re: Apex Legends: F2P Battle Royale game from Respawn

Battle Pass Season 1 Philosophy

TL;DR Season 1 is about keeping it focused and allowing players to earn a lot of rewards at a great value (you even get the cost of the base Battle Pass back if you reach level 97). We’ll begin adding more and more innovations each season, as we evolve the Battle Pass.

Our first Battle Pass is all about letting you continue to learn and experiment with the core Apex Legends experience while earning awesome loot at the same time. You’ll notice the first version isn’t built around a complex quest system where you need to do a 720 backflip off of Watchtower Artemis and get two Wingman headshots before hitting the ground. While we think there’s really cool design space in quests and challenges for future Battle Passes, we wanted the initial version to allow our players to just play and learn the game.

All of the rewards in the Wild Frontier Battle Pass are exclusive to Season 1 and will never return to the game after the season ends (excluding Apex Packs and the content dropped in them).

We’ve added a Battle Pass progression bonus tied to playing a variety of characters, because we believe true mastery in Apex Legends means being a badass with anyone in any situation at any time. This season is about exploring the new meta and variety of team comps driven by the launch of our first new Legend, Octane.

In terms of rewards, we’ve tried to create a Battle Pass where first-time spenders can get a strong base of weapon and character cosmetics to fill out their initial collection at a deep discount. In addition, we’ve included our first ever three-stage evolving Legendary Havoc weapon skin (for veterans who are looking for the new hotness), as well as Epic and Legendary Apex Packs. These rewards are all in addition the 1,000 Apex Coins you can earn through the Battle Pass, which you can put towards unlocking the next Battle Pass.



Future Battle Pass Thinking
As a studio, we’re always striving to innovate like we did with our Ping system, the Jumpmaster, Respawning, and more. We look to do the same with our Battle Pass. Season 1 is just the first version on a long road of improvements, updates and tweaks. We have a lot of cool ideas in the works, but we want to hear yours too, so let us know on Reddit, Twitter, wherever. We’re listening.

the havoc rifle that "levels up" visually as you get kills is pretty neat.

but yeah. nothing amazing. just new stuff to grind for is good.

I swear every time I see an Octane pic I want to hop on Borderlands

only the gold coins you spend real life money for.

the red coins would only be for octane.

Thanks. I'll probably get it. Now if I could only get better at the actual game...

Damn. Them kids garbage

Havoc rifle and spitfire has been my load out of choice lately. oppressive suppressive fire with turbo and xmags.

The havoc is pretty accurate and easy to control for me. I don't select fire it though

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Lmao at all the reddit posts bitching that the battle pass rewards aren't good enough. How much new content did they expect the devs to create in 1 month? While also patching and balancing the game? It's funny to me that people bitch about micros all the time but can't just play a game because they think it's fun. They need skins but not just any skins they have to have the coolest looking skin to show everyone else how cool they are. I've got some pretty cool skins on rainbow 6 siege but I wouldn't say they improve my gameplay experience

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It's easier for them to convince their parents to give them the credit card number if the skins are up to their standards

right, I pretty much ignored it at first but now run it every time. just kind of clicked with me finally. the vertical recoil is easy to control from mid range I find.


here is some nerd math on the "value" of stuff we get from the BP.

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"And we end up with a whopping 7790 Apex Coins in value for the small price of 950 Apex Coins."