News - Hot Drop: Apex Legends' Heirlooms Should Add A Lil Flavor To Gameplay

Hot Drop: Apex Legends' Heirlooms Should Add A Lil Flavor To Gameplay

<p dir="ltr"><em>Hot Drop is GameSpot's weekly <a href="https://www.gamespot.com/games/apex-legends/">Apex Legends</a> column, in which Jordan Ramée takes a closer look at Respawn's battle royale to provide additional insight into the game's evolution, as well as dive deeper into its episodic storytelling and characters.</em></p><hr /><p dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.gamespot.com/articles/apex-legends-awakening-collection-event-patch-notes-target-ranked-mode-but-fail-to-fix-loba/1100-6504729/">Apex Legends Awakening Collection Event</a> is underway, adding <a href="https://www.gamespot.com/articles/new-apex-legends-awakening-collection-event-trailer-unveils-valkyries-heirloom/1100-6504671/">Valkyrie's heirloom</a> to the battle royale and even <em>further </em>confirming the legitimacy of that <a href="https://www.gamespot.com/articles/hot-drop-apex-legends-giant-leak-is-likely-accurate-but-we-cant-100-trust-it/1100-6501887/">giant Apex Legends leak</a> from March 2022. Like her namesake, Kairi "Valkyrie" Imahara wields a spear as her heirloom, one that's been custom-made to use propulsion jets in order to make it easier for Valkyrie to stab or swing the massive weapon with one hand.</p><p dir="ltr">It doesn't, however, really do anything to change what it's like to play Valkyrie. This has been the case with most of Apex Legends' heirlooms. While these mythic-tiered cosmetics give their assigned legends a unique banner animation and intro quip, they don't change what a player sees while actually playing the game, other than the animation of a character's run and melee attack.</p><a href="https://www.gamespot.com/articles/hot-drop-apex-legends-heirlooms-should-add-a-lil-flavor-to-gameplay/1100-6504874/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f/">Continue Reading at GameSpot</a>

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