Update: Apex Legends' Valentine's Day Rendezvous event was supposed to start today, February 11, and the flags were supposed to drop, but apparently they didn't; the problem is serious enough that EA is delaying it until tomorrow.

Unrelated, but interestingly ironic that EA's Apex troubles came right on the heels of Bungie's Destiny 2 difficulties.

EA has not yet said if the Valentine's Day rendezvous will be extended to coincide with the lost time, but I have reached out to ask and will update if I hear back.

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Valentine's Day, the annual celebration of love and romance, is not one that immediately evokes the idea of shooting another person in the face. But team up with that special someone and do it." at least that's definitely on the menu at Apex Legends, where Duo Mode returns tomorrow.

Duo mode is the same as the regular Three Os mode, but with one less person per team, and debuted in November 2019 as a two-week limited-time mode. Valentine's Duo will run for an even shorter period of one week, but will offer some very nice themed loot: everyone who logs in during the event will receive a Valentine's Day 2020 badge, new Nessie and Pathfinder gun charms will be available for purchase, as well as a "Double Up" booster that doubles XP rewards up to 20,000 XP per day.

The Through the Heart skin for the Longbow DMR and the Love of the Game banner from last year's Valentine's Day event are also discounted at the Apex Store.

The Apex Legends Valentine's Day Rendezvous runs from February 11 to 18. To see another kind of love in the game, don't miss our impressions of a new character, Revenant. He's a cool killer robot, but not quite enough to shake Apex's rigid meta...