Apex Legends Season 13 Trailer Details Newcastle's Backstory And Lots Of Family Drama
Apex Legends Season 13: Saviors launches May 10, and as always, Respawn Entertainment is kicking things off ahead of time with the newest episode in the Stories from the Outlands web series. This season, it's a family affair.
Entitled «Hero,» the animated short gives players the scoop on what exactly Bangalore's brother Jackson--known in the game as Newcastle--has been up to since he went missing and faked his own death. It turns out Jackson's been living in a settlement named Harris Valley, which has evidently been sold to a gang known as the «Forgotten Families» by the real Newcastle--that's right, Jackson is a fake who is standing in for someone else.
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We see how this transpired in the trailer. Jackson is revealed to have a new family--a wife, teenage son, and young daughter. After his daughter loses her stuffed Newcastle toy, Jackson sets out to find it and stumbles upon Newcastle being attacked by a trio of members of the Forgotten Families.
It's here where we learn the reason for why it took someone as apparently skilled as Jackson so many attempts to get into the Apex Games--the real Newcastle was the one who was trying out before, and he was not doing a particularly good job (as evidenced by the fact that he immediately blames his string of losses on «crappy teammates»). Those first failed qualifying matches were played by the real Newcastle, who has now come under attack by the Forgotten Families due to his inability to gain
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