New Apex Legends April Fools’ Day Event Confirmed by Respawn Dev

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Video game developers are no strangers to pulling pranks on the players that play their games during April Fools’ Day. Over the years, games have featured some unexpected updates to celebrate April 1st, such as Overwatch giving its characters googly eyes andAmong Usflipping its Skeld map. Not to be outdone, Apex Legends has been known to shake things up in its battle royale on April Fools’ Day.

Since its release in February 2019, Apex Legends has hosted several April Fools’ Day events. Past tomfoolery has included adding golden gun versions of the Mozambique Shotgun and P2020 Pistol to the game for a 24-hour period, making two of the more underwhelming guns in the game more viable for a short time. Based on these previous events, some fans are already wondering if the developers at Respawn Entertainment have some more unusual shenanigans in store for this year as well.

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Recently, an Apex Legends content creator known as TiifaJessi decided to ask one of the developers at Respawn Entertainment what could be coming for an April Fools’ Day update. “April fools event ideas?” she asked on Twitter. Surprisingly, Respawn Senior Producer Josh Medina was quick to respond. However, instead of giving possible ideas for April Fools’ Day, he revealed that the event had already been planned and was ready to go. “Nah we got wrapped up already since it’s in 2 weeks,” he said.

While this response from Medina confirms that an event is in the works, it still leaves much of the specifics unknown. With that being said, some players have already been coming up with intriguing concepts for an April Fools’ Day event in Apex Legends. Recently, one gamer known as Binkal on Reddit proposed a fun albeit wacky