Take a look at Catalyst’s abilities in the new Season 15 vignette trailer below.

Dark Veil is just one of the ways Catalyst can control the battlefield.

And unlike, say,Caustic’sGas Traps, Catalyst’s Piercing Spikes cannot be sniped from afar.

A close up of the face of Catalyst, an Apex Legends character, from the Season 15 launch trailer.

They can only be destroyed by getting near them.

As for Catalyst herself, we now know quite a lot about her character and backstory.

Her real name is Tressa Crystal Smith, and she is thefirst trans woman in Apex Legends.

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She hails from Boreas - the same planet as Seer.

The money, Seer hoped, would help return Boreas to a point of economic stability.

Regardless, she decided to enter the Apex Games and use the prize money to support her family.

Apex Legends character Catalyst runs towards the camera, leaving behind Piercing Spikes on the floor outside a door which trap an enemy player behind her.

Catalyst, a Legend in Apex Legends, stands in front of the camera with her team, holding two balls of Ferrofluid.