Respawn Entertainment shared a brand new take a look at Apex Legends Season 6 on Friday with the season’s first gameplay trailer. The game’s newest Legend, Rampart, was featured prominently within the trailer alongside glimpses of latest battle move rewards, a brand new weapon, and the crafting function that’ll be new to Apex Legends in Season 6. As is the case with just about each season, the World’s Edge map will once more be reworked so as to add new factors of curiosity for gamers to discover and grasp.
The Season 6 trailer opens with Rampart and her imposing turret that we’ve seen a number of instances in her previews. Though it gave the impression to be the case earlier than, it’s clear now that Rampart can arrange her turret as a stationary fixture to mount it and spew out a excessive charge of fireside at her enemies.
Later within the trailer, we see extra of Rampart’s talents and the way her teammates can work together with them. The shields we’ve seen in previous previews the place it seemed as if friendlies can shoot by way of them whereas enemy hearth will get blocked are certainly a part of Rampart’s package. She’s capable of put down at the least three of the shields directly with every one giant sufficient to comfortably match a teammate behind it. It was additionally confirmed by the trailer that she’s not the one one who can use her turret. She units it up throughout a teamfight and lets Gibraltar mount the weapon whereas her and Wattson shoot from behind their very own shields.
Aside from the brand new Rampart particulars, we received a greater take a look at the crafting system new to Apex Legends. By discovering gadgets referred to as “Replicators” that are presumably strung about all through the map or maybe dropped like care packages, you possibly can commerce in supplies you’ve extracted for various gadgets. Some of these gadgets seem like everlasting choices like therapeutic sources and defend upgrades whereas others like weapons, attachments, and different forms of gears rotate on both a weekly or every day foundation.
This trailer additionally confirmed us our first take a look at the brand new World’s Edge map that’s once more been modified as much as associate with what’s occurring within the story and to additional diversify the meta.
“The leaves are falling and the rockets are rising on World’s Edge — explore a revamped map and use the new Blast Walls to your advantage,” Respawn stated in regards to the map modifications.
Apex Legends Season 6 begins on August 18th throughout all platforms.
