Apex Legends attachments (Season 2) – new Hop Ups, Mag, Barrel, Stock attachments defined

Finding attachments on your weapons in Apex Legends has by no means been so essential. Your weapons have all the time solely been nearly as good because the attachments you give them, however with Season 2 and the discharge of two new Hop Ups and one new Extended Mag, attachments are a make-or-break factor in your matches. It is usually a lot to maintain observe of, however worry not – our Apex Legends attachments information will stroll you thru each single attachment in Apex Legends, with descriptions of every and lists of weapons to which you’ll be able to connect them.

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Apex Legends attachments information (Hop Up, Mag, Scope, Stock, Barrel)

Attachments might be discovered wherever that weapons or another sort of gear might be discovered. You would possibly discover one mendacity on the ground of a constructing, or inside one of many many provide bins dotted concerning the map, and even inside one of many game’s uncommon and extremely sought-after Supply Drops.

You can hover over such an attachment and the UI will let you recognize whether or not the attachment might be fitted to both of your presently geared up weapons. If you choose up an attachment which might match onto your weapon, it would accomplish that routinely. Likewise, when you swap or choose up a brand new weapon, it would routinely connect something viable out of your stock or the swapped out weapon to your new gun.

Many of the attachments in Apex Legends have a number of variants, every of which differ in color and high quality. White attachments are the least beneficial, superceded by blue attachments, then purple, and at last gold. As with games comparable to Fortnite, there’s by no means any cause to to not improve an attachment to an an identical attachment of upper high quality.

Certain attachments, such because the Turbocharger Hop Up and the Digital Threat scopes, are solely ever present in gold colors. Certain others comparable to magazines and shares do have golden equivalents, however these are solely discovered as a part of a “fully-kitted” gold weapon (the type normally – however not completely – discovered within the Hot Zone of every match) and are an identical in perform and stats to their purple equivalents. The solely exception to that is the Gold Barrel Stabiliser, which gives even better recoil discount than purple, and reduces the flash in your gun.

All the attachments in Apex Legends are damaged up into 5 completely different classes, and you may solely match an attachment on a gun if that gun has the right sort of attachment slot obtainable. For extra data on the completely different attachment slots that every weapon has, check out our detailed Apex Legends guns/weapons information. All attachment sorts have completely different advantages, however as a basic guideline that is our order of most useful, from highest to lowest (although they’re all nonetheless helpful):

• Hop Up
• Mag/Barrel
• Optic (increased precedence for snipers)
• Stock

Now, let’s check out every of the attachments and what they will do on your weaponry and killing potential. I’ve marked as daring the new Season 2 attachments so you possibly can see precisely what all of the fuss is about with these highly effective new augmentations.

Hop Up Attachments

Hop Ups are particular attachments that are solely accommodated by a choose few weapons. Each particular person Hop Up has a particular gun or small number of weapons to which it may be utilized, so you possibly can’t match any Hop Up into any Hop Up attachment slot; it needs to be the appropriate weapon for that particular Hop Up. But they usually grant a superb profit for his or her weapon of alternative, and as such they’re uncommon finds obtainable solely in purple or gold colors.

Optic Attachments (Sights & Scopes)

Optics attachments cowl every kind of sights and scopes, from 1x sights for SMGs and Shotguns to 6x and 4-10x for Sniper Rifles. Each of those don’t are available in a number of high quality variants, as a substitute having one mounted color.

The gold scopes are distinctive in that they supply Threat Highlighting, which highlights enemies in pink, permitting you to see them extra clearly by way of smoke or from a distance.

Mag Attachments (Extended Magazines & Shotgun Bolts)

The major good thing about most Mag attachments in Apex Legends is to extend your journal measurement so you possibly can fireplace extra bullets earlier than having to reload. But the rarer sorts additionally present a lower to your weapon’s reload time.

Barrel & Bolt Attachments

Barrel attachments are purely for lowering recoil in your weapons, and thus are greatest suited to fast-firing, high-recoil weapons comparable to LMGs, SMGs, and Assault Rifles. The Barrel Stabiliser can be the one non-Hop-Up, non-Optic attachment with a gold variant that differs in perform from purple, and the one such gold attachment that may be discovered by itself relatively than as a bundle deal in one of many “fully-kitted” gold weapons.

Bolt attachments are purely for Shotguns, and considerably enhance the hearth charge of the gun – making a very good Bolt the highest precedence for kitting out your shotgun.

Stock Attachments

Stock attachments scale back the draw time of your weapon, and in addition helps to cut back the quantity of intention drift you obtain whereas aiming down sights – that’s, the way in which your intention will routinely sway by itself as a way to make hitting your goal more difficult.

And there you may have it! You’ve simply been by way of each attachment it’s attainable to search out in Apex Legends. Keep referring again to this web page for all essentially the most up-to-date data on the myriad attachments on this huge battle royale hit. Until then, see you on the battlefield.