The Anniversary Collection Event has just ended, but Respawn Entertainment has announced a new collection event for Apex Legends, Chaos Theory. With that new event, as you can guess, our main character is Caustic. Moreover, a new heirloom will also be added to the game, and this one is for Bangalore. Obviously, if you buy all the skins that will come with the event, you can get Bangalore’s heirloom for free. After the event, the heirloom will be available to purchase from the heirloom shop. Plus, a new LTM is coming with the event.
Apex Legends Chaos Theory event will start on March 9th, and will be available for two weeks. Besides the event, we will see new optimizations and balance changes in lots of things. And as far as I can see, the game will be elevated to a new level with these changes.
In the previous events, we saw some map changes that dedicated for a legend. Generally, those changes are applied to the map by renovating an area on the map, and it’s called “Town Takeover“. This event’s town takeover is coming for the “gas daddy”, Caustic. Water Treatment area in Kings Canyon will be renovated, and be named as “Caustic Treatment”.
When life gives you lemons, you can count on Caustic to turn them into toxic lemonade. Breathe it in at the all-new Caustic Treatment; a new dominant mousetrap with lots of high-quality loot that beckons all Legends who seek the glorious cheese.
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Caustic Treatment is built on the place where Water Treatment was located. And according to the lore, the purpose of the building was preventing the fuel leak from Crash Site to reaching the ocean. But, the inside of the building is obviously very toxic. Maybe, this is a place that all Caustic mains were dreaming about.
Forever the scientist, Caustic has set out an experiment that requires “test subjects” to drain the toxic liquid from the center of the facility. Doing this temporarily grants access to four gold loot items locked in cages. Players must be quick though, as greed can be deadly.
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With those changes, Respawn also announced bad news for the players. Since its launch, the irreplaceable center of the parties and squad fights, Mirage Voyage, is leaving the canyon. The next stop of the party ship might be Olympus.
If you happen to notice that the Mirage Voyage is missing, you can put the blame on Caustic. The polluted fumes from Caustic Treatment really killed the vibe, so Mirage set sail to take the party elsewhere. No one’s spotted it yet, but that party boat tends to show up in an arena when you least expect it.
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We’ve told you that a new LTM will also come to Apex Legends with the Chaos Theory event. The name of the LTM is Ring Fury Escalation, and it will be available with the normal games. So, there will be no playlist for the mode. Unless you are playing ranked, you will compete with the other players while Ring Fury mode is active. Also, lots of new things are announced with the game mode.
As you know, a friend of Fuse, Maggie, was feeling so angry about the Fuse’s joining to Apex Games. Because of that, when Fuse was introduced and making a speech in Kings Canyon, she literally obliterated the whole map. The effects of damage still continue, and that’s why we will see the Ring Flares on the map. These circular flares are coming from the ground and damaging the players just like the ring in the game. Also, the damage flares deal is the same as the ring’s damage. So, on the latter rounds, the flares will deal more damage.
The upcoming Ring Flares will be seen on the minimap, and the legends will have dialogues/monologues about it. For example, when you take damage from the ring, your legend will say an appropriate sentence about it. Another example is, when you are close to an upcoming Ring Flare, your legends will warn each other about it.
So how do you deal with Ring Flares? Well, two ways. First, try not to get caught in them, silly. Failing that, you can drop a new item we’re introducing called Heat Shields.
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Heat Shield is the newest item of Apex Legends that is coming with the Chaos Theory event. When you use a heat shield, a dome that looks like Gibraltar’s tactical ability will appear. But, it’s quite different from Gibraltar’s dome. With that dome, you can cover yourself from the ring flares, even the ring itself if you are outside of the ring. Every player will have a Heat Shield at the beginning of the game, and also, you can find more Heat Shields across the map, just like the normal ground loots.
While the dome protects you from the ring or Ring Flare, you can continue looting, or you can even revive your downed teammates. If you are not in the safe zone and the ring is damaging you, the Heat Shield will also grant you some bonuses. When you are outside of the zone and use a Heat Shield, you can revive your teammates %25 faster, and consume healing items %50 faster. But do not forget that you won’t get those bonuses if you use a Heat Shield in the safe zone.
The Heat Shield won’t stay activated for too long, because the ring is also damaging it. So, take note that on the later rounds, the Heat Shields won’t stay as much as on the first rounds.
When the event or the LTM end, the Heat Shield will still be available as the ground loot.
Heat Shield and Mobile Respawn Beacon won’t hold a slot in your backpack. Just like the helmet, armor, backpack, and knockdown shield slot, there will be a new slot called Survival Slot.
This new feature will continue to stay in the game, like Heat Shields.
So, we explained what Ring Fury is, but what does “escalation” mean?
Apex Legends introduced lots of new LTMs for the players, and some of them were “escalation” modes. In these modes, some features will change every few days. We don’t know what things can change, but it will be the durations or timings of Ring Flares. When the Chaos Theory event ends, we will see five different stages of the newest game mode of Apex Legends.
