And with it, Apex gains the villain it feels like it’s been missing for the last several seasons. If Ash’s introduction into the game felt like the end of a major chapter in Apex lore, the revelation of Silva’s plots being part of a grander plan to take control of the Outlands feels like the beginning of a new one. His question in the launch trailer is genuine: “¿Qué está haciendo?” What is he doing?
Why does the pharmaceutical CEO that already wields plenty of power within the Syndicate want to publicly consolidate that power under himself? Why bring Maggie to the Games, specifically? There are easy answers to these, like that he’s power-hungry or needs a fall woman, but Silva seems like a far more calculating man than that. There are still important questions that are yet to be answered. And the importance of both seemed to fade a bit into the background. Then, Caustic was revealed as the mole and made a bit more sympathetic. There were real, close antagonists with somewhat inscrutable goals and aims. But equal in importance was Revenant’s threatening presence as the quest’s villain, and the knowledge that there was some mole among the legends helping him. The reveal of Ash as the object players were building by collecting pieces around a parallel-universe Kings Canyon felt titanic in its narrative scope and potential, fully linking Apex to an important thread of the Titanfall universe. The mini PvE missions were popular, fun little side activities to the main game, and the events of those missions became integral plot points in the story the quest told.
Story-wise, it has felt like Apex hasn’t quite been able to recreate the magic of the game’s inaugural quest, season five’s The Broken Ghost.
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