I m not sure anyone at Respawn has properly busted their ass on the curb. It hurts. The last time I cracked my rear off the concrete in a moment of skating hubris, I was limping for days. Fortunately for the fifty million folks flying around in Apex Legends, a billowing cushion of air has turned what should be an embarrassing accident into the most compelling movement skill in years. There are, uh, a few> battle royale games. And each one has had to find its identity to stand out. PUBG has its impossibly large open fields and tense sniper standoffs. Fortnite requires you be a Minecraft building savant to change the level around you during battle. In Apex Legends, though? It s all about that need for speed.

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You’ve made it to The Division 2’s endgame, or at the very least you think you have. But no, reaching level 30 does not fully guarantee that you’ll have unlocked the Specializations just yet. What exactly are you missing? This guide to unlocking the Specializations will go over all the requirements to reach each World Tier and give you the lowdown on the Specialization’s stats and skills for each.

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After years of growing beards and wearing plaid shirts as an independent studio, Hard Reset developers and Shadow Warrior rebooters Flying Wild Hog have got a shave, started wearing ties, and sided with The Suits. The Polish studio have been bought by Supernova Capital, an investment firm founded by a number of Splash Damage veterans including former CEO Paul Wedgwood. They all say this is good news for Flying Wild Hog, as the gang will get to focus on making games while The Suits provide financial security, sit in smoky rooms steepling their fingers, and cackle ominously when they don’t realise conference calls are still going.

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EverQuest came out in 1999. It invited thousands of adventurers to the fantasy realm of Norrath to kill monsters and loot dungeons. Twenty years later, it is still alive. To understand why thousands of people sill log in to this antiquated MMO every day after two decades, I spoke to some of its veteran developers and a longtime fan that’s been playing since the turn of the millennium.

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Apex Legends, you may have heard, is a pretty alright game. It’s so pretty alright, in fact, that since its release I’ve sunk many hundreds of hours into this high-octane slide-n-shooter in an attempt to become pretty alright at it myself. And now at last I’ve resurfaced, and I’m ready to share with you my top Apex Legends tips and tricks on how to become pretty alright your>self.

Our 100 Apex Legends tips are broken into four sections: beginner, intermediate, advanced, and expert. A lot of effort has been put into this to make it so there’s something for everyone here, even seasoned veterans. There are some really obscure tips and strategies in the advanced and expert sections, so if you’re confident that you know everything there is to know about Apelegs, I suggest you skip to those sections and prepare to be surprised!

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Season 1 of Apex Legends will soon be upon us, and one of the confirmed new features set to arrive with the new Season is the new character called Octane – the so-called “High Speed Daredevil” whose skillset offers something rather different to what we’ve experienced with any other character so far (if rumours are to be believed). Our Apex Legends Octane guide will delve into everything we know about this new Legend, analysing each of their abilities along with speculation regarding hitbox size and other details. So let’s get stuck into learning about this new character that seems to live life on the edge – quite literally.

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Apex Legends has had an incredibly successful first month, but the devs over at Respawn aren’t sitting idle, with the release of Apex Legends Season 1 hitting us very soon. The new season promises a host of exciting changes and new features, from the eagerly awaited Apex Legends Battle Pass to new characters, weapons, loot, and balance changes. Our Apex Legends Season 1 guide will walk you through everything we know about the Season 1 release date, as well as what it shall bring to the Apex Legends stage.

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Apex Legends’ Heirloom sets contain items such as Wraith’s Knife Heirloom, along with other of the rarest items it is possible to obtain in Apex Legends. If you’ve played or watched a fair amount of Apex you may have occasionally seen Wraith banners touting this wicked-looking glowing Knife, or even seen it in-game once or twice. Our Apex Legends Heirloom guide will walk you through exactly what this Knife is and does, and how to get your hands on these rare Heirlooms (yes, there’s more than one!).

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Apex Legends has a decent array of video and other settings to customise between (or during) matches. And that’s great; because success in Apex Legends, like in any high-octane competitive shooter, relies not just upon skill and reflexes but on how well you can actually run the game. To that end, our Apex Legends settings guide will walk you throguh the video section of the Apex Legends settings menu detailing everything you can do to eek out a few more frames per second for your matches.

We’ll also go over one of the most prominent causes of low FPS and lag in Apex Legends, with a simple fix for this issue; and guide you through the steps of displaying both your current FPS and your Ping in-game.

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Apex Legends’ Ping system is the gold standard for non-verbal communication in games. This marker system is not a new idea, but Respawn have refined it and made it so very easy to use to communicate with your teammates in such a variety of ways, that it’s no wonder it was all anyone could talk about when Apex first released. Our Apex Legends Ping guide will walk you through everything that you can use the Ping system for, from marking an enemy to contextual pings on specific items and interfae sections, responding to the Pings of your teammates, cancelling your previous Pings, requesting heals or ammo… the list goes on, so let’s just get started.

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