Apex Legends has experienced a surge in interest over the past few months. As a quality free-to-play game, Apex Legends sells itself, but beyond that, it offers a few interesting twists on the battle royale format. Looting and shooting is still at the core of Apex Legends, but you’ll need more than that to make it to the winner’s circle. Here are the best tips and tricks for getting started in Apex Legends.

• Apex Legends has 22 playable characters to choose from. Each legend has a passive, tactical, and ultimate ability. Besides those perks, all legends play the same. They move at the same speed and can pick up and use the same gear. Just know that no matter who you pick, you can still make it to the end of a match, so I suggest taking each legend for a spin to see which abilities click with you.

• Like other battle royale games, Apex Legends begins with the drop. One player in your team of three is designated as the Jumpmaster. The other two can suggest locations to head toward, but at the end of the day, the Jumpmaster chooses the location and the angle at which you head there. Sometimes you may strongly disagree with the spot. Maybe it’s a barren area unlikely to have gear. Or, maybe you can see other teams heading in the same direction. It happens.



• But avoid the temptation of separating from your team, which you can do at any time during the descent. Splitting up is a recipe for an early demise. Not only is an organized squad likely to take you out earlier, but you’ll also be too far away for your teammates to revive you.

• After you’ve picked up some initial loot, stick together as a team. Apex Legends doesn’t emphasize teamwork as much as Overwatch, but certain Legends fill the holes left by others. A roster of Bangalore, Gibraltar, and Lifelife offers a nice balance of offense, defense, and support, but you can get creative, too. Loba can point your team toward better loot, while Pathfinder can quickly scout new areas. No matter the Legends that comprise your team find how they work best together, and implement that strategy.

Here is one example of pathfinders abillities:

• When you first drop, it’s fine to pick up everything you see. But after you grab a weapon or two, take a gander at your backpack. Chances are you’ll have some incompatible ammunition. It’s up to you, but I recommend shedding the ammo that you cannot currently use.

• Each new season of Apex Legends brings map changes. Depending on the season and if you’re playing ranked or not, you’ll have access to World’s Edge and Kings Canyon. Between seasons, the maps stay mostly the same. However, Respawn regularly swaps locations and adds new points of interest at the start of each season. Simply learning the best places to land and loot is half the battle.

• Season 6 introduced crafting to Apex Legends, and it helps a lot in rounding out your build. You shouldn’t look at crafting as a replacement for looting — it’s a supplement to looting. Use the Replicator crafting stations to pick up extra ammo and outfit your guns with better parts. If you have a specific type of weapon you need — Rampart has faster reloads and increased magazine capacity with LMGs, for example — you can buy a new weapon. Still, it’s best not to rely on Replicators for new guns.

• Like other battle royale games, the playable area gradually shrinks throughout the match. You shouldn’t worry too much about this until the late game, though. Once the timer for each round hits zero, a new timer starts that tells you when the ring will start shrinking. In short, you have a lot of time to avoid the closing ring. Pay more attention to the persistent threat: Other teams. You have to be really trying to die by the ring.

• Healing takes time. Whether you’re replenishing shields or health with consumables, you need to not be interrupted. Don’t heal out in the open during a firefight. You’re better off fleeing the scene entirely or trying to take out enemies with low health than trying to heal when under pressure.

Healing items:

• The most novel system in Apex Legends is undoubtedly its contextual ping system. It facilitates nonverbal communication and makes playing without a mic very doable. When you see an enemy, mark them with the ping system to tell your teammates their location. Even if you think they saw the enemy too, it never hurts to place the mark.

• Just like using personal health and shield items, reviving teammates who have fallen can be risky. Hopefully, your teammate will crawl to a safe position to help you out, but you should wait till the coast is clear before going in for the revival. It’s very easy to get killed while reviving a teammate, and that won’t help you or your fallen comrade.

• Apex Legends has zero fall damage, so do not worry about jumping off buildings, cliffs, bridges, whatever. You cannot get hurt. Speaking of movement, get to know the crouching slide. It helps you move quicker down slopes and even when going down small inclines.

✦ Perpetual motion
“Camping” doesn’t come up much in multiplayer shooters nowadays, and that’s a good thing. Like other battle royale games, staying in a single spot in Apex Legends is a sure way to die (if the ring doesn’t get you, other teams will). You want to keep moving in the early game, picking off opposing teams as you find them and piecing together a loadout in the process.

✦ Pay attention to balloons
See those balloons in the sky? They let you redeploy. If you want to cover ground quickly, head over to one of them and ride the vertical zipline. You won’t launch as high as you were at the start of the match, but you can cover solid ground.

✦ Only use finishers when the coast is clear
One of the neat yet untold aspects of Apex Legends is finishers. If you down an enemy, there is one final step to eliminate them: Finishers. You can approach the enemy and press the button prompt to perform a finishing move. That said, while a finish looks cool, you should think twice before implementing one. An enemy can interrupt a finisher, so your character can even die mid-animation. It’s best only to do finishers when you’ve eliminated all of the threats in the area. Confirming that the coast is clear first means you can fully enjoy the finisher as it happens.

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