Apex Legends' new Celestial Sunrise Collection Event launched on Tuesday, marking the third Collection Event of the season, but the new event has been met with far less fanfare than the two events that preceded it, mainly due to an unexpected change to the standard Collection Event formula. December's Wintertide Collection Event and the recent Spellbound Collection Event, and all previous Collection Events have had something Celestial Sunrise lacks: the Mythic-tier Heirloom Weapon or Prestige Skin players normally earn by unlocking all 24 Collection Event cosmetics. Instead, players who shell out the $170 USD required to unlock the entire Celestial Sunrise collection will receive a Legendary-tier Peacekeeper skin.
The skin in question is called Jadeite Retribution, and despite its hefty pricetag, players who have unlocked it are overwhelmingly disappointed. Celestial Sunrise is the first Collection Event in Apex Legends history to lack a Mythic-tier reward for players who purchase the full collection. Worse, the weapon skin itself is a recolor of two previously-released Peacekeeper skins players could unlock by completing the Season 3 battle pass.
The Jadeite Retribution skin isn't entirely charmless, of course. It's a reactive weapon skin, meaning its appearance changes as players rack up kill during each match. But this is nothing new to any Apex player who has ever completed a battle pass, as two Legendary-tier reactive skins are always included in each season's battle pass. The fact that players can get their hands on said reactive skins every season just by purchasing a $9.50 USD battle pass seems to be the root of the outrage.
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