Apex Legends <\/em>is a textbook live-service multiplayer game in many ways. It\u2019s constantly balancing the need to keep the game competitive and fair in its PvP environment, while also constantly releasing new skins and cosmetics for players to purchase, showing off in-game.<\/p>
That can sometimes create something of an issue since players soon discovered the existence of “pay-to-win<\/a>” skins. While all Legendary weapon skins in Apex <\/em>slightly alter the model of any given weapon in ways that the other rarity tiers do not, none of these changes are supposed to affect competitiveness. That said, several Legendary weapon skins change each weapon\u2019s iron sights, and a few skins have gained a reputation for having better iron sights than others.<\/p>
If you\u2019re gaining a less-cluttered view of the battlefield in front of you while you\u2019re ADSing, that\u2019s a competitive advantage. And even if that advantage is a slim one, it can still win you a fight or two here or there. Respawn has even acknowledged this fact publicly by nerfing one of the game\u2019s most famous pay-to-win skins<\/a>, the Heat Sink and Heavy Metal Flatline skins that came as rewards for completing the season four battle pass. <\/p>
