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Apex Legends is similar to other battle royale games, but it where it differs is its emphasis on teamwork. The game has eight different character to choose from, each with their own unique abilities. Deciding which character to play as and knowing how their abilities can best contribute to your team’s survival is essential.

For a character like Caustic, defensive tactics is the name of the game. His deadly gas traps can easily overwhelm and hinder mobility of enemy squads, offering your fellow teammates fertile opportunity for an easy ambush. At a glance, Caustic’s abilities often seem more contextual than universally functional, but with a little practice, you can use that to your advantage.

Keep reading for all the information you need on Caustic’s abilities, including his strengths and weaknesses, as well as tips on how to use him effectively and help your team to victory. We’ve also got plenty more guides, including things that Apex Legends doesn’t tell you, a list of myths we’ve tested about how the game works, and a full rundown of the game’s best guns. You might also want to check out our Apex Legends review.

General Overview

As stated above, Caustic’s strategies are a bit contextual. His Gas Traps are lethal, but it takes a firm understanding of their capabilities to use them effectively. And with such a large map where numerous battle scenarios are possible, finding the right time to leverage Caustic’s strengths proves more difficult than you’d expect. That said, getting a feel for that takes time, so remain patient and don’t hesitate to adjust his abilities to the needs of your team.

In battle, Caustic is best in close quarters situations. His gas abilities let you control a fight by blanketing areas to force enemies out of or away from them, and can give your team a serious advantage as your opponents are damaged, slowed, and blinded. He’s also good for countering tracker or scout characters such as Bloodhound or Wraith–gas traps placed carefully can slow people following you, block pathways, and force players to move through pathways that help your teammates.

Use Caustic to try to control the battlefield and give your team strategic advantages, and sew chaos among enemy teams whenever possible by gassing them out. Just be aware that your gas can negatively affect your teammates. It won’t kill them, but it can blind and slow them.

Abilities

Tactical: Nox Gas Trap

Caustic can drop Nox Gas Trap canisters that release deadly gas when shot or triggered by enemies. Gas effectively blinds enemies, while damaging them over time, making it great for close-range encounters.

Passive: Nox Vision

Nox Vision allows you to see enemies through Gas. It’s pretty convenient, as enemies afflicted by your toxic gas are highlighted in green for both you and your squadmates.

Ultimate: Nox Gas Grenade

Caustic’s Ultimate Ability Nox Gas Grenade blankets a large area in Nox Gas. This ability can be used defensively or offensively, putting enemy squads into a state of panic in confined space or sending them running in the other direction.

Tips To Play

While you’re likely to be inclined to surprise enemies with Caustic’s traps, it’s a great idea to set some down as you’re fighting to tip the balance in your favor. It’s also possible to block doors and hallways with your traps, which can physically impede people from getting past them. You can throw up to six Nox Gas Traps at a time. You have three on cooldown, but once that ends, you can drop three more, or drop one as you get them back off a cooldown. Another great way to use the Nox Gas Traps is laying them down behind your team as you move up. This will alert you if anyone’s triggered them or are trying to sneak up on you. In addition, you can drop traps near downed enemies in hopes of luring their teammates near them. Any traps you don’t use, you can also pick back up, so keep that in mind.

The enemy outlining provided by Caustic’s Nox Vision is a nice perk that should encourage you to use your traps more liberally. The gas won’t hurt your teammates but be aware that their visibility in gas is still similar to smoke grenades, so try not to go overboard–lest you want to frustrate your squad.

Caustic’s Nox Gas Grenades are useful in leading enemies into an ambush. It’s also particularly useful in pushing enemies away, so you can give your squad time to revive downed teammates. You can even throw them in the opposite scenario, preventing enemy squads from bringing back their friends.

Another handy strategy is comboing Caustic’s gas trap and gas grenade in a confined space. If you’re able to block an enemy into a room with a trap, throw a grenade inside. Assuming they aren’t smart enough to grenade the door, this deadly combination should make for a guaranteed kill.

All this talk about deadly gas is great, but don’t think the enemy is completely powerless. Beware of incoming Grenades or Arc Stars while your gas is active on the field.

Apex Legends is a battle royale game centered around the concept of surviving as a team. You can wordlessly ask for weapons and equipment or point out enemy locations with the game’s ping system. Downed teammates can be revived, and you can respawn dead allies if you grab their banner in time. Everything in the game revolves around your squad working together, and that starts with knowing how to use your chosen Legend’s unique abilities to benefit the team.

