Hot Drop is GameSpot’s weekly Apex Legends column, by which Jordan Ramée takes a more in-depth have a look at Respawn’s battle royale to offer further perception into the sport’s evolution, in addition to dive deeper into its episodic storytelling and characters.It’s been an eventful couple of weeks for Apex Legends. As we close to the tip of Season 12’s Quest, The Perfect Son, Lifeline and Octane stumbled upon a startling realization: Octane’s dad, Eduardo “Duardo” Silva, is not really his dad. The actual Eduardo Silva has been lifeless for some time, which means the large unhealthy of Apex Legends has been an imposter. So the large query is, after all, who the hell is Duardo?We do not know all that a lot about Eduardo or Duardo, however now we have a tough timeline of the 2 males’s lives. Eduardo is the childhood pal of Darian Che–Lifeline’s dad–and the 2 performed in Pecks Labs as children. A genius, Eduardo would develop as much as turn into the CEO of a galaxy-wide prescription drugs firm known as Silva Pharmaceuticals.Eduardo would go on to create Stim, the highly effective adrenaline drug utilized by Titan Pilots and, ultimately, his son, Octavio “Octane” Silva. Eduardo wasn’t an amazing dad or husband, marrying 4 instances and neglecting Octavio for everything of his life. I assume that someplace right here in Apex Legends’ timeline is the purpose the place Eduardo dies and Duardo takes his place. Because it is after this that Octane begins to note some slight variations in his father’s habits, together with a willingness to orchestrate a terrorist assault throughout Season 7’s Quest, Family Portrait.We subsequently realized that the assault was really deliberate in an effort to undermine folks’s perception in The Syndicate, the ruling group of The Outlands. Duardo continued this marketing campaign in subsequent seasons, orchestrating the discharge of the lethal Medusa Vines virus in Season 9’s Quest, The Legacy Antigen, and the autumn of Olympus.Apex Legends: Defiance Launch TrailerSize:640 × 360480 × 270 Want us to recollect this setting for all of your units? Sign up or Sign in now! Please use a html5 video succesful browser to observe movies. This video has an invalid file format. Sorry, however you possibly can’t entry this content material!Please enter your date of beginning to view this videoJanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031Yr202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011201020092008200720062005200420032002200120001999199819971996199519941993199219911990198919881987198619851984198319821981198019791978197719761975197419731972197119701969196819671966196519641963196219611960195919581957195619551954195319521951195019491948194719461945194419431942194119401939193819371936193519341933193219311930192919281927192619251924192319221921192019191918191719161915191419131912191119101909190819071906190519041903190219011900 By clicking ‘enter’, you conform to GameSpot’s Terms of Use and Privacy PolicyenterHe shifted the blame in each instances, making it look like The Syndicate was answerable for all of it. Now most of the people blames The Syndicate for the Medusa Vines reaching Olympus, in addition to for “allowing” a harmful terrorist (Mad Maggie) to enter the Apex Games, who everybody blames for the autumn of Olympus.Lifeline and Octane have each lengthy suspected that Octane’s dad has been doing all of this to shake public notion of The Syndicate a lot that folks will name for the group to fall beneath new leadership–and who higher than the CEO of Silva Pharmaceuticals? His firm was the one which distributed the treatment for the Medusa Vines, and he added an easier-to-understand, extra “family-friendly” bloodsport to the Apex Games (the limited-time Control mode). He additionally bankrolled a fairly hefty public relations marketing campaign via Lisa Stone’s new podcast (she was the reporter who was interviewing Forge when Revenant stabbed him within the again), which revealed that The Syndicate was accountable for lots of issues in The Outlands.Lisa Stone would not clock out when she’s off the air. From your screens to your ears, her new podcast sponsored by Silva Pharmaceuticals, will unravel among the disasters we have seen all through The Outlands. pic.twitter.com/LFU5gALdMK — Apex Legends (@PlayApex) January 20, 2022 It’s in spite of everything this that Lifeline and Octane study the reality about Eduardo and Duardo–the former has been lifeless for years, confirmed by his dying certificates locked away within the latter’s protected. But who’s Duardo? Well, I’ve just a few theories:Duardo is a simulacrumThis is not extremely probably given that each one simulacra within the Titanfall/Apex Legends universe appear to have very robotic appearances, implying that know-how hasn’t advanced to the purpose to make them look human. And Duardo seems to be very human.But that is additionally a universe the place secret alien know-how allowed somebody to journey forwards and backwards via time, so it is simply as probably that the required know-how to make a simulacrum look human does exist. That is not an enormous stretch of the creativeness.The foundation of this concept rides on the truth that these near Duardo, like his son and buddies, have not seen any main adjustments in his behavior–just small ones. So both Duardo has been Eduardo since he was a child, or Duardo has in some way discovered a solution to inherit Eduardo’s recollections. As seen with Revenant and Ash, simulacra inherit the recollections of the thoughts they’re based mostly on.Apex Legends – Ashes to Ash Stories from the OutlandsMeasurement:640 × 360480 × 270 Want us to recollect this setting for all of your units? Sign up or Sign in now! Please use a html5 video succesful browser to observe movies. This video has an invalid file format. Sorry, however you possibly can’t entry this content material!Please enter your date of beginning to view this videoJanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031Yr202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011201020092008200720062005200420032002200120001999199819971996199519941993199219911990198919881987198619851984198319821981198019791978197719761975197419731972197119701969196819671966196519641963196219611960195919581957195619551954195319521951195019491948194719461945194419431942194119401939193819371936193519341933193219311930192919281927192619251924192319221921192019191918191719161915191419131912191119101909190819071906190519041903190219011900 By clicking ‘enter’, you conform to GameSpot’s Terms of Use and Privacy PolicyenterDuardo is a zombieAlso unlikely, however possibly Duardo is Eduardo after he died and got here again to life. Revenant is ready to use some horrifying know-how to forestall his allies from dying–so it is not unthinkable {that a} extra superior model of his Death Totem exists, conserving Duardo alive as a shadow of his former self.Duardo is a cloneAlright, let’s get to the extra probably stuff. Maybe Duardo is only a clone. Do clones exist within the Titanfall/Apex Legends universe? Not to anybody’s information. But like, c’mon–Respawn might completely write a “he’s a clone” storyline and we would all simply settle for it. It’s a staple of the science fiction style.Duardo is Eduardo…however from one other universeThis is my favourite concept. Apex Legends has dabbled with its multiverse since Season 2, after we realized that Wraith is definitely from a unique universe the place the IMC beat the Militia in the course of the occasions of Titanfall 2–she switched locations with the Wraith of this universe. Then in Season 3, Pathfinder by accident wandered into one other universe the place Revenant managed to kill everybody and dominated his military of shadows as a god. All of the legends returned to this shadow universe in Season 5’s Quest, The Broken Ghost accumulating the scattered items of a simulacrum that ended up being this universe’s Ash. So Respawn has already established that there are a number of variations of the characters in Apex Legends, all of whom exist throughout all kinds of universes, every of whom has a really completely different historical past. And if that is the case, why cannot Duardo simply be Eduardo from a unique universe?This might reply the largest query I’ve regarding Duardo: What’s his motivation? Duardo is the large unhealthy of Apex Legends proper now. He’s an abusive dad to Octane and desires to take over the group that’s both instantly or not directly in opposition to Wraith, Horizon, Mad Maggie, Revenant, Caustic, Bloodhound, Lifeline, and Crypto. But we nonetheless do not actually know why he desires to take over The Syndicate. Duardo already oversees probably the most distinguished corporations in The Outlands–he has an obscene amount of cash and affect, so it is not like he is wanting in both division. Wanting to additionally take over The Syndicate would not make any sense.Sure, grasping wealthy folks have a tendency to only need more cash and energy however that is a reasonably boring motivation all issues thought-about. I hope Duardo has motivations past simply easy greed.Like, possibly Duardo is doing all this in an effort to strengthen The Outlands. Maybe he is from a universe that was devastated by some multiverse pressure and he is traveled to this universe with a purpose to put together The Outlands for the approaching risk. Or, hell, possibly Duardo is the risk, and he is working to in the end weaken The Syndicate with a purpose to divide The Outlands and prime them for invasion.Either situation might probably result in a struggle between universes many seasons down the road. In a number of methods, Apex Legends is constructing in the direction of a possible Titanfall 3 (possibly one thing I’ll focus on in a later column), and the thought of it centering round a multiverse struggle sounds cool as hell.Duardo is a few opportunistic manThis is a much less thrilling variation of the multiverse concept. Duardo might be working in the direction of strengthening or weakening The Outlands in preparation for instigating an assault on The Core Worlds or defending from an invasion from The Core Worlds.This would imply Duardo would not must be from one other universe. He might simply be a man made to seem like Eduardo. We’ve already seen face reconstruction executed within the Titanfall/Apex Legends universe–Crypto needed to change his face by way of cybernetics to keep away from facial recognition whereas on the run. It stands to purpose that Duardo might do the identical with a purpose to trick facial recognition into pondering he is one of many richest, most well-known males in The Outlands.Duardo is simply Eduardo and nobody really diedA boring and admittedly unlikely concept, however nonetheless doable: Maybe Duardo is simply Eduardo and nobody died–meaning the dying certificates that Lifeline and Octane discovered is only a crimson herring to distract them from regardless of the man is definitely hiding. This would tie into The Williams Sendoff pretty effectively, which noticed Wraith uncover the dying certificates for Jackson Williams, Bangalore’s brother. Jackson’s dying certificates appears tremendous pretend (I nonetheless assume Bangalore’s brother is Newcastle, probably Season 13’s playable legend), so possibly Eduardo’s dying certificates can be a pretend.Lifeline, Octane, and Maggie are the one ones who know that Duardo is answerable for what occurred to Olympus.Regardless of what is going on on, the revelation about Eduardo and Duardo will very probably influence Apex Legends’ story for seasons to come back. At the very least, the revelation has created a schism between Octane and Lifeline’s sibling-like relationship. Those two are presumably the one ones aside from Duardo who know the reality, since Eduardo’s dying certificates has now gone up in flames. That doesn’t suggest that there is not extra proof on the market, however for now, Duardo’s secret is protected.