Apex legends

Apex Legends is a battle royale game borrowing concepts of the hero shooter, taking place 30 years after the events of Titanfall 2. Apex differs from most battle royale games by incorporating Legends, pre-defined heroes with unique abilities that fall into roles such as Offense, Defense, Support and Recon. Players are grouped into squads of three, each player selecting a unique Legend in turn, and each match features up to 20 teams competing. All teams start with no equipment and are flown over the game's map via dropships from a random direction from which they drop onto any spot on the map they can reach. Teams scour the game map for weapons, ammunition, and other equipment while fighting to be the last team standing, all while staying within an ever-shrinking safe zone on the map. A player can be downed into a vulnerable bleed-out state, leaving them only able to crawl for cover or reach a squadmate, who can revive them. If the player bleeds out, or an opponent uses a finisher move on them, they are then eliminated, dropping their equipment to be looted and a banner. The player can potentially be respawned if their squadmates recover this banner and take it to a Spawn Beacon, scattered on the map, in a limited amount of time. Apex features both voice-chat communication with squadmates and a contextual single-button communication approach that allows a player to ping map features like weapons, opponents, or rally points.

Apex Legends is free-to-play and supported through microtransactions, giving the player the opportunity to customize their selected character through numerous cosmetic items for Legends and weapons, voice lines, and in-game banners. New cosmetic items can be earned from opening Apex Packs, the game's version of loot boxes that contain a random assortment of rewards, or spending the in-game currency Crafting Materials, which are gained through Apex Packs. Apex Packs are freely earned as the player gains experience levels. Additionally, players freely gain Legend Tokens for playing matches as well as for leveling, which are used to unlock new Legends and certain cosmetic items. A final currency, Apex Coins, is bought with real-world funds and can be used to buy Apex Packs, unlock Legends, or purchase specific cosmetics.[1] Respawn plans to offer battle passes in the game's future which reward players with new seasonal cosmetic items by completing in-game challenges

Heroes:

BANGALORE

Don’t be fooled, despite her rugged exterior and military precision, Anita Williams has a more noble cause for entering the Apex Games. Separated from her family during a military mission, she’s raising the funds to fight her way back.

Bangalore is one of two damage archetypes and is built to excel in taking out large groups of enemies.

Passive Ability: Double Time

When taking fire from enemies, Bangalore will move at an increased pace for a brief amount of time. For a game that’s already fast-paced, this ability gives you a speedy edge.

Tactical Ability: Smoke Launcher

This ability allows Bangalore to hurl a smoke grenade that explodes on impact at her enemies. Whether you’re escaping from a group of foes that have got the drop on you, or you’re looking to turn the tables, Bangalore’s smoke launcher will come in handy.

Ultimate Ability: Rolling Thunder

Useful if you’re in a pinch or weathering a match’s latter moments, Bangalore’s ultimate ability sends an artillery strike across the landscape.

BLOODHOUND

The identity of Bloodhound is unknown. Rumours range from the crow-clad hunter being fabulously wealthy to living the life of a slave in a past life.

Regardless, Bloodhound is known as the technological tracker, stemming from its hunter playstyle. If you love the thrill of the hunt and are keen to take to the Outlands to eliminate your prey, then the Bloodhound may be for you.

Passive Ability: Tracker

Bloodhound’s passive ability allows this hunter to see the footprints left behind by enemy players. Use it to get the drop on foes and land that all-important first shot.

Tactical Ability: Eye of the Allfather

This ability will be familiar to anyone familiar with Overwatch’s Widowmaker: it will reveal hidden enemies, traps, and clues throughout the terrain. It also proves handy for lining up headshots that’ll leave any hero in a fit of rage.

Ultimate Ability: Beast of Hunt

A good way to turn everything up to 11, Bloodhound’s ultimate lets you move faster and highlight your prey.

CAUSTIC

Once a scientist named Alexander Nox who worked for the Frontier’s leading pesticide gases manufacturer, he would be changed irrevocably after deciding to test a stronger formula on himself. Each to their own. But, for that unfortunate reason, Caustic is a tank of an Apex Legends character, and he’s is built around poison and gas attacks.

Caustic is also one of the two characters unlocked with the game’s premium currency with either 12,000 Legend Tokens (earned in-game by levelling) or 750 Apex Coins, which can only be acquired with real money).

Passive Ability: Nox Vision

Caustic’s passive ability allows him to see through his gas attacks. We only wish our partners could do the same. A subtle skill, but no doubt one that will give an edge against the foes you mean to disorientate.

Tactical Ability: Nox gas trap

This gas-filled canister will only detonate when shot or triggered by enemies.

