History VideoGame / ApexLegends

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Season 14's story ends with [[spoiler:Mirage realizing that his e-mail invitation to his party didn't get sent, as he thought it did. He spent the entire rest of the story wallowing alone behind the bar, assuming that nobody came to his party because they all hated him for some reason]].

* FloatingContinent: Season 7 introduced a new map Olympus, which is a floating city that was once a research station, and then a luxury resort of the elite.

* DownerEnding: Season 12 ends on one of the lowest notes of them all. [[spoiler:On Octane's end, he ruins his friendship with Lifeline, discovers that his father is actually dead and that his ''grand''father has been posing as him, and ends up throwing his lot in with him to salvage the one relationship he has left as Torres succeeds in taking over the Syndicate. For Lifeline, her arms-dealing mother has become president of the Frontier Corps and she ends up allying with Mad Maggie to overthrow the Syndicate by force. As for Bangalore, she learns from Wraith that Jackson is dead, fractures her friendship with Loba, and ends up resigning from the games so Revenant can take her back home to Gridiron. Things only get better for the latter, if the "Saviors" launch trailer is any indication.]]

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** The Mozambique has the highest fire rate of all shotguns, but that doesn't make up for itpunishing-to-miss three pellet spread and low damage output. [[InvertedTrope Ironically]], it's also the worst handgun [[HandCannon despite being the largest]], because of its [[ShortRangeShotgun terrible range]].

** In season 3 and 4, gold armor granted the Fast Use perk, which cut the time to use healing items and Ultimate Accelerants in half. Five-second Phoenix Kits[[labelnote:*]]restores you to full health and armor, but normally takes a whopping ten seconds to use[[/labelnote]] were ''exactly'' as broken as they sound. In season 5, it was dialed back a bit by replacing Fast Heal with Improved Minor Heal, which doubles the effectiveness of Syringes and Shield Cells. While not nearly as powerful as the previous version, it's still highly useful as it allows you to save precious Shield Batteries and Medkits when you only need to restore about half of your health and/or shields.

** Prior to season 3, the gold backpack granted the aforementioned Fast Use perk. When that was moved to gold armor in season 3, the gold backpack was given the arguably ''more'' useful Guardian Angel perk, which grants allies 50 armor and 70 health upon being revived. While this is indisputably useful no matter who has it, it becomes a borderline GameBreaker when paired with Legends with some form of buffed resuscitation abilities such as Lifeline, Gibraltar, and Mirage, turning such characters into {{Combat Medic}}s par excellence. Guardian Angel can also be combined with the Self Revive perk from the gold knockdown shield, letting you revive yourself with a much better chance to escape and/or fully heal.

* SpringJump: Jump Pads will launch any Legend that touches them straight up, giving them an opportunity to start gliding down from the sky. They're placed to aid rollouts in the Control game mode, and they also feature as part of Storm Point's IMC Armories to give players a head start on moving when they finish fighting.

*** On the subject of Pathfinder's grapple, you can also hook onto an enemy and pull them towards you both ala previous ''Titanfall'' games to either kick them for 50 damage or blast them with your weapon of choice.

* HailfirePeaks: The World's End map introduced in Season 3 has [[LethalLavaLand craters full of lava]] and [[SlippySlideyIceWorld cities frozen in chemical ice]] within walking distance of each other. The Season 10 changes amplified this; [=POIs=] like Climatizer feature exposed lava surrounded by machine-made snow.

** The Wingman revolver starts with a paltry 5 round magazine and has terrible visual recoil. However, it also has great damage per shot, negligible movement penalty when aiming, and a fantastic headshot multiplier that only gets better with the Skullpiercer Rifling hop-up. With good aim, a player with a Wingman can be easily down any foes at any range without getting shot.
** The R-99 submachine gun has very high damage per second; one of the highest ones in the game, and without having an attached gimmick like the charge on the Havok and Devotion. It also has a lot of recoil and eats light ammo like candy. Someone who can't aim it will just waste supreme amounts of bullets, but someone who can will basically melt enemies if given the opportunity. The C.A.R. is in the same boat, boasting slightly better damage per second, bullet efficiency, and being compatible with two ammo types and two magazine upgrade types, but it has a harder and not-as-predictable kickback.

