Fair warning ladies, gents and themts, besides a few days ago, I haven’t touched Apex Legends since Season 11 days just before or after The Great Glitchfest of Apex… Featuring David Attenborough.

But hey, I like working with what I have and giving the best I can from that: There’s a laptop in front of me, a couple tutorial tabs next to an Overanalyzing Avatar video in the background and a couple month-old wasp corpses behind the window sill! Let’s see what ungodly unhinged cocktail of gaming edutainment I can spin from this.

Season 12, Key Gameplay Summaries: For starters, the CAR Sub Machine Gun (SMG) from Titanfall 2 is here to stay. Some balancing changes were made to gameplay, plus a range of new guns, meaning Apex now boasts a gun-roster of two-dozen!

We’re also peddling an Apex Legends CHAMPIONS EDITION if you want in on that!

The Alternator SMG is also now a floor-loot item, replaced with the Volt SMG as a seemingly more powerful alternative… Hold up, the Alternator got Alternated!? That’s some Shakespearean irony on a whole other level!

The Peacemaker shotgun and Triple Take energy rifle also got buffs while Flatline got partially nerfed (that’s gamer lingo for weakened to you and me). You can only hold 2 guns maximum into battle, so choose wisely.

Without further ado, let’s break down some of the best in-game weapons! I’ll also go into detail about ammo types after.

The M600 Spitfire: Heavy Machine Gun. Despite some light nerfing, it can drop in care packages alongside extra buffs. The large magazine size and firing stability during long rates of fire also make it a must-have for players who prematurely shoot off into the sunset and need a little extra time to line up a good shot.

Kraber .50 CAL A: Care Package Sniper Gun: For my fellow short-sighted kings, getting your hands on a good sniper gun can do a world of good. I mean, what better way to take out an enemy player than using something that puts as much distance between the two of you as possible? And if you spend enough time in the shooting range, a head shot from this hefty tool can turn you into the gun-toting equivalent to One Punch Man! Very much a high-risk high-reward weapon.

R-301 Carbine. Light Assault Rifle: On the other hand, working up-close and personal means you’re more likely to hit the other bloke, which can work out if you have the armor to survive a good bout of firearm jousting! And if you want to boost your Light Machine Gun skills even more, Rampart’s passive skill is increased magazine sizes, heat capacity and reload speeds to LMGs, letting you fire longer.

VK-47 Flatline: Heavy Assault Rifle. Needless to say, my noob self always assumed “oh, is a heavy gun, therefore best becoz ‘ard”… Well, I was partially right, but that didn’t stop me taking shots out back like pornstar martini (minus the martini). It may have medium damage nowadays, but the recoil is good for stability and the medium-to-long range uses are effective.

Volt! Supply Drop SMG. Now one of the new top-dogs in terms of damage output, this bad boy may be harder to find in a care package or supply drop, but definitely worth it! And SMG’s in general are good if you want to channel your inner DP(S).

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See? I like Apex Legends and that won’t stop me roasting it over the spit at the prison barbecue, I yearn for true glitch equality! Heck, one time I accidentally tried to heal a bloke who wasn’t my teammate and if that isn’t proof there’s a little glitch in all of us, I don’t know what is!

Cargo Catastrophe! A bug was recently found featuring Pathfinder that allows players to ‘super launch’ themselves when grappling cargo bots. This unintentional mechanic was uncovered by one Redditor ‘‘Dirty_Skirty‘, finding out that while these launches generally end up being enough atomic force to yeet you too far from the inner circle, it can be creatively applied to if you’re precise enough.

“If you jump the second your grapple attaches, you’re guaranteed a perfectly vertical launch”.

And if you’ll entertain a little anecdote of mine, that time I tried healing an enemy player? My teammate was a Pathfinder! Chances are they realized I was a massive noob after that mishap cut their losses before I started shooting myself in the proverbial digital foot any harder.

Glitch Fixes? To my knowledge, none as far as Pathfinder goes, but the folks at Respawn did recently fix a glitch with Bloodhound (whomst we stan).

Glitch Tales… No, not that one: So sit down and strap on for three peculiar tales of glitchy-gaming goodness from your’s truly! And lucky for me, all these issues were neatly fixed with a tap of the retry button.