Ultimate Ability: Nox Gas Grenade

Very much a larger scale version of his tactical ability, Caustic’s Nox Gas Grenade sends a large puff of toxic smoke across a vast area.

GIBRALTAR

Gibraltar likes to protect people as much as he likes to bring the pain. He’s known as the wild, but gentle giant for good reason: his father lost an arm saving him and his boyfriend from mudslide after the pair stole his bike and went joy riding.

This Apex Legends character is a tank whose sense of responsibility and protection to atone for his mistakes is unmistakable.

Passive Ability: Gun Shield

When aiming down sights with Gibraltar, this ability grants you a gun shield that blocks incoming fire.

Tactical Ability: Dome of Protection

Useful for blocking doorways or providing some quick protection, Gibraltar’s dome-shaped shield ensures the safety of your squad for 15 seconds.

Ultimate Ability: Defensive Bombardment

Much like Bangalore’s Rolling Thunder, Gibraltar’s Ultimate Ability allows him to call for air support. Defensive Bombardment, however, is more of a concentrated mortar strike on a marked position.

LIFELINE

Ajay Che is a healer with a heavy conscience. Once part of a family of wealthy war profiteers, Che left once she truly realised the extent of her kin’s repugnant business.

Her loadout reflects that desire to heal and repair the damage done by her family: all of Che’s winnings from the Apex Games go towards good causes.

Passive Ability: Combat Medic

Che’s passive allows her to revive knocked teammates faster, provided a shield wall is there to protect her. Healing items are also used 25% faster.

Tactical Ability: D.O.C. Heal Drone

Your Tactical Ability summons a robot called the Drone of Compassion, which automatically heals nearby teammates over a brief period.

Ultimate Ability: Care Package

MIRAGE

Another member of the eclectic cast of Apex Legends heroes, Elliot Witt distinguishes himself by emphasising stealth tactics over out-and-out physical prowess. Someone who likes to out-Witt his opponents, if you will.

Like Caustic, Mirage is not unlocked from the start and costs either 12000 Legend Tokens or 750 Apex Coins.

Passive Ability: Encore!

Whenever Mirage is struck down by an enemy, his passive means he’ll automatically deploy a decoy while cloaking himself for five seconds. It may prove handy if Wraith or Bloodhound gets the drop on you.

Tactical Ability: Psyche Out

Stuck in a tense face-off where no one is brave enough to make the first move? Then Psyche Out may prove handy for, well, psyching your opponent out as Mirage sends another one of his decoy’s running off in a chosen direction to confuse the opposition.

Ultimate Ability: Vanishing Act

What’s better than one decoy? If your answer is many, then you may get a kick out of Mirage’s Vanishing Act. This ultimate sends a team of decoys out to distract enemies and cloaks you.

PATHFINDER

Pathfinder is forward in his thinking as well as in what he says. Apparently, he booted up over a decade ago in an abandoned laboratory and has been on the lookout for his creator ever since.

Pathfinder is a medic, but his kit differs from Lifeline in the sense that it’s intended to help you explore and traverse terrain, rather than to heal.

Passive Ability: Insider Knowledge

As any battle royale player can attest, the genre’s signature shrinking ring defines your next move. Helping this considerably is Pathfinder’s Insider Knowledge passive ability: it allows you to scan a survey beacon to reveal the circle’s next location.

Tactical Ability: Grappling Hook

Is the pesky terrain getting in you way of escaping the ring? Pathfinder’s Grappling Hook lets you zip away and close large distances swiftly.

Ultimate Ability: Zipline Gun They say you should never leave a man behind. Don’t be selfish and use your Zipline Gun to create an escape route for the rest of your team.

WRAITH

We know little of the mysterious Wraith apart from the fact that she woke in a detention facility years ago with voices in her head. Once she started listening to them, she acquired powers that allow her to jump between dimensions.

Much like Mirage, this interdimensional skirmisher is a DPS Apex Legends character, but she’s more about stealthy play than going in guns blazing.

Passive Ability: Voices from the Void

If an enemy team is about to get the drop on you, the friendly voice in Wraith’s head will let you know. It can be tricky to distinguish between this and your team’s comms, however.

Tactical Ability: Into the Void

Wraith’s tactical ability allows you to traverse the void without taking any damage, which means you can effectively turn invisible and not take any damage for a bit.

It’s a handy tool to close the gap on the other team if you’ve looted a good shotgun. Or, if you’re anything like me, you’ve found yourself in a tricky situation and need to hightail it out of there.

Ultimate Ability: Dimensional Rift

Rather than just void walking on your tod, Dimensional Rift allows you to take your team along with you.

However, first you’ll need to reach your desired destination yourself before you set up the rift for your team. It also only lasts for 60 seconds.