Apex Legends News

Apex Legends announcer joins the Avengers game as Jane Foster

Zehra Fazal has been lending her voice to the Apex Games for more than three years now, not actively getting involved in the battle. But, that has now changed as Zehra Fazal has joined the cast of the Avengers game as Jane Foster: The Mighty Thor, stepping into the fight as a true legend (albeit a legend from a different universe).

The voice actress, who has had a number of voiceover roles including in 2019's Call of Duty Modern Warfare, from voicing the female Exo in Destiny 2 to the aforementioned Apex Legends announcer, will join the Avengers game on June 28 with the release of Jane Foster.

Announced on June 21, this is the last confirmed new character set to arrive in the beleaguered game, although Square Enix has committed to continued support. Jane Foster's inclusion ties in with the upcoming release of Thor Love and Thunder in theatres and cinemas on July 7, 2022.

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CHOOSE YOUR SIDE, MECHS OR MONSTERS, IN THE AWAKENING COLLECTION EVENT

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[h2]LIFELINE’S CLINIC[/h2]

Welcome to Lifeline’s Clinic, a new place to heal up and chill out. This new state-of-the-art building is nestled between Gardens and Grow Towers, in the northeast corner of Olympus.

In the center of the Clinic's main floor stands the Med-bay. With it, legends can take advantage of the most refined automated healing system in the Outlands. Whenever injured legends are standing on the platform, a heal tether will activate and attach to them. If the Med-bay is charged, they will get continuous healing. Additionally, the Med-bay's holo-displays will indicate if someone is healing, or if the Med-bay is recharging.

If you want better loot, just head to the "Emergency Platform" at the back and use the Care Package console located there. Make sure to reach it first as you can only use the console once per game.

[h2]CONTROL LIMITED TIME MODE RETURNS
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Control mode returns during the Awakening Collection Event and this time, World’s Edge will be joining the rotation with Olympus and Storm Point. If this is going to be your first time playing Control or it’s been a while, catch up with our blog that explains the popular mode. Also, check out the new features we’ll be adding to Control during the Awakening Collection Event:

Introduce Ad Drones to Control for flavor & storytelling purposes, but yes, you can also shoot them.
Matchmaking improvement – Fill slots of missing players at the start of Control with new players to prevent imbalanced matches.
Added tabs to the About screen – seen in Lobby and accessible in Control matches.
- One of the new tabs has a breakdown of Ratings values.
- The other has a breakdown of how the spawn system works.

[h2]AWAKENING COLLECTION EVENT ITEMS
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The Awakening Collection Event introduces a brand new set of 24-themed, limited-time cosmetics. Look every inch the fighter in new Legendary skins including Horizon’s “Atom Heart Mother”, Fuse’s “Animal Instinct”, Ash’s “Existential Threat”, and more!

Learn more in the full blog here: https://www.ea.com/games/apex-legends/news/awakening-collection-event

Apex Legends' design director on the health and direction of ranked

One of the biggest developments for Apex Legends Season 13 was Ranked Reloaded, a collection of changes and improvements to Apex's competitive mode bundled up into one package. The main focus was not only to create a more satisfying and less frustrating ranked experience, but one where the quality of the gameplay would also change to better reflect the placement-focused action we see in the Apex Legends Global Series.

While Apex Legends' ranked mode is constantly tweaked every season, this marked one of the biggest single updates to ranked since the game launched. So has it worked?

For some, ranked is the best it has ever been, but Ranked Reloaded is still far from being universally loved by all competitive-minded Apex players. With that in mind, we reached out to Respawn for its thoughts on the direction of ranked play, how Ranked Reloaded has been received, and what it's looking to tinker with next.

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Apex Legends Awakening Collection Event release time countdown

It's almost time for the Awakening Collection Event in Apex Legends, and the countdown to this mechs versus monsters inspired event is ticking away.

We've already had a sneak peek at some of the sweet weapon skins that can be obtained throughout the Awakening Collection Event, and the trailer has shown off some awesome skins for the likes of Ash, Loba, Seer, and Horizon. To coincide with her buff (finally) Lifeline will also be taking over Olympus with her own point of interest. There are also some further tweaks being made to Apex Legends ranked, and everyone's favourite LTM Control is back on the menu. Delicious.

So if you're itching to get stuck into all this new content, you might be wondering when the Apex Legends Awakening Collection Event release time is? Well, if it follows a similar rollout to previous events, it will be kicking off on June 21 at 10am PT/ 1pm ET/ 6pm BST, so there's not long to wait.

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Apex Legends Awakening Collection Event weapon skins shown off by dev

When it comes to a new Apex Legends Collection Event, character skins and Heirloom items are more often than not the talk of the town. However, they're not the only cosmetic item on offer - Respawn Entertainment is consistently introducing new weapon skins to the battle royale shooter, too. Ahead of the Awakening Collection release date, lead hard surface MTX artist Oscar Aguirre has shared a detailed look at some of the new legendary weapon skins that will be available during the Awakening Collection Event - and, they look awesome.

On June 16, following the official reveal of the upcoming Collection Event, Aguirre shared six images on his personal Twitter account showcasing upcoming legendary weapon skins for the Hemlock assault rifle, the Mastiff shotgun, the CAR submachine gun, the Bocek Bow, the Havoc assault rifle, and the Longbow marksman rifle.

In a similar fashion to previous Collection Event cosmetics collections, each weapon skin shared by Aguirre has what you could describe as a 'matching' legend skin. This means that both the weapon skin and the legend skin share design cures and an overall theme - so, you can match them up if you're lucky enough to get your hands on both.

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