First up is on one of my Grounded replays of The Last of Us some nebulous time in pre-demic era! There was a section with some bad guys out in the snow that I decided for a specific way to eliminate: Run out back, punch one down, use it as a distraction, run back, stealth two other blokes and unload my clips into the last few guys hunting me like the randy cinephile I am! As I kept dying near that last end of my strategy, needless to say, I was repeating stuff more than Bo Burnham’s song of the same name, so on one particularly attempt, I ran up to a bloke, clotheslined his ass, and immediately shot RIGHT DOWN THE GROUND like:

Next on the chopping block is Sifu: One time while fighting Kuroki and FINALLY getting past her first phase after hours of retries and fiddling with the photo mode, I punched her so hard that when she backflipped away from me, she clean disappeared from the arena on me! Like,it’s bad enough she looks like a literal ghost half the time, but getting left on read by a boss? You think you know a girl. Ain’t that right Sensei Lawrence?

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EA. Honey. Baby. Comrade. I’m not saying we need to talk about branding… Because we don’t, I hope Battlefield fans enjoy the good news… On the shared universe front, at least.

EA: Out with the old, in with the new.

A Gamespot report shows that the Battlefield publishers at EA want to release more Battlefield titles with shared characters and connected storylines, ala the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe). Other plans for the company include Oscar Gabrielson (general manager of DICE) being set to leave EA.

Vince Zampella (co-founder of Respawn Entertainment) is now the official overseer of the Battlefield franchise. Marcus Lehto (of Halo design fame) is also going to be in charge of a new studio in Seattle with the aim of making greater narratives for the Battlefield series.

Zampella, when asked in the Gamespot interview, stated the new plans for improving Battlefield are not, I repeat, NOT an attempt to deflect from the fact that Battlefield 2042 has had a relatively unsuccessful launch, likely due to having more bugs than an entomologist’s personal fire ant reserve. “We will continue to evolve and grow Battlefield 2042, and we’ll explore new kinds of experiences and business models along the way”, Zampella claims.

Fawzi Mesmar (head of design at DICE who worked on Battlefield and Star Wars Battlefront games) has also reportedly left the company shortly after Battlefield 2042 released, a work email showing he had wanted to leave for some time.

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“We couldn’t be more passionate about this game and will be supporting and evolving it for years to come” – According to DICE. In response to player feedback on Battlefield 2042 criticisms of bugs, empty maps, lack of a leader board and other assorted tidbits of Tom-foolery.

Back to the shared universe:

“In this universe, the world is interconnected with shared characters and narrative. This universe is also built with our community as we harness the power of Portal and user generated content that puts creativity in the hands of our players” – Vince Zampella.

It’s possible Lehto may also have a hand in developing the upcoming Battlefield mobile game set for 2022 release. EA also claimed to be putting Zampella in charge of overseeing development of a new game by Ripple Effect (formerly DICE LA). There’s currently no explicit mention of the new game being in the Battlefield series.

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Season 11 of Apex Legends is now live, bringing plenty of new content to the battle royale. Players will undoubtedly notice several changes to the usual  experience. With the inclusion of the Storm Point map, the new Legend Ash, and the CAR SMG. Unfortunately, some fans are dissatisfied with some of Respawn Entertainment’s recent moves.

While many players appreciate the additional content, some fear that the battle royale is overrun with weapons. The game’s arsenal has grown in recent seasons, with the inclusion of the 30-30 Repeater, Bocek, Rampage, and now the new CAR SMG. Many gamers have turned to social media to express their displeasure with Apex Legends’ growing arsenal of weapons. As a consequence of the community’s uproar, it looks that the developers are prepared to make improvements in the future.

Recent Comments on Weapon Balancing

A developer who worked on Apex Legends recently posted a comment on Twitter concerning weapon pool balance. Associate live balance designer John Larson informed fans on November 13 in a tweet that Respawn was aware of their complaints. Larson’s remarks were in response to a player who tweeted that “nobody cares about P20, bocek, or 3030.”

Larson took to Twitter to defend the less often used firearms.

You take that back. I care about the Bocek.

We got stuff in mind. We know we can’t keep releasing weapons without considering the health of the loot pool

— John Larson | JayBiebs (@RSPN_JayBiebs) November 13, 2021

While Larson defended the existing weaponry in the game, he agreed that the trend of new weapons being released with each new season shouldn’t continue. Every season since Season 8, a new gun has been added to Apex Legends. Furthermore, he informed gamers that the development team had already begun working on a remedy to the problem. “We got stuff in mind,” he said.