** The L-STAR draws ammo directly from the user's inventory, and only needs to be "reloaded" if it overheats. {{Early|Installment|Weirdness}} versions of ''Apex''[='s=] L-STAR actually featured a hybridized version of this system: it overheated if shot for long enough and also must be reloaded manually regardless of if it went into overheat.

** The L-STAR draws ammo directly from the user's inventory, and only needs to be "reloaded" if it overheats. {{Early|InstallmentWEirdness}} versions of ''Apex''[='s=] L-STAR actually featured a hybridized version of this system: it overheated if shot for long enough and also must be reloaded manually regardless of if it went into overheat.

* BodyArmorAsHitPoints: Body armor (or "[[DeflectorShields body shields]]") gives you extra hit points that are spent before health and recovered with a different resource (batteries instead of medkits, the former working slightly faster). Armor has a capacity of 50, 75, or 100 health depending on tier. Helmets, on the other hand, reduce the extra damage done by headshots.

* ColorCodedItemTiers: Both gear and cosmetics follow the same pattern for menus: gray for Common, blue for Rare, purple for Epic, and yellow for Legendary. An orangey-red is used for maxed-out evo shields, care package exclusive weapons, Heirloom shards in Apex Packs, and the items that Heirloom shards buy.

* NotTheIntendedUse: The Triple Take fires 3 rounds in a horizontal spread. It requires some charging to tighten the spread and make it better at long range. But it's pretty accurate fired from the hip anyway, so it's not uncommon for players to just fit a common universal Reflex Sight and use it as a mid-range shotgun, taking advantage of the tight spread and high damage per pellet.

* AirVentPassageway: An air vent functions as an alternate passageway out from the south side of Turbine on Olympus. It's a bit cramped to enter, but big enough for the Legends to stand in.

** In 2022, Spider Eggs appeared on unusual locations; when destroyed, they dropped a different golden Mozambique named "Ol' Nessie", which had a two shot clip and launched large, team-aligned, KillerRabbit Nessie plushes, which reused the spider AI from Storm Point. Storm Point's naturally-occurring spiders in addition to their Prowlers were also reskinned to be hostile Nessies as well.

** "The First Ship" is a triple-meaning title: it can refer to the mystery of who Pathfinder's girlfriend is, the developing relationship between Mirage, Wraith, and Rampart, or in the final page, [[spoiler:the literal first ship carrying Rampart's stuff that phases to Olympus]].

* ExplosionPropulsion: If a Frag Grenade manages to deal damage to a victim's health, they get violently flung away from the explosion. What usually ends up happening is that the thrown grenade launches them out of cover, opening them up to be finished off if they're still standing. [[RocketJump It's possible to exploit this force to launch oneself around,]] but attempting to do so [[AwesomeButImpractical will likely leave the user on their last legs if not knock them down outright, not to mention it being possibly slower than running due to the need to heal between launches]].

* GoodOldFisticuffs: You can punch out other players. Unless you have [[WeaponOfChoice certain heirlooms]].

* InventoryManagementPuzzle: Managing characters' inventory is an important part of gameplay and can invisibly determine success. Are you carrying too much ammo, or not enough? Is it worth changing to a single-shot weapon like the 30-30 Repeater or Peacekeeper to get more damage per bullet, or would faster-firing weapons be better? Do you have enough grenades and healing for your next fight? Should you pick up the high-quality attachment that's incompatible with your guns, in the hopes that you find a gun that does fit later? Being able to answer these questions can mean the difference between winning and being jumped with no ammo and low HP.

* TankGoodness: Several tanks can be seen parked around King's Canyon. Unfortunately, you can't use them.

** [[RevolversAreJustBetter The Wingman]]'s damage is comparable to the game's sniper rifles, and gets a headshot damage bonus that's usually reserved for rifles -- and in the past the Skullpiercer Hop-up offered an upgrade to make them ''[[UpToEleven even stronger]]''.

