Hot Drop: Apex Legends Falls Short When It Comes To Valkyrie, Wattson, Maggie, And Rampart's Muscles

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Hot Drop is GameSpot's weekly Apex Legends column, in which Jordan Ramée takes a closer look at Respawn's battle royale to provide additional insight into the game's evolution, as well as dive deeper into its episodic storytelling and characters.

Does anyone else notice something strange about Apex Legends' Valkyrie, Wattson, Mad Maggie, and Rampart? Like, it's weird that four of the legends that shoulder some of the heaviest equipment in the game are, at the same time, some of the thinnest, right? It kind of feels like those four need buffs to their actual stature.

In Valkyrie, Wattson, and Rampart's case, all three legends are carrying what looks to be exceptionally heavy equipment on their backs at all times. Wattson carries around her cumbersome-looking Interception Pylon, Rampart is lugging around this massive minigun, and Valkyrie has a jetpack that utilizes the repurposed flight core of a Titan.

I could maybe buy that Valkyrie's jetpack is always passively on, providing just enough lift to alleviate some of the burden that she's carrying without actually taking her skyward. But even then, wouldn't she still need to be exceptionally fit to repeatedly go back-and-forth between crouching and standing with such a heavy piece of equipment resting on her shoulders? And there's probably quite a bit of force exerted onto her when she's actually flying with the jetpack, considering how fast she's going and how little protection she's wearing.

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And it feels really weird when it comes to Wattson and Rampart, who are