Wraith is one of the six Legends unlocked in Apex from the start (with two more you can earn or purchase), and this interdimensional skirmisher is one of the most versatile characters in the game. Although she’s designed to excel as a hit-and-run tactician, Wraith can fit into Mirage’s role as a trickster or handle Bloodhound’s recon duties in a pinch. In this short guide, we’re going to take a look at Wraith, and explain how this Legend can open up new avenues towards victory for you and your squad.

If you’re still on the fence about picking up Apex Legends, check out our review. If you’re already playing Respawn’s battle royale game and you’re looking for a few extra tips, we have a guide on becoming a champion, as well as a gallery of the best weapons in the game.

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Wraith’s General Overview

Wraith is one of the three offense-focused fighters in Apex Legends, so she’s specifically designed to be one of her team’s major damage dealers. Her abilities make her an ideal candidate for your squad’s point person, so don’t expect to hang back when it’s time to move out. That doesn’t mean you should go off on your own though. Wraith may be able to take care of herself, but she’s a force to be reckoned with when she’s using her portals to help her entire team get the drop on an enemy.

Confusing the enemy should be your main concern as Wraith, but if need be you can use her skills to aid downed allies, scout ahead, get your team out of a losing firefight, set ambushes, or trick an enemy into killing themselves. Regardless of how you use Wraith, it’s important to keep moving during a fight. Wraith is most useless when she’s standing still and trying to snipe an enemy from afar, where her abilities can really only be used defensively. Because you’ll usually be in the thick of things as Wraith, you’ll want to nab at least one weapon with a decent fire rate that packs a punch at close range. The EVA-8 and Mastiff shotguns are your best bets, but the Peacekeeper, Wingman, and Flatline are all excellent choices as well. Also, try to avoid executing enemies. Wraith has some really cool execution animations, but you want to keep moving to kill the enemy team as quickly as possible.

Wraith’s Skills

Passive Skill: Voices From The Void – A voice warns you when danger approaches. As far as you can tell, it’s on your side.

With this passive, voices warn of any incoming threat that might harm Wraith, so stick close to your teammates to defend them as well. The voices are whispered, so for the best results, play Apex Legends with headphones, subtitles on, or both. On very rare occasions, this passive makes enemy footsteps louder as well, so headphones might be the way to go, since you don’t get an audible warning for those. Don’t forget to hit the button prompt when the voices speak up, so you can alert your teammates as well. Knowing an enemy has spotted you, that a grenade is fast approaching, or that one of Caustic’s Nox Gas Traps is waiting for you around the corner or behind a closed door can make a difference between victory and defeat

Tactical Skill: Into The Void – Reposition quickly through the safety of void space, avoiding all damage.

When Wraith journeys into the void, she becomes untouchable and nearly invisible. She also moves a lot faster too, so you can use this skill to escape an approaching ring wall. Wraith can’t interact with anything while in the void, though, meaning she can’t pick up weapons or items, see enemies or allies, attack, or open or close doors.

Ultimate Skill: Dimensional Rift – Link two locations with portals for 60 seconds, allowing your entire team to use them.

Wraith has one of the most useful Ultimate skills in Apex Legends. She can drop portals next to downed allies so they can crawl through and teleport to safety, or use the massive speed boost she gets from placing her first portal to escape an approaching zone wall. If you don’t have a Bloodhound on-hand, you can use Wraith to drop one portal, run ahead to scout some buildings, and escape through a quickly placed second portal if any enemies are hiding inside.

Tips To Play As Wraith

Once you’ve gotten a knack for Voices From The Void, Wraith can become nearly untouchable at long range. Not only are you warned when someone tags you, the voices speak up when you’re in a sniper’s scope. The second you hear that you’ve got a sniper on you, warn your teammates and use your tactical skill, Into The Void. You’ll disappear and become untouchable, much to your enemy’s chagrin.

Speaking of Into The Void, because of its drawbacks, it’s best used defensively to escape a firefight or ambush. However, you can also use the ability to reach downed allies or safely flank an enemy’s position. If your team has another pinned down, you can use Into The Void to get the drop on someone, but that’s much easier to do if you’re chatting with friends and they guide you to where an opponent is hiding. To truly master Into The Void, learn all the tiny details of Apex Legends’ map, so you know what you’re doing and where you’re going when you blink out of existence.

