Video game developers are no strangers to pulling pranks on the players that play their games during April Fools’ Day. Over the years, games have featured some unexpected updates to celebrate April 1st, such as Overwatch giving its characters googly eyes and Among Us flipping its Skeld map. Not to be outdone, Apex Legends has been known to shake things up in its battle royale on April Fools’ Day.
Since its release in February 2019, Apex Legends has hosted several April Fools’ Day events. Past tomfoolery has included adding golden gun versions of the Mozambique Shotgun and P2020 Pistol to the game for a 24-hour period, making two of the more underwhelming guns in the game more viable for a short time. Based on these previous events, some fans are already wondering if the developers at Respawn Entertainment have some more unusual shenanigans in store for this year as well.
Recently, an Apex Legends content creator known as TiifaJessi decided to ask one of the developers at Respawn Entertainment what could be coming for an April Fools’ Day update. “April fools event ideas?” she asked on Twitter. Surprisingly, Respawn Senior Producer Josh Medina was quick to respond. However, instead of giving possible ideas for April Fools’ Day, he revealed that the event had already been planned and was ready to go. “Nah we got wrapped up already since it’s in 2 weeks,” he said.
While this response from Medina confirms that an event is in the works, it still leaves much of the specifics unknown. With that being said, some players have already been coming up with intriguing concepts for an April Fools’ Day event in Apex Legends. Recently, one gamer known as Binkal on Reddit proposed a fun albeit wacky idea. For a 24-hour period, they suggested that players should be allowed to equip any optic to any gun of their choosing. This would mean that players could use some rather absurd combos like an R-99 with a 4x-8x Variable Sniper Scope.
Despite this recent confirmation of an event from Josh Medina, it seems players will have to wait and see what takes place on April Fools’ Day. Time will tell if the developers have decided to take the advice of fans and implement this unusual weapon sight concept or if they have developed their own surprising update. Whatever comes, it should be a nice change of pace from the normal gameplay experience featured in the battle royale. Fortunately, Apex Legends fans do not have long to wait as April 1st is less than a week away.
Apex Legends is available on PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One, while a Mobile version is available in some regions.
Source: Dexerto
