War Games

War Games is a Themed Event for Season 8 of Apex Legends that runs from April 13, 2021 to April 27, 2021.

Game Modes

All of these game modes are playlist takeovers rather than LTMs. Similar to the Grand Soirée event, the game modes in this event rotate often, instead of only one game mode through the entire duration of the event. The announcer for each of these game modes is Maggie.

Image	Description
	Second Chance After they die, players receive a Respawn Token that can be used to respawn above the position they were eliminated at once per match. When players die the first time, they keep the items they had when they died, and also drop a Shield Cell, a Syringe, and a stack of ammo. Ran: April 13, 2021
	Armor Regen Shields automatically regenerate over time (at a rate of 12hp/sec) after not taking damage. Shield Cells removed from the loot pool. Ran: April 13, 2021 - April 15, 2021 (replaced Second Chance); April 21, 2021 - April 27, 2021
	Ultra Zones Three hot zones spawn throughout the map, each inside a Flash Point. Runs: April 15, 2021 - April 19, 2021; April 19, 2021 - April 21, 2021 (replaced Auto Banners)
	Auto Banners Banner cards are automatically retrieved. Loot pool is loaded with Mobile Respawn Beacons. Ran: April 19, 2021

Challenges

This event continues to utilize the LTM challenge Badge system.

Challenge	Reward
Deal 15,000 damage during the event	Badge - War Games Artist
Win 5 games during the event	Badge - War Games Champion
Knock down 250 players during the event	Badge - War Games Prodigy
Earn all other War Games badges	Badge - Master of the War Games

Challenge rewards

Badges

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  War Games Artist

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  War Games Champion

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  War Games Prodigy

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  Master of the War Games

Prize Track

War Games Prize Track.

This event continues to utilize the Prize Track system, and the maximum amount of points you can get is 5000.

Points	Reward
250	Badge - War Games
500	Battle Pass Level
750	XP Boost Caustic Stat Tracker: Kills
1000	Weapon Charm - Thermite Grenade
1250	Battle Pass Level
1500	XP Boost Caustic Stat Tracker: Damage Done
2000	Battle Pass Level
2500	Weapon Charm: Never Surrender Crypto skin: Broken Syntax
3000	Battle Pass Level
3500	Rampart skin: Cryokinetic Caustic Stat Tracker: Wins
4000	Battle Pass Level
5000	XP Boost 30-30 Repeater skin: Incan Prophecy

Prize Track Rewards

Legend Skins

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  Broken Syntax
  Crypto

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  Cryokinetic
  Rampart

Weapon Skins

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  Incan Prophecy
  30-30 Repeater

Weapon Charms

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  Thermite Grenade

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  Never Surrender

Badge

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  War Games

Store Cosmetics

Legend Skins

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  Pearly White
  Fuse
  1,000

• Bloodhound skin: Royal Huntmaster - 1,800
• Gibraltar skin: Blood and Thunder - 1,800
• Lifeline skin: Ghost Stalker - 1,800
• Pathfinder skin: The Burgundy Knight - 1,800
• Wraith skin: Queen's Guard - 1,800
• Mirage skin: Swish-buckler - 1,800
• Revenant skin: Guerrilla Ghoul - 1,000

Bundles

Any of the normal items in the bundle (not the War Games skins) will still be craftable with Crafting Metals. Any items that the player already owns or crafted will discount the price of the bundle.

This bundle costs 2,800.

Legend skins

• Bloodhound skin: Royal Huntmaster

Charms

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  Hunter’s Knife

Banner Frames

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  Legend of the West
  Bloodhound

This bundle costs 3,000.

Legend skins

• Gibraltar skin: Blood and Thunder

Weapon Skins

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  DEFCON-1
  Longbow DMR

Weapon Charms

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  Gibraltar Shield

This bundle costs 2,000.

Legend skins

• Lifeline skin: Ghost Stalker

Apex Packs

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  5 Apex Packs

This bundle costs 2,000.

Legend skins

• Pathfinder skin: The Burgundy Knight

Weapon Charms

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  Pathfinder Screen

This bundle costs  ????.

Legend skins

• Wraith skin: Queen's Guard

Weapon Charms

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  Hunter's Trophy

Banner Frames

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  Void Magic
  Wraith

This bundle costs 2,500.

Legend skins

• Mirage skin: Swish-buckler

Weapon Skins

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  The Regulator
  RE-45 Auto

This bundle costs 2,000.

Legend skins

• Revenant skin: Guerilla Ghoul

Weapon Skins

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  Original Marauder
  M600 Spitfire

This bundle costs 2,000.

Legend skins

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  Pearly White
  Fuse

Weapon Skins

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  The Last Spartan
  R-301 Carbine

This bundle costs 6,000.

Legend Skins

• Bloodhound Skin: Royal Huntsmaster
• Gibraltar Skin: Blood and Thunder
• Lifeline Skin: Ghost Stalker
• Pathfinder Skin: The Burgundy Knight
• Wraith Skin: Queen's Guard
• Mirage Skin: Swish-buckler

Trivia

• At the beginning of the event, Second Chance had a bug where after you got respawned the first time, the kills and time survived earned beyond that point would not be counted towards stats. This is because the game thinks you are still dead even after you got respawned the first time. It was removed 8 hours after the event started and replaced with Armor Regen.
• Due to some more issues, Auto Banners was turned off and replaced with Ultra Zones again. On April 19th, 2021, Respawn announced that Ultra Zones would run until April 21st, and Armor Regen will return after that until the 27th. Killing Time will be saved for a future date to avoid any further issues.
• Originally, the game modes were supposed to rotate every two days, and there were supposed to be seven game modes rather than five. Two game modes were scrapped from the event:
  • "Flare Up", which would've originally had multiple short-lived Ring Flares (lasting about 45 seconds) across the map, but it was scrapped due to the backlash about Ring Fury and the fact that it would've been another variant of Ring Fury.
  • "Armed Drop", which would've given the players a full loadout at the beginning of a match, but was scrapped because it wasn't fulfilling the goals of the event and/or because it may have been another variant of Locked and Loaded.