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Apex Season 4 is live, new Legend has an infuriating off buttonThe cursed sound of silence
The cursed sound of silence
The wheel of time has turned around World’s Edge, bringing a new Season’s worth of changes toApex Legends. The frozen city has been cleft in twain. The Turbocharger attachment has been done away with. There’s a new sniper rifle, and a new Legend called Revenent, skulking around with a button that turns other abilities off. I am not a fan of that button. The other stuff is cool.
Let’s start with a closer look at Revenent. We already got acquainted with the cyborg killing machine inthe Season 4 launch trailer, but now we know his abilities. They come in different flavours of annoying: his regular ability does some damage and disables enemy abilities, while his ult is a resurrection totem that he and his allies teleport to when they’d normally be knocked down. His passive lets him crouch walk faster and climb walls higher.
Presciently, I railed against off buttonsthis very morning. Stopping stuff from happening isn’t just boring, it creates an unwelcome sense of helplessness. Non-events are less exciting than back and forths. Revenent represents everything that is wrong with cancel culture.
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Guns! The new Sentinel sniper rifle sounds interesting. It’s a sniper rifle that you can energise with shield canisters, sprucing up the damage it does to shields. Sniper rifle ammo has been dragged off into it’s own category, too, while the Turbocharger attachment has been mothballed. TheDevotionis now a crate weapon that comes with the speedy-uppy turbocharger baked in, while the L-Star has been ousted from those special crates and be found in the regular world. That’s because Developers Respawn realised a kitted out Devotion was one of the best weapons in the game, though I think it’s a shame. I liked running around with a Devotion while constantly looking for a Turbocharger. It gave matches more of an arc.
There’s plenty I haven’t mentioned inthe patch notes. The Scout rifle is an assault rifle now, for instance. Weird.
Guidesman Ollie has alreadygot stuck into the changes.
