Respawn Entertainment announced on February 14th, “Apex Legends‘ Season 20 ‘Breakout’ began. The newly introduced “Legend Upgrade” system has been attracting attention, and some have even described it as “Apex Legends 2”, perhaps due to the freshness these new elements bring.
“Apex Legends” Season 20 introduced a new system “Legend Upgrade” that comes with the existing evolution shield. As your shield evolves to level 2 (blue) and level 3 (purple) during a match, you will earn upgrades to the abilities of each legend. There are two types of upgrades available at level 2 and level 3, and you can only choose one in a match. There is also an increased level of strategy in deciding which upgrades to choose depending on the battle situation.
Legend upgrades are different for each legend, and some legends can gain abilities that compensate for their weaknesses, while others can improve their strengths. Players are already experimenting with different legends, discovering upgrades that are both practical and fun to play with.
For example, Mirage is one of the Legends that has received a lot of attention for its upgrades. Mirage can obtain “Disguise Bonus” and “Me Too” with the level 3 upgrade. The Disguise Bonus gives you the ability to skip the cooldown of your tactical abilities when an enemy shoots you with a decoy. If you can trick the enemy, you can release the decoy many times, creating a dilemma for the enemy: if you shoot, the decoy will come back, and if you don’t shoot, you might miss the real thing.
In addition, “Me Too” increases the stock of tactical abilities by one. In addition, as a level 2 upgrade, you can select “Miracle Worker”, which allows you to recover a large amount of HP when reviving an ally, and “More Me”, which increases the number of decoys produced by your ultimate by 1 and reduces the cooldown by 30 seconds.
While all of these upgrades are effective, the type of upgrade that increases decoys seems to be used for unusual tactics. This is because Mirage has a variety of emotes that use its unique decoy ability. It is an emote that puts out one or two decoys and has two or three Mirages interacting with each other.
And while in other legends emotes serve as a means of communication between players, in Mirage they can also disrupt the battlefield depending on how they are used. In the case of Mirage, the decoy issued by the ability also emotes, so for example, if Mirage emote becomes 3 people, the number of Mirage will triple including himself and the decoy.
If you acquire More Me and Me Too, which have been implemented this time, the maximum number of decoys that can be played out with ultimate and tactics will increase from 6 to 8. It is now possible for 9 characters, including himself, to emote. In the emote where there are three Mirages, a total of 27 Mirages will fill the screen.The strategy of causing havoc using decoys and emotes has been attracting a certain amount of attention for some time.was collectingHowever, the “Human Smoke Strategy”, which has been further strengthened through the Legend Upgrade, seems to be attracting a lot of attention due to its surreal appearance.
* Even in the emote where the number of mirages increases to two, mirages fill the screen.
In addition to Mirage, legend upgrades are available for all legends, and each seems to be attracting attention. For example, Rampart’s level 3 upgrade “Amplification Reload” increases reload speed when using Sheila and when behind an amplification barricade. It is attracting attention because it reloads considerably faster and can continue firing bullets smoothly.
In addition, Valkyrie’s level 2 upgrade “Afterburner” will increase the altitude of her ultimate and allow her to cross Skyhook Mountain.verificationUsers who want to use Mad Maggie that they don’t normally use to try out powerful upgrades.I started using itA variety of reactions can be seen from users.
Furthermore, with the introduction of the Legend Upgrade System, it is no longer possible to change the evolution shield in this work, and it no longer appears as an item. In addition, it is possible to obtain “shield cores” in the Death Box, and a mechanism has been introduced in which you can recover your shield value and obtain the amount that exceeds your own shield value as a temporary shield value. With the advent of Legendary Upgrades, strategy has also changed in various ways.
Perhaps because the implementation of these legend upgrades brings a fresh experience, some people refer to the game after Season 20 as “Apex Legends 2.” Although no new legends or new maps were implemented in this season, which marks the 5th anniversary of the game’s release, it seems that people are enjoying the new system that greatly changes the gameplay and battle environment.
Furthermore, in the new seasonbreakout rewardWe have also prepared measures that will Each of the six legends – Shea, Hughes, Rampart, Mad Maggie, Loba, and Valkyrie will be playable even if they are not unlocked for two weeks. It seems that each legend will have challenges that can be unlocked if they have not been unlocked yet. This will be a great system for new players and users who want to unlock legends that they don’t usually use, as they can increase the number of available legends. It might be a good idea to use breakout rewards to unlock legends with upgrades you’re interested in.
『Apex Legends‘ Season 20 ‘Breakout’ is currently underway.
