I Love How Overpowered Apex Legends’ New IMC Armories Are

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There’s a lot to take in with a new Apex Legends season, and Season 13 is no different. As much as some players complain that we have to spend a week playing Storm Point at the start of the season, or want to meme that the map footprint hasn’t changed that much, there’s still so many changes to get stuck into.

First off, Storm Point is clearly the best map (the title would go to World’s Edge if it wasn’t for the entire lobby landing at that one building in Fragment. You know the one.) Secondly, a lot has changed. Even if you don’t take into account all the weapon balances, the brand new Legend, or the drastic changes to Valkyrie Ultimates, Storm Point is hugely different. Sure, the new POI is tucked away on the western edge and the Volt has been left to decay in the Care Package, but Season 13 is quickly becoming one of my favourite updates yet, and that’s in part thanks to the IMC Armories.

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I didn’t land at an IMC Armory for a good while when Season 13 dropped. I was preoccupied with the Downed Beast – and clearly so were most of my opponents. A new POI is a guaranteed hot drop for the first couple of weeks of a season, so it takes a long time to actually explore it fully between battles and untimely deaths.

It’s cool, though. Correct me if I’m wrong, but it’s the first organic POI in Apex Legends, even if the organism in question is the decaying corpse of a kaiju crustacean. Fighting in the guts of such a great creature is an excellent backdrop to your Storm Point hot drops, simultaneously befitting the natural theme of the map (the unnamed central POI has been dubbed ‘Jurassic Park’ by the community thanks to the abundance of Prowler nests) and bringing something