Apex Legends is a battle royale, first-person shooter spin-off of the Titanfall series, developed by Respawn Entertainment. The game is set in a gritty sci-fi world, centered around the in-lore event, the Apex Games, where combatants fight for glory and wealth using an arsenal of weapons, as well as their own tools and abilities.
The player characters available in the game, called legends, have unique abilities and traits, as well as a trait from their categorization within the roster. In most cases, the various weapons the players find during the course of a round are handled equally by all legends, though some have traits that allow for faster handling, i.e. Rampart with her bonus to handling light machine guns.
As of August 2023, the legend roster includes 24 characters: Ash, Ballistic, Bangalore, Bloodhound, Catalyst, Caustic, Crypto, Fuse, Gibraltar, Horizon, Lifeline, Loba, Mad Maggie, Mirage, Newcastle, Octane, Pathfinder, Rampart, Revenant, Seer, Valkyrie, Vantage, Wattson, and Wraith. Some have been featured in previous Titanfall main series games.
The game offers multiple modes, including the main “battle royale” mode and the “control” mode. In the battle royale mode, the players have to fight up to 60 other players to be the last player or squad remaining. The standard squad sizes are two and three, which are queued separately.
