Apex Legends ping tool was tested by making everyone silent strangers

I’ve only played a few rounds of new free-to-play battle royale Apex Legends, but in every match I’ve been amazed at how closely my team of perfect strangers worked together. Not a single word shared in text or voice chat, but between automated character chatter, a helpful UI and liberal use of the ping tool kept it together until late into the game. To achieve this, Respawn Entertainment have said via Twitter that they spent a month testing the Smart Comms system as more casual players would – with fake names and no voice chat. I reckon that it worked a charm.

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