Apex Legends Should Add Akimbo Pistols For Real

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Apex Legends cheaters are back. If your ranked games haven’t been plagued by aimbotters or wallhackers, count yourself lucky. Respawn’s battle royale has anti-cheat and a couple of devs working tirelessly to ban cheaters, but as with most online games, it’s never enough. Cheaters find new loopholes and ways around anti-cheat systems, and a handful of employees will never be enough to ban everyone.

The most recent hack appears to be using Apex’s pistols akimbo - that is, dual-wielding them for double the firepower. If you think that doesn’t sound too bad, push those P2020s out of your head and think more Wingmans (Wingmen?). That’s 45-damage shots coming at you twice as fast (97 for a headshot, but despite their cheats, these hackers can’t seem to aim), giving the Wingman a DPS of 234. For context, that’s - without any headshots - knocking someone with red armour in a second. That’s a higher DPS than any other weapon, including the recently Care Packaged Volt SMG.

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I want to be very clear: cheaters have no place in this game and I hope they are all swiftly banned. However, wielding pistols akimbo is objectively cool, and Respawn should add it to the game for real.

My love for akimbo pistols likely stems from Modern Warfare 2. In hundreds of hours poured into multiplayer, my favourite moments were often when I used the Akimbo attachment. Twin Desert Eagles one-shotting opponents, two Mini-Uzis spraying rounds with abandon, and - my favourite option before it was nerfed to oblivion - two Model 1887 shotguns blasting through anything and anyone silly enough to get in my way.

I don’t have to go much further, most of us were there. Whether