As a final note, pay close attention to the shadows that populate the void. They aren’t enemies or allies. They’re actually Wraith. Because she’s caught between dimensions, Wraith can see every outcome she’s ever made, making, or will make, in both this universe and others. Those shadows mark where she’ll come out of the void if she heads in that direction, so they’re basically marking her possible futures.

Above, we listed how Wraith can support her team with Dimensional Rift, but as an offense-focused character, this skill is best used for killing enemies. If Wraith uses Dimensional Rift, she can follow up with Into the Void to speed across the battlefield unscathed before placing her second portal. With this strategy, you can teleport your entire team into a flanking position behind another squad. To safeguard your first portal, you can have Gibraltar throw his Dome Of Protection over it, or have Bangalore’s Smoke Launcher hide its location.

If you really want to mess with an enemy, have your squad wait behind cover with grenades, before rushing forward and placing a portal next to an another team. The second it’s set, teleport back to safety while your allies step through to the enemy squad, drop their grenades at their feet, and then transport back. If you have a Caustic on your squad, his Ultimate can do insane damage with this technique, especially within enclosed spaces. If you’re in the midst of a firefight, drop one portal and run to the nearest map edge to drop your second. With any luck, in the confusion of battle, your enemies will think you escaped through the portal and “follow you” through it to kill you, only to appear in open air and fall to their deaths instead. You can trick people into teleporting outside the ring wall too. If the edge of the map and ring are far away, having a waiting Caustic Nox Gas Trap or a Gibraltar with a Spitfire or Devotion and his Gun Shield up can work too. We’ve done a lot experiments with what Wraith’s portals can and can’t do if you need any more combat strategies.

How To Counter Wraith’s Weaknesses

Despite the wide range of attacks Wraith can pull off with her skills, she can be easily countered by a Bloodhound. The technological tracker can tell where Wraith has gone, and see her through walls. If you’re playing Wraith and see a Bloodhound, taking them out should be your first priority.

Wraith is also at her best when she is the one causing the confusion, not the other way around. Disorienting Wraith with Bangalore’s Smoke Launcher, Caustic’s Nox Gas Grenade, or Mirage’s Psyche Out or Vanishing Act are the best ways of knocking her off her game once she’s within killing range. If you’re playing Wraith and your enemy responds with any of these attacks, don’t panic. Use Into The Void and get out. Remember, your abilities are best used to surprise the enemy. If you’re the one being surprised, you need to retreat and try again.

Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace | May 19, 1999

We all know what Star Wars: Episode 1 is, so you don’t need an explainer of any kind to kick this off. So I want to talk to you about trauma. This is a story more about experience, hype, and learning to curb your expectations rather that a movie that changed the world for the better. Ok, over-dramatic reactions aside, I could not have been more excited for a new Star Wars movie. It had been 16 years since a new Star Wars movie had been released. The hype was real, and we all may have expected way too much.

I remember standing in line for hours at my local theater–and skipping school to do so–to be the 20th person in line. I bought Darth Maul’s lightsaber, and my friend and I had battles while waiting for the latest Star Wars film. Yes, that’s ridiculous, but we weren’t the only ones doing so. Everyone in that line was excited to see the next chapter of the Star Wars saga. We were all nerds, and we were all friends for the day. Then, the mayor of our town, her friends, and kids all cut to the front of the line and got into the theater early, taking the best seats in the house.

After watching the movie, we were all living in a sea of excuses, trying to make what we just witnessed “good” in our heads. Sadly, it was one of the biggest letdowns we–and other Star Wars fans–ever had to deal with. I could sit here and discuss what’s wrong with the film, but that’s been done to death. More than likely, the film was aimed at a new generation of fans, pushing the older ones aside, and that’s why so many of us felt so alienated. Looking back, yeah, the movie is a bit of a stinker, but without it, we wouldn’t have things like Darth Maul, and The Clone Wars and Rebels animated series from Dave Filoni. And both of those TV shows are some of the best things to come out of the franchise. | Mat Elfring

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Star Wars: Episode IX has wrapped filming, marking the end of what Disney has dubbed the “Skywalker saga.” In an emotional pair of tweets, director JJ Abrams and actor John Boyega shared a photo and thanked the cast and crew.

