Apex Legends is now two years old and Respawn Entertainment invite you to celebrate with the Birthday Collection event.

This Tuesday, the Apex Legends Birthday Collection event begins. The popular Battle Royale has just launched into – Season 8, which has added the new Legend Fuse, the new 30-30 Repeater weapon and much more. Starting February 9, players can celebrate the game’s two-year anniversary with the Birthday Collection event. Here’s everything we know about it.

Birthday Rewards
Expect a brand new chain of rewards:

To thank you for your loyalty, we’re adding 22 playable items to the reward chain, including two Event Packs and ten Apex Packs. You’ll also receive five awards (three matching stat trackers for Bangalore, an Apex Pack, and an event badge) during the event for signing up first.” – Respawn Entertainment

Loaded and Unloaded” Takeover
As part of the Birthday Collection event, there will also be a new takeover, “Loaded and Unloaded.” What’s it all about?

In “Loaded and Unlocked,” you’ll jump off with a full loadout of level 1 gear. You’ve got a Mozambique, a white shotgun breech, a classic HOKV sight, a white Evo shield, a white helmet, a white backpack, a white Incap shield, two syringes, two shield cells, and a stack of shotgun shells. What more could you ask for? Also, during the takeover, all attachments and Common/White level items will be removed from the loot pool (aside from Common visors)” – Respawn Entertainment
– Season al Challenges
Respawn is also adding some new – Season al challenges that you can complete for various rewards.

Get the “Daily Discovery” Nessie badge for completing 75 daily challenges
Show “Respect for Age” and get a Mozambique badge by doing 102,816 damage (get the cross reference?)
Get “Time to win – and stay alive” – with 8 legendaries – to get the Smoldfinder badge
You can also unlock the “Here: Mozambique” weapon talisman by dealing 3,333 damage with everyone’s favorite weapon, the Mozambique. This could be really hard, but the “Loaded and Unloaded” acquisition could certainly help you out.

Refreshed Skins
To celebrate, 24 old skins will be brought back in a brand new red look.

Also, crafting will be cheaper during the event:

“Normally, unlocking all items in a collection event unlocks a specific heirloom. But on the occasion of our second birthday, we’re mixing it up a bit. If you unlock all the items in the collection event, you’ll get 150 heirloom shards that you can use to unlock an heirloom of your choice. And to make things a little easier for you, the crafting cost for all Collection Event items has been reduced by 50% just this once.” – Respawn Entertainment

What is actually… “Apex Legends?

Within 24 hours, “Apex Legends” became the most-watched game on Twitch – after one week, over 25 million people were already playing it. What is the battle royale shooter about?

What is “Apex Legends” about?

Scenario: In a distant future, bandits, adventurers, and outlaws settle their disputes in a sporting contest to the death. The setting is a fertile, industrially developed valley on the edge of the galaxy.

• Genre: Battle Royale shooter
• Game modes: survival battle between a maximum of 20 teams of three.

At its core, “Apex Legends” is a classic battle-royale shooter: up to 60 players land simultaneously in teams of three on the game map called “Kings Canyon” – a densely built-up, fertile valley with many accessible houses, bunkers and towers. Once on the ground, unarmed players must search their surroundings for equipment and ammunition. The goal of the game is to stay alive until the end.

To prevent players from hiding all over the map and waiting to automatically be the last one left, the game area shrinks every few minutes. The longer a round lasts, the smaller the area where survivors can move and hide.

Apex Legends refreshes this now classic game formula with some ideas that are unique to the genre: For example, before starting a round, players select one of eight heroes, each of which has two special abilities and facilitates certain play styles.

Bangalore, for example, is the classic soldier who can conceal her position with smoke grenades and call in an artillery strike in an emergency. The heroine Lifeline, on the other hand, can summon a drone to heal teammates – or directly order the delivery of high-value weapons and equipment via aerial drone. This way, all players can find the right hero for their preferred course of action.

How can I play Apex Legends?

Platform: “Apex Legends” is available for PC, Xbox One and Playstation 4.

Price: The battle royale shooter is a “Free to Play” title and can basically be played for free on all platforms.

In-game purchases: “Apex Legends” allows the purchase of cosmetic items and new heroes either by means of in-game currency, which can be earned for free in every round, or with real money. The real-money currency “Apex Coins” can be purchased in five different amounts: The smallest possible amount is 1000 Apex Points for around 9.99 euros, while the largest pack with 10,000 Apex Points content costs 99.99 euros.

The developer emphasizes that it is not possible to buy game advantages with the help of real money: You can only use it to customize the appearance of the heroes, it says, or purchase new heroes.

Age rating: “Apex Legends” does not have a youth rating (USK 18).

Which technical terms should you know?

Respawn Beacon: If a player is shot down, the team members who are still alive have the opportunity to bring the fallen comrade back into the game: Each eliminated player leaves behind a so-called Respawn Banner, which can be collected by the players of the own team and handed in at one of 28 Respawn Beacons, certain locations on the map. If this succeeds, the fallen player returns to the game.

Jumpmaster: At the beginning of the game, one of the maximum three players of a team always takes on the role of the jumpmaster. He decides when and where his team enters the game area.

Ping: Using the middle mouse button, players can alert their teammates to interesting locations in the game world or enemies. These pings are a valuable tool for communicating quickly and efficiently within the team.

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