It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s just Eurogamer testing something out in Apex Legends again – except this time, rather than a game ruining issue, this one is pretty fun for everyone involved.
By now, most Apex players are likely to have played with or fought against a Crypto, the new hacker Legend whose abilities revolve around a speedy little drone. This drone has more uses than advertised though – as it turns out, Pathfinder can actually grapple to it, allowing him to fly around the map for a limited amount of time.
We decided to test Pathfinder’s new flight capabilities, and it turns out it’s fairly easy to get him airborne – it’s just not so easy to keep him airborne.
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If you want to give it a try yourself, Emma and I found that having the drone in flight mode before you grapple onto it will usually keep you attached longest. If you get too close or too far away from the drone, you’ll ping off like a high tech slingshot – though this worked quite well to launch Pathfinder between buildings, I don’t feel it would be all that useful in any kind of fire fight.