Apex Legends Set to Launch New Game Mode
With the addition of its Revival respawn mechanic and its new Bot Royale training mode, Apex Legends Season 22 has already provided plenty of new experiences for new and veteran players alike. However, developer Respawn has teased another new mode called Knockout Battle Royale.
During coverage of the final day of the Apex Legends Global Series Year 4 Split 2 Playoffs, lead weapons designer Eric Canavase reveals some early details about this brand new limited-time mode.
“Knockout Battle Royale is a fun new twist on the battle royale,” Canavase says. “It’s a new way to play with new objectives in the game to fight over. It’s got a lot of interesting ways for you to progress through the match. It’s kinda a little bit of something for everyone.
Apex Legends to Release New Mode
“Throughout the game, there’s going to be a lot of capture points that spawn. You’re going to fight over these and you’re also going to be earning points through getting kills and team squad wipes and that kinda stuff. You’ll be gathering these points, and at some point when the round ends, the bottom five teams are going to get knocked out.”
Knockout continues the recent trend of giving you more chances to matter by making a points leaderboard the prerequisite for elimination rather than your squad being eliminated.
“In Knockout you’ve got infinite respawns,” Canavase explains. “You can always come back and if things aren’t going well there you can respawn somewhere else, kinda fly over and take the fight to one of the other capture points. So you’ve got lots of opportunities to make it to the end, you just gotta stay good.”
Apex’s Control mode certainly sounds like an interesting mode, as it blends the objective-based elements with traditional battle royale’s urgency and stakes by periodically eliminating the weakest teams.