Set in the 28th century, 18 years after the events of ''VideoGame/Titanfall2'', ''Apex Legends'' takes place within a region of the Frontier called "the Outlands", where a competing BloodSport called the "Apex Games" is played between pioneers, explorers and outlaws.

Set 18 years after the events of ''VideoGame/Titanfall2'', ''Apex Legends'' takes place within a region of the Frontier called "the Outlands", where a competing BloodSport called the "Apex Games" is played between pioneers, explorers and outlaws.

** In an effort to counteract the effect that the growing gun lootpool has on finding desired weapons, a Season 12 change reintroduces the mechanic of certain guns being craft-only, to make it so that less loot weapons need to be sifted through before players find the one they want.

* AscendedMeme: The Mozambique is recognized as a bad weapon by players and devs alike. The 1.2 patch briefly added a unique weapon swap animation where your character forcefully threw a weapon away, as if in disgust. This animation was used exclusively when swapping the Mozambique out. It was later removed in Season 2, when the Hammerpoint Rounds hop-up made the Mozambique actually useful in certain situations.

** The gold knockdown shield allows players to self-revive. However, players get little use out of it for multiple reasons: there's nothing stopping enemies from finishing you off, using it requires finding a decent hiding space when you’re significantly slower, utterly defenseless, and enemies are likely swarming all over the place, and if you try to use it for its primary purpose, i.e. ''as a shield'', its bright gold color will telegraph your ability to self-revive and thus instantly make you a target. Some players actually prefer the purple knockdown shield over the gold one since it doesn’t draw nearly as much attention.

* ChangingClothesIsAFreeAction: Helmets, armor, and backpacks instantly swap the moment a character pick them up. This is most relevant during heated early-game fights right after dropping, where armor swapping is a lot faster than recharging via cells/batteries and less likely to downgrade the player's armor.

* CoupDeGrace: When an opponent is knocked down, you can do a melee-range interact that plays a special animation where you finished them off, regardless of their health or shields. [[CoolButInefficient This isn't generally advisable]], as them being down means at least one of their squadmates is up (or can revive themselves via a gold knockdown shield), and likely nearby. As of Season 3, there might be some incentive to use it if your own shields are low since Finishers fully recharge them, but it's still highly dangerous and likely to get you killed if you're not careful. The ability to cancel out of the animation was later patched in.

* CriticalExistenceFailure: Zigzagged. Legends who have their health depleted drop into a weakened "downed" state where they can't do anything but limply crawl around and hold up an energy shield to protect themselves, making it a partial aversion; however, if an entire team gets downed and nobody is being auto-revived nor has a gold knockdown shield, this gets played straight and they die on the spot regardless of how wounded they are in said downed state.

* SigilSpam: The symbol of the Mercenary Syndicate features everywhere, from almost all of the Season symbols, to the game's desktop icon itself.
* SimpleYetAwesome: All of the gold equipment (sans the aforementioned knockdown shield) fall squarely into this trope:

** The gold helmet grants the Fast Charge perk, which reduces Tactical and Ultimate cooldowns by 25%. While its usefulness is debatable with Legends who already have relatively short cooldowns such as post-Season 4 Mirage and Octane, it's an absolute godsend for those with particularly long cooldowns like Bloodhound, Lifeline and Pathfinder circa season 5.

* SniperPistol: The Wingman, though outdone by actual sniper rifles and limited by its bullet trajectory, velocity, and sights, can be quite effective up to mid range. It's also the only pistol that still gets extra damage from headshots even past a short distance, something it benefits even further from when equipped with the Skullpiercer attachment.

