Apex season 4 assimilation has a lot of new changes to keep things feeling
fresh including a new legend who brings in a little bit more lore behind the
apex games with his entrance but before we get into the lore analysis of this
new arrival plus maybe another legend here are some other points of interest
to note for the season the world's edge map will be slightly changed in this
photo from a blog post by respawn this part of capitol city has been destroyed
and the lava beneath the ground is visible it's not a huge change but
considering there might be other locations that are affected this greatly
reduces ground areas to run and loot on along with these map changes to world's
edge Kings Canyon we'll be making a return halfway through season 4 part of
this map switch over is due to the changes made to range mode ranked mode
in season 4 will be split between two quote episodes where ranks will be reset
one and a half tiers down and players hope to grind matches again but this
time on Kings Canyon in addition to splitting the ranked season adjustments
have been made to the leveling tiers and mastered here now replaces apex predator
master tiers were the players who have 10,000 rpm more will stand and apex
predators will now be reserved for the top 500 players on each platform but
just because you reach apex predator doesn't mean you get to stay there
forever it'll be a coveted spot that players will have to continue to play to
maintain their titles rank rewards we'll also be getting a slight tweak and dive
trails will now be a temporary reward for all future series due to the
cluttered visual space when leaving the drop ship so don't worry you'll get your
fancy air trails but only for that ranked series is time now let's get to
the fun part of the video season 4 drops with a new legend called forge who seems
to be a melee based character armed with shattered gauntlets the curious thing
about the legend is that he's the very first apex competitor to be sponsored by
a company in game forges sponsored by Hammond robotics a well known name in
the titanfall universe to really understand the connection of this
company and apex elite the titanfall lore we have to go way back the first
titanfall took place when the Titan Wars and frontier war were at large the main
powers fighting against each other were the IMC versus militia the IMC
interstellar manufacturing corporation was originally called at Hammond
engineering which was a massive industrial conglomerate existing on
earth the IMC was notorious for sending their fleets to independent human colony
worlds to exploit their natural resources from their plan
the colonists who suffered losing their homes and freedom to the IMC formed the
militia and sparked a civil war that spread across the world's Hammond
robotics was an allied component of the IMC's that acted as a manufacturing
aerospace and defense contractor meaning they produced war materials for the IMC
cause materials that included Titans specters and Marvins which are the
janitor robots that Pathfinder may have originated from Hammond robotics
actually even has a working website that's been around since the launch of
titanfall ones and you can visit to find out more on what they're capable of
what's interesting about this history is that the IMC contracted a mercenary by
the names human bliss who led a mercenary group of elite pilots called
apex predators which players have been assuming apex legends was named after
the apex games were founded after the frontier war when both the IMC and
militia had a final battle and both factions disappeared to let the frontier
govern themselves fans are speculating that forge being sponsored by a company
that's sided with the IMC and sought to extract resources from worlds without
care could be the reason why parts of world's edge looks destroyed
construction signs have even begun popping up in certain locations in the
game that states it's a quote future Hammond robotics worksite implying
something larger in the works than a simple sponsorship additionally forge
isn't the only legend players think we'll be dropping the season after
revenants introduction to the game during the Halloween events people have
been digging up more and more about this mysterious figure reddit user Vaughn
hald found that revenant was floating around on response season to
announcement page background showing that he was lurking and quote watching
however nothing has been officially announced on revenants return and
respond quietly changed its apex twitter account to Outlands television
continuing to tease the arrival of porch they even posted a mock interview with
forge that was brought to us by him and robotics players are speculating that
during fortress debut something may go awry and revenant may take over the
AIPAC scene there's also a theory that because there's a map switch halfway
through the season revenant may show up when Kings Canyon turns over there's a
heavy load of content in season 4 that's going to keep you on our toes
it'll also be the one year anniversary for apex so they'll be additional daily
log it rewards to look out for it what do you think's happening with the lore
behind the apex games do you think revenant is the real legend coming next
or do you think we'll get to legends in one
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