Here's What Apex Legends' Multiview Mode Actually Means

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The Apex Legends Global Series is the pinnacle of Apex Legends; the best players in the world compete for money and glory. Mostly glory to be honest, but there’s a bit of cash on the side, too, for the Playoffs. The Split 1 Playoffs kicked off last weekend, which saw Team Singularity take victory in South America and DreamFire controversially clutch the win in a nine-game thriller in the APAC South region.

There’s more action this weekend, as the most popular regions do battle for a slice of $250,000 each. However, EA has today announced that it is employing a new way of watching the tournaments, called Multiview, which debuts on Twitch for the EMEA and North American tournaments this weekend. Don’t worry, we’ll get to APAC North later.

Related: Is Apex Legends Esports' Match Point Format Fit For Purpose?

Multiview allows viewers to select up to four player POVs to watch on-stream and listen in on their communications. Following the action in a battle royale is always a difficult task, so this will either place the onus on viewers to do a better job of following things than the official team, or will allow fans of specific teams to follow their squad no matter how boring the looting gets or how long the rotation is.

Of course, this was already an option if you watched your favourite streamer. Not everyone streams tournaments of course, but TSM’s Phillip ‘ImperialHal’ Dosen regularly draws bigger crowds to his POV than the official PlayApex stream does. Will Multiview mode pull viewers from players’ streams and to the official broadcast? It’s hard to tell, but the anonymising of the kill feed suggests that this could be the case.

For those unfamiliar with the other major change to the Match Point system, kill feeds are