Exciting issues are taking place in Apex Legends – nicely, it’s thrilling should you’re into the game’s lore not less than. This week, Respawn have dropped a few tasty teasers on Twitter, as they do when one thing enjoyable is about to be introduced. It all appears to be main up the brand new video within the Stories From The Outlands sequence that’s dropping later immediately, which is able to hopefully reveal the subsequent Legend followers have been speculating about since Revenant’s arrival – Loba.
On Tuesday, Apex tweeted this gif:
Now, this picture isn’t fully new information. The textual content on that futuristic iPad there was really launched earlier than Revenant got here to the game, to arrange why they determined to place the homicide robotic within the enviornment. The post-it notes, nonetheless, inform a brand new story. It appears like somebody is investigating the murderous robotic to determine a technique to hack him, seemingly in revenge for certainly one of his assassinations.
But who may probably need to get revenge on outdated Revvy? Well, one choice might be the woman that watched him slaughter her household within the cheery Season four launch trailer.
Since this was launched, followers have speculated that the little woman is, in truth, an upcoming Legend named Loba. Now, we haven’t really heard about Loba formally from Respawn – the title itself got here from datamines a short time in the past. The context clues are all there to recommend this woman and this Legend are one in the identical, although. In the cinematic she’s gifted a wolf figurine from her father, and, shock shock, Loba means “wolf” in portuguese.
So, we’re fairly sure that we’ve discovered our subsequent playable character, nonetheless, the intentions of Apex’s most up-to-date teaser are rather less apparent. They tweeted another gif, however this time it simply has a load of information about Simulacra. Titanfall and Apex followers will recognise this as the kind of robotic Revenant is – basically a machine that’s had somebody’s consciousness transferred into it. In the gif, there’s some information about a number of failed Simulacrum exams, and a little bit of exposition that tells us these bots are alleged to nonetheless see themselves human in reflections (which you’ll discover from the trailer above doesn’t apply to our favorite edgelord).
While all of that is fairly attention-grabbing stuff, what I’m most drawn to is the little bit in daring within the backside left nook:
“We will likely see greater success if organic storage is retained as a remote network intermediary.”
Once you get previous the sciencey phrases, I imagine that is suggesting that Hammond Robotics preserve the human stays of individuals they’ve changed into Simulacra. If that is true, my bets are on Loba looking for and destroy Revenant’s human components – no matter’s left of him not less than, the rattling robotic’s meant to be over 300 years outdated.
God I completely dwell for this deep lore stuff. But sufficient out of me, the subsequent installment within the game’s Stories From The Outlands movies goes dwell immediately at 6pm BST. It’s titled “Legacy of a Thief”, and contemplating Loba is described as a Translocating Thief in datamines… I’ll allow you to put two and two collectively on that one.
Of course, this might all simply be one other big bamboozle from Respawn. We know they’re not above murdering freshly introduced characters thanks to the whole Forge fiasco. Perhaps Loba has been a crimson herring this complete time. Whatever the case could also be, we’ll discover out in a number of hours.
In the meantime, Apex’s Battle Armour event is currently running should you fancy leaping into a number of matches when you wait. At the second, solely white armour is out there across the map on this game mode, so count on some fairly fast engagements while you come throughout different squads.
