Summary
- Apex Legends is finally introducing Cross-Progression in Season 19, allowing players to merge their accounts and access all cosmetics across platforms.
- Cross-Progression complements the already existing Cross-play feature, giving players the ability to compete against others regardless of the platform.
- Respawn Entertainment has put a lot of effort into developing and testing the Cross-Progression feature, ensuring that players won't lose any valuable items in the process.
After what seems like a never-ending wait season after season, Apex Legends will offer Cross-Progression with the launch of season 19: Ignite. Of course, Apex Legends has a lot of seasonal content on offer, including new character Conduit, changes to the Storm Point map, a new Battle Pass, and more.
Cross-Progression goes hand in hand with Cross-play, though Apex Legends has had the latter since October 2020. This means that for the past three years, players could compete against others regardless of platform, but they could not have everything they owned on one platform. With the launch of Season 19, players will be required to complete a mandatory account merger, which will see all of their cosmetics and whatnot together, regardless of platform, moving forward.
Cross-play and Cross-progression are not simple features to implement, and it's something Apex Legends developer Respawn Entertainment has been working on for quite some time. The way it works is pretty simple. Instead of having separate accounts for PC, PlayStation, Switch, and Xbox, players are able to merge those accounts wherever they play Apex. If someone plays on their PC and their Xbox, they will not have access to all unlockables that they may have per account, which becomes one account. This includes all collected cosmetics, badges, achievements, and so forth across all accounts, so if someone so happened to have Apex Legends on Switch, on PC, on PlayStation, and on Xbox, everything will have one home come Season 19.
With something so technically complex, Apex Legends players may be wary about completing the merger when they unlock. It would be unfortunate to lose something like an Apex Legends heirloom or something like that, but given the extensive testing and work Respawn Entertainment has done on it, it's doubtful the company would let something like that fall through the cracks. It's something the fanbase has wanted for a long time, something that is complex to achieve, and it's good to know that Respawn has taken so much time in developing the feature.
As for what else Apex Legends Season 19 holds, fans are no doubt the most curious about Conduit. It'll be interesting to see how she impacts the Apex Legends meta since she is the first "healer" archetype character since Lifeline. She focuses on Shields whereas Lifeline focuses on health, ensuring there's some synergy between the two should both be paired together.
Apex Legends is available now for PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.