Apex Legends tips & cheats

 Apex Legends

Submitted by: David  K.

Tips and Tricks

Apex Legends beginners’ tips and things to know:

1.You’re always in a squad of 3 players – if there are fewer than 3 of you 

  playing, you’ll be matchmade with strangers.

2.Apex Legends has a fantastic Ping system – so if you’re not a fan of voice chat, 

  you can communicate entirely by pings instead.

3.You can mute squadmates, too – head to the second tab of your inventory in-game, 

  and go to that player’s name where there’s an option to mute (you’re welcome).

4.There’s also both a text-to-speech and speech-to-text function – the text-to-

  speech is PC only as far as we can tell. They’re found in the main menu’s 

  settings page at the bottom of Game Settings under Accessibility Options.

5.Each game has 60 players – that’s 20 squads in total, each round. The in-game 

  counter in the top right of your HUD keeps track of squads, rather than players

  for the most part, because the high amount of survivability you have in the Apex

   Legends means eliminating squads is much more important than focusing on 

  individuals.

6.Rounds tend to last for between 14 and 25 minutes – much shorter than most battle 

  royales, thanks to the smaller player count and high mobility, combined with a 

  seemingly smaller map than usual.

 

7.The indicator on the middle-left of your HUD shows when the next ‘phase’ is coming 

  – in other words, when the circle is going to close in next and force you to the 

  next safe area (marked in faded white on your mini-map and map).

8.There are no vehicles – and of course no Titans. Movement is, instead, a case 

  using your squad’s character abilies and the environment efficiently.

9.Loot is generally spread out evenly, with the Hot Zone, Supply Ship and supply 

  drops the main points of focus instead of specific, high-loot areas – you’ll 

  still generally find more loot in places with lots of buildings, however.

10.You drop from the ship at the start in a fixed formation, following the 

  "Jumpmaster", but you can suggest and veto other suggestions with the Ping 

  system as you go – you can also break off and go your own way by holding the 

  button as prompted on your UI, if you like, but we recommend sticking with 

  your squad!

11.Generally speaking, Apex Legends is about one specific playstyle: fast, 

   constantly-moving gunplay with your squad. It’s not a game for lone rangers, 

   contemplative moments of solitude, or camping – although you’re welcome to 

   try!

Other Tips and Tricks

1.There’s no fall damage – this is another key design decision, that lets you move around 

  incredibly quickly when combined with hopping on and off ziplines, buildings and more.

2.All characters move at the same speed – as confired by Apex Legends designer Carlos 

  Pineda on Twitter.

3.When you pick up a gun, it always has one full magazine of ammo in it – so even if 

  your pals has snaffled all the ammo nearby, for instance, you can still pick the gun 

  up and use it -briefly – in a pinch.

4.Death boxes are colour-coded to the highest-quality loot inside – so if you kill an 

  enemy with a top-tier, golden yellow backpack, their death box will be glowing yellow

  until you loot it out of there. Keep an eye out for purple and gold ones in particular

  then when you’ve finished a firefight, for some great loot!

5.Give your ultimate accelarants to Lifeline, so she can call in supply pods regularly 

  – she should be doing it as soon as it’s available, until the late game where it’s a 

  bit of a positional giveaway, in order to keep your squad maxed out with great gear. 

  Ultimate accelerants help her do this faster!

 

6.Equipment auto-attaches to weapons if it can – if it can attach to both, then it 

  defaults to the one with a free slot or, if they both have a free slot, the one you 

  have out at the time. You can swap attachments between them in the inventory screen.

7.Gear and ammo that can’t be used with anything you have equipped will have a red 

  crossout line over it in your inventory – unless it’s amazing, drop it, as inventory 

  space is limited!

8.Loot is generally spread quite evenly between buildings, so places with more buildings 

  tend to have more (and a higher chance of better) loot – the best loot, however is 

  from drop pods, hot zones and supply ships.

9.Gold loot has the same stats as purple loot, the tier below it, only it comes with 

  special bonus, like the gold body armour which fully regenerates your shield on using 

  a finisher on an enemy.

10.You can smash doors with melee attacks – this is great if you get pinned behind one

   by things like enemies and death boxes, which can leave you in a tricky spot. 

   Also it looks cool because you kick it.

11.There is, actually a kind of wall-climbing in the game – no proper wallrunning or 

   triple-jumps like Titanfall of course, but you can ‘wall-climb’ up to about 3 or 4

   times your height by sprinting at a wall and holding the Jump button whilst looking 

   upwards. Often your character will get surprisingly far up a wall and onto ledges 

   you wouldn’t think were accessible, without any help. Worth practising and mastering!

 

12.Use doors to climb even higher – old-school PUBG players will recognise this one. 

   Open a door and wall-climb onto the top of that, and then from there wall-climb 

   further up the wall to reach otherwise inaccessible ledges and roofs of those mid-

   height buildings. Great way to surprise people.