Apex Legends just introduced a potentially game-changing feature for inactive players.
Yesterday, on Valentine’s Day (in this case), the new season of Apex Legends, Revelry, began worldwide. Accompanying the new season is a new section of the Apex Legends website (opens in new tab), dedicated to chronicling every in-game event and story Respawn has chronicled over four years of battle royale.
For the past four years, we’ve loved telling you @PlayApex stories both in-game and online. Today, we’re excited to bring them all together in one place with the launch of our Lore Hub in Apex Legends. website! pic.twitter.com/35b6s5vEftFebruary 14, 2023
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This is a huge problem for Apex Legends and live service games in general. A dedicated resource that collects every piece of the game’s event history, comics, trailers, and episodes is amazing for those looking to learn more about every character in Apex Legends, or even players. inactive.
Oddly enough, I happen to be a perfect case study for this feature. I haven’t touched Apex Legends for about four months and quit the game shortly after Vantage joined Apex Games. Leaving the game Respawn, a shooter I’ve loved since day one, wasn’t deliberate on my part, I just found other things I was interested in for a change.
As the months passed, I was tempted to return to my beloved Battle Royale game and all the characters I had left behind. However, I was worried that I had missed dramatic events for weeks and months, especially episodes of the game, which tell multi-episode stories during each season, disappearing from Apex Legends entirely after the end of the current season.
With this new resource on the Apex Legends website, I can catch up on anything I’ve missed, without having to worry about searching the internet for a recap or searching YouTube for a long recap. Every story development I missed is there, waiting for me to come back and relearn everything whenever I want.
There are probably others like me who have jumped off the bandwagon and are desperate to get back into action. This new feature gives us all a path to Apex Legends, without any time-sensitive pressure.
The history section is also a huge win for the preservation of the game. With each new seasonal event, Apex Legends cycles through its episodes and in doing so, removes all of your team’s in-game writes from it. Now, however, all that hard work and effort is effectively stored, so Respawn writers have a place where they know their work is saved, to which they can return when they need it.
This isn’t an in-game feature for Apex Legends, but it’s arguably one of the most exciting updates to surround the game in quite some time. If other live service games like Destiny 2 or Fortnite follow suit, storing every game development and story in one easily accessible place, this has the potential to be an industry-changing feature.
Earlier this month, EA reportedly canceled a new Titanfall gamee which would have incorporated elements and characters from Apex Legends.