Apex Legends’ fifth new map, Broken Moon, introduces zip rails and bigger POIs next week
Respawn Entertainment has revealed Apex Legends’ fifth battle royale map, Broken Moon.
Featuring a new zip rail system and some larger points of interest (POI), the map has been in development for about a year-and-a-half.
Broken Moon will join existing battle royale maps Kings Canyon, World’s Edge, Olympus and Storm Point when Apex Legends Season 15 launches on November 1.
Titled ‘Eclipse’, Season 15 will also introduce Apex Legend’s latest hero, a trans woman called Catalyst, and a new gifting feature.
Apex Legends world director Ed Agostini and lead level designer Jeff Shaw discussed the creation of Broken Moon during a recent developer panel attended by VGC.
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The map is set on Boreas’ moon, Cleo, and is designed around a heaven and hell theme. “If you have an idea of what a moon should feel like, it’s very barren and cold and even if it’s a little alien, it’s still going to be kind of oppressive, and that’s the dark side of the moon,” Agostini said.
“We wanted to flip that with the light side, the heavenly side. We always contrasted them, heaven versus hell. We know that other maps have had things like fire and ice as a theme, or a very strong tropical theme, so with heaven and hell we have the beautiful side which was inspired by Monet paintings, and we were always looking at that kind of pastel soft look with pink skies and lily pads – you’ll find a lot of that in our bionomics section near the atmosphere factories.”
Boreas also has a dominant African culture, so connections to that will be present in some areas of Broken Moon such as its Eternal Gardens POI.
“So, there’s quite a bit of that lovely side that contrasts with that
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