by N1cknamed

Inventory and looting:

• The UI will tell you where an attachment will go to
• The UI will tell you which of your guns use the ammo you’re looking at
• If you open your inventory while running you will keep running
• You can find rare loot ticks which will drop purple/gold loot when destroyed
  • These make robotic sounds to alert you to their presence, they can be quite hidden sometimes!
  • The color of the tick corresponds to the loot value, so the one in the picture above contains gold loot
• Supply drops contain gold loot and sometimes a powerful unique gun (the mastiff or kraber)
• The blue area on the map is the hot zone, which will contain high loot and a fully kitted gold gun
• In a death crate, you can press this button to swap what weapon you are holding
  • This helps to prioritize which weapon to trade or where attachments will go
• Normal supply drops have a red accent, while lifeline packages are blue!
• In the lower left of the inventory screen, you can see what equipment your teammates are wearing
• The top left of your screen tells you the name of the area you are entering and what sort of loot you might find

Movement and mobility:

• Redeploy balloons are scattered around the map and will let you glide to a new location
• Redeploy while your weapons are holstered to fly further
• When dropping make sure to dive every so often to keep your speed up and glide much further: around 130-145 will get you really far

• Pathfinders grapple will swing you to where you are looking while pulling you to where you shot it: look to the side to swing around the object you grappled
• You can scale high walls by jumping into them and keeping forward pressed
• You can climb higher if you holster your weapons
• If you stop just before vaulting you can hang and peek over the ledge
• All guns share the same movement speed, melee is faster
• All legends share the same movement speed
  • Larger legends have a slower movement animation, but this is just an illusion, as they are still the same speed
• Some abilities increase movement speed:
  • Wraiths tac/ult
  • Bloodhounds ult
  • Bangalores passive
  • Mirages ult
• You can slide indefinitely down hills, which is often faster than running
• You can heal while sliding
• Jump after sliding to retain momentum for a bit longer, giving you a slight boost
• Ziplines can be jumped on at any point
• If you jump while on a zipline you will hop off, if you crouch you will drop down
• Jump on and off ziplines to become a harder target. Don’t fall off!
• You can even do a 180 on a zipline to go the other way: jump off, spin around and jump back on
• Sliding retains your mobility. If you slide off of a zipline/grapple/movement ability/etc you will slide faster and further!
• If you are downed while sliding you will continue to slide
• If you are downed while grappling you will continue to grapple
• You can slide immediately after landing to gain a large boost depending on your speed and direction
  • Auclyn showed this off here
• If you melee at the very end of a slide you get just a little bit further
• If you stop holding forward while sliding you can look around freely without slowing down
• Walking is quiter, than sprinting, and crouching is quieter than walking
• If you walk on a roof above someone, they can very easily hear you

Teamplay and communication:

• You can confirm the pings of your teammates
  • If you open up the ping menu while looking at a friendly ping, you can select different responses
  • On pinged loot, this will call dibs on the loot!
• You can ping and highlight many objects in the world:
  • Supply ships
  • Pathfinder beacons
  • Supply drops
  • Loot ticks
  • Crates
  • Doors
  • Respawn beacons
  • Wraith portals
  • Bangalore smoke
  • Heal bots (this will thank your lifeline)
• In your inventory, you can ping empty attachment slots/the ammo icon to request them from your teammates
• You can ping empty weapon slots to ask for a weapon
• You can ping items inside death boxes to tell your teammates about them
• You can ping items in the utility menu (healt/shields) to request them
  • Pressing the heal button without any heals will also request more heals from your teammates
• After picking up an item that was either dropped or pinged by a teammate, you can thank them
• The last person to get to pick a legend will always be assigned jumpmaster
  • If this person doesn’t pick anything before the timer runs out jumpmaster will be given to the next player
• The jumpmaster can relinquish his position to another teammate
• If a player is assigned jumpmaster but he doesn’t pick a legend, the jumpmaster will be relinquished to another player
• You can ping while downed. Track the enemy in real-time!
• The UI will show you when a teammate is shooting
• The UI will show you both the bleed-out and revive timer
• Regardless of who picked up the player banner, either teammate can respawn them at a respawn beacon

Weapons and combat:

• Unique guns (mastiff and kraber) have their own unique ammo. It doesn’t show up in the inventory and can’t be refilled
• Range marks on scopes are ALWAYS accurate, regardless of the range, what gun you are using, zoom level and elevation
• Damage numbers are color coded:
  • The color of the outline shows the level of shield, with red for no shield
  • The fill color shows where you hit the enemy, with white for bodyshots and yellow for headshots
• When you break an enemies shield a unique sound plays
• Any gun which shoots multiple pellets/bullets will show you what bullets hit the target:
  • All shotguns
  • Triple take
  • Mastiff
• This UI element will also show you which bullets got a headshot
• The hop-up (choke) for the peacekeeper will remember it’s tightened spread for 1 second after unscoping
• Some guns can switch their fire mode (hemlok on single fire is deadly)
• Melee a door once to open it in style
• Melee a door twice to break it
• Sniper optics take longer to ADS (Aim Down Sight)
• Stocks decrease the time it takes to ADS
• Finishers cannot be canceled unless you receive damage
• Melee pushes enemies backwards (this is SPARTA!)
• You can block doors with your body. This works when you are downed too
• You can shoot open doors by shooting the handle

