{"id":661127,"date":"2026-04-01T19:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/get-an-early-sneak-peek-at-apex-legends-next-character"},"modified":"2026-04-01T19:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:00:08","slug":"get-an-early-sneak-peek-at-apex-legends-next-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/get-an-early-sneak-peek-at-apex-legends-next-character\/","title":{"rendered":"Get an early sneak peek at Apex Legends&#8217; next character"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/get-an-early-sneak-peek-at-apex-legends-next-character.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 8.05pm:<\/strong> Following the premature reveal of Apex Legends&#8217; next playable character earlier today, developer Respawn has now made it official. Apex Legends&#8217; 14th Season will usher in the scope-wielding Vantage &#8211; real name Mara &#8211; who gets her animated introduction in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fJyt1-NeFpY\">new Stories from the Outlands video<\/a> below.<\/p>\n<p>Survive, as the video is officially titled, tells Vantage&#8217;s backstory, picking up as she stumbles across the remains of the mysterious GDS Vantage while out hunting on her snowy home world of P&aacute;gos. As her curiosity increases, and ignoring her mother&#8217;s warnings to leave well alone, she one day descends into the Vantage&#8217;s cavernous wreckage, where she discovers the truth &#8211; that it&#8217;s a prison ship and her mother was its captive.<\/p>\n<p>One failed escape later, Mara, accompanied by her new bat-like companion Echo, is trapped and on the brink of death &#8211; so her mother (wrongfully convicted, Respawn notes elsewhere) does the only thing she can, giving up her freedom by alerting the authorities to her whereabouts in the hope they can help.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/get-an-early-sneak-peek-at-apex-legends-next-character\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/get-an-early-sneak-peek-at-apex-legends-next-character\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE 8.05pm: Following the premature reveal of Apex Legends&#8217; next playable character earlier today, developer Respawn has now made it official. Apex Legends&#8217; 14th Season will usher in the scope-wielding Vantage &#8211; real name Mara &#8211; who gets her animated introduction in the new Stories from the Outlands video below. Survive, as the video is officially titled, tells Vantage&#8217;s backstory, picking up as she stumbles across the remains of the mysterious GDS Vantage while out hunting on her snowy home world of P&aacute;gos. As her curiosity increases, and ignoring her mother&#8217;s warnings to leave well alone, she one day descends into the Vantage&#8217;s cavernous wreckage, where she discovers the truth &#8211; that it&#8217;s a prison ship and her mother was its captive. One failed escape&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/get-an-early-sneak-peek-at-apex-legends-next-character\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":661128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[157,713,6765,160,159,21,59,44,45,983,60,4616],"class_list":["post-661127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer","tag-android","tag-apex-legends","tag-fps-shooter","tag-free-to-play","tag-ios","tag-nintendo-switch","tag-pc","tag-ps4","tag-ps5","tag-respawn-entertainment","tag-xbox-one","tag-xbox-series-x-s"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Get an early sneak peek at Apex Legends&#039; next character | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UPDATE 8.05pm: Following the premature reveal of Apex Legends&#039; next playable character earlier today, developer Respawn has now made it official. 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