Apex Legends Evo Shields could become starting armor in Season 6 Respawn EntertainmentApex Legends may be set for an armor overhaul, with dynamic Evo Shields potentially in line to become starting equipment heading into the battle royale\u2019s sixth season, according to a cheeky tease from a Respawn developer this week. Evo Shields have been widely regarded as a fairly strong addition to the Apex Legends battle royale metagame since their debut back in the System Override event in March 2020. The Apex Legends shields were added to promote fighting; players earn level-ups for their armor sets with every elimination. Evo Shields improve from a single armor bar to two, then four, then five, depending on your kills. After a brief time in the \u201cDeja Loot\u201d limited-time mode, the power-up shields were added to a raft of Apex Legends\u2019 playlists. This included the battle royale\u2019s ranked modes on Kings Canyon and World\u2019s Edge. Evo Shields may be going one step further, and becoming one of Apex\u2019s core armor items that players drop with in every match from Season 6 onward, according to a recent tease on Reddit from Respawn developer Daniel Klein. Apex Legends could make Evo Shields starting armor The upgradeable armor plates have been a fan-favorite since their Apex Legends debut. In a recent discussion on the new \u2018Always Be Closing Evolved\u2019 LTM, one Apex fan even suggested they should be \u201cmandatory,\u201d and dubbed them the \u201cbest addition to the game by far.\u201d Enter Apex Legends developer Daniel Klein, who has been working for the battle royale since mid-Season 3. He responded that he thought Evo Shields becoming \u201cmandatory\u201d would be a fairly \u201cgood idea\u201d heading into Season 6. There are a few kinks Klein said Respawn would want to work out before making a permanent armor, however. Potential issues with teased Evo Shield changes One issue is the chance a player drops far away from where the majority of the lobby has landed. That means there\u2019s no chance to level-up your starting Evo Shield, which is \u201c100%\u201d a problem, said Klein. \u201cI\u2019d love to attack [read, solve] \u2018I wanna fight another squad but I can\u2019t find anyone\u2019 in the game,\u201d he continued, \u201cbut even outside of that we\u2019d find a way to fix the \u2018I never met anyone so my Evo sucks\u2019 problem if we were to ship Evo only.\u201d The other problem is handing players starting armor right off the bat reduces the \u201copening scramble\u201d battle royale players have come to know and love. Respawn would aim to \u201cfind a way to maintain that,\u201d Klein promised. When could Evo Shields become starting armor? The Apex Legends dev didn\u2019t mention any kind of potential date for this to begin, though that does make sense; he was just responding to the suggestion, after all. Respawn may have it planned, but they\u2019ve announced nothing just yet. If the armor change does go through, it wouldn\u2019t be until the start of Season 6. That is likely to arrive on Tuesday, August 18, so nothing would be officially swapped over before then. If you can\u2019t wait to get your fill of Evo Shields, though, they\u2019ll also be back as starting items in the \u201cAlways Be Closing Evolved\u201d LTM. That upgraded limited-time mode is expected to begin on August 11 as part of the last Season 5 event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends Evo Shields could become starting armor in Season 6 Respawn EntertainmentApex Legends may be set for an armor overhaul, with dynamic Evo Shields potentially in line to become starting equipment heading into the battle royale\u2019s sixth season, according to a cheeky tease from a Respawn developer this week. Evo Shields have been widely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}