Last night time the Apex Legends devs handled us to a stream to announce all the brand new issues coming to the game’s fourth season. Amongst these bulletins, we obtained our first glimpse at Apex’s subsequent character, beefy wrestler Forge.
Except, Forge wasn’t who most Apex followers have been anticipating to see. Over the previous couple of months, there have been easter eggs and teasers galore (to not point out some leaks and datamines) suggesting the edgy purple Legend, Revenant, could be making a correct introduction to the games. At first look it appears to be like like he’s been not noted, pushed again and forgotten about – however in the event you look just a little deeper on EA’s web site, it appears Revenant remains to be very a lot on the playing cards for Season 4.
For starters, let’s have a look at some onerous proof. If you go to the hyperlink here, you’ll get taken to a background picture of Forge. We don’t care about Forge proper now although, so as a substitute in the event you change the quantity in that hyperlink from a 6 to a 7 and reload it, you’ll discover this. Some pretty official paintings of our freaky buddy Revenant.
Now that is fascinating.
“But Imogen, that’s just artwork, it doesn’t mean we’re getting him in Season 4!” And I completely get it, I used to be skeptical at first too. But this isn’t the one proof! One eagle-eyed Reddit poster managed to identify the define of Revenant in the background of Season 4’s blog too.
Thing is, we’ve recognized about Revenant for some time. If you keep in mind again to the Halloween event, you would possibly recall him being the character narrating the Shadowfall game mode (the one the place you respawned as spooky zombies). This isn’t the primary time a personality has been teased like this – again earlier than Crypto was launched, gamers truly noticed him performing some hacking on the previous map.
“But they’re just going to release Revenant after Forge!” And that just about is smart – if not for the very fact Revenant specifically has Valentine’s Day-themed voice lines that information miners have found. Forge ought to be in Season Four from the start, and the final time we had two Legends drop in a single Season, they weren’t launched that shut collectively (to not point out the truth that nothing has been present in these information mines pertaining to Forge).
Getting into leak territory, the plot continues to thicken – a dev sheet that and circulated a few months ago on Reddit (helpfully re-uploaded amongst all this hypothesis by person DocMock1) steered that after Crypto, it was Revenant and one other character known as Loba that have been deliberate to be subsequent. But what’s odd about this dev sheet, is how Forge is lacking fully.
Naturally all the Apex subreddits are actually stuffed with conspiracy and hypothesis that Forge would possibly truly be Revenant, and I’m not saying I consider all that, however the details definitely don’t rule it out.
The leaks and datamines ought to clearly be taken with a pinch of salt, however the reality stays that Respawn are hiding some sneaky official Easter eggs telling us that Revenant will certainly be launched throughout Season 4.
It’ll be humorous if Forge isn’t an actual Legend although, as a result of we’re all gonna really feel actually silly contemplating his title is 2 letters shy of the phrase “forgery”.
If you wish to discover out extra about Apex Legends’ subsequent season (and try to get a sneaky peek at that define of Revenant within the background) you possibly can head over to the game’s website, or have a watch of the dev stream above.
