Hot Drop: Apex Legends Is Ramping Up Towards All-Out War Ahead Of Season 13

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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.

I thought I had covered all my bases last week when I theorized as to who Octane's dad is, with the second-to-last chapter of Season 12's Quest revealing that Eduardo Silva had died years earlier and that an imposter was posing as him. But as the finale of The Perfect Son has shown, that is not the case.

As it turns out, Eduardo Silva is actually Torres Silva, Octane's grandfather. Torres took his son's place following his death, and despite being close to 100 years old has managed to maintain the look of a middle-aged man by taking a special concoction of Stim, which is fed to him through that cane he's always carrying around. The reveal was quickly followed by two more: one expected, and the other not so much.

With Lifeline and Octane stubbornly refusing to see each other's side, Apex Legends' resident medic found herself alone in her quest to take down «Eduardo.» So she went to Maggie for help, agreeing to work with the freedom fighter to burn down the entire Syndicate, even if it takes violent action. Given how many legends hate the Syndicate, the duo will likely be able to find plenty of support going forward.

That reveal was obvious. The Perfect Son kicked off with Maggie warning Lifeline that Octane would let her down and she'd come crawling to her eventually. It's a nice bit of foreshadowing. Meanwhile, the other reveal, though also set up well, is far more surprising.

Upon successfully uniting all of the Syndicate under him, Torres used his majority share in the