This week,Apex Legendsdeveloper Respawn Entertainment revealed the high-flying, missile-launching Legend Valkyrie. The new fighter has close ties to the characters and story ofTitanfall 2, which has resulted in a massive spike in players for the 2016 game.
Valkyrie, AKA Kairi Imahara, is thedaughter of Viper, a Northstar titan pilotinTitanfall 2and a member of Kuben Blisk’s Apex Predators. Player’s fight Viper as a boss on the way to stop the IMC from using a weapon of mass destruction called the Fold Weapon. Blisk would go on to start the Apex Games after the events ofTitanfall 2, and Valkyrie would salvage her father’s titan to build the flight suit and armaments she wields inApex Legends.
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Players who wanted a refresher on what happened to Valkyrie’s father, or to experience it for the first time, have flocked toTitanfall 2in great numbers. SinceRespawn began teasing the yet-to-be-revealed Valkyrie’s connectionstoTitanfall 2last week, the game’splayer count jumped from an average of about 1,500 a day to an average of 15,000 on Steam, according to Steam Charts. In fact, there are more people playingTitanfall 2now than when the game first came to Steam last year.
Valkyrie will be playable inApex Legendson May 4. The specifics of her kit have yet to be officially revealed, butaccording to Valkyrie-related leaksher passive ability will let her hover in the air, while her tactical ability will involve shooting a cluster of missiles. Her ultimate will reportedly function like a Jump Tower for her and her teammates, allowing them to relocate across the map at will.
Valkyrie won’t be the only addition to the game come Season 9, asApexis finally receiving the much-rumored 3v3 Arenas mode. The feature was confirmed with a launch trailer released Thursday, but a full gameplay reveal for the mode is slated for Monday, April 26. Story-wise the mode is being run by Ash, another pilot fromTitanfall 2that players may remember for her chilling personality and ceramic face.
Apex Legendsis available now on PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One, with a mobile version currently in beta testing.
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