Loba

“

My world was shattered that day. And my path was now a fog of unknowns. The system tried to erase the tragedy, but some wounds are too deep to ever truly heal. I've always felt it in my blood. I am a thief. And a good one at that. It was the only way I felt true to myself. And those same feelings grew into opportunity. I honed my skills, and enhanced my methods. With success came wealth, power, and friendship. I was the best, and everyone knew it. But something was always missing.

Loba
Translocating Thief
Details
Real Name	Loba Andrade
Gender	Female
Age	34
Homeworld	None
Gameplay
Legend Type	Support
Tactical Ability	Burglar's Best Friend
Passive Ability	Eye for Quality
Ultimate Ability	Black Market Boutique
Real-world Info
Voice Actor	Fryda Wolff

Loba is a Legend that was introduced in Season 5 that is locked from the base game. She can be unlocked using digital currency: either 12,000 or 750, or by buying the Champion Edition.

A Support Legend specializing in providing the squad with the highest quality loot, she can use her passive Eye for Quality to immediately see high-quality loot and ping it too for her teammates while her ultimate Black Market Boutique allows her squad to quickly see all the loot in the area and retrieve them from a safe place. Her tactical, Burglar's Best Friend gives her a jump drive that she can use to teleport to higher places or through obstacles.

Biography

When Loba was nine, she looked on as simulacrum hitman Revenant killed her parents. Left with nothing, Loba was given to a foster family. But like her mother and father, she quickly found out she was good at being a thief. She started with picking pockets and as her skills improved, Loba used every tool at her disposal to lift herself from the gutter. Everything changed when she broke into a supposedly impenetrable facility and got her hands on the Jump Drive tech stored inside. With her new teleportation bracelet, the most secure and unattainable items were within her reach. So was her dream of living the high life.

Rumors spread across the Outlands: if you wanted something valuable -and well guarded- Loba's who you go to. She was almost able to put her past behind her. But when Revenant joined the Games, her past catapulted into her future. Desperate to find a way to kill him, she found out the truth about the Simulacrum with help from her friend Jaime and successfully sabotaged a facility full of Revenant bodies, bringing Skull Town and Thunderdome crashing down in the process. However, she learned it was just one of many such factories hidden across the Frontier. Now, she's joined the Games to find a way to end him for good. It doesn't hurt that the Arenas are brimming with treasures just waiting to be plucked.

Revenge will come, if fortune favors her. In the meantime, some shiny things have caught her eye.

Abilities

Burglar's Best Friend

	Tactical	Q///
	Burglar's Best Friend
	Description	Teleport to hard-to-reach places or escape trouble quickly by throwing your jump drive bracelet.
	Cooldown	30 seconds

• Info
• Interactions
• Tips
• Bugs

• Throws Loba's bracelet and immediately teleports her to its landing spot.
• While the bracelet is in midair, you can force it to drop straight down.
• The max distance that the bracelet can be thrown varies based on the following:
  • 71 meters if you're on normal ground levels which is the standard distance.
  • 100+ meters if you're on high ground places such as towers or buildings, maxing out the distance.
• Upon activation, it cannot be canceled (excludes other Legends abilities that can cancel the bracelet) and you'll go where the bracelet lands.
• Can be thrown up to 20 meters.
• If the bracelet is thrown off the edge of the map, or into an out-of-bounds area, it'll return to Loba without starting the cooldown.
• Can be used while on ziplines or jump pads.

• The bracelet's distance can be extended by bouncing it off a Launch Pad. This does not work if you are too close to the pad; you'll just teleport right on top of it.
• Silence can cancel the teleport while the bracelet is in midair.
• The bracelet can hit a Surveillance Drone and teleport you to it, even though the drone is not solid ground.
• Wraith's Dimensional Rift will cancel the bracelet's effect if it's in midair and the portal is taken at the same time.
• It will not go inside a Gibraltar's Dome of Protection but will instead bounce off the dome.

