To get players in the spooky mood for October, Apex Legends has announced a month worth of events that are set to take place one week after the other up until November 1. The Fight or Fright string of events starts with Shadow Royale on the new Olympus After Dark map during the first week, followed by the returning Gun Run mode on the second, then the almost-always present Control mode on the third, before being capped off by Shadow Royale on Olympus once more for the final week. While this month's Gun Run and Control modes will have a few maps that are found on Olympus After Dark, it's the Shadow Royale mode that will make full use of the darker locale.
Shadow Royale is one of Apex Legends' more unique game modes. Using the base battle royale as a framework, Respawn Entertainment added a scary twist by turning players that have died into powerful shadow legends. The mode first began in 2019 as Shadowfall — a game where solo players had to defeat each other until only 10 contestants were left to escape the nightmare. Since then, Shadow Royale has become a more team-focused game; one which might not work as well on Olympus as it did on Kings Canyon.
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Shadow Royale plays very similarly to the normal Apex Legends battle royale experience. Squads of three players drop into a dark version of a regular map and must gear up and defeat other squads to become the Apex Champions. The big difference in Shadow Royale is that defeated legends who still have living teammates can respawn indefinitely as powerful shadows. These shadow legends can't pick up gear or weapons, and they can't use any of their abilities. They also don't have that much health. But what they do have is extreme
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