Respawn Entertainment’s developers recently disclosed that adjustments were coming to the Season 11 location Storm Point. In addition,  they also promised new adjustments for the weaponry pool. According to the developer, an update coming this season will focus on altering final circles to increase the quality of finale combat. Furthermore, extra cover is being added to other places, such as Barometer.

What’s Next for Apex Legends’ Weapon Balancing

Respawn has not given any details about their intentions to remedy the overabundance of weapons as of yet.  We w ill have to see whether the developers decide to vault firearms for prolonged periods of time or if they have devised a different solution to the problem. In any case, it will be intriguing to see what adjustments the devs have planned for the weapon pool in the future. Whatever shape these adjustments take, they should increase the quality of Apex Legends games.

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Wattson is finally receiving a much-needed buff.

Respawn has released the full patch notes for their Apex Legends Season 11 update. There is cause for celebration for Wattson mains; with the new season comes significant buffs to the Legend’s tactical and ultimate abilities. It seems Wattson will really flourish in the next upcoming season of the hectic battle royale.

“Move aside, Ash, this is Wattson’s season,” Respawn writes in the Apex Legends Season 11 patch notes. “Her win rate and encounter win rate have always been above average. This could be for a multitude of reasons; her defensive playstyle correlates to higher average placements, Wattson mains are diehard loyalists, and her hitbox has been the smallest in the game ever since Lifeline’s adjustment.

Regardless, much of the high-level data that we’ve shared doesn’t match perception. Play a few games as Wattson, and you’ll often find yourself wanting more out of her kit. The goal of these changes is to redistribute her invisible power into the parts of her kit that shape the battlefield in a unique way. We wanted to see what changes could spark more consistency and efficacy in her kit, and ideally ground some of the difficulties surrounding the way her abilities work.”

Wattson’s Perimeter Defense has been buffed so she can erect her fences faster and with more damage. Her ultimate ability also receives a buff. It now more regularly intercepts incoming ordinance and recharges body shields at a faster rate. So now, when Wattson bunkers in, she can more easily protect her squad, encouraging enemies to think twice before aggressively pushing.

For the complete list of changes coming to Apex Legends in Season 11, check out the patch notes detailed below.

Apex Legends Escape Patch Notes

Balance Changes – Legends:

Wattson

• General
  • Improved the reliability and responsiveness of placing Wattson’s Tactical and Ultimate in-world objects.
  • Wattson can place her Tactical and Ultimate objects on valid surfaces above Wattson’s eye level (to a reasonable extent).
  • General hitbox size increase to compensate for the removal of low profile in the Legacy update.
• Tactical – Perimeter Defense
  • Increased damage on crossing a Fence by 33%. (15 to 20)
  • Increased debuff duration on crossing a Fence by 100%. (1.5 to 3 seconds)
  • Increased the time allowance to be hit again by a subsequent Fence effect by 100%. (0.5 to 1 second).
  • Decreased recharge time by 50% (30 to 15 seconds).
  • Increased placement range by 50%.
  • Decreased the delay between Fences shutting off and reactivating after an ally passes through them by 60%. (1.0 -> 0.4 seconds)
  • Wattson now moves at Unarmed-speed while readying/placing Fence nodes.
  • Fence nodes can now be placed as soon as the weapon is readied instead of waiting for the animation to finish.
• Ultimate – Interception Pylon
  • The Pylon output has been significantly reworked.
    • Reduced the number of active Pylons Wattson can place from 3 to 1.
    • The Pylon now lasts forever (instead of timing out after 90 seconds).
    • The Pylon now has a pool of 250 Shields that can be distributed to nearby players instead of effectively infinite Shields.
    • Increased the Pylon shield recharge rate by 150%, and smoothed regen rate. (2/second -> 5/second, or more accurately: 1/0.5 seconds -> 1/0.2 seconds)
    • When a Pylon is out of Shields, it no longer recharges players’ Shields but can still zap incoming ordnance.
    • Taking damage while regenerating Shields via the Pylon delays continued regeneration by 1 second.
  • The UI on the ground and HUD elements now display the Shields that remain in the Pylon.
  • Pinging a friendly Pylon will now display the percentage of Shields remaining in the Pylon.
  • Pylon ordnance-zapping has been moderately reworked.
    • Ordnance is now zapped when the Pylon detects that it would hit any surface within range and line of sight of the Pylon, instead of being zapped as soon as it comes within range.
    • As a part of the changes, current issues where the Pylon doesn’t reliably zap ordnance (particularly concerning airstrike abilities and ordnance that bounced off surfaces near the Pylon) should now be addressed.

