Olympus is also home to a number of research facilities and industrial complexes that hide Phase Runners, which teleport players to different locations much like a Wraith portal (although you will take storm damage). Located high above the clouds, Olympus swaps the rocky terrain of King’s Canyon and lava-rich locales of World’s Edge for a rich, sprawling environment full of lush green grass, flowers and futuristic buildings that haven’t (yet) been ruined by battle.
Olympus will join the rotation in place of King’s Canyon, bringing with it a number of new opportunities and challenges. If you’ve played Overwatch, it’s a lot like Zarya’s Graviton Surge. Her ultimate, a mini black hole, is capable of sucking in all players within its radius, giving you the chance to wipe an entire squad with a well-placed grenade or burst of fire. Her tactical ability lets players deploy her robot friend N.E.W.T to lift players to higher areas, providing teams with a new angle of attack.
Her spacesuit allows her to move a lot more freely than most of the other legends, which includes the ability to fall from great heights without taking a momentum hit. Season seven will also see the game deploy its first ever vehicle, gain a new Clubs feature and tune loot tables to make gunning down rival players even more fun. Thanks to a series of previews, it’s now common knowledge that Apex will soon host a third map, Olympus, plus a new “charmingly eccentric” Scottish astrophysicist called Horizon who comes complete with a pretty harrowing backstory.
#Apex legends news update#
With season seven less than a week away, EA and Respawn are finally detailing the new content and features that we can expect from the latest update to the popular battle royale game Apex Legends.