Three VSpo Talents Run an All-Crypt Squad in Apex Legends After the Character’s Rework

VSPO — Aizawa Ema, Ginjo Saine and Tatsumaki Chise of VSpo spent Monday’s stream testing the reworked Crypt in Apex Legends, all three choosing the character for a run of Wildcard and ranked matches that ended with a second-place finish. The three streamed the session from their own channels and said it was their first time playing Apex as this group.

The session opened in the practice range, where the group went through the changes that came with Season 31 Split 1. Crypt now runs faster when moving toward teammates. His tactical drone has a 25-second battery that recovers it automatically when it runs out, and it can mark every enemy in a full circle around it; marks last eight seconds through obstacles and stay on even if the drone is recovered or destroyed. The EMP ultimate can now be fired with one button press without first deploying the drone, or while the drone is hovering. Enemies the drone can see lose their full shield and are slowed hard, while those out of its sight lose 50 shield points and are lightly slowed. Two new upgrades stretch the mark time from eight to 12 seconds and add 10 seconds of battery. In a custom lobby, where only the host could change the settings, the three fired EMPs at one another to compare the slow in the open and behind cover.

“I was startled. There was a fourth member. We were streaming as four today.” — Aizawa Ema, Ginjo Saine and Tatsumaki Chise, after a voice assistant spoke up unprompted

They then dropped into a Wildcard match with three Crypts on one team, a lineup one participant joked had never been seen. All three drones scanned the same spots as the squad fought through the area and was eliminated in fifth place. The match turned up a catch: an EMP also destroys teammates’ drones. The group joked that it should require permission, and discussed firing in turns, each player charging in right after their shot. They planned to try it in the next game.

Later the trio moved to ranked play and went through the changes to Apex’s ranked mode as announced: players need only account level 20 to enter, the entry cost shifts with the lobby’s rank, and ranked points are now a fixed amount for each kill, assist and placement, with the old multiplier removed. They finished their first ranked match in second place, then used a break to share a newly announced official Discord server called LFG, short for looking for group, where players can find teammates of a similar rank. It launched as a test version with moderators, and an opening campaign will draw five winners of 6,700 Apex Coins from players who found new teammates there.

Chat greeted the squad with a wave of greeting emotes as the stream opened and followed the all-Crypt plays with laughter. The group played a second ranked match before signing off, pointing viewers to the links in the description.