Apex Legends News

If you've played Apex Legends before, or any battle royale game for that matter, you'll know how painful it is to be 'third-partied' during a gunfight. There's nothing worse than being on the cusp of victory to find yourself being shot in the back by an unseen assailant. Apex Legends does give you ways to combat this - Gibby's dome shield is a particularly useful tool to have - but it's largely a fact of life that, at some point, you're going to be third-partied. Well, until now. Speaking to press, Samantha Kalman, senior game designer at Respawn Entertainment, has revealed that Storm Point's IMC Armory locations are actually going to be third-party proof.

We know that this is hard to believe, but it's true. When you head into one of Storm Point's four IMC Armory locations to loot, "you're protected from being third-partied", according to Kalman. However, this comes at a cost - as you might expect.

Players looking to loot these locations are going to have to lock themselves in and weather an intense minute-long storm of close-quarters combat with waves of deadly Spectres - automated infantry robots you may recognise from Titanfall.

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Apex Legends has shown off some gameplay for season 13, giving us a look at Newcastle in action, and revealing a new part of the map that's literally the dead body of a giant creature.

Respawn Entertainment released a cinematic trailer last week officially revealing the newest character Newcastle, but the developer has now given us a look at the man in action, as well as a big change that's coming to Storm Point. In the cinematic trailer, we saw the Legends taking down a giant, kaiju-like creature. Well, it turns out that part of Storm Point is now that thing's carcass, just to spice things up a bit.

According to Polygon who attended a media preview last week, lead level designer Jeff Shaw said it was designed to be "a big, stuff, loot piñata." As well as something to make it more of a competitive map. "We really wanted to do this additively, without removing anything that we felt was important," added Shaw. While it wasn't clear if the creature would be some kind of player vs environment task in the first trailer, it's now confirmed to definitely just be a map change.

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Apex Legends players, both new and old, will know how important looting is to a successful game. We all have our favourite guns and there is the Apex Legends weapon tier list to think about too - sometimes, the weapon you like just isn't the best gun to use in the current meta. Thankfully, Respawn Entertainment is giving Apex Legends players more ways to get high-tier loot in Season 13 through the introduction of Smart Supply Bins to Storm Point.

If you're wondering what a Smart Supply Bin actually is, you're not alone. Speaking to the press, senior game designer Samantha Kalman has explained that this is a new type of Supply Bin that's always going to give you better equipment and weapons - no matter what.

Smart Supply Bins "are filled with loot based on scanning your current equipment and weapons", Kalman explains. "This means the loot is always valuable. Either [the Smart Supply Bin] is upgrading what you have already or supplementing [you with] equipment and weapon attachments that you don't have yet."

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After a reveal of the latest Apex Legends playable character earlier this week, Respawn Entertainment has released a trailer that explores some of his backstory.

Respawn gave us a look at Newcastle at the start of the week, where we saw some of what his moveset might be like. And we also learned that he's the missing brother of Bangalore, Jackson. Now, a new Stories from the Outlands trailer has given us a comic book look into Newcastle's history.

As briefly mentioned in the first trailer, Newcastle has tried to get into the Apex games many times, but the people of Harris Valley celebrate him nonetheless. But surprisingly, Jackson isn't Newcastle himself, not to start out at least.

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