• There is a brief animation that plays after you get teleported before you can use your weapon, plan accordingly.
• Teleport behind an enemy to attack them by surprise.
• Use the ability to force the bracelet down to teleport right behind the cover.
• Don't forget that you can throw the bracelet through windows and small gaps in walls.
• The bracelet's sound effects are very loud and its trail is visible to everyone so enemies can be notified that you're nearby, so be cautious when using.
• Climbing will cancel the animation of the bracelet. Used at the right time, this can save you a second.

• Occasionally, the bracelet can get glitched and stop working after taking Wraith's Dimensional Rift. Once it gets glitched, it can only be fixed by using the Black Market Boutique, which will somehow undo the bug.
• Under rare circumstances, if Loba gets hit by a melee attack at the same time her bracelet touches a surface, she'll teleport the enemy meleeing her too.
• Aiming with a Peacekeeper, Wingman or Prowler Burst PDW directly after using the bracelet causes a visual glitch (that last if still aiming with the Peacekeeper).
• It does not work in several areas across all maps, especially when there is an obstacle below the bracelet's path. Sometimes, it may work, but it will teleport the player to the original spot from where the bracelet was thrown or into a wall below the path of the bracelet. However, jumping can sometimes solve this issue.
• There are multiple exploitable spots on all maps that are accessible by the bracelet, especially on World's Edge.
• The bracelet can teleport the player inside some structures with no way out.

Eye for Quality

	Passive
	Eye for Quality
	Description	Nearby epic and legendary loot can be seen through walls. The range is the same as Black Market Boutique.
	Cooldown	?

• Info
• Tips
• Bugs

• Range is 112.5 meters.
• Can ping items through obstacles, inside supply bins, and even Care Packages.
  • Ping range is 12 meters; optics can extend the range.
• Includes Mythic items.
• Loot ticks and Death Boxes cannot be seen through obstacles even if they contain epic or legendary loot.

• Use this passive ability to inform your squadmates about the location of loot in the area.
• If you see an item disappear you can use this information to know that enemies are in the area.

• Sometimes, Loba can't see contents in an unopened Care Package even though it's within her range.

Black Market Boutique

	Ultimate	Z/+/+/+
	Black Market Boutique
	Description	Place a portable device that allows you to teleport nearby loot to your inventory. Each friendly or enemy Legend can take up to two items.
	Charge time	1.5 minutes

• Info
• Interactions
• Tips
• Bugs

• Loba starts every match with her ultimate 50% charged.
• After placing down the Black Market Boutique, it takes about 4.5 seconds before it can be accessed.
  • When it finishes setting up, it releases a large pulse that enemies can see.
• After setup, any player can hold down E// to interact with it, opening a menu similar to accessing Death Boxes from which each player can take up to two items.
  • The range of the Black Market is a 112.5-meter radius (same as Eye for Quality) visible to Loba and her squad on the minimap.
  • Items within the range will hover off the ground slightly when a player is using it.
  • There is a glimpse of a teleport trail back to the Black Market each time a player takes an item from it.
  • Full stacks of Ammo and Health Kits will be taken when selected.
  • Ammo has no maximum limit and does not take up space towards the two items allowed limit.
  • Squadmates' banner cards cannot be retrieved.
  • Treasure Packs for the season's Quest can be retrieved if the user has not collected their daily one.
• The Black Market has 100 health and can block doors.
• Loba can collapse her own Black Market by pressing the Character Utility Button H// instead of interacting with it. Deploying a new Black Market will collapse the old Black Market.