One of the biggest complaints from the Apex Legends is, the players can’t play the games as a solo player. The game always gives you teammates, unless there’s a connection/server issue, or there isn’t a “solo game mode”. Actually, Respawn announced a solo game mode previously, and lots of players loved it. They maybe want to make it permanent, but for now, Respawn introduced the “no-fill option”. With this option, you can play the game with teammates or as a one-player-team.
Before entering the game, on the lobby screen, players can see the “Fill Teammates” option. If you put a tick on it, you will have teammates. But if you remove the tick, you will play as on your own.
We still strongly believe that, at its best, Apex Legends is a game about team play. But we’re launching this No-Fill matchmaking as an option for solo players because we think it gives a lot of creative opportunities for you to play the game your way.
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For people wondering why Respawn added this option, the devs gave some reason to play on your own.
But, there are some limitations to that no-fill option. First, this option cannot be used in ranked games. Also, in normal games, only six players who wanted no-fill options are allowed in the game.
We always see a rewards track in the events of Apex Legends, and of course, Chaos Theory has one. To progress in that counter, you have to complete some challenges that will come with the event. The rewards on that track are obviously free, but you have to earn some points by completing challenges. There are four new badges, seven cosmetic items, and legend trackers that are waiting for you.
In the event shop, Respawn will offer us 24 brand-new cosmetic items, including legend skins and weapon skins. The players can obtain every item by paying in Apex Coins or Crafting Metals. And the players who obtained all of them will get Bangalore heirloom for free.
Of course the devs are bringing some changes to Apex Legends with the Chaos Theory update. Until now, we made the Caustic mains happy by announcing a new town takeover dedicated to him, but prepare yourself to the worst.
Caustic is really hard to play against, and it’s very annoying to fight him. The devs told players that they know what is going on, but they can’t do balance changes to Caustic. These nerfs obviously will make Caustic weak. Sorry for your loss, Caustic mains.
Devs also said a few words about the changes.
Caustic is brutally effective at slowing down engagements. The entirety of his kit revolves around gas with a large area of effect, slow, vision obstruction, and direct health damage. It’s proven to be too oppressive in too many scenarios especially considering teammates can play in gas relatively unimpaired. Significantly reducing gas damage (without taking it away completely or having it affect armor instead) seems like a fair compromise that stays true to the character while making him less oppressive on the receiving end. We will be monitoring the data and gameplay closely. If these changes hit Caustic’s appeal or effectiveness too hard we will revisit accordingly.
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The first legend update is quite a big change, and it’s very normal to expect that other updates won’t be that big. But it’s wrong. The change on Pathfinder will rise our tin friend’s win and pick rate.
The Low Profile perk is given to very mobile legends, or legends who have a small hitbox. The perk increase the damage dealt to that legend by %5. Pathfinder’s hitbox is updated on almost every patch notes, and it seems like the devs are ready to remove it from the robot.
Low Profile has been used as a balancing tool for both mobile and/or small legends. Although Path is still mobile, his hitbox is large. While his overall win rate and encounter win rate are by no means low, it’s hard to justify keeping Low Profile on a hitbox of his size.
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Gibraltar is causing some eyebrows to raise for some time. Especially, his passive ability that gives him a shield while ADS’ing is making it hard to kill him. That ability is in the game since it’s launch, but it’s maybe the main reason why he is popular now, because it gains players’ attention. The players were expecting some changes to it, but we are kind of disappointed now.
I don’t know if we needed it, but I’m sure it won’t affect the win and pick rate of Horizon. Her kit is already strong enough, and there have to be more powerful nerfs to make players hesitate when thinking about picking her.
Another big update of this patch is coming to Wattson. That update has been wanted from players since they announced her.
Rampart is one of the legends that have worst win and pick rate among other legends. The devs trying to turn the tables for her almost every patch notes.
Walls should be beefy and powerful once built. Before Rampart shipped, we were worried that her nests would be too oppressive and so we gave enemy players the option to quickly clear them out with grenades. This wasn’t necessary, as it turns out, so we’re removing increased damage from grenades against Amped Cover and Sheila.
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Just like the legend updates, there will be some updates for the weapons that will be released with the Chaos Theory event on Apex Legends.
Mastiff is one of the most unbalanced weapons of the game. Sometimes it feels like the damage we deal with enemies or dealt to us feels like depending on luck. But when it hits big, it hits big.
The goal of these changes is to place this weapon’s identity between the fast fire EVA-8 and the heavy-hitting Peacekeeper. The Mastiff has consistently been dominant in close-quarters combat given its forgiving spread pattern and high damage spikes with each shot. This change reduces that high damage potential in order to limit the amount of two pumps players experience on the receiving end.
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The burst damage from the Hemlok’s hip-fire was feeling a little too consistent for an AR that should excel at medium range. This change mitigates the Hemlok’s close quarters damage spikes that felt bad on the receiving end.
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There will be some fixes for the bugs with the new update.
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