Final week Respawn teased the contents of Apex Legends’ upcoming “Escape” season, together with new Titanfall crossover Legend Ash, and now they’ve supplied some actual gameplay. The footage gives a take a look at the brand new Storm Level map, a tropical island brimming with hazard together with large spiders and dinosaur-like monsters, in addition to Ash’s portal and electrical tether talents. Take a look at the Apex Legends gameplay trailer, under.
Appears to be like like Respawn Vancouver have cooked up a fairly meaty replace! Right here’s the full rundown on Ash’s backstory and abilities.
Born within the unforgiving Frontier, Dr. Ashleigh Reid – nonetheless very a lot a human – realized early that the one one that was going to look out for her was herself. At some point, she was employed by a mercenary group for a fragile job: steal an experimental gasoline supply being researched within the Outlands metropolis of Olympus. It was the proper job for Reid, who infiltrated and psychologically manipulated the researchers for years. When the lab self-destructed, she died. And didn’t.
Particular Skills:
- Arc Snare – Throw a spinning snare that damages and tethers the primary enemy who will get too shut.
- Marked for Loss of life – Ash’s map reveals the placement of current deathboxes and marks surviving attackers.
- Section Breach – Tear open a one-way portal to a focused location.
In the meantime, right here’s a bit extra element in regards to the Storm Point map and the wildlife you’ll face there…
Positioned on the planet Gaea, Storm Level is a long-forgotten IMC analysis base and is now dwelling to the Apex Video games. It’s our largest map to this point, about 15% greater than World’s Edge. It options all kinds of numerous places, from tropical island hopping to massive mountain slides that permit you to play larger than earlier maps. There’s a lot to see and lots to speak about, so let’s dive in.
Gravity Cannons
Practically all of the redeploy balloons are gone. Of their place are the Gravity Cannons and so they’re a wonderful methodology to outrun the ring. Step inside of 1 and it’ll launch you in a pre-determined route. Whereas touring by the air, you’ve gotten pitch management and might land to the perimeters of the receiving factors of the Gravity Cannon to keep away from traps and different risks. You even have full management of your weapons, grenades, tactical talents, and ultimates when touring by the air.
Wildlife
On Storm Level, gamers will probably be dropping right into a world that’s teeming with harmful wildlife. Wildlife Nests are thrilling new fight encounters that supply strategic looting choices for squads as they plan their paths by to the mid-stages of a match!
- Prowlers – Prowlers are aggressive creatures that hunt in packs, and could be discovered patrolling their Prowler Dens throughout Storm Level. In the event that they spot you, they’ll make sure to warn that you simply’re getting too shut and aren’t too pleasant to uninvited visitors. Maintaining your distance leaves the choice to interact in your fingers. Be careful although, for those who select to interact, extra will emerge from the Prowler Dens to defend their territory.
- Spiders – Prowlers aren’t the one issues dwelling on Storm Level. Spider eggs are scattered throughout the map. Inflicting injury to those eggs will disturb the spiders inside, hatching a swarm of critters that can fortunately have you ever for lunch. These giant arachnids are ranged, web-spitting enemies that select to interact with their potential meals from afar earlier than sinking their tooth into them. Whereas squishier than prowlers, these enemies are fast and scurry round to reposition themselves continuously.
- Flyers – Look to the sky to reap the rewards carried by Flyers discovered hovering or preached excessive above. Flyers are spawned individually throughout the map and their positions are randomly chosen from a predetermined checklist of potential spawn places every match.
Apex Legends is accessible now on PC, Xbox One, PS4, and Swap, and is playable through backward compatibility on Xbox Sequence X/S and PS5. The Escape season will kick off on November 2.