• Ultimate Accelerants only charge 20% for the Black Market Boutique, as opposed to the normal 35%.
• When multiple copies of the same item are available, taking one will pull the farthest one from the Black Market.
• It cannot loot the contents of randomized loot sources like Loot Ticks, Cargo Bots, or Loot MRVNs.
• Supply Bins can be looted from even when closed, and open automatically when an item is looted from them. Care Packages cannot be looted until they are opened.
• Deathboxes from Flyers must be dropped before they can be looted.
• Loba herself can take one item from locked Vaults and Bloodhound's Trials compartments on World%27s Edge, as well as locked Caustic Treatment compartments on Kings Canyon. Items that can be looted this way will show a lock icon on the right side of the item button and will ask for your confirmation before looting that item. Doing this immediately destroys the Black Market and sounds a loud alarm from the room that can be heard at a distance.
  • The Black Market will be immediately destroyed regardless of how many items were taken from it beforehand.
  • The destruction of the Black Market this way also does a small amount of damage to Loba, and if health is low enough, can knock her down.
• Because it will always try to pull a full inventory stack, Wattson can take two Ultimate Accelerants while only using one slot. Fuse can do the same with Grenades.
• Pathfinder's Grappling Hook can attach to the Black Market.

• Give your squadmates time to loot before retrieving the Black Market Boutique.
  • If your squadmates need a certain type of loot and you don't need anything, you can take the item(s) for them and drop them.
• If your squad is already geared, one option to use the Black Market for is to drop your current purple/gold/red Body Shield and take another high tier Body Shield from the area. Be careful when doing this method as the Market will list the Body Shield that you've dropped nearby.
• Before looting a locked item from a Vault or a Bloodhound's Trial compartment, make sure your squad is finished using the Black Market since it will be destroyed immediately after looting the locked item, regardless of how many items were taken from it beforehand.
• When going to third-party fights, use the Market to steal their loot before fighting them.
• When being used, items in the Black Market's range float off the ground. Be wary of enemies using this information against you.
• Using the Market is great after using a Respawn Beacon or Mobile Respawn Beacon so your revived squadmate(s) can quickly gear back up.
• If your squad finishes a fight near the edge of a Ring that is about to close, you can deploy a Black Market to quickly loot what you need such as shield swaps, healing items, and ammo, then run towards the safe zone as soon as possible.
• The Black Market can also grab loot outside of the Ring, which becomes more valuable in later Rings when their damage is high.
• You can use the Black Market to loot the contents of a Supply Ship before it lands at its random destination on the map .
• Try saving a Black Market as the late-game approaches, as its range will be able to cover a large part of the remaining space in later rings.
  • In later rings, you can use the Black Market to pull all the nearby ammo into one spot so that enemies can't restock their supplies. This is especially useful when playing with defensive characters who can defend the ammo stockpile.

• When the bug that prevents the player from looting Death Boxes occurs, this bug also makes it so nothing can be taken out of the Black Market Boutique. When this happens, players cannot ping items or acknowledge teammates' pings.
• Occasionally, in the Firing Range, you can hear the sound of a player looting a Black Market or collapsing it, even if there are no Black Markets in your realm.

Cosmetic Items

Skins

There are a total of 52 Legend skins for Loba; 7 Legendary, 8 epic, 21 Rare and 16 Common.

• Legendary skins
• Epic skins
• Rare skins
• Common skins

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  Gold Standard
  1,200

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  Bootlegger
  1,200

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  Purple Reign
  1,200

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  Off The Record
  1,200

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  Crystalline Perfection
  2,500

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  Self Reflection

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  Haute Hoplite

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  Hack the System
  400

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  Daemon Hunter
  400

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  User Friendly
  400

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  Heat Sync
  400

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  Fiber Optics
  400

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  Torrent

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  Banshee Queen
  1,500

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  Red Handed

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  Wallflower
  60

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  Alpha Royal
  60

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  Formal Finery
  60

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  Arachnophobia
  60

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  Bloodline
  60

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  Prowess
  60

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  Dire Wolf
  60

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  Scribblers
  60

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  Snakeskin
  60

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  Super Rad
  60

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  Unholy Alliance
  60

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  Volcanic
  60

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  Wishbone
  60

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  Labyrinth
  60

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  Racing Stripes
  60

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  Huntswoman
  Level 53

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  Game Master
  May 2020

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  Pack Hunter

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  Elegante
  2,500

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  Ocean Groove
  November 2020

