Season 1: Perks, Movement and the Circle

Perks

Loadouts now have 15 base perks across three slots, plus a separate Elite slot. Looted perks can fill up to six slots.

Elite perks (one at a time)

• Athleticism: better strafing, crouching and ADS movement, and a smaller ADS penalty when you jump or slide.
• Fieldcraft: regenerates armor and equipment quickly.
• Phantom: keeps you off enemy recon killstreaks, equipment and perks. It hides you from standard UAVs even when you aren’t moving.

New base perks

• Incognito (Slot 1): shorter enemy radar reveals and Hunter outlines, and delays enemy traps.
• Stocked (Slot 1): one extra lethal and one extra tactical, plus full primary and secondary ammo when you pick up your loadout.
• Deft Hands (Slot 2): faster plating, equipment throws and crate captures, and a short speed boost after plating.
• Wingman (Slot 3): cheaper squadmate buybacks with no visible redeploy flare.

Can drop as loot: Adaptive, Drill Instructor, Field Medic and Survivor (Legendary chests, High Value boxes, rare basic chests). Adaptive, Drill Instructor, Tempered and Wingman (Contract and Ground Op rewards).

Movement

• Tactical Sprint is back as standard. It adds about 0.5 m/s depending on the weapon and lasts up to four seconds at full stamina. With a melee weapon out, it costs no stamina.
• Slides: cooldown 400 ms shorter, slide-to-jump 200 ms faster, and 25% less height lost on a slide-jump. The ADS slide distance penalty and the slide-to-sprint delay are gone.
• Jumps: the slowdown after back-to-back jumps lasts 150 ms less.
• Ascenders: you get off them faster.

The circle

Mode	First circle	Last circle
Battle Royale	Circle 1: 2:25 wait, 2:50 to close	Circle 10: 0:10 wait, 0:35 to close
Resurgence	Circle 1: 1:30 wait, 2:30 to close	Circle 8: 0:10 wait, 0:45 to close

Resurgence matches are now about 5.5 minutes shorter than last season.

Want to know where the next circle is going? Take a Recon contract for the Insight killstreak. See Contracts and Ground Ops.