* ContinuityNod: Multiple to ''VideoGame/{{Titanfall}}'' and ''VideoGame/Titanfall2'':
** ''Apex Legends'' and the Apex Games are named after the "Apex Predators", the ruthless mercenary unit from ''Titanfall 2''. In the "Deep Dive" trailer, the Apex Predator's logo can be seen, and "Apex Predator" is the tier name of the highest level of ranked players.
** The game's TagLine of "They kill you, they're better. You kill them, you're better" is adapted from Kuben Blisk's personal MightMakesRight mantra heard at the climax of the ''Titanfall'' campaign. Blisk even appears in the intro cinematic, much older than in the previous games, to recite it.
** Some of the Legends hail from planets seen in the ''Titanfall'' duology: Bangalore was born on Gridiron, Valkyrie on Angelia, and Wraith on Typhon.
** The Leviathan skeletons seen in the environment are the same ones from the Boneyard map in ''Titanfall''; in fact, actual Leviathans can be seen walking on a lake outside of the arena.
** The dropship from the start of each game resembles the IMS Draconis, the massive transport ship used to move The Ark at the second last level of ''Titanfall 2''. Also, Wattson's heirloom weapon has an animation involving a minigame called "Draconis Run", featuring a boss that resembles the IMS Draconis.
** Some logos of corporations from the previous games show up here, such as Lastimosa Armory's coat of arms being on Ash's sword or Lifeline wearing a headband with Kodai Industry's brand.
** Wraith was a part of and was experimented on by the IMC's ARES Division, the main antagonists of ''Titanfall 2''.
** ARES Division scientists as seen in the ''Voidwalker'' short wear uniforms in seafoam green and white with red highlights, which ARES Division scientists are dressed in during the past segments of ''Titanfall 2'''s level Effect and Cause.
** Speaking of which: Effect and Cause's events are directly referenced in the Voidwalker event's unique loading screen.
** Flyers carry deathboxes in King's Canyon and Storm Point; these dinosaur-like avians were first seen in ''Titanfall''. Similarly, on the maps World's Edge and Storm Point, Legends can fight waves of Prowlers, dinosaur-like predators that debuted in the same game.
** Plasma Drones from ''Titanfall 2'' appear in the Stories from the Outlands video "Forever Family", pursuing Crypto on the streets of Suotamo.
** The planetary harvester drill on Season 4's map is built by none other than Hammond Robotics, the same {{MegaCorp}} from the previous ''Titanfall'' games. Hammond Robotics also responsible for manufacturing [=MRVNs=] like Pathfinder and is the corporate sponsor of Forge.
** Revenant is a simulacrum (cyborgs consisting of a human mind uploaded into an android body) and Caustic mentions having worked for Vinson Dynamics. In ''Titanfall 2'', Vinson Dynamics is a manufacturer specializing in creating simulacrums, and one of its members, the simulacrum Ash, was part of the Apex Predators alongside Blisk. Season 5's Broken Ghost quest took it a step further by [[spoiler:having you put Ash's head back together piece by piece before reuniting it with her broken-down body stowed away deep underneath King's Canyon, effectively bringing her back to life.]]
** Ash cameos briefly in the Season 4 launch trailer on Revenant's monitor, depicting ''Titanfall 2'' multiplayer banner art of her.
** Season 5's trailer has Stalkers, the robotic infantry units from ''Titanfall 2'', attack Loba when her infiltration attempt goes sour, even demonstrating their previously-known [[OnlyAFleshWound tenacity in the face of limb loss]] when the last one drags Loba with her as it falls. A Stalker also appears in "The Endorsement", wielding twin Spitfires.
** When Blisk appears in "The Endorsement", he hands Rampart a card with the Apex logo on it after seeing her fight off her attackers, extending an invitation to the Apex Games to her. This mirrors a scene near the end of ''Titanfall 2'' when he hands a similar card to Jack Cooper after he wipes out the Apex Predators - even some of the dialogue is the same. One particular shot of Blisk crouching in front of the camera is almost identical in both games.
--->'''Blisk''': It's your lucky day, eh? Here - you earned this.
** Robotic combat units known as Spectres appear in ''Fight Night'' and in-game on Storm Point, using their ''Titanfall 1'' Militia-side design with the wedge-shaped head.
** Also in ''Fight Night'', one of Pathfinder's memories is watching a live weather report from himself during the destruction of Typhon, which happened in the final mission of ''Titanfall 2'''s singleplayer campaign.
** In ''Stories from the Outlands: Northstar'', rings form around Valkyrie's arms whenever she pilots it. Rarely does the audience get to see a Pilot of a Titan inside it; the last time these ring controls appeared was in [[https://youtu.be/ic0lWwZ8Q8U?t=110 the Gamescom 2014 CGI trailer]] for ''Titanfall 1''.
** Also in ''Northstar'', the tablet that Valkyrie holds shows that she's being paid in Credits, the in-game currency used to buy cosmetic items in ''Titanfall 2''.
** Some of Valkyrie's banners use the image of Viper's helmet, and one portrays his Northstar flying around a city.
** Ash is an arena overseer in the side gamemode Arenas, in which she watches the Legends fight in smaller arenas -- reprising her role in ''Titanfall 2'', where she does just that to the player.
** The Medusa vines featured in the comic "The Legacy Antigen" are said to have originated from Typhon, the main planet featured in ''Titanfall 2''.
** The loading screen "The Ghost of Viper" features a cameo of BT-7274, his original chassis overgrown with plantlife on Typhon. Viper's Northstar is also present in the loading screen, discernable by the missing hatch that BT ripped off of it during their fight.
** During the Genesis event, Bangalore, Gibraltar, Loba, and Crypto all recieved skins based on outfits they wore earlier in the canon. Naturally, Bangalore's skin "Decorated Line" is an IMC footsoldier's uniform.
** The ''Stories from the Outlands'' "Ashes to Ash" shows a flashback of BT ripping Ash from her Titan and crushing her in his fist, a first-person recreation of her Termination animation that the player can do to her in her ''Titanfall 2'' boss fight, even including some visible elements from the arena she's fought in. The sequence is modified slightly; in the original game, BT breaks her into utter nothingness, but in the animation only her torso is crushed.
** Ash's default banner frame is a rendition of her Ronin Titan's chassis from ''Titanfall 2''. An unlockable banner shows it in her aforementioned boss arena.
** Multiple from ''Stories from the Outlands'': "Gridiron":
*** Bangalore is hiding from an enemy Ion Titan, visible when an explosion lights up the dust.
*** A villager can be seen chopping a fruit using a hexagon-patterned machete. [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/the-frontier7309/images/c/ce/Machete.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20170426181631 This design]] originates in the "[[AllThereInTheManual Art of Titanfall]]" books.
*** The IMC Pilot Commander Scryer wields a Smart Pistol, a staple of the franchise that only properly disappeared starting in ''Apex Legends''. He also wallruns to engage in their fight.
*** Scryer's helmet is pretty transparently inspired by ''Titanfall 1''[='s=] male IMC Assault Pilot, most evident in its "pointed star" visor. Similarly, the Militia Pilot from Bangalore's flashback has a helmet that strongly resembles Droz's of ''Titanfall 2'', just without the 6-4 branding.
** The unique select animation for Bangalore's "Mil-Spec" skin features the male Holo Pilot model from ''Titanfall 2''. He also attempts to use the "Now You See Me" execution on her, which is the ReverseGrip knife stab to the face while cloaked.

