Apex Legends News

Apex Legends burst onto the gaming scene on February 4, 2019, and it hasn't stopped evolving since. The first-person shooter soon staked its claim as one of the best battle royale games by seamlessly blending gameplay and lore - and never once stopping to catch its breath.

The game has changed a lot in two years. We've seen new maps come and go (and then return again irreparably scarred), the roster of characters double (even with some being killed off before they even make it to the games), and countless balancing attempts happen every season. Remember when Evo Shields were a rare sight and the Peacekeeper was ground loot? Remember Mirage Voyage?

But how does a game with a ranked play system and some of the biggest esports tournaments balance constant changes, how does the development team decide what needs adding to the meta of a battle royale game - and when do you stop? We asked Respawn's game director Chad Grenier and concept art director Steve Ferreira just that.

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Fuse is the latest character to join the Apex Legends cast, arriving in Season 8: Mayhem. However, players have only just been told exactly how the moustachioed Aussie will function in-game - and he looks like he'll provide a suitable explosiveness to the battlefield.

When he joined the cast of Apex Legends, Fuse's devastating entrance left the landscape of King's Canyon irreversibly scarred - although he was hardly at fault for the blasts. However, his penchant for pyrotechnics carries over to his in-game abilities, which all lean towards the ordnance side of things. The gameplay trailer also reveals that there's a new gold magazine attachment which reloads your weapon automatically - but who need guns when you have grenades, right?

If you thought being 'naded as you bunker down in a building in the final circle was bad, Fuse is here to rout you from any position you think you can hold. We're yet to see just how deadly he is in the Apex Legends ranks, but we expect great things already.

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Respawn Entertainment has revealed the changes it is making to the Apex Legends ranks system in Season 8: Mayhem. There will be different maps in rotation, an increased focus on skill-based matchmaking, and more players crowned Apex Predators than ever before.

The developer revealed that between 30% and 40% of all Apex Legends matches take place on the ranked ladder and that more people are ranking higher than ever before. In Ranked Season 7, 4.37% of players who played more than five hours of ranked achieved Diamond status, over twice as many as the previous season. More players also reached Platinum rank, and nearly twice as many hit Master and Apex Predator rank in Season 7 compared with Season 6 (0.2% compared with 0.12%).

Looking forwards, in Season 8 Respawn is improving matchmaking, even at the expense of longer queue times. The developer believes that its focus on skill-based matchmaking will create competitively fairer matches all the way across the ranked leaderboard.

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Apex Legends' eighth season arrives next week, and it's bringing with it a new character, a new weapon, and the biggest changes to its Kings Canyon map yet. If you've seen the Season 8 launch trailer, you'll probably have noticed that new Legend Fuse made quite the explosive entrance to the battle royale, demolishing the side of a mountain where his celebratory gunship went down. Thanks to this, we'll be able to explore parts of Kings Canyon we've never seen next week, because it's opened up a previously unplayable section of the map.

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