance, leading gamers to hope that it can finally fix some of the server issues that have been ongoing since the game’s launch, but particularly serious recently.

Other players in a Reddit maintenance thread commented on the limited game that will be available during the downtime, with some hoping this could lead to Apex introducing an appropriate LTM where only the original game characters are playable.