Hot Drop: Apex Legends Will Use Seer's Home To Introduce Vantage And The New Divided Moon Map, Mark My Words
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.
Apex Legends Season 14 is coming, likely kicking off on or around August 9--a week following the conclusion of the Gaiden Event. Already, developer Respawn seems to be hinting at what may be coming with the new season, which may focus on Seer. I think Seer's home planet is the next stage for Apex Legends' story, providing the narrative backdrop for the battle royale game's next playable legend and map.
As tantalizing as the conclusion to Season 13's Quest has been--Bangalore discovered her brother started a family since they last saw each other, and Wraith learned she experimented on a «Subject 0» prior to subjecting herself to the tests that gave her powers and amnesia--it's looking like Season 14 may instead build upon the narrative threads of Season 12.
Season 12 saw Lifeline and Octane working together to snoop on Octane's dad, which ultimately led the duo to learn that Duardo Silva had died years earlier. In actuality, the man posing as Octane's dad is Octane's grandfather, Torres Silva, who had been using a special Stim in order to remain youthful.
In the end, Torres successfully took over the Syndicate and used his influence over his grandson to help buy out the Frontier Corps--a publicly funded volunteer program that provides social, medical, and economic aid to all the planets of the Outlands--which he transformed into the Syndicate Corps. Upon first seeing them, Octane remarks that members of the new Syndicate Corps now «look like an army,» a notion that has me
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