| War Games | |
|---|---|
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| Type | Themed |
| Start date | Apr 13 2021 |
| End date | Apr 27 2021 |
| Duration | 14 days |
| During |  Season 8
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| Gamemode | Second Chance Armor Regen Ultra Zones Auto Banners |
War Games was a Themed Event for Season 8 of Apex Legends that ran from April 13, 2021 to April 27, 2021.
Game Modes[]
All of these game modes were playlist takeovers rather than LTMs. Similar to the 
Grand Soirée event, the game modes in this event rotated often, instead of only one game mode through the entire duration of the event. The announcer for each of these game modes was Mad Maggie.
| Image | Description |
|---|---|
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Second Chance[note 1] 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 |
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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 |
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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) |
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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
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| Win 5 games during the event | Badge - War Games Champion
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| Knock down 250 players during the event | Badge - War Games Prodigy
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| Earn all other War Games badges | Badge - Master of the War Games
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Challenge rewards[]
- Badges
War Games Artist
War Games Champion
War Games Prodigy
Master of the War Games
Prize Track[]
War Games Prize Track.
This event continued to utilize the Prize Track system, and the maximum amount of points the player could've gotten was 5000.
| Points | Reward |
|---|---|
| 250 | Badge - War Games
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| 500 |  Battle Pass Level
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| 750 |
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| 1000 |  Weapon Charm - Thermite Grenade
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| 1250 | Battle Pass Level
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| 1500 |
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| 2000 | Battle Pass Level
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| 2500 |
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| 3000 | Battle Pass Level
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| 3500 |
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| 4000 | Battle Pass Level
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| 5000 |
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Prize Track Rewards[]
- Legend Skins
- Weapon Skins
Incan Prophecy
30-30 Repeater
- Weapon Charms
Thermite Grenade
Never Surrender
- Badge
War Games
Store Cosmetics[]
- Legend Skins
Royal Huntmaster
Bloodhound 1,800
Blood and Thunder
Gibraltar 1,800
Ghost Stalker
Lifeline 1,800
The Burgundy Knight
Pathfinder 1,800
Queen's Guard
Wraith 1,800
Swish-buckler
Mirage 1,800
Pearly White
Fuse 1,000
Guerrilla Ghoul
Revenant 1,000
Bundles[]
Any of the normal items in the bundle (not the War Games skins) were still craftable with 
Crafting Metals. Any items that the player already owns or crafted discounted the price of the bundle.
This bundle costs 
2,800.
- Legend skins
Royal Huntmaster
Bloodhound
- Charms
Hunter’s Knife
- Banner Frames
Legend of the West
Bloodhound
This bundle costs 3,000.
- Legend skins
Blood and Thunder
Gibraltar
- Weapon Skins
DEFCON-1
Longbow DMR
- Weapon Charms
Gibraltar Shield
This bundle costs ????.
- Legend skins
Queen's Guard
Wraith
- Weapon Charms
Hunter's Trophy
- Banner Frames
Void Magic
Wraith
This bundle costs 2,000.
- Legend skins
Guerilla Ghoul
Revenant
- Weapon Skins
Original Marauder
M600 Spitfire
This bundle costs 6,000.
- Legend Skins
Royal Huntmaster
BloodhoundBlood and Thunder
GibraltarGhost Stalker
LifelineThe Burgundy Knight
PathfinderQueen's Guard
WraithSwish-buckler
Mirage
Trivia[]
- At the beginning of the event, Second Chance had a bug where after the player got respawned the first time, the kills and time survived earned beyond that point would not be counted towards stats. This was because the game thought the player was still dead even after being respawned the first time. It was removed 8 hours after the event started and replaced with Armor Regen.[1]
- 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.[2]
- 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:[3]
- "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.
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