If you’ve been fortunately sliding and capturing your means throughout Apex Legends‘s new map this past week, you’ve little question seen some tantalising secrets and techniques tucked away in sure nooks and crannies. A captain’s bounty of glistening golden chestplates and helmets, paralysing portions of purple attachments and phoenix kits, all saved simply out of attain by a door on a timer. Well, my plundering buddies, immediately that timer hit zero. Valuable vaults throughout World’s Edge at the moment are prepared for the taking.
Only… you didn’t assume it’d be so simple as opening a door, did you?
The three vaults, positioned close to Lava City, Trainyard and Geyser, have sat dormant since Season 3 went live final Tuesday. The countdown recommended they wouldn’t open up till 6pm (1pm Eastern) immediately, but it surely appears to be like like vault keys have already begun dropping for fortunate legends. Here’s one hapless Mirage demonstrating how they work.
Getting out of the vault, nonetheless, proves to be way more harmful for this daring duo.
To get into one in every of these vaults, you’ll must nab a key from a type of cargo drones buzzing in regards to the place. It doesn’t matter what glow the colored loot orb has once you shoot it down, however solely bots sporting a purple glowing centre include a key. There are multiple of those drones flying about per spherical, too, so don’t be shocked in the event you rock as much as a vault and discover nothing however cobwebs and bullet casings.
While it’s not too arduous to choose up purple armour throughout the sector, golden gear is much rarer. These gems often include very important perks like sooner merchandise use or self-resurrection. Naturally, some people have begun complaining that treasure searching is destroying the balance of their very-quite-serious gaming expertise.
I’ve not had time to leap in and see for myself if Apex is now utterly unplayable, after all. It does imply that there’ll in all probability be a complete lot extra highly effective gear kicking in regards to the map. Remember: if somebody’s carrying a golden hat, they will in a short time be eliminated of it with the cautious software of bullets.
I’m largely simply excited to see extra esoteric map mechanics slip into the game. With chaotic practice strains, geyser eruptions, cargo bots and now secret treasure hunts, World’s Edge already appears like a much more dynamic map that ol’ King’s Canyon. What does the brand new map get rather than a dinosaur invasion, I’m wondering?
