Combat Strategies for Apex Legends Players: An Unofficial Guide to Victory
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Combat Strategies for Apex Legends Players is a full-color, information-packed strategy guide designed to quickly get newbs (beginners) acquainted with the many intricacies of the game, while teaching more advanced and proven exploration, survival, and combat strategies to experienced gamers looking to improve their kill-rate, familiarity with weapons, and survival skills.
Combat Strategies for Apex Legends Players offers an easy-to-read format that showcases hundreds of full-color screenshots from the PC, Xbox One, and PS4 versions of the game to help you master EA’s Apex Legends and get the most out of your gameplay experience. Each section of this vital handbook focuses on one important element or aspect of the game, allowing you to make intelligent decisions when:
- Choosing your Legend
- Building an arsenal
- Working with squad mates
- Exploring Kings Canyon,
- Fighting and consistently winning matches
- And more!
Jason R. Rich
Jason R. Rich is a bestselling author and consumer technology specialist with numerous books spanning from e-commerce, cloud computing, travel and entertainment, online marketing, and personal finance. His acclaimed podcast, Jason Rich’s Featured App of the Week, offers even more ways to explore his non-technical approaches to innovative technology, for the beginner and professional alike. A frequent contributor to the New York Daily News, Forbes Vetted, and countless nationally recognized media outlets, Jason is a leading voice in consumer technology. Follow him on his website (www.JasonRich.com) or on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn (JasonRich7) for more tips of the trade.
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Combat Strategies for Apex Legends Players - Jason R. Rich
SECTION 1
OVERVIEW OF APEX LEGENDS
SURE, THERE ARE A BUNCH OF TRULY AWESOME, MULTI-player, battle royale combat games to experience on a PC, Xbox One, or PlayStation 4 that offer intense action, non-stop challenges, and a wide range of unique gameplay experiences. Epic’s Fortnite: Battle Royale and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) are just two extremely popular examples.
Welcome to the world of Apex Legends! Buckle up and get ready for a heart-pounding, challenging, and visually stunning gaming experience that takes battle royale games to the next level!
Starting in February 2019, when it was first released, EA’s Apex Legends (developed by Respawn Entertainment) quickly captured the world’s attention and attracted more than 25 million gamers in just one week. The Apex Legends gaming community has been expanding ever since! By mid-March 2019, the game attracted more than 50 million gamers.
Apex Legends welcomes players into the future to experience a colorful, squad-based combat adventure. It requires gamers to continuously explore potentially deadly terrain; amass and use a powerful fighting arsenal; successfully interact with squad mates; and participate in high-intensity, fast-paced battles seen from a vivid first-person perspective.
DISCOVER WHAT MAKES
APEX LEGENDS UNIQUE
Several things make Apex Legends stand out from other battle royale games. For starters, all matches are experienced as a three-player squad. You can team up with gamers you know, or have the game select squad mates for you randomly.
During each match, your three-person squad will compete against 19 other three-person squads. In other words, there are 60 gamers participating in real-time during each match. The sole objective is to be the last soldier alive (or the last squad alive) at the end of each match. Only then will you earn the title of Champion.
Thus, focusing on survival skills is often more important than racking up a high kill count.
Unlike other battle royale games, from a visual standpoint, all of the action in Apex Legends is seen from a first-person perspective. The focus is on what’s happening directly in front of the futuristic soldier you’re controlling.
Plus, instead of controlling a random soldier during a match, you’re forced to choose from one of the eight initial characters, called Legends,
each of whom has a unique skillset. (Starting in March 2019, EA/Respawn Entertainment began introducing additional Legends into the game.)
Each Legend’s unique skillset includes a Passive, Tactical, and Ultimate ability that sets them apart from one another.
In addition to controlling just your Legend (soldier) during a match. Success requires you to utilize your Legend’s unique skills while working as part of a well-balanced squad.
