I made a serious mistake on Friday night: I DMed the group chat about a comment Apex Legends I saw on TikTok. For some reason my For You page fed me a steady stream Apex Legends content in the last day or two, including the iiTzTimmy saga, CaseOh, and Jynxzi. I hate to admit it, but I was influenced – this comment summing up my current mental space: “Life got so serious I started wanting to play Apex again.”
One friend replied: “I'm in the 'I should call her' phase with this game.” I told him I would call her if she did. A third soon joined in, and before we knew it, the free time of the Easter weekend was once again consumed by the Apex Games. It had been years since we played together seriously, but at one point the game took over our lives. It topped my list of most played games on Xbox for three years in a row and remains my favorite battle royale game of all time.
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Of course we ran away in the end. It happened gradually: after playing nonstop for so long, we slowed down to a few weeks per season, then so infrequently that we barely noticed we stopped. I can't pinpoint the last time we played together, but it was sometime after Ballistica was added Apex Legends. Now, two or three years later, Apex Legends has changed so much that it barely feels like the same game.
We first started playing the day the Apex Legends shadow dropped in Season 0 and have played/finished every Battle Pass for years.
Apex Legends is still Apex Legends, but…
All that defined Apex Legends it's still there to be clear. My favorite part remains intact: the way Respawn's battle royale game gamifies dynamics, rewards aggression, and produces memorable gunfights. Respawn understands motion in video games better than any development studio. Then there's the skill required in each Apex match, the way you coordinate with a good team, the rotations and understanding of the map, the control of pace and purpose in the match, the situational and contextual use of all weapons and abilities – all of which still feel like Apex Legends. Heck, it was also like Apex when the game ended on Friday; maybe not the right kind of nostalgia, but the nostalgia was there (he's significantly better as a rural player in that regard as well).
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It was like coming home, in many ways. Did my Octane burst into a firefight unprepared? Yes. Did I encounter many sweaty Wraiths? Yes. But it's a house that has undergone serious renovations over the years, so much so that it's a whole new game (or house, to continue the metaphor).
One of the first areas where we really felt the extent of these changes was Apex Legends'arms. In the early seasons, for example, there was a clear delineation of species where you used weaker weapons to progress to better, higher-level weapons. You'd be constantly improving the system through the match, and while it still pretty much works, there are so many ways to lock down the set, so many options, so many changes that it all feels fresh.
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The hemlock is no longer a blaster, sorry? And does he have a piercing shot? The new Hemmy is so OP in Apex Legends
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I knew about Akimbo P2020 and Mozambique, but come on, to see them in action with someone who is GOOD in Mozambique? So many Mozambique jokes have been made.
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The R-301 and R-99 are still so good, which is nice to see, but compared to some of the other weapons, they're boring now.
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Changing the RE-45 to an energy weapon is so wrong
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Changing the Spitfire to a light gun is even worse (we were there for that, but STILL. It will forever be a heavy gun in my heart).
And this is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to this aspect Apex Legends. Consider how you develop your kit, choose upgrades, and use AMP Apex Legendsand the whole weapon meta feels drastically different than before (but importantly, no less powerful). AMPs are a huge change, for one. I like the infinite batteries the most, but I won't lie: one of iiTzTimmy's TikTok posts about the infinite AMP and Kraber made my heart stop. WOW. In short, the whole weapon meta feels so refreshing after being gone for so long.
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Apex Legends is Apex
It's not called Apex Guns for some reason and the same can be said for a rod of the same quality Apex Legends' meta character. I was there at the metas where Gibraltar was broken. I remember metas where Gibraltar was weak. Now we're clearly back in the era of Gibraltar being robbed, and I love that about it. But apart from the characters we've never played Apex Legendscomplete changes to the playable characters make it a completely new game:
It was exciting and fun to watch the main fuse fire his Ultimate and see how it works completely differently, in real time. Lifeline's redesign has arrived where it lives up to its name, leaving behind the days of the Care Package decline. There's so much – I don't even want to mention it all, go check out your old main Apex Legends right now. Even at times when I can acknowledge macro changes, I'm not entirely sure I can accurately articulate all of the changes on a micro level. Heck, even switching to the Apex Legends duo in the menu works differently.
Life got so serious I needed to play Apex again
If you haven't played Apex Legends in at least two years, it feels like it's time to get back. What greets you is a completely different game than a game Apex Legends of your memories and everything mentioned here is just a drop in the ocean of change. The result is a great combination, at least for me and my friends. Life in 2026 is something, and it shows no signs of slowing down. Something about Apex Legends hits otherwise because of it, as well as developer Respawn Entertainment's hard work over the years.
- Released
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February 4, 2019
- ESRB
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T for Teens: Blood, Violence
- Publishers
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Electronic Arts