Balance Changes: Weapons/Gear

Supply Drop Rotation

• This season the Triple-Take returns to floor loot, and taking its place is the G7 Scout. The Scout enters the Supply Drop with its old friend, the Double-Tap Trigger equipped.
  • Triple Take – now an energy-consuming marksman * Charge time from 0.8 -> 1.1 (pre-crate value)
    • Mag increase at all tiers (Base: 18, White: 21, Blue: 24, Purple: 27)
    • Ammo consumed per shot increased to 3
    • Ammo required per shot increased to 3

Hop Ups

• Dual Shell – Each round loaded into the Mastiff or the 30-30 Repeater is doubled.

Fully Kitted Rotation

• Added: Mastiff 30-30 Repeater, R-301, CAR, Longbow
• Removed: Peacekeeper, Rampage, RE-45, Flatline, and Charge Rifle

EVA-8

• Fire rate reduced from 2.1 to 2.0

Peacekeeper

• Slightly increased pellet size
• Choke up time reduced from 1.5s to 1.25s
• Choked up shots remain tight for slightly longer when exiting ADS

Longbow

• Damage reduced from 60 to 55

L-STAR

• Reduced barrel effectiveness at all rarity tiers
• Significantly reduced projectile collision size
• Damage reduced from 18 to 17

G7 Scout

• Damage increased from 34 to 36
• Double Tap added to Supply Drop G7 Scout

Supply Drop Weapon Rates

• Early game crate weapon rate increased from 25% to 50%
• Mid game crate weapon rate increased from 50% to 75%
• Late game crate weapon rate increased from 75% to 100%

Hot Zone Gold Loot Rates

• Increased amount of gold loot that spawns in hot zones

Crafting

• Increased ammo from crafting
  • Light Ammo 20 → 60
  • Heavy Ammo 20 → 60
  • Energy Ammo 20 → 60
  • Shotgun Ammo 8 → 24
  • Arrows 16 → 48
  • Sniper 12 → 36
• Crafting Ammo price increased from 5 to 10 per weapon
• Evo Armor Points from crafting increased from 100 to 150
• Evo Armor Points cost increased from 45 to 50
• Replaced a sniper bundle with a shotgun bundle featuring the Dual Shell
• Enemy NPC Updates
  • Prowler health across the game has gone up from 90 to 114 (Storm Point and World’s Edge)
  • Prowlers on World’s Edge and Flyers on Kings Canyon now reward EVO points (25%) … all damage done to AI now rewards progress to your EVO armour.

Arenas

Supply Drop

• Supply drop will now land outside the first ring, if possible, and land 10 seconds earlier.
• Purple weapons now spawn more in earlier rounds
  • Round 1 – 3x blue -> 1x purple + 2x blue
  • Round 2 – 1x purple + 2x blue -> 2x purple 1x blue
  • Round 3 – 2x purple 1x blue -> 3x purple
• Supply drop no longer spawns blue Havoc or Devotion or gold RE-45

Weapon Price Updates

• Moz
  • Blue 125 → 150
  • Purple 200 → 250

• P2020
  • Blue 75 → 50
  • Purple 150 → 125

• RE45
  • Base 200 → 150
  • White 150 → 100
  • Blue 250 → 200

• Prowler
  • Base 500 → 400
  • Blue 300 → 350
  • Purple 400 → 350

• R99
  • Base 500 → 450
  • Blue 250 → 300
  • Purple 300 → 350

• Hemlok
  • Base 500 → 450

Quality Of Life

• UI – teammates will now show that they are self-reviving on their in-world game tags.
• Added VO for players to communicate they are out of ammo.
• Updated the Arena Map Rotation Images to show up to five maps.
• Updated Social Awareness Badges to unlock as default for all accounts.

