I love Apex. I’ve been playing it for a good while now, and in its infancy definitely dominated my time and most of the social activities I did with friends. While I’ve only played Fortnite (not my cup of tea but to each their own), I could see Apex presenting a fresh and much needed breath of competition for Epic Games. This update, detailed in full on their Reddit AMA here, takes a lunge in that direction. I’ll be giving a run-down of some of the changes that stood out to me, from weapons to Legends adjustments. Let’s start with the arsenal.

Bloodhound Gang wya

WEAPONS

To address the elephant in the room, they did NOT alter the Mozambique in any shape or form. In part because they enjoy the memes created as a result, but also to keep a ‘power curve’ of weapons. After all, you can’t have every single weapon be amazing, you’re going to need some trash ones in there a step above melee for the early-game. Some actual changes they’ve made were to the Wingman. To quote their community manager Jayfresh, “Our adjustments are attempting to move it more into the hand cannon space and away from full auto Deagle. ” (u/JayFresh_Respawn). The other weapon that was affected was Peacekeeper, which had it’s rechamber rate decrease. Availability for both weapons has been reduced in all loot zones, which sucks because most of the time I can scoop one up and have some false sense of security before being lit up by an entire squad.

LEGENDS

All of the big boy characters (Pathfinder, Gibraltar, and Caustic) are getting their hitboxes reduced, Pathfinder’s beacons also increase to 12 from 10. Caustic sees his traps get an all-around buff. Other heros (minus Bloodhound and Mirage) were nerfed, and those changes can be seen in the Reddit post.

Personally I’m excited for this update, mostly because it improves my odds against others and because now when I jump off as Bloodhound I’m slightly better off. On the other hand, I’m going to be more trash with Wingman and Peacekeeper. Oh well, till Season One I suppose. This has been your boy Jacob, if you want to squad up in Apex add me on Origin @jnikotheserb, peace!

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