With the next update for Apex Legends coming next week, EA and Respawn have dropped a brand new trailer for the battle royale game.
Apex Legends: Upheaval will arrive on May 7th and the recently released trailer shows off some of the new content.
The bulk of the trailer is dedicated to the new Legend, Alter, the Void Breacher. Alter arrives from a new dimension and brings with her some advanced interdimensional traveling Void tech. According to her bio, Alter "was drawn to worlds on the edge of complete destruction."
"Whether something devastating was already happening or she helped usher in the apocalypse herself, she was there to watch whatever catastrophe ensued," her character bio reads. As she traveled to these catastrophic worlds though, she began to notice that many of them hadn't been ended by some random event; "they had been destroyed by the same person."
As far as gameplay, Alter is a Skrimisher who can reveal Care Packages' contents to see the highest value inside. Her Tactical Ability, Void Passage, creates a portal passageway through a surface. Her Passive Ability, Gift form the Rift, allows Alter to remotely interact with a deathbox to claim one item (cannot be armor). Finally, her Ultimate Ability, Void Nexus, creates a regroup point that all allies can remotely interact with to open a phase tunnel back to that location.
Prepare to upset the order with Alter and use her Void-based abilities to sow chaos in Solos Takeover, with kitted guns and new ways to deal death. Descend into a shattered Broken Moon, unearthing new POIS and faster paths to mayhem.
Apex Legends: Upheaval will also see the return of Solos, which will replace Duos from the beginning of the season. In this revamped variant mode, you'll take on the Outlines by yourself with a few tweaks and mechanics inspired by other popular game modes. For instance, players can use Battle Sense to detect nearby enemies or loot pre-kitted weapons and attachments. There are also auto-heal and Second Chance mechanics. Solo Takeover will be live from May 7, 2024 to June 24, 2024.
The Broken Moon map is also getting an update. "A lunar nightmare becomes a reality as Olympus crashes into Cleo’s stasis node, reshaping the battlefield with new POIs and a streamlined map, ripe for spreading havoc," EA teases.
Apex Legends: Upheaval will launch on May 7th for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and PC.