Bug Fixes

• UI/UX / Steam Only: Fixed issue where your online friends playing Apex didn’t count towards total online friends while in matches.
• Fixed bug for Placing a Caustic trap over a Seer Ultimate that could result in the Ultimate being protected from taking damage.
• Updated Volt skin’s charm placement to be moved up so that charms become more visible.
• Fixed bug with players losing extra Boosted Loader extra ammo if the player reloads before getting to base ammo amount.
• Steam: Fixed issue where if a player has a forward slash in their name, a backslash will be added right before it automatically.
• Legends- Retail – Hitting an enemy with Valk tactical missiles can result in health damage even with shields equipped
• Fixed issue where players do not see Legend Select when starting a game in Trios and immediately advance to drop ship phase.
• Audio fix for cases where the music starts playing in the middle of a BR match.
• Fixed UI error that showed that the Legendary Prowler had the “Shotgun” tag in the in-game info screen.
• Audio fix for cases where VO for map changes doubles up (plays both variants simultaneously).
• Audio fix for Rampart Town Takeover where vending machines had no soundFX.
• Fixed bug where Non-Crossplay Steam friends playing Apex would show up with debug text.
• Removed the random rock floating in midair in World’s Edge.
• Bug fix for cases where a player could stand up and jump in a knocked-down state after an enemy starts finisher and cancels it.
• Fixed bug where player names would be missing from Legend select.
• Reduced hitbox size for Crafting Material Canisters to better fit its shape.
• Legends
  • Rampart:
    • Fix for cases where Rampart’s “No Mercy” finisher causes her to clip through geometry.
  • Wattson:
    • Fixed issue where her Ultimate doesn’t always destroy frag grenades when thrown inside the Pylon radius.
  • Pathfinder:
    • Fixed issue with players being able to create zip lines much farther than intended.
  • Fuse:
    • Fixed bug with his Ultimate cooldown being the same with or without a gold helmet.
  • Seer
    • Removed ability for players to be able to bunny hop at full speed while using Passive.
  • Octane
    • Improvements to Jump Pad soundFX

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“Daamn Respawn, back at it again with the semi-prehistoric semi-techy sci-fi tropical aesthetic? Lemme get some siiiip!“

Apex Legends Season 11 will see players fight on its fourth and largest map on November 2nd. Publishing company EA have stated that the Storm Point location will be the “eye in the hurricane” to the rest of the map’s pretty beaches and crystal waters… And I really do mean CRYSTAL clear folks! The day I first saw clear water at a beach IRL blew my f****ing mind out my ear holes so hard that I still have trouble making out music lyrics first-listen to this day… Also, it has been confirmed that the game will also see players fighting off SPIIIDERRS. This alongside the nature of the new Gaea map and said SPIIIDERRS was previously covered in our reports on Apex Legends dataminers here. For the Apex Legends Season 11 gameplay trailer itself, click here… Also, old news, but Apex removed tap-strafing!? I’m sure if I knew what that was beforehand I’d be reeally mad.

In addition to the map being the biggest, we’ll also see “a base embedded within a giant mountain marking the highest location in any Apex Legends map to date”. Not alot of people know this about me, but heights are my fetish (I’m exaggerating, but not by much), so that combined with the fact that you can’t take fall damage in-game means I know what I’ll be doing November 2nd.

We’ll also be seeing the inclusion of Ash, the antagonist from Titanfall 2 and narrating overseer of Apex Legends Battle Arena mode. That and Titanfall’s C.A.R Sub Machine Gun. For a deep dive on that, have a butcher’s here.

With Ash wielding her sci-fi super slicey dicey, fingers crossed this means Apex will be seeing the option for swordplay combat, that would be awesome. Worked out pretty well when Fortnite allowed you to swing around lightsabers, so fingers crossed we get similar mechanics here. By the looks of it, seems more likely that the sword is just an Ash-only move that lets her do Wraith-like teleportations, but hey, a guy can dream.

Furthermore, the picture below seems to be implying there will be some swimming involved, which ties into another EA statement regarding the Apex map’s inclusion of “island clusters”, so I’m down for that. On a similar note, I find water levels in gaming to be basically like Fugu sashimi: Easy to get wrong, but boy golly gosh gee wilikers is it great when it goes right… Also, shoutout to autocorrect for initially putting down sashimi as “mishmash”.

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It is a sad day for all tap-strafers out there…

Apex Legends developer, Respawn Entertainment, has announced that they will be removing the popular movement technique, tap-strafing, from the game in the upcoming 10.1 patch.

The movement technique is one utilised by the most skilled PC players. It involves turning and strafing more quickly by repeatedly pressing the forward movement key by binding movement to the scroll wheel. We haven’t received exact details of how the developers intend to eradicate the technique, but more details will be revealed in the 10.1 patch notes.

