Apex Legends Vantage gameplay preview – A batty new addition

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Apex Legends Season 14: Hunted is right around the corner, and like every other season, it’s adding a new Legend to the roster. This time around, Vantage and her bat friend Echo are entering the Apex Games. The new duo will arrive when the update goes live next week, on August 9. You’ll want to learn as much about Vantage as you can before then, so we’re here to provide info on her backstory, abilities, and everything else we learned after attending a recent Season 14 press event.

Xiomara ‘Mara’ Contreras, AKA Vantage, is the youngest Legend to join the games, narrowly beating out Rampart, as the former is 18 while the latter is 21. And we see in the Season 14 launch trailer that Fuse is bothered by this while he and Horizon attempt to keep her safe. He’s in disbelief that the Syndicate – the main organizer of the Apex Games – would choose someone so young to fight to the death, but the truth here is that Vantage is doing this voluntarily for her mother.

The recent Stories from the Outlands short gives us a quick look at the backstory that put Vantage in that situation. She was raised by her mother, Xenia, on the harsh ice planet Págos, away from civilization. As a result, she became an excellent shot and an expert in survival. However, this isolated upbringing follows her into the Apex Games, which makes for somewhat unpredictable interactions now that she’s joined the rest of society.

“Needless to say, Vantage doesn’t really get or even care about things like social cues and rules and manners now that she’s in civilization,” said Kevin Lee, senior writer at Respawn. “That’s never been important to the main thing in her life, which is to survive… She’s got some really unique dialogue with fellow survivors and