10 Things To Know Before Your First Apex Legends Jump

To me, where Apex Legends truly succeeds is in its strength of character. That is to say, its diverse and robust cast of eclectic player-characters are unlike anything else in the genre. Fortnite‘s characters are colorful in the same way that '80s cartoon characters are, but they lack personality or depth. Meanwhile, PUBG’s got some military gear and overpriced Suicide Squad costumes that look like they’re from Party City’s bargain bin. Warzone? More like snore zone. Against this limp competition, Apex has the edge by defa


With cooperative multiplayer, players can team up with friends to take on challenging bosses and levels together. It's pretty much the definition of a perfect sequel, and the fact that Risk of Rain 2 is still wildly popular to this day is proof of just how brilliant this title really


So if the fighters of Apex Legends were to each have the chance to pick a Pokémon for themselves, which would they choose? Well, first, to ensure that the arena is still standing at the end of each match, Legendary Pokémon must be off limits (despite the pun). The Apex gunners are powerful enough without cosmic-creating creatures by their side. Additionally, readers can assume that once a Legend chooses their Pokémon, the creature ceases to evolve any further, avoiding any sudden massive changes to the Apex balance. So which Pokémon would each Apex Legend decide


There's little to no debate here. Weezing is the obvious Pokémon for Caustic. Caustic spends his time in Apex Legends setting traps of noxious gas to slowly suffocate his opponents. Weezing was quite literally born to do the exact same thing. Together, these two could clear a room in seconds. This combination could perhaps be the most deadly of all between Caustic's Nox Gas Grenade and Weezing's signature Poison Gas move. If these two are in the fight, players must be sure to bring a gas m


Then you have Bloodhound, the non-binary espionage expert. It’s a cool way to put a non-binary character in a AAA fps game mods, I feel, because whatever perceived "gendered" physical characteristics they might have are obscured by a gas mask and bulky clothing. Their appearance is calculated very deliberately to be genderless and ambiguous, which is a great artistic choice. Oh, and let’s talk for a second about Gibralter. Here's this goofy and sweet beefcake who's gay and doesn’t have some sort of sad backstory about it. He’s not cuckolded and sad like Soldier 76, whose story echoes literally every Hollywood movie ever written about gay men that’s not called Moonlight, or if he is, we don’t know about it. That’s rad as h


New players will often be confused by announcements about "The Ring". How this mechanic works is that the area is surrounded by an area deadly to players that slowly closes in upon a part of the battlefield. This pattern happens a few times throughout a ma


Why have I thrown myself so hard at this game? Is it the mechanics? Well, for starters, yeah – they’re among the best I’ve ever touched in a shooter, but that’s not it. What about the visuals? Sure, they’re undeniably great, but there’s something more. And while I could sit here and talk about how smartly designed the maps are, or how good all the guns feel, or how the traversal tech is more interesting than its peers, it’s not necessarily the mechanics that have grabbed me as hard as one other major fa


Her kit is ideal for players who love to flank and prefer to have multiple movement options at their disposal. In terms of team play her portals are a must-have in almost every composition , so she's often a lock for most te


Once you hit dirt, you’ve got to start grabbing some loot. Loot tends to be located either inside buildings or in special orange or blue containers found throughout the map, often in pairs. The array of loot can be confusing at first, so its good to learn what it all d


If you were an early adopter of Apex Legends then you remember when Gibraltar and Caustic were considered bottom tier due to their movement and hitboxes. These days Gibraltar stands as a top pick despite getting nerfed constantly at this point. With the addition of the new Legend Rampart, Gibraltar's usefulness only increased as his abilities offer natural counters to the new Legend. The Evo Shield changes in Season 6 make his area of effect abilities a lot more useful in team fights, as w


How is this accomplished? For starters, it’s important to understand why I think Overwatch's roster is, by and large, not very well thought-out. And before you post this on some forum and find my Twitter and get all pissy because I hurt your feelings about a game you had no hand in creating, I should really repeat that I used to love Overwatch and have fanart and figures from it all over my home. However, Blizzard has proven over the course of several years that they’re firmly stuck in the lane of pandering to anime fans and horny teens. Oh, and the meta's awful. There's also t