Apex Legends will not offer any special tasks and challenges for Season 1. There are clear reasons for this, but challenges may come later.
What are challenges in the Season Pass? Some battle royale games, especially Fortnite, offer special tasks weekly every season. If you complete them, you earn a lot of points for the battle pass and can level up faster, thus getting your goodies more quickly. Without such tasks, you have to grind through the levels.
In Fortnite, the weekly challenges are always a big hit, which millions of players await. In Apex Legends, although there is a battle pass, developer Respawn explicitly does not want to offer challenges.
Play calmly first before chasing challenges
This is why Respawn wants no challenges: In a blog post, the developers of Apex revealed their reasons for omitting challenges in Season 1. At first, they joked about challenges:
You will notice that the first version [of the battle pass] is not built around a complex quest system, where you have to do a 720 backflip from the Artemis watchtower and get two Wingman headshots before you hit the ground.
Respawn does not seem to hold much stock in tasks that distract you from regular gameplay. Fortnite has often introduced tasks that had nothing to do with battle royale and regularly sent players to their deaths.
Will there never be challenges in Apex? However, Respawn immediately backtracked and explained that there are indeed possibilities for challenges.
We believe there will be enough design possibilities for quests and challenges in future battle passes. However, we want to keep the first version such that players can just play and get to know the game.
What does this mean for players? The omission of challenges means that you have to grind through all 100 levels of the Season 1 battle pass without aids until you finally receive the cool new Havoc skin.
This weapon skin and all skins from the pass will be exclusive to Season 1 and will not appear again.
This was also the case in Fortnite with the first battle pass, and players were very pleased when challenges and tasks finally came in Season 3.
What do players say? While some players would like challenges in Apex Legends, most agree that it is better to have no challenges than a few silly tasks like those found in Fortnite or PUBG.
In the latter, you had to go into the water or the death zone, which no one does voluntarily. Challenges, according to the fans, should make sense and not be some obscure nonsense.
The absurd example of the backflip from the watchtower by Respawn gives hope that the developers are indeed thinking of something special for future season challenges.
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