Apex Legends News

Hundreds of high ranked Apex Legends players have been banned for 6-manning exploit

Apex Legends players who have recently been making use of ranked arena exploits and “6-manning” may log into the free-to-play battle royale and find themselves suspended or permanently banned from the game.

This comes following a ban wave from the Respawn Entertainment specifically targeting users of these exploits, rather than general hackers or cheaters. According to Conor Ford of the Security team, 1307 users in total have been banned, including almost 1,000 ranked Apex Predators.

A fun fact with this is the split between users banned on particular platforms. The platform with the most exploiters by over 100 bans is PlayStation, followed by PC, Xbox, then the Nintendo Switch with only 20 bans. This could be an indicator of how wonderful the Switch playerbase is, or more likely it's a consequence of the far lower player count on that platform - with that version of the game suffering from serious technical flaws.

It's time to lock and load, legends - there's fighting to be done. Respawn Entertainment has finally announced the Gaiden event for Apex Legends - something that leakers have known about for some time - and along with it comes confirmation that the Armed and Dangerous LTM is making a return. Sure, it might not be Apex Legends' Control mode, but it's a fun spin on Apex Legends' traditional battle royale gameplay.

In the Armed and Dangerous LTM, players are thrown into an otherwise standard battle royale match with one key difference: the only weapons in the loot pool are shotguns and snipers. Oh, and loot in general is going to be a lot harder to come by than usual.

Armed and Dangerous is an LTM where a Legend Abilities matter a lot more than usual and players are going to have to think much more strategically about pushing enemy squads if they want to win. Sometimes, you're just not going to have the weapons to deal with your opponents.

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Twitter shares the most tweeted about games during 2022 so far

While the latter half of 2022 may seem a little barren, the first half of the year was pretty good for games. We saw Elden Ring perform even better than we all anticipated, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga arrived, and Pokemon Legends: Arceus introduced us to a new style of Pokemon game. So, there's been lots to talk, and tweet, about.

That being said, Twitter has collected data on some of the most talked about games on the platform during the first half of 2022. It's not all that surprising, but it's interesting to see what titles are taking the platform by storm this year.

There were approximately 1.5 billion tweets about gaming to round up, with the report from Twitter detailing the most tweeted about games, gaming personalities, esports teams, and more.

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Valkyrie soars to top of Apex Legends pick rate charts after ALGS

If there were two main takeaways from last week's Apex Legends Global Series Year 2 Championships, they are that Australians are bloody good at Apex (congrats again, DarkZero), and that Valkyrie is the queen of the pro scene.

Valkyrie's ability to make huge rotations and escape from tight spots with her whole team, coupled with her offensive prowess, meant that her pick rate was hovering around the 98% mark throughout the entire four-day Championships. If you weren't using Valk, you either had an incredible Plan B, or you misclicked in legend select...

With over 630,000 people tuning in to the ALGS Championships according to Esports Charts, there were a whole lot of players witnessing exactly what Valkyrie could do in a sweaty pair of professional hands. While she has always been a viable pick, her ALGS dominance has seen her pick rate climb over the last couple of days, to the point where she is currently the most popular legend in the battle royale.