Grenadier! Knuckle Cluster! Motherlode!
Apex Legends’ eighth season, Mayhem, is only days away from launch, and developer Respawn is continuing to crank the hype handle, this time by giving the full run-down on new hero Fuse.
Walter “Fuse” Fitzroy, a former mercenary and a “true connoisseur of explosives”, is the 16th hero to join Apex Legends’ ever-growing line-up, and, following his initial unveiling earlier this month, he’s now been given the full reveal treatment in a new developer video.
Fuse, who can rain-down destruction from an “exceptional range”, comes equipped with the passive Grenadier ability, enabling him to stack one more grenade per inventory slot than other heroes, and throw them “father, faster, and more accurately” using his mechanical arm.
Meet Fuse – Apex Legends Character Trailer.
His Knuckle Cluster, meanwhile, is a tactical cluster bomb that spews out mini concussion mines, and his Ultimate is the mighty Motherlode – which fires a massive mortar skyward and surrounds Fuse’s adversaries with a ring of fire once detonated.
Alongside Fuse, Season 8 introduces a new lever-action rifle known as The 30-30 Repeater, a new Battle Pass and Ranked Season, plus some major changes to the Kings Canyon map. It arrives on PS4, Xbox One, and PC next Tuesday, 2nd February, and there are rumours Apex Legends’ long-awaited Switch release will arrive on the same day.
