Everything We Know About Apex Legends: Defiance Before Launch

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Apex Legends' 12th Season update is right around the corner, dropping for all players on February 8. While most Apex Legends updates bring a decent supply of new content to the game, Season 12, titled «Defiance,» is bringing a lot to the table. Defiance is adding a time-limited game mode, a reworked map, a whole range of new cosmetics, and is adding a brand-new Legend to the game.

Along with all of this, Apex Legends Defiance update is also celebrating the game's third anniversary, bringing the Anniversary Collection event back to the game for a limited time, allowing players to unlock a range of exclusive legendary character skins. Players are also being given three Legends — Octane, Valkyrie, and Wattson — for free to mark the game's anniversary.

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Defiance is bringing a brand-new game mode to Apex Legends. Titled «Control,» this game mode functions similarly to Halo Infinite's «Stronghold» mode, pitting two teams of nine against one another. The game mode tasks teams with holding a series of objectives scattered across the map, with the match coming to a close once players have reached 1500 points. As opposed to Apex's usual respawn timer, Control allows players to respawn almost-immediately.

Defiance's Control mode is time-limited, however, only being playable for the first three weeks of Season 12. Players will need to make sure they log in during the first three weeks to hop into the new mode.

Defiance is also bringing a reworked version of the «Olympus» map. The tweaked map, named «Sabotaged Olympus,» takes the game's third map and plummets it into the ground. Following the titular sabotage from brand-new legend Mad Maggie, players will need to get to