Apex Legends’ Kings Canyon is shut due to crashing issues

pcgamesn.com:

There’s an Apex Legends Kings Canyon crash problem going on right now, and it’s proving to be such an issue that developer Respawn is “temporarily disabling” the FPS game‘s original map – with no confirmation as yet on when it will return.

Apex Legends may be one of the best battle royale games on PC, but recently players have reported some major crashing issues with the game’s main map Kings Canyon. It’s not a small problem, either – it boots players from the map and the entire server seems to go down, with the message “server shutting down – internal server error”.

While Respawn hasn’t said what is causing the crashing issue, players have surmised that it seems to be connected to the Caustic Treatment area in the southern part of Kings Canyon. For whatever reason, sometimes when a player opens the special Gold Loot in the plant, it seems to overload the server and crash the game. Respawn added this area and reward to Apex Legends a year ago, so it’s unclear why it’s suddenly happening now.

The end result, at the time of writing, is that Respawn has confirmed that the team is “aware of an issue” and is “temporarily disabling Kings Canyon while we continue to work on a fix”.

We are temporarily disabling Kings Canyon while we continue to work on a fix for this issue. Thank you again for your patience here, legends.

— Respawn (@Respawn) <a href=«https://twitter.com/Respawn/status/1503504229691973637?ref_src=» https: www.pcgamesn.com rel=«noopener»>March 14, 2022

You can check out the crash in action below.

The lobby crashes after you go to Caustic treatment on Kings Canyon when opening the Gold Loot <a href=«https://twitter.com/PlayApex?ref_src=» https: www.pcgamesn.com rel=«noopener»>@playapex

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