Prior to each match, it’s important for each gamer to select a Legend that’ll complement the others in their squad. Creating a well-balanced squad is a critical first challenge. As soon a match begins, it’s then the responsibility of each squad member to carry their own weight, utilize their unique skills, and build their own powerful arsenal. Most importantly, squad mates need to communicate clearly, work together, protect each other, and when necessary, fight as a cohesive unit.
Beyond the unique fighting and defensive skills each Legend possesses, during a match, dozens of specialized weapons, weapon attachments, loot items, and soldier armor can be found, collected, and ultimately used.
While finding and collecting many different types of weapons, weapon attachments, compatible ammo, loot items, and armor pieces is certainly beneficial, each Legend can only carry so much at any given time. Thus, developing inventory management skills is necessary, since you always want your Legend to be armed with an appropriate arsenal, based on the fighting situations they’re about to encounter in the type of terrain they’re currently in.
Which weapon attachments are used in conjunction with guns determines the weapon’s capabilities. Learning to build and maintain the most powerful arsenal possible is another essential skill that’ll help your Legend and squad achieve victory.
Your squad mates are your fighting and defensive partners. A squad that loses one or two members is at a huge disadvantage, especially when facing squads where all three members are still alive and working together as a cohesive unit. If you look in the bottom-left corner of the screen (shown here on a PC), you can see that all three squad members are alive and in good health.
Shown here, the soldier this gamer is controlling is using a Syringe. Meanwhile, one of the squad members has been killed, leaving just two squad mates alive.
Sharing weapons, weapon attachments, ammo, armor, and loot items with squad mates is often necessary. Equally important is taking the time to revive squad mates who get knocked
(injured) and are rendered unable to fight (but remain alive).
When you or a squad mate gets killed in action (and this is likely to happen often), all is not lost. If a surviving squad mate locates and grabs a deceased Legend’s Banner,
and successfully gets it to a Respawn Beacon within about 100 seconds, the fallen squad member will be returned to the match.
Even if you’ve previously mastered other battle royale games, like PUBG or Fortnite: Battle Royale, you’ll quickly discover that Apex Legends offers some exciting new twists and gaming elements that’ll keep you on your toes!
GET TO KNOW THE LEGENDS
When Apex Legends first launched, the game featured eight unique Legend characters, including: Bloodhound, Gibraltar, Lifeline, Pathfinder, Wrath, Bangalore, Caustic, and Mirage. (You’ll need to spend some money to unlock Caustic and Mirage.) A ninth Legend, called Octane, was added to the game in March 2019. You’ll learn more about him in Section 9—Take Advantage of Apex Legends Battle Passes.
As the game evolves and upgrades are released, EA and Respawn Entertainment plan to introduce new Legends into the game, so stay tuned!
At the start of each match, each Legend’s Health meter is pre-set to 100. Using special items and armor, it’s possible to boost the Health meter up to 200. However, each time a Legend gets shot or injured some of their Health gets depleted. The Health meter for the Legend you’re controlling is shown in the bottom-left corner of the main game screen. The Health and Shield meters for your squad mates are displayed in a slightly smaller format, directly above your Legend’s Health and Shield meters.
A Legend’s Shield meter starts off at zero (nonfunctioning). To activate and maintain your soldier’s Shields for added protection against incoming attacks, you’ll need find and grab body armor, and then use shield replenishment items, such as a Shield Battery, Shield Cell, or Phoenix Kit. A Legend’s Shield meter is displayed directly above their Health meter. Its color determines the level of protection that’s being offered, based on the level of the Body Shield being worn.
When a Legend’s Health meter hits zero, they’re considered downed
or knocked.
This means they can move around and Ping, but can’t fight. While in this state, a squad member can revive the injured Legend, which is a process that takes seven seconds, during which time both the injured soldier and the soldier doing the reviving are both vulnerable to attack.
Keep in mind, a downed Legend who is not revived in time, or who is the recipient of additional attacks, will be killed. At this point, a squad member needs to help them respawn, which is a more difficult and time-consuming task that’ll be explained later.
The focus of Section 2—Meet the Legends,
is on introducing you to each of the