Apex Legends’ subsequent, latest character is an older man: Ballistic, who within the hero-shooter battle royale is described as a “disgraced legend” from a time earlier than the Apex Video games. Now he’s again to settle some very previous scores.
Ballistic, actual identify August Montgomery Brinkman, is a 63-year-old fighter whose taking part in document goes again to the Thunderdome Video games, the canonical predecessor to the Apex Video games. Ballistic was revealed in an almost five-minute teaser trailer that Respawn printed Monday, after dataminers outed all of their plans for season 17. That new season nonetheless launches, as scheduled, this Could 9 on Nintendo Swap, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Sequence X.
Within the video we study that Ballistic was a star within the Thunderdome Video games. Now he’s becoming a member of the present promotion to spare his son from demise within the enviornment. Apex Legends’ present season launched in February with no new hero, however the sport did reclassify the 23 present heroes into one in every of 5 new classes: Assault, Skirmisher, Recon, Help, and Controller. Ballistic is an Assault character.