Season 28 of Apex Legends goes live on February 10 and introduces a new defensive gadget: Hardlight Mesh. The mechanic lets players erect luminous, bullet-resistant panels to fortify small positions, but those panels can also be torn down with sustained fire, explosives or a determined boot.

  • Hardlight Mesh is being positioned as a fresh tactical option, offering temporary cover that can change how teams hold angles and rotate through buildings.
  • The panels glow and block bullets, creating a one-way moment of safety — useful for quick fortification of a loot choke or a temporary hideout.
  • These windows aren’t invincible: concentrated gunfire, rockets, and melee attacks will breach them and open new entry points for attackers.
  • The feature lands as Apex approaches its seventh year, part of an ongoing push to keep combat feeling new with mechanical twists rather than map-only changes.

Whether Hardlight Mesh becomes a staple of high-level play or just a short-lived novelty will depend on balance after launch, but the update adds another layer for squads to exploit or counter on February 10.

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Source: Rock Paper Shotgun