** At Hot Zones, weapons have a chance to spawn as "fully kitted" variants. Fully kitted weapons have the highest tier attachments possible on all its slots except for optics; for comparison, finding one level 4 magazine is uncommon even across the scope of a full game, let alone finding that in addition to a barrel stabilizer, optics, stock, and/or hop-up.

* DroneDeployer: Crypto's abilities are related to his drone which can retrieve the banners of fallen allies, [[SurveillanceDrone detect enemies]], and [[AttackDrone send out an EMP which both slows and damages enemies]].

* JokeCharacter: DUMMIE, the TrainingDummy that you use as a target in the firing range and is featured in the "DUMMIE's Big Day" event as the only playable character. Its passive ability is seemingly useless, its tactical to spawn a random item is implied to be a leftover from testing the game, and its ultimate has a random effect varying between Mirage's ultimate, showering the player with items, and healing everyone nearby (including enemies).

** The first is an alternate universe where the IMC didn't lose the Frontier War, with IMC compounds still standing and populated there. The playable Wraith comes from this universe; the main universe's original Wraith, or Voidwalker Wraith, switched places with her and was last seen still in this one.
** The other is a universe where Revenant became ruler of the Outlands through his ResurrectiveImmortality. Dubbed the Shadowfall universe for the blood sport that Shadow Revenant runs, Pathfinder was the one to discover it by going through the Shadowfall universe Wraith's portal. Finding buried artifacts in it was the main driving force of Season 5.

