Apex Legends: Hunted is shaping as much as be one of the crucial substantial updates to Respawn’s beloved battle royale in current instances. The Season 14 replace will drop in simply over per week’s time, and in addition to the customary new Legend – youthful sharpshooter Vantage – we’ll even be seeing numerous weapon updates, and a few essential adjustments to Apex’s oldest map, Kings Canyon. Bear in mind Cranium City? Nicely, it is again. Form of.
The Syndicate has lastly rebuilt Cranium City after its destruction means again in Season 5, however now it is called Relic. The massive new focal point is nestled between Caustic Therapy, Market, and Octane’s Gauntlet on the south facet of Kings Canyon, and appears very very like a non secular successor to the beloved Cranium City from the early days of Apex. A packed city space beneath an enormous crimson beast cranium, it seems to be to offer precisely the identical form of chaotic early-game combating, each on avenue degree and throughout rooftops, which made Cranium City so well-liked.
That is not the one change we’re seeing to Kings Canyon, both. The Cage POI is being opened up in order that it is much less of a nightmare to push enemies which have hunkered down contained in the tower. We’ll additionally see a handful of latest buildings added to Relay (which might be renamed to Basin), to encourage extra participant curiosity there. And the advanced on the backside of Hillside has been altered fairly a bit as properly, the closed off interiors eliminated to attempt to enable fights there to finish extra rapidly as a substitute of changing into drawn-out fireworks shows that entice each different staff on the map within the mid-game.
The season adjustments aren’t purely geographical, both. The weapon meta is seeing a number of reasonably drastic adjustments with Apex Legends: Hunted, beginning with a model new attachment – Laser Sights – which will be affixed to numerous SMGs and Pistols instead of a Barrel Stabilizer to drastically decrease the hipfire unfold of these weapons. You’ll be able to customise the color of your weapons’ laser sights, too, which is fairly candy.
The Wingman is altering from Heavy to Sniper ammo, and it is getting the Skullpiercer Hop-Up again. In the meantime, the ever-deadly Spitfire is switching from Heavy to Mild Ammo. It is a good choice – the late-game weapons have been dominated by Heavy Ammo weapons for ages now. One other factor that can assist inject some selection again into the late-game meta is that the Volt and G7 Scout are coming again out of the Provide Crate, and taking their place are the Rampage LMG and the Bocek Bow. I shudder to suppose how highly effective the Bocek goes to be this season…
Goodness, there’s much more. The EVA-8 is getting some much-needed love with a fireplace fee buff and the addition of Inventory attachments; and amazingly, self-revives are gone from the Gold Knockdown Defend. As a substitute, the Knockdown Defend can have the impact of the Gold Backpack (revived allies get further Defend and HP), and the Gold Backpack is getting the all-new Deep Pockets perk, which permits Batteries and Medkits to stack as much as 3, and Phoenix Kits to stack as much as 2.
All this sounds very attention-grabbing to me, and it makes me suppose Season 14 goes to be an actual game-changer for Apex Legends. Notably once you think about that we’re additionally getting the brand new Legend to play with – extra data might be revealed round Vantage nearer to the season’s launch – and a model new Battle Go. If you wish to brush up in your abilities earlier than you hop again into Kings Canyon, make sure you try our Apex Legends suggestions and methods information.