UPDATE 20:05: Following the premature reveal of Apex Legends’ next playable character earlier today, developer Respawn has made it official. Apex Legends Season 14 will feature the range-carrying Vantage, real name Mara, who gets her animated introduction in the new Stories from the Outlands video below.
Survive, as the video is officially titled, tells Vantage’s backstory, picking up as he stumbles upon the remains of the mysterious GDS Vantage while out hunting on his snowy world of Págos. As his curiosity grows and ignoring his mother’s warnings to leave well in peace, one day he descends into the cavernous remains of the Vantage, where he discovers the truth: that it is a prison ship and his mother was held captive.
After a failed escape, Mara, accompanied by her new bat-like companion Echo, is trapped and about to die, so her mother (wrongfully convicted, Respawn notes elsewhere) does the only thing she can, giving up his freedom by alerting. authorities on his whereabouts in the hope that they can help.
Apex Legends – Stories of the Hollow Lands: Survive.
And that’s where the story ends, at least for now. Expect a lot more from Vantage, including the full breakdown of its abilities, ahead of Apex Legends Season 14, titled Hunted, coming to PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, and PC on August 9.
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The self-inflicted leak comes ahead of the latest episode of Stories from the Outlands, a series of pre-season animated shorts featuring the upcoming legend, premiering today at 4 p.m.
Players who logged into the Apex Legends client on July 23rd may have seen the preview image uploaded by Respawn. It has since been removed from the client, but not before it could be immortalized on the internet.
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Reddit user TheKzX uploaded a screenshot of the preview for Stories from the Outlands: Survive, which also had a grayed-out button to watch the video. Legend is calling the new season Apex Legends: Hunted, starting August 9.
No one who watched the preview got to see Survive, but the new legend is shown up close, giving players more than enough information to start piecing things together.
Image preview captured and uploaded by u/TheKzX from the Apex Legends client.
The new character shown has dark hair and wears headphones, with dark spots on his cheekbones. They clearly resemble Vantage, a character that was part of the big Apex Legends leak back in March.
Later that day, the Apex Legends Twitter account posted a new video titled “Distress transmission incoming…” to tease the announcement of a new character, with Survive being announced the next day.
Players are now expecting Vantage to be announced as the next playable legend later today, which will be revealed as a sniper in the March leak.