But even the outliers have their own problems. Ana, an elderly woman in a sick-ass headscarf, gets a skin that makes her younger and sexier. Mei seems kind of portly, until you put on literally anything other than her default outfit and realize, huh, she’s actually just got a pretty conventionally acceptable hourglass figure and enormous tits. The only one I can give any props to, really, is Zarya. Despite the silly boob armor, she genuinely bucks conventional design trends with it comes to female characters, both in terms of personality and physicality. She’s more in line with the wild diversity present in the male characters, and I really do wish that diversity was represented in the female charact

Plus, the character designs across the board are very good. There's no titty armor or weeaboo nonsense – every character’s outfit and physical appearance fits their role, has good glance value, follows the classic silhouette test rule , and has a cohesiveness to it that fits in the context of the universe. It’s a game that draws you into its world based on the way the characters look, instead of yanking you out of it. That’s a hard thing to accomplish, especially when it comes to a PVP free-to-play game. It takes a lot of extra effort to not just try and appeal to the lowest common denominator like certain other games that are MOBAs made by Riot Games or shooters made by Hi-Res. A

The Peacekeeper, sadly, is now a care package weapon in Season 6. This means that it's a little bit rarer to wield from game to game, but it's still as powerful as ever. When calculating where weapons fall in a tier-based list it's important to factor in how easily obtainable a weapon is. It's useless if a weapon is meta-breaking if it can only be used in very select instances. It comes with 15 special shotgun shells, but with the power the Peacekeeper is packing, that's going to be more than enough to dismantle your f

Other changes include the ability to remap keys to your controller and changes in bot ratios. Instead of quickly filling the match with bots, each session will now wait up to five minutes to try and fill to 100 players before making up any shortfall with b

Then you have Bloodhound, the non-binary espionage expert. It’s a cool way to put a non-binary character in a AAA game, I feel, because whatever perceived "gendered" physical characteristics they might have are obscured by a gas mask and bulky clothing. Their appearance is calculated very deliberately to be genderless and ambiguous, which is a great artistic choice. Oh, and let’s talk for a second about Gibralter. Here's this goofy and sweet beefcake who's gay and doesn’t have some sort of sad backstory about it. He’s not cuckolded and sad like Soldier 76, whose story echoes literally every Hollywood movie ever written about gay men that’s not called Moonlight, or if he is, we don’t know about it. That’s rad as h

Update 9.1 also adds the new apex e district Map, Paramo, which features an active volcano and flowing lava across the landscape. It's also partly procedurally generated, so the new PUBG map feels different every time you play. However, because of the ever-shifting nature of the map, it's located in a separate matchmaking pool called Seasonal Match. Wins here will not count towards your sta

The map also features helicopters that fly on an automated route across the map and into the highlands, which you can only reach via helicopter. The choppers also drop off care packages that you can break open if you happen to be on the ground when one falls. These can feature full-body camo, ghillie suits, and a camo backp

The Silence ability is certainly one that deserves more use by Revenant players online. It recharges fast, so there’s no reason not to use it whenever you see enemies, but it can also make for a fascinating way to block off your opponent’s paths. This is literal in the case of Pathfinder and Horizon , who thrive on the ability to escape the battlefield quickly and easily, but also counts for situational encount

Revenant isn’t a powerhouse like Gibraltar and can’t pose a massive threat from a distance, but he has a very specific set of tools at his disposal that can make him one of the more intimidating and threatening legends to come across in battle. Revenant can take control of the battle by distracting you and shifting the goalposts, so to speak, and as such you should use him with caution and confidence al

The SMG weapons, such as the R99 and Prowler , are absolutely a safe bet, and so are the general assault rifles, such as R-301 and Flatline . All of these offer excellent damage at their respective ranges. A shotgun, like the Mastiff , is also a good choice. You can activate Death Protection and just charge into an enemy stronghold, ready to fling grenades and blast your shotgun. Once the enemies whittle down your health, you’ll find yourself back at the totem ready to heal