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  Boundless Envy
  Level 01

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  Original
  Default

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  Arctic
  30

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  Cardinal
  30

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  Clearwater
  30

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  Evergreen
  30

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  Flamingo
  30

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  Hydro
  30

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  Limelight
  30

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  Mandarin
  30

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  Midnight
  30

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  Orchid
  30

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  Rage
  30

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  Sahara
  30

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  Skyward
  30

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  Vino
  30

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  Yellowjacket
  30

Badges

See: Loba/Badges

Finishers

Main article: Finisher

• Femme Fatale
  Default

• Last Request
  1,200

Skydive Emotes

Main article: Skydive Emote

• Side Saddle
  Level 42

• Run the World

Holo-Sprays

Main article: Holo-Spray

• Holo-Spray Loba A Lady Never Kills And Tells.png

  A Lady Never Kills And Tells
  1,200

• Holo-Spray Loba Dressed To Kill.png

  Dressed To Kill
  400

• Holo-Spray Loba Make It Look Easy.png

  Make It Look Easy
  400

• Holo-Spray Loba Dodged A Bullet.png

  Dodged A Bullet
  400

• Holo-Spray Loba I'll Be Seeing You.png

  I'll Be Seeing You
  400

• Holo-Spray Loba It's Not Me. It's You.png

  It's Not Me. It's You.
  Level 94

• Holo-Spray Loba Big Bad Wolf.png

  Big Bad Wolf
  Level 19

• Holo-Spray Loba Time To Break Some Hearts.png

  Time To Break Some Hearts
  Level 74

Music Packs

Main article: Music Pack

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  Loba
  Level 67

Loading Screens

Main article: Loading Screen

• Loadingscreen Mean Girls.png

  Mean Girls
  Level 04

• Loadingscreen Qualified.png

  Qualified
  Level 09

• Loadingscreen Sleep with the Fishes.png

  Sleep with the Fishes
  Level 34

• Loadingscreen Like Father Like Daughter.png

  Like Father, Like Daughter
  Level 41

• Loadingscreen It Takes a Liar.png

  It Takes a Liar
  Level 49

• Loadingscreen Felagi Fighters.png

  Felagi Fighters
  Level 57

• Loadingscreen Stalking Prey.png

  Stalking Prey
  Level 65

• Loadingscreen Take It In Stride.png

  Take It In Stride
  Level 73

• Loadingscreen Arms Race.png

  Arms Racey
  Level 84

Voice lines

See: Loba/Voice lines

History

Patch notes 

May 04, 2021 Patch

• Burglar's Best Friend:
  • Can now run and slide at full speed while aiming the bracelet and while the bracelet is in the air.
  • Loba will no longer be slowed after translocating.
  • Fixed a lot of bugs that caused bracelet tosses to fail.
• Black Market Boutique: Increased cooldown from 90s to 120s.
• The Red Handed skin on consoles will now properly animate.

March 15, 2021 Patch

• Burglar's Best Friend: Fix an issue with her bracelet not working in certain areas.

March 09, 2021 Patch

• Burglar's Best Friend: Fixed a few areas Loba could teleport into that would get her stuck.

February 02, 2021 Patch

• Loot inside unopened Care Packages is now visible with Eye for Quality and accessible through the Black Market Boutique.
• Burglar's Best Friend: Fixed a few exploitable areas on Kings Canyon that Loba was able to reach via her Bracelet.
• [Undocumented] Fixed an issue with the Crystalline Perfection skin having an unfinished tiara.

January 05, 2021 Patch

• Burglar's Best Friend: Fixed a lot of windows in World's Edge that prevented Loba’s bracelet from passing through.