** The clutch holo from the 2022 Summer Sundown is a reference to ''Manga/OnePiece'', with Revenant crossing his arms in front of him almost exactly like Nico Robin does when using her Devil Fruit powers, complete with flower petals.

* MatterReplicator: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Replicators]], which spawn at randomized locations each game and provide useful supplies to anyone who uses them. The currency used to craft things at Replicators is obtained from aquamarine-filled material canisters scattered around the map, usually around already-placed replicators, as well as much smaller amounts from loot bins.

* MissionControlIsOffItsMeds: Most gamemodes that substitute the AI announcer with someone else are this.
** Mirage sprinkles his pre-recorded Winter Express announcements with self-congratulatory quips, speculation on how well he's doing in the mode, and the occasional off-hand mention that [[ToiletHumor his bar lacks a bathroom, with Rampart setting up shop there]].
** Shadow Revenant spends the Shadowfall gamemode urging the Legends kill each other and generally being psychopathic, whenever he's not verbally tearing them apart or insulting his alternate universe self.
** Mad Maggie's announcements during Season 8's Battle Royale are very casual and peppered with slang. She also loves insulting Fuse.
** Downplayed with Ash, whose Arenas announcements are fairly straightforward, but she's not afraid to urge her personal views forward.

* TheTeaser: What usually starts happening around the end of each Season is that minor map or gameplay changes happen that hint towards the next Season, such as the Grafitti Mod Hop-Up added near the end of Season 5 to tease the Season 6 Legend's passive ability, or the phased-out fragment of a Cracked Talons jet landing on Storm Point during Season 11 to hint towards a return to Olympus and the addition of Mad Magie.

** The three synthetic legends -- Pathfinder, Revenant and Ash -- are treated like conventional organic legends. They can still be damaged by Caustic's gas, detected by Seer's heartbeat detector and healed by syringes, med kits and Lifeline's drone. Having to create a new type of health for synthetic legends would make the health and inventory management too difficult.

** If players run out of one ammo type with the C.A.R. SMG, they will automatically switch to the other type if they have them in their inventory.

** In 2022, Spider Eggs appeared on unusual locations; when destroyed, they dropped a different golden Mozambique named "Ol' Nessie", which had a two shot clip and launched large, attack-capable, team-aligned Nessie plushes, which reused the spider AI from Storm Point. Storm Point's naturally-occurring spiders in addition to their Prowlers were also reskinned to be hostile Nessies as well.

* AscendedExtra: [[FullConversionCyborg Simulacra]] are this. They're not present in ''Titanfall 1'' despite ''Apex'' lore [[RememberTheNewGuy establishing that a Simulacra conversion initiative existed before the Frontier War]], and in ''2'' their presence is limited to Ash, whose Simulacrum aspect isn't explored outside of her [[BackFromTheDead rebuilding]] after Typhon's destruction, and the storyless Stim and Phase Shift Pilots from the multiplayer. ''Apex'' greatly expands on their lore, from how they're created, the risks of becoming a Simulacrum, to how they function and think differently, and both the social and individual responses towards becoming one.

* BoringButPractical: The R-301 Carbine in a nutshell. A very basic light assault rifle that happens to have little recoil even without a barrel stabilizer and great damage at all ranges, making it the perfect generalist weapon.

** Red Evo Shields. They provide more raw protection than anything else in the game; the gold Body Shield has protection on the same tier as purple Evo Shields. On the other hand, it doesn't spawn naturally and the only way to obtain them is to level up a purple shield by dealing damage or spending materials to level it, or looting a red shield off of someone else.

** Crypto's PuppetFighter style focused around sending in his drone and planning around it encourages long-term strategy and advanced thinking, fitting his [[TheSmartGuy sharpened mind]].

** Wraith demonstrates far more control over her void abilities in lore materials than in the actual game, such as opening a portal without manually placing both ends and seemingly being able to [[FlashStep Flash Step]].

** The Spectres on Storm Point can be Finisher'd if they're on low enough health. Useful for an AfterCombatRecovery, but that they don't get knocked down makes it inconsistent with normal Finishers in signifying you can do them.

