How the Simplified Challenges star system works for the Apex Legends Season 7: Ascension Battle Pass

For as long as Apex Legends has been around, leveling up the Battle Pass has stayed the same. Gather Battle Pass levels from meeting weekly challenge quotas or gather up challenge points, or CP, and experience, or XP, to level up your Battle Pass in a more manual way, ranging for 9,000 to 54,000 CP/XP for a single level each week. This system is no longer in place. For the first time since launch, the Battle Pass leveling system has been completely reworked for Season 7: Ascension with the brand-new star system.

How to earn stars

Challenges no longer award CP, but instead now offer between one and five stars. Easier challenges will offer less, while harder challenges will offer more. For example, a ‘play 2 games’ type challenge would only be one star, but a ‘win 1 ranked match’ challenge would be worth the full five.

How to gain Battle Pass levels

10 stars is equal to one battle pass level. So, two harder challenges will be one battle pass level already. That said, there are also select challenges represented by a star with wings that offer an entire battle pass level for completing said challenge. Those are not going away and more will come with the unique weekly challenges as always. These can still be completed any time in the season.

The reoccurring weekly challenges of completely a certain amount of daily challenges are gone, but the daily challenges have been revamped to balance that.

How does XP fit into this?

As far as XP, now every time a player hit 5,000 XP (formerly 10,000 XP, see changes here), you gain one star. This is a constant rate and will not build over the course of a week. The Battle Pass’ XP boosts also now only make you gain stars faster, not levels. The boost will not apply to player level anymore.

Overall, the system is much simpler, and whether it will be easier or harder to fill the battle pass really depends on each player’s styles of play. Grinding XP for battle pass levels will now be much more difficult, but getting battle pass levels from completing daily and weekly challenges is now much easier. It’s clear that these changes encourage a greater focus on the challenges than the previous system did.

EDIT: The challenges this season were initially made much harder, but have since been reverted to make things easier.