Apex Legends is getting lovely Valve-themed charms

The nice EA exodus is upon us. With Titanfall 2 landing on Steam earlier this year, it’s solely a matter of time earlier than Apex Legends makes the bounce. Respawn’s battle royale is dropping on Valve’s home later this Autumn – and to commemorate the event, the devs are including three pleasant Half-Life and Portal-themed charms to their far-future deathmatch.

The three charms have been proven off throughout Respawn’s newest devstream – and whereas I’m no that fussed over gun charms, these positive are very, very cute.

In anticipation for ApeLegs’ Steam launch, Respawn acquired along with the boffins at Valve to create three crossover cosmetics – a headcrab zombie Octane, Wattson clutching a companion dice, and a potato GLaDOS to chastise your progress by means of the King’s Canyon experiment. These’ll be accessible as limited-time log-in rewards when the game ultimately hits Steam at an unannounced date this Autumn.

While they’re pleasant, I’d perhaps have favored to see a dressing up or two – notably within the wake of Death Stranding’s ludicrous Half-Life crossover items. C’mon, we will’t give Caustic a Combine masks? Outfit Wraith in an Aperture Science jumpsuit? Ah, properly. They’re charming wee charms nonetheless.

There’s an extra deal with for audiophiles in that devstream, thoughts. The bulk of the vid is given over to composer Steve Barton and senior audio director Erik Kraber, who go in deep on ApeLegs’ underappreciated soundscape. I’ve at all times thought that the speeding musical build-up through the drop was quietly the very best a part of Apex, and I’m eager to dig into this 30-minute deep dive as soon as my wonky headphones end charging.

We nonetheless don’t know when precisely Apex will hit Steam – however when it does, it’ll function cross-platform multiplayer with Origin, PS4, Xbone and the incoming Switch version. Hardly appears truthful on handheld of us, does it?

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