As late as January, Respawn said it had no plans to add a single-player mode again.
Apex Legends will soon introduce a Solos mode for the first time since 2019, despite the fact that the game’s creator, Respawn Entertainment, stated earlier this year that it has no intention of allowing players to engage in combat by themselves once more. At the beginning of the following season, the Duos mode will be replaced by Solos for a period of six weeks.
Respawn recently told reporters that it “wanted to acknowledge the growing interest in Solos from our players,” many of whom were looking for new ways to play the game. The game is created and tailored for squads of three, but Respawn recently stated that it recognized the growing interest in Solos from its users. Having the mode active for the first half of season 21 will provide the developers with the opportunity to collect a substantial amount of feedback from players. They might be able to determine whether or not Solos could become a more permanent fixture with the use of this information.
“With growing demand from players and a desire on the team to explore the concept again with everything we’ve learned since the mode’s last appearance in 2019, Upheaval felt like the right time to reintroduce a Solos experience to Apex,” Mike Button, the events lead, explained.
As a means of compensating for the absence of support from teammates, the Solos mode that has been brought back will include three distinct characteristics. You will be able to spend a one-time respawn token in order to get back into the action if you are eliminated inside the first four rounds of the competition. Following the completion of the fourth circle, any tokens that remain unused are converted into Evo, which may be used to purchase shields and enhance abilities. As far as the developers are concerned, the purpose of this is to urge players to be more interested in the beginning stages of the game.
In addition, Respawn has developed a gameplay mechanic for solos that is known as Battle Sense. You will receive both an audible and a visual alert once an adversary is within fifty meters of you. Last but not least, when you are not engaged in combat, you will heal without actively doing so. Although it will take some time for the progressive health regeneration to begin, you have the ability to bypass the first countdown if you are successful in killing an enemy. In order to heal manually, you will still be able to make use of med kits and like. In addition, Respawn is implementing a number of changes for Solos, such as the addition of fully equipped weapons, the modification of circle widths, and the reduction of the lobby capacity from sixty to fifty people.
Additionally, players will have the opportunity to explore a new legend, in addition to modifications to the game’s geography, cosmetics, balancing, and rankings. Alter is from a different dimension, and this fact is included into her arsenal. It is possible for her to build portals through the floors, ceilings, and walls.
It is possible to use the Void Passage ability from a considerable distance away, and because it has a maximum depth of twenty meters, it is not an ability that can go through mountains. You will have a brief period of safety after passing through a portal, during which you will be able to evaluate your surroundings and get ready for a fight if it becomes necessary. It is possible for both allies and opponents to use the portals, which means that Void Passage can provide a wide variety of possibilities for flanking and rotations.
Alter is able to see death boxes through walls and steal an item from one of them thanks to her passive ability for seeing death boxes. The ultimate ability of Alter is known as Void Nexus. After this, a device will be dropped that allows you and your teammates to interact with it remotely, even if you are knocked down. If you do so, you will be transported back to the point where you gathered. Nevertheless, adversaries have a limited amount of time to pursue you. The ability to observe enemy health bars while passing through a portal is one of the enhancements that Alter can acquire on his character.
At the beginning of the Upheaval season, which will begin on May 7, you will have the opportunity to test out the reinstated Solos mode in Apex Legends and play as Alter.