The photo in both tweets shows actors Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, and Oscar Isaac having a good hug in costume on what appears to be a desert backdrop. The three play the principle characters of the new trilogy: Rey, Finn, and Poe Dameron, respectively.

“It feels impossible, but today wrapped photography on Episode IX,” said Abrams. “There is no adequate way to thank this truly magical crew and cast. I’m forever indebted to you all.”

Boyega expressed similar sentiments.

Abrams directed the first film of the new trilogy, The Force Awakens, and helped set the course for Disney’s ownership of the franchise. Rian Johnson directed the second film, The Last Jedi. Episode IX (title yet to be revealed) was set to be helmed by Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow, but that fell apart due to creative differences and Abrams returned to close out the trilogy.

With the end of the Skywalker saga coming later this year, it’s unclear exactly what direction Disney will move with the franchise afterward. The company has pumped the brakes on its spin-off anthology films, after Solo disappointed at the box office and Disney CEO Bob Iger has suggested fans got fatigued by too much Star Wars. The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson is still preparing to direct his own trilogy of films, but we’re not sure where in the universe those take place.

Meanwhile, the company is preparing to launch its own streaming service, Disney+, which will have its own slate of original shows: The Mandalorian, a Rogue One prequel starring Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), and a new season of The Clone Wars.

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The annual toy convention, Toy Fair, is well underway at the Javits Center in New York City. Many of the reveals from the show have been action figures, but there are other interesting products tied into your favorite franchises. Hasbro has announced Star Wars Lightsaber Academy, which allows you to train to become a master of the light sword.

Available this fall, the Lightsaber Academy toys allow the user to interact with an app to learn official Star Wars moves and train with Jedi or Sith masters. Additionally, you can battle with your friends to prove who is the real Jedi master.

Pictured above is the top tier of the Lightsaber Academy toys, priced at $50. This lightsaber interacts with the app via Bluetooth and tracks your movement–and is the only one in the line that does so. In turn, you will be evaluated and scored based on your performance. The lightsaber features lights, sounds, app connectivity, and character voices from the movies.

On the lower-pricing tier are the Level 1 assortment lightsabers–pictured above. Priced at $8 each, the toys come with a code that accesses content in the Lightsaber Academy app. However, they do not have the motion tracking the $50 set has.

Finally, there are the Level 2 Lightsabers, and you can choose between Luke Skywalker’s or Darth Vader’s weapon. Priced at $20, these lightsabers light up and make sounds, and there is a button you can press to hear the characters speak. Additionally, it comes with codes to unlock content in the app. While you can still learn all the moves from the movie, it does not have the same interactivity as the $50 one.

All of the Lightsaber Academy toys will be available this fall.

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Stay tuned to GameSpot over the weekend for more Toy Fair reveals.

It’s All About The Ethanol

There are lots of things you need to gather in Far Cry: New Dawn to keep yourself going, including crafting materials of all sorts, but probably the most important thing is Ethanol. It’s the currency you’ll use to upgrade Prosperity, your base of operations. That makes it necessary for advancing the story, which is tied to your base enhancements. Upgrading different areas of your base is also how you unlock better guns, cars, and medkits, among other things. So Ethanol is a big deal, and you’re going to want to get it any time you can.

The trouble is, Ethanol sources are actually somewhat scarce. The main way you can get it is by attacking and liberating outposts. As in most Far Cry games, once you’ve cleared these locations of enemies, Prosperity will send your people there. You’ll claim whatever Ethanol is in the base for later. You can also “salvage” outposts to gain more Ethanol and the opportunity to retake them–more on that in a bit.

The second place to get Ethanol is in Highwaymen tanker trucks that you’ll encounter out in Hope County. Destroying them is good for the cause, but hijacking them and returning them to Prosperity or a captured outpost is even better.

Finally, you can get Ethanol from supply drops. You’ll see these in your area every now and again as a plane flies over, dropping a crate by parachute for the Highwaymen to pick up. Get there first, and you can loot the drop and steal the Ethanol and crafting materials inside. Be warned, though, that supply drops always attract enemies for you to dispatch. Should you fail to loot the drop, look for Highwaymen scavengers to reclaim it. These guys wander around the world looting bodies and drops and carrying the goods back to Highwaymen bases. They’re marked by red wolf icons. Approach them carefully, though–they can be tough to bring down, and if they spot you, they’ll drop smoke grenades to guard their getaways.