After much consideration and debate, we've decided to remove tap-strafing from @playapex in patch 10.1.

Our reasoning: It's inaccessible, lacks readability/counterplay, and is exacerbated by movement abilities.

The next patch notes will include a more detailed note about this.

— Respawn (@Respawn) August 31, 2021

Performing the technique correctly involves sliding, jumping, and strafing simultaneously, as well as binding the Move Forward command to a mouse scroll wheel. Tap-strafing requires several keys to be pressed simultaneously, alongside an extra input on one’s mouse. Therefore, it can’t be utilised by controller players. This is of extreme significance as one of Apex’s biggest recent changes was the addition of crossplay, allowing PC players to play against console players (or with). Mouse and Keyboard (M&K, henceforth) players typically have an advantage over controller users due to having more command options (through the number of key bindings available) and having more precise aim once mastering one’s mouse. Of course, console players are granted aim assist to compensate for the M&K aim disparity, but even with assistance, the relative inaccuracy of a controller is significant. Therefore, having a highly effective movement technique only available to PC players enhances their advantage further and makes it near impossible for console users to compete. This has been recognised by Respawn and hence, is their reasoning for this latest change. The goal is to even the playing surface a little more.

The news has not been warmly received by many among the PC Apex community. Prominent Apex streamer nokokopuffs bluntly responded to the tweet, saying: “Actually sh**tiest decision ever made.” NRG member and streamer Rogue also responded, asking Respawn to “change this decision.” Both tweets have thousands of likes, and the majority of other tweets appear to be complaining about how console players get help with their play, but PC players have had the tap-strafe advantage taken away from them. I personally agree with the developers; even with the controller’s aim assist, M&K users already have an advantage relative to their console counterparts in both movement and accuracy. Therefore, I believe the tap-strafing mechanic’s removal is the correct decision. Regardless of the change, there will always be negative feedback from community members who heavily utilise a soon to be removed technique.

Whilst some, like myself, agree with the decision, the mechanic’s removal has sparked the conversation about whether tap-strafing is truly an “advanced” move. Interestingly, Respawn’s comment that it is “exacerbated by movement abilities” is pretty clear when you see that Octane is by far the most chosen legend. Evidently, the high-speed Legend can utilise the technique the best competitively, reflected by his selection rate.

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The next season of Apex Legends is called Emergence, and it’s coming in just a couple weeks.

With season 10 nearing landing, it is almost time for a new Legend.

A new “Stories from the Outlands” trailer introduced us to Seer, a cursed gunslinger with killer looks and an army of tiny drones.

Apex has been slowly teasing Seer’s arrival over the last few days, plastering Olympus in tiny moth stickers and dropping odd drones across the floating city – drones that, when interacted with, display holographic moths before dropping unique gun charms.

Today’s story trailer didn’t give us much more but delivered some impressive animation. A moon explodes as a child is born, a kid with cursed eyes who supposedly brings anything that meets his gaze to rubble.

According to the game’s website, “with microdrones and an artist’s eye, Seer spots opportunities that other Legends might miss, and seizes them in the most beautiful way he can”.

Emergence will also include an updated World’s Edge map and the new Rampage LMG.

It will introduce ranked arenas too. “Prove yourself an Apex Predator in either Arenas or Battle Royale for the first time ever,” EA said.

Respawn is set to offer a closer look at Emergence during EA Play Live on July 22. The event will last for 40 minutes and focus on titles “coming out soon,” including Battlefield 2042, Lost in Random and “a couple other games”.

The studio will launch Apex Legends Mobile during the six months ending on March 31, 2022. According to series game director Chad Grenier, the mobile title is “a new version of Apex Legends, but it’s true to the original”.

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Next year will see the release of the sequel to Star Wars Battlefront. EA have said that the next Star Wars Battlefront will have “bigger and better worlds.” These news worlds will be more focused on the new Star Wars movies rather than keep going back to the older ones. EA have sold 14 million copies of Star Wars Battlefront across all platforms this year, selling more copies than they expected.

That wasn’t the only Star Wars news that EA revealed yesterday, they also revealed that there will be a brand new Star Wars game coming in 2018 and will be developed by Visceral Games. The announcement of the new Star Wars game comes just a week after EA announced that they will be working with Respawn Entertainment on their take of a Star Wars game.

The partnership between EA and Disney is very exciting with all of these Star Wars games and content they are bringing out. Roll on Battlefront 2.

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