* AbnormalAmmo: Paintball rounds are a hop-up that [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin leaves splatters of paint wherever its bullets hit]] in addition to reloading guns faster and with expanded magazine sizes. The hop-up was originally added to the game to tease a future character, Rampart, who has faster LMG reloads with bigger magazines; her shop in World's Edge sells weapons that have this hop-up integrated permanently.

*** All players on a team drop together with one player being put in charge as the Jumpmaster, but everyone has the option to break off from the group. Jumpmaster privilege usually goes to the last person to choose their character to compensate for the fact that the others may have chosen their preferred Legend, but they can choose to let allies be the Jumpmaster. Also, in the event that the projected Jumpmaster is AFK, the role instead goes to the last player to select their Legend that is not AFK.

* CrapsackWorld: The Outlands don't seem like an especially pleasant place to live. Psmanthe has ridiculously bad wealth disparity, with the richest residence enjoying lives of decadence on its moon and Olympus while the surface city Malta is a ViceCity. Gaea's city Suotamo is much the same, and the wildlife populating the rest of the planet are viciously savage. Salvo is a planet wracked with constant war. Boreas' moon has been destroyed, with the side effects of it [[DoomedHometown poised to render the planet unlivable in a few decades]]. The Outlands might be better off as a whole for the removal of [[TheEmpire the IMC]] as its leadership, but their remnant companies such as Hammond Robotics are still present and active in the Outlands, not to mention their connections to the closest thing the Outlands has to an overarching government; the Mercenary Syndicate, who seems eerily close to the old IMC, down to having their enforcers dress in a similar white armor to IMC footsoldiers. The crappy state of the world is rarely the focus of the story though, which tends to use it as a backdrop to focus on characters instead.

** Diving during the landing phase is a lot less straightforward than in other {{Battle Royale Game}}s. Directly diving in the direction of your landing spot isn't nearly as fast as [[https://www.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/aogj4a/i_see_a_lot_of_people_dropping_incorrectly_in/?st=jrxa0pak&sh=40bb0128 making a sort of sweeping motion as illustrated here]]. This is mostly in part [[DiagonalSpeedBoost due to how the air drag works]], allowing you to go to spots faster and also covering much more area than normally.

** Literally again with the nests of spiders found all over Storm Point, along with dens of angry prowlers. Killing either will drop loot, with a mild tendency towards upgrading what the player's team has; clearing out the entire nest or den will grant the whole team crafting materials to spend on items at replicators.

* AdvancingWallOfDoom: In this case it is an energy shield controlled by the gamemasters. Players caught outside this zone take damage.
** During the Season 8 "Chaos Theory" event, there were the ring flares- smaller but no less dangerous expanding energy fields. The flares would appear either in random clusters or at the center of the map and expand outward.

*** All players on a team drop together with one player being put in charge but each have the option to break off from the group.

*** Similarly, when strategic information appears for Legends as part of their abilities, they can choose to share it via button press without needing to open up text or voice chat. Wraith and Seer's passive abilities will prompt a quip button to have them state the current presence of enemies, Crypto can ping Champion Banners to do likewise, Bloodhound can ping their tracker clues for their team, and Ash can ping the location of deathboxes from her map screen.

*** The IMC Armories are mostly impenetrable from the outside once they begin hacking, with nobody being allowed inside through the front door. However, in the event that a LeeroyJenkins leaves behind their teammates and starts the event early, allies can join in using a teleporter beneath the Armory.

* BoomHeadshot: A headshot with a Kraber is an instant down unless the target has purple armour and a blue helmet or better. Pre-Season 13, it was always an instant down.
** When charged with Rampart’s amped cover, a Kraber headshot can still instantly down any player.

** One of Wattson's Heirloom animations involves her booting up a game called "Draconis Run", which shows 1-bit sprites of a player-controlled jet shooting down a larger boss ship. The ''Titanfall 2'' level "The Ark" puts the player in a HighAltitudeBattle to chase after the massive MacGuffin-carrying transport ship, the IMS Draconis, which the boss of the game resembles.

