Apex Legends Season 12 Defiance early patch notes - Major changes to Olympus, and more

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The 12th season of popular battle royale Apex Legends is called Defiance. It brings a new Legend, Mad Maggie, as well as a slew of changes to the Olympus map.

Developed by Respawn Entertainment, Apex Legends is a free-to-play hero shooter and battle royale set in the Titanfall universe. Players form squads of two to three players and select one of several legends to play the game as. Each of the legends has unique abilities, which, when paired with fast-paced action and gunplay, makes Apex Legends a fantastic title.

The 12th season of Apex Legends, Defiance, is set to launch on February 8, 2022. Let's take a look at the early patch by Alex Graner, Level Designer on Apex Legends.

Hi, I’m Alex Graner, Level Designer on Apex Legends, back at it again with another map update. This time, on Olympus for our latest season of Apex Legends: Defiance.

Following the design goals I implemented for World’s Edge second Map Update back in Season 6, we wanted to introduce some significant changes to Olympus while also improving some of the pain points we’ve experienced and heard from the community.

Here are some of the design goals we identified for Olympus:

Despite constant issues, Olympus has always been a testbed for Phase technology. Now, they have a device that can Phase the entire map anywhere they want. It worked too! Well, until it mysteriously malfunctioned… Almost crashing Olympus into the city below and leaving a wake of objects stuck in a phase that spawned sporadically around the area...

Phase Driver is located on the newly expanded South side of the map. This new POI is large, but its circular flow and open environment around the center device create various combat situations, so it’s not too hard to get into interesting fights