{"id":3995,"date":"2022-07-24T19:17:50","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T19:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/24\/apex-legends-accident-might-have-leaked-season-14s-new-character-vantage\/"},"modified":"2022-07-24T19:17:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T19:17:50","slug":"apex-legends-accident-might-have-leaked-season-14s-new-character-vantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/24\/apex-legends-accident-might-have-leaked-season-14s-new-character-vantage\/","title":{"rendered":"Apex Legends accident might have leaked Season 14&#8217;s new character Vantage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mistaken, early post of a link to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/apex-legends\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apex Legends<\/a> client yesterday seems to have leaked the image of the new character for Season 14. Supposedly, this would be Vantage, who was revealed in an earlier leak.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The link to watch a short video called &#8220;Stories from the Outlands: Survive&#8221; was pulled quickly after and hasn&#8217;t reappeared. Just today, Respawn has announced the premier of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fJyt1-NeFpY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">next Stories from the Outlands<\/a> on July 25th at 8:00am PT\u2014the images are quite similar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/ApexUncovered\/comments\/w5yjpg\/this_one_just_show_on_apex\">this_one_just_show_on_apex<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/ApexUncovered\">r\/ApexUncovered<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We know the name Vantage from this year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/massive-apex-legends-leak-supposedly-reveals-over-two-years-worth-of-new-maps-and-legends\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">massive Apex Legends leak.<\/a> In that leak, Vantage was the name of the legend tied to what seemed like the Season 14 release, and looks extremely similar to this weekend&#8217;s leak. The image also bears resemblance to teasing Respawn did <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlayApex\/status\/1550218566263312387\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earlier this week,<\/a> showing off diary entries with the caption &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to keep yourself busy when you&#8217;re one of the only two people on the planet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more see-more--clipped\">\n<p>You&#8217;ve got to keep yourself busy when you&#8217;re one of the only two people on the planet. pic.twitter.com\/qkx6JcXEi8<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlayApex\/status\/1550218566263312387\">July 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more__filter display-see-more\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"see-more__button-container display-see-more\"><span class=\"see-more__button\">See more<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>From what the leaks allege, Vantage will be a sniper-focused hero who can teleport to a &#8220;winged companion.&#8221; She can also apparently read information on enemies using a scope, and has a special rifle for marking and scanning enemies.<\/p>\n<p>The official Apex Legends account made a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlayApex\/status\/1550903847505186816\">Tweet<\/a> yesterday, too, titled &#8220;Distress transmission incoming&#8230;&#8221; with a short teaser and what sounds like the voice of a new character. It points towards the idea that someone was getting everything ready for a new character release and clicked a button early.<\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more see-more--clipped\">\n<p>Distress transmission incoming . . . pic.twitter.com\/qKtyTA7BWJ<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlayApex\/status\/1550903847505186816\">July 23, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more__filter display-see-more\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"see-more__button-container display-see-more\"><span class=\"see-more__button\">See more<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;ll keep an eye out and update if and when we hear more. Apex Legends season 14, called Apex Legends: Hunted, is set to release on August 9th.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Apex Legends accident might have leaked Season 14&#8217;s new character Vantage<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p>A mistaken, early post of a link to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/apex-legends\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apex Legends<\/a> client yesterday seems to have leaked the image of the new character for Season 14. Supposedly, this would be Vantage, who was revealed in an earlier leak.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The link to watch a short video called &#8220;Stories from the Outlands: Survive&#8221; was pulled quickly after and hasn&#8217;t reappeared. Just today, Respawn has announced the premier of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fJyt1-NeFpY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">next Stories from the Outlands<\/a> on July 25th at 8:00am PT\u2014the images are quite similar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/ApexUncovered\/comments\/w5yjpg\/this_one_just_show_on_apex\">this_one_just_show_on_apex<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/ApexUncovered\">r\/ApexUncovered<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We know the name Vantage from this year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/massive-apex-legends-leak-supposedly-reveals-over-two-years-worth-of-new-maps-and-legends\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">massive Apex Legends leak.<\/a> In that leak, Vantage was the name of the legend tied to what seemed like the Season 14 release, and looks extremely similar to this weekend&#8217;s leak. The image also bears resemblance to teasing Respawn did <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlayApex\/status\/1550218566263312387\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earlier this week,<\/a> showing off diary entries with the caption &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to keep yourself busy when you&#8217;re one of the only two people on the planet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more see-more--clipped\">\n<p>You&#8217;ve got to keep yourself busy when you&#8217;re one of the only two people on the planet. pic.twitter.com\/qkx6JcXEi8<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlayApex\/status\/1550218566263312387\">July 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more__filter display-see-more\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"see-more__button-container display-see-more\"><span class=\"see-more__button\">See more<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>From what the leaks allege, Vantage will be a sniper-focused hero who can teleport to a &#8220;winged companion.&#8221; She can also apparently read information on enemies using a scope, and has a special rifle for marking and scanning enemies.<\/p>\n<p>The official Apex Legends account made a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlayApex\/status\/1550903847505186816\">Tweet<\/a> yesterday, too, titled &#8220;Distress transmission incoming&#8230;&#8221; with a short teaser and what sounds like the voice of a new character. It points towards the idea that someone was getting everything ready for a new character release and clicked a button early.<\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more see-more--clipped\">\n<p>Distress transmission incoming . . . pic.twitter.com\/qKtyTA7BWJ<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlayApex\/status\/1550903847505186816\">July 23, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more__filter display-see-more\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"see-more__button-container display-see-more\"><span class=\"see-more__button\">See more<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;ll keep an eye out and update if and when we hear more. Apex Legends season 14, called Apex Legends: Hunted, is set to release on August 9th.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}