Apex Legends Season 13 will let players fight inside a sea monster’s carcass
Respawn Entertainment has revealed new details about Apex Legends Season 13 ahead of its release later this month.
Titled ‘Saviors’ and set to launch on May 10, the new season of content introduces Apex Legend’s latest hero, Newcastle.
It also includes some significant changes to the game’s newest map, Storm Point, which was added last November with Season 11.
The headline additions are a new point of interest (POI) based in and around the carcass of a giant sea monster, and a new PVE minigame involving long-dormant IMC armouries resurfaced and activated by seismic activity.
“One of the bigger goals for the map update was bolstering the number of POIs from 17 to 18,” lead level designer Jeff Shaw explained during a recent Apex Legends developer panel attended by VGC.
“This was part of our ongoing effort to make Storm Point more competitive as a map and we really wanted to do this additively without removing anything that was important.
“We’re really excited about this POI. It brings something a little different to Apex and we thought with this thing, focusing combat inside the monster was really important to us. That’s where the fun is, so this things is like a big loot-stuffed piñata, and all the best loot is inside the belly of the beast.”
The dead creature is also mountable, with the high ground offering control and visibility over the surrounding area, but there are plenty of ways squads can get up top too and flank whoever’s already up there.
Respawn has dubbed the new POI ‘The Downed Beast’. It’s “tightly positioned” between North Pad, Checkpoint and The Mill, and Shaw said Respawn is “looking at this as a high-tier POI and really hoping it’s going to pull some of the action away from Barometer on the drop”.
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