13 Apex Legends Features Respawn Needs To Steal From Apex Mobile

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By Claire Lewis on

With Apex Legends Mobile set to shut down today, May 1, players are saying their goodbyes and posting their final achievements for others to see. The unexpected announcement that Apex Legends' popular, award-winning mobile counterpart would be shutting down for good left players in shock, especially given the game's positive reception from both gamers and critics. Despite EA's vague references to the possibility of another Apex Legends-based mobile game, and pleas from fans to "save Apex Mobile," the fate of Respawn's legendary mobile game appears to be set in stone.

Although the game itself is being sunset--just 16 days shy of its one-year anniversary, and for reasons that are rather vague--that doesn't mean the game's mobile-exclusive features have to go down with the dropship. In fact, we think some of Apex Mobile's unique features would be right at home on console and PC, and one of them has already made the transition: The long-awaited Team Deathmatch mode--which initially debuted alongside last year's launch of the mobile game--finally hit console and PC in Season 16. But Apex Legends Mobile still has plenty of lessons to teach its PC/console predecessor, so we've put together a list of mobile-only features that we hope to see reappear in the original version of the game.

On console and PC, players can set up to eight favorites in a variety of categories--music packs, quips, emotes, holosprays, transition screens, and legend/weapon skins, to name a few. The same is true in Apex Legends Mobile (excluding music packs, which do not currently exist in Apex Mobile), with one very minor difference that is utterly game-changing: Instead of letting the RNG gods randomly choose one of the legend skins