Apex Legends Season 20: Breakout is nearing its finish, and as we speak, developer Respawn Leisure gave gamers a style of what is coming in Season 21 through a brand new episode of Tales From The Outlands, entitled Based mostly On A True Story. The episode introduces gamers to Season 21’s debut Legend, a portal-hopping anomaly who goes by the identify Alter.
Narrated by Alter herself, Based mostly On A True Story appears to suggest that Alter shouldn’t be from the identical dimension as the opposite Legends (save for Wraith, who can be from one other dimension). The episode reveals that Alter’s dad and mom are dead–and might have been murdered–but verifiable info is sparse by way of her origins, and he or she appears to enjoy the truth that she’s an enigma–and a doubtlessly unreliable narrator.
All through the episode, Alter reveals she’s a extremely expert fighter, and has been skilled as an murderer by a mysterious group. Bodily, she resembles a form of cyberpunk tiefling, full with horn-like antennae on her head and a Doc Ock-esque mechanical arm sprouting out of her decrease again like a tail. Although she does seem like largely human, her voice has a little bit of an inorganic tone to it, just like the voices of robotic Legends like Ash, Pathfinder, and Revenant.
Alter by no means offers viewers a transparent reply relating to her identification, however she does reveal that she has frolicked dwelling in a way just like Bloodhound.
“For years, I used to be a hunter of the outdated methods,” she declares, referencing Bloodhound’s episode of Tales From The Outlands. “Additionally, I had a fowl.”
However a passion for avian familiars is not the one similarity she shares with a few of Apex’s different Legends. She’s seen coming into and exiting portals which have the looks of shattered glass–an fascinating element, particularly given the truth that Wraith entered this dimension by jumping through shattered glass, as seen in her personal episode of Tales From The Outlands.
“Who am I? I am the one who’s there on the finish,” Alter declares within the remaining seconds of the trailer, as she drops a photograph of fellow Legend Horizon (and her son, Newton) onto the bottom. “Or am I?”
Definitive solutions relating to Alter’s origins are nowhere to be discovered on this episode of Tales From The Outlands, however the animated quick appears suggest that she could also be an amalgamation of varied pre-existing Legends, and that she has some form of connection to Horizon (and presumably Bloodhound, Wraith, and even Revenant as effectively). Nonetheless, Based mostly On A True Story does reveal one verifiable truth about Alter: She’s fluent in Cantonese, which she might be heard talking close to the episode’s midpoint.
As for the remainder of Alter’s background, it appears Apex Legends gamers should wait till Season 21: Upheaval goes reside to get the total story.