** The R-99 submachine gun has very high damage per second. It also has a lot of recoil and eats light ammo like candy. Someone who can't aim it will just waste supreme amounts of bullets, but someone who can will basically melt enemies if given the opportunity.

** The [[FlyingCar tridents]] on Olympus. They can be the difference between a team making it to safety or dying in [[AdvancingWallOfDoom the ring]]. However, while they are fast and agile, they are very loud and any damage dealt to the vehicle is distributed across anyone riding in it. Also, they don't come equipped with any weapons and can't be used to run over enemy legends. They are fantastic for mobility, but don't do well in combat.

** The Wingman revolver can have "extended heavy magazines" equipped that can increase its capacity from 6 up to 9. Possibly [[JustifiedTrope justified]], as the Wingman is reloaded by replacing the entire cylinder at once instead of inserting rounds into a fixed cylinder, and the reload animation mostly keeps the chambers from the player's view.

* LighterAndSofter: Despite being about a BloodSport, ''Apex Legends'' is less graphically violent than ''VideoGame/{{Titanfall}}'', the rating going from "Mature" to "Teen". The Titans themselves aren't around to crush people underfoot or [[LudicrousGibs turn them into clouds of viscera]], bullet wounds only produce some brief bursts of blood with no lasting stains, and [[CoupDeGrace executions]] are much less visceral and/or subject to GoryDiscretionShot.

* TheRemnant: Season 13's story centers around a group known as the Forgotten Families, a gang of ex-IMC soldiers from its multiple different divisions, left in the Outlands after the IMC withdrew and left them stranded. Despite the Frontier War being long over, [[spoiler:they target deserters from their side and kill them]].

* BoomHeadshot: A headshot with a Kraber is an instant down unless the target has purple armour and a blue helmet or better.
** Pre-Season 13, it was always an instant down.

* BoomHeadshot: A headshot with a Kraber is an instant down regardless of armor and/or helmets.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Wattson's fences, Gibraltar's dome and Crypto's drone are blue/green if they belong to your teammates and orange/red if they don't.

* LootDrama: InUniverse, the launch trailer depicts Wraith, Mirage, and Pathfinder discussing who should get the rare loot found in a supply bin.
* LyricalDissonance: The upbeat [[Music/BobMarley "Three Little Birds"]](better known as "Every Little Thing's Gonna Be Alright") is used to score the cheerful tropical beach setting of the Season 11 launch trailer. The "don't worry" phrase from it is sampled and used to add tension to the half of the trailer that shows how EverythingIsTryingToKillYou.

*** The trident vehicles on Olympus and Storm Point will eject anyone riding inside if one is driven off the map, preventing poor driving skills from causing a TotalPartyKill.

* ConcealmentEqualsCover: Bullets do not pierce through most objects. Avoiding damage from an explosion is as simple as having the majority of your body not visible to it. Even if what you're hiding behind shouldn't realistically offer much (if any) shelter, it generally works. Even destructible cover like doors and Rampart's walls will completely negate damage from hiders for the attack that destroys them, though followup attacks are fair game.

** Season 5's trailer has Stalkers, the robotic infantry units from ''Titanfall 2'', attack Loba when her infiltration attempt goes sour. One also appears in "The Endorsement", wielding twin Spitfires.

** Robotic combat units known as Spectres appear in "Fight Night", using their ''Titanfall 1'' Militia-side design with the wedge-shaped head.
** Also in "Fight Night", one of Pathfinder's memories is watching a live weather report from himself during the destruction of Typhon, which happened in the final mission of ''Titanfall 2'''s singleplayer campaign.

* GravityMaster: Horizon is a "gravitational manipulator" whose abilities revolve around the gravity:
** Passive: Reduces impact from long falls, eliminating the temporary fall-stun that affects other legends.
** Tactical: Temporarily reverses gravity in a small area, creating a column where legends will "fall" up rather than down.
** Ultimate: Creates a miniature BlackHole that will [[GravitySucks pull in other legends]], and damage them when it collapses.

*** As of Season 11, Loba and Valkyrie now an OfficialCouple, and [[SickeninglySweethearts they will not stop reminding you with every interaction in-game.]]