Apex Legends Is Bringing Back Control For A Limited Time
We first got a taste for Control, Apex Legends’ limited-time 9v9 game mode, back when Defiance first launched in January. A few months later and Respawn is bringing Control back to celebrate the arrival of the Warriors Collection Event, but only for a limited time.
In case you didn’t get to experience Control the first time around, the game mode pit two teams of 9 Legends against each other in a king-of-the-hill-style game mode. Each map had three locations that players needed to control (hence the name) in order to gain points for their team. The team with the most points at the end of the match won.
Related: Why Is Apex Legends’ Control Mode So Good?
Control really changed things up for Apex Legends. The biggest difference was unlimited respawns, which meant that players could be a lot more reckless than they normally would. Dying in Battle Royale meant having to wait to find a totally new game, but dying in Control just meant respawning at your team’s base. This allowed for some crazy plays and intense objective-based action that went down well with a lot of the Apex players around these parts.
Because Control was objective-based, it also meant certain Legends were better than others. Legends with movement abilities like Pathfinder, Octane, and Mad Maggie were good for traversing between control points, while Caustic, Gibraltar, and Bangalore were good for keeping control points. Control completely upended the normal Apex Legends meta, and fans loved it.
And now it’s coming back with a new map. Caustic Treatment on Kings Canyon has been added to the rotation, joining Olympus and Storm Point as possible maps. Caustic Treatment has been revamped for Control with more cover, ziplines, skydive launchers, “and even a
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