November 04, 2020 Patch

• Black Market Boutique: Ammo taken no longer has a maximum limit nor takes up space towards the two items allowed to be taken.

October 06, 2020 Patch

• Eye for Quality and Black Market Boutique: Increased range from 3100 units to 4500 units (77.5m to 112.5m).
• Black Market Boutique: Is now 50% charged at the start of every match.
• Burglar's Best Friend:
  • Fixed inconsistencies with teleporting onto a supply ship.
  • Fixed an issue allowing teleporting into drills around Lava Fissure.
  • Fixed an issue preventing teleporting on certain terrain in Staging.

September 03, 2020 Patch

• Burglar's Best Friend: Fixed an issue causing the teleport to fail in certain areas.

August 18, 2020 Patch

• Black Market Boutique:
  • Reduced cooldown from 3 minutes to 90 seconds.
  • Fixed an issue with it not being pingable.
• Burglar's Best Friend: Fixed an issue with enemies getting teleported with Loba when they melee her when she teleports.

July 09, 2020 Patch

• Burglar's Best Friend: Improved usability on World's Edge.

July 07, 2020 Patch

• Burglar's Best Friend: Addressed Loba's bracelet usability on World's Edge. There are still some known cases we're continuing to work on but it should work much better now.

June 23, 2020 Patch

• Burglar's Best Friend:
  • No longer intercepted by Wattson’s Interception Pylon.
  • Fixed issues with Loba being able to get to out of bounds areas using the bracelet.
  • Fixed an issue with Loba’s bracelet being blocked by an invisible collision at the entrance of the Firing Range.
  • Fixed an issue preventing teleporting in certain areas.
• Black Market Boutique:
  • Will now only pick up 1 stack of ammo (rather than 1 stack + the amount that was required to fill whatever partial stack you had in your inventory).
  • Fixed an issue with it not showing the correct range.
  • Now shows correct ammo count for care package weapons.
  • Now refunded if it gets caught between two doors.
• Ultimate Accelerants now give her 20% ultimate charge (from 17.5%).

May 12, 2020 Patch

• Introduced.

Development

• Loba had been in the works since October of 2018.

Datamined concept art and model of Rosie, a scrapped Legend.

• A year before the game's launch, there was a Legend called "Rosie" with abilities very similar to Loba. Writers Tom Casiello and Ashley Reed confirmed that Rosie was a completely different character and was scrapped. Despite this, Loba's datamined files still used the codename "Rosie" suggesting Loba had replaced Rosie.
• Loba was created by Tom Casiello. He was influenced by the women he worked with on WWE, who wanted to be equal to, but different from, men. When he saw the lineup of female characters, he noticed an "erasure" of sexuality in their designs and designed Loba to be a woman who likes to look good. He pitched the character and it gathered support among the female employees of Respawn Entertainment. He intended Loba to be a character that women would "own" and would want to be.
• Ashley Reed wrote Loba as "Catwoman but with Batman's backstory." Reed was inspired by the video game character Bayonetta while writing Loba's dialogue. She also often watched and listened to Shakira's single "She-Wolf" in both English and Spanish, since the Spanish version is called "Loba".
• Loba's in-game model is created by Patrick Yeung, who previously worked as a character artist on the Avatar film franchise.
• When developing Loba, the developers thought of Wattson and made Loba into her literary foil - a "mirror" or "opposite" character.
• Loba was a turning point for the writers of Apex Legends. As they weaved her and Revenant's stories together, they wondered how else could Legends affect one another.
• According to the developers, Loba's mocap work was done with heels on. With this information, Tina Sanchez can be identified as Loba's mocap actress: Nine months before Loba's release, Sanchez tweeted out two images of herself doing mocap work with heels and a stick.
• Tina Sanchez's input was reportedly instrumental and vital to Loba's look, style, personality, and story, ever since Loba first got pitched.
• Earlier in her development, Loba had an ability that allowed her to scan the area, revealing different types of loot through walls.

