Apex Legends' Skull Town Returns In Season 14 In Effort To Improve Kings Canyon's Map Health
Apex Legends Season 14 sees newcomer Vantage join the playable roster (though I'd rather see more of her mom), and the Apex Games returning to Kings Canyon. After suffering destruction at the hands of leviathans, Loba, and Mad Maggie, Apex Legends' original map is finally getting partially rebuilt in the new season, as the Syndicate constructs a new landmark in the southwestern portion. In the place where Skull Town once stood, you'll now find a familiar-looking town covered by a massive leviathan skull. It's called Relic.
Relic isn't a one-to-one replication of Skull Town. For one, it's a lot smaller and not nearly as tall--more of an outpost or settlement located in the middle of a small desert canyon, with plenty of sightlines for snipers to ambush squads trying to enter or leave the point-of-interest (POI). Don't expect it to house enough loot for almost a dozen squads like Skull Town did either; instead, Relic will only feature enough loot and space for two or three squads (maybe four).
The new addition to Kings Canyon represents a narrative conclusion to Kings Canyon's journey since Season 5, when Loba inadvertently blew up Skull Town and Thunderdome in her quest to kill Revenant.
«There's been sort of this ongoing salvage operation, salvaging the bones from the ocean, and this new update is sort of the end point of that story,» Apex Legends lead level designer Jeff Shaw told me. «This has been the Salvage [POI] operation, which is now complete.»
Relic will be replacing Salvage--the POI that replaced Skull Town--but that's it. It does not extend far enough to make up for the ground lost when Thunderdome was also destroyed. «We want every map to have its own area, its own statement, and its own sort of niche,» Shaw
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