Legends and abilities:

• Bloodhounds ult lets him see enemies through smoke
• Bloodhounds tac/ult let him spot a cloaked mirage
• Bloodhounds tac can spot loot ticks
• Bloodhound can ping tracks to warn his teammates about them
• Caustic gas traps can block doors
• Destroy caustic traps by shooting their base
• Caustic gas wont hurt teammates but will distort their vision and slow them down
• Caustic can’t be hurt by enemy gas
• Caustic can pick his traps back up, which will then refill his ability
• Gibraltars dome shield doesn’t extend down, so don’t place it higher than yourself
• Wraith can’t interact with doors while in the void
• Wraith can’t use ziplines while in the void
• Wraith’s portals can teleport downed players
• Wraith’s portals show up on the map
• You can throw grenades and shoot through Wraith’s portals
• Lifeline supply drops contain less powerful loot than normal supply drops
  • Regardless, there is still a rare chance to get gold loot, including the guns!
• Lifelines bot will heal enemy players if they stand near it
• Lifelines bot can be pushed
• Bangalores tac can be used while performing various other tasks, such as reloading or healing
• Bangalores passive works even when the enemy misses you
• Bangalores tac will deal impact damage
• You can shoot the rockets from Bangalore’s ult to prematurely detonate them
• Mirage can use his tac while skydiving to send a decoy somewhere and bamboozle the enemy
  • This ability is seperate from the normal one and gets you two decoys, so you might as well use them
• Decoys will imitate the player in many ways, they can even crouch and slide!
• Pathfinder can grapple onto enemies, pulling you towards each other for an easy melee/shotgun in the face!
• Pathfinder beacons are randomly spawned, so you won’t find them in the same spot every round

Items and grenades:

• Gold gear shares stats with purple gear, but has unique abilities:
  • Helmet increases the rate at which your abilities recharge
  • Armor lets you refill your shield by using a finisher
  • Backpack reduces the time it takes to use heals/shields
  • Knockdown shield will allow you to revive yourself once, after which it turns to purple
  • Gold sights highlight enemies, even through smoke
• Shields grant you extra health, a full shield (4 bars) means you can take twice as much damage as without any shield
• Helmets reduce headshots damage:
  • White reduces it by 30%
  • Blue reduces it by 40%
  • Purple/gold reduce it by 50%
• You can refill shield instantly by looting pristine armor
• Phoenix kits are extremely powerful but not stackable
• Frag grenades deal contact damage and are on a timer
• Arc stars can stick to enemies/surfaces, their timer doesn’t start til they land
• Arc stars are extremely effective against shields
• You can stick an arc star to a teammate and have them run towards the enemy for some easy damage
• Arc stars will slow the enemy
• Thermite will bounce of enemies and explode quickly after hitting something
• Thermite creates a literal wall of fire
• Thermite deals DoT (damage over time) to enemies

Settings and configs:

(this one is mainly for PC but if you have console tips for me I’ll be glad to hear them)

• You can link your steam account to Apex
  • To do this you have to go to the lower left of your friendslist in-game. It’s working a bit finnicky right now however
• In the controls, you can swap between toggle and hold for crouching and aiming
• In the controls, you can assign specific key for every single type of ping
• In Origin, you can add -novid to the launch parameters (apex>settings>game properties>advanced launch options>command line arguments) to skip all intro videos
  • See here for all possible launch parameters
• You can assign a key for screenshots and take screenshots directly in-game!
• There are a bunch of settings for changing the UI, in the form of item information, hitmarkers, pings and maybe more. Play around with them to see what you like!
• If you’re suffering from a poor connection quality, on the title screen you can change data centers
  • This setting is a bit hidden, but this video explains it

Fun and easter eggs:

• The peacekeeper shoots its pellets in a star shape
• The EVA-8 shoots them in the shape of an eight
• The training map has tons of little secrets hidden around
• You can inspect your weapon (N on pc, left d-pad on consoles)
  • If you do this with your hands empty your character will crack their knuckles!
• All supply drops will instakill those standing underneath them
• While DBNO (Down But Not Out) you can interact with doors
• Knives can be unlocked in the form of melee “skins”
  • Currently there is only one of these in the game, the Heirloom pack is a Wraith exclusive with a 1/500 chance of dropping!
• If you melee in mid-air your character does a dropkick. This doesn’t deal any extra damage, but looks extra cool!
• If you melee while sliding your character will perform an uppercut!
• Canonically, the Mozambique is actually a peashooter in disguise, but you knew that already!