Teasers

• On January 30, 2020, Loba's character was officially introduced in the Season 4 Launch Trailer, which shows Revenant murdering both of her parents, Marcos and Alanza Andrade, on Olympus, Psamathe. Loba was left unnamed, but shown to have survived the attack.
• On April 16, 2020, a device appeared in a building in The Dome. This device is similar to banner cards and depicts a map of Singh Labs with a note: "More sub-level rooms... Connections? Where?"
• On April 20, 2020, a second device appeared in Sorting Factory. This one continues the map, showing a massive circular structure connected to the labs, and says "Electrical device? Check with Jaime" and "More tunnels... check west half of island"
• On April 24, 2020, the third and final device appeared in Harvester. This one shows the center of the circular structure and says "Jaime says 'capacitor'", "How big is this?", and "Cased the place dead-end, check west".
• On April 28, 2020, a tweet from the Apex Legends Twitter account shows 'Project 617', where someone seems to be gathering information on Revenant. They've acquired previously seen email chains about him and are wondering how to access his source code.
• On April 29, 2020, another tweet showed that this person is now researching simulacrums and digging through early tests by Hammond Robotics.
• On April 30, 2020, "Legacy of a Thief" was released, officially establishing Loba as the next Legend for Season 5, and showing that she can teleport.
  • The same day, Loba begins appearing in the background of the lobby screen. She walks behind the banners, at one point she even whips her braid. At the end of the animation, she uses her Tactical Ability to disappear from the lobby.
• On May 01, 2020, a third tweet showed an additional early document from Revenant's construction.
  • The vault at Train Yard is now empty. A hologram left by Loba taunts players, daring them to find her. In the back of the room is a bracelet, which players can interact with. Doing so briefly teleports them to a massive hangar full of dormant Stalkers, and they are activated as the player teleports back. The minimap shows that this hangar is underground, northwest of Skull Town.
  • An Instagram post states Loba is a well-known 'trendsetter and art aficionado' and has been seen in Solace City, specifically at Mirage's bar.
• On May 04, 2020, an Instagram post showed Loba's conversation with Jaime. She explores the underground base, calling it a maze, and Jaime sends her the access key.
• On May 05, 2020, the Season 5 Launch Trailer was released.
• On May 08, 2020, the Season 5 Gameplay Trailer was released.

Trivia

• Loba means "she-wolf" in Portuguese and Spanish, as well as slang for "attractive woman".
• Loba likes people and animals. She likes animals especially because they have no ulterior motives.
  • Loba dislikes robots due to her childhood experience with Revenant. That also makes her dislike and be distrustful towards Pathfinder.
• Loba has a network of people, which includes security guards. She does not trust many people, but she trusts herself to know who to trust.
• Loba is not in a relationship.
• Loba's father calls her "Greta" in the initial official subtitles of the Season 4 launch trailer; it was later corrected to "bebê" ("baby" in Portuguese).
• Loba's makeup resembles the bloodstains that were on her eyes when her father was killed.
• The wolf on Loba's staff is a gift she received from her father.
• Loba's mother called her by the nickname "cachorrinha" ("puppy" in Portuguese).
• Loba is bisexual, as indicated by her "Man Eater and Lady Killer" quip, and subsequently confirmed by Tom Casiello on Twitter.

Gallery

Videos

Images

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  Letters from Loba's mother.

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  Loba and Jaime researching Revenant.

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  Blueprints of the ARES Capacitor beneath Kings Canyon. The Syndicate later excavates it in Season 5.

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  Loba's conversation with Jaime while exploring the underground IMC facility.

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  A transcript of Loba's conversation with Yoko Zepnewski and Cheryl Amacci.

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  Concept art of Loba.

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  Concept art of Loba.

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  Final concept art of Loba.

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  Concept art of Loba's Black Market Boutique.