Apex Legends season 17 mixes up World’s Edge’s Fragment, adds new POIs

The Apex Legends season 17: Arsenal replace is altering up World’s Edge with a variety of map changes, together with two new POIs, contemporary lighting, and a little bit of chasm removing. A lot of the lava will now be traversable on foot because the area cools down and turns into much less risky. Past that, a couple of fan-favourite spots within the FPS game have been both shifted or changed to offer World’s Edge a contemporary feeling for the primary time since season 10.

Throughout a current press occasion attended by PCGamesN, Respawn’s lead map designer, Jeff Shaw, supplied loads of information on the map replace from a design standpoint.

“We’ve tweaked, and tuned, and balanced a bunch of the map’s parts, even all the way down to altering the map’s lighting and sky,” Shaw stated. This time round, World’s Edge has acquired the Kings Canyon remedy from season 14 when it comes to visible enhancements.

World’s Edge is within the technique of therapeutic, which signifies that the fissures and floaty chasms discovered throughout the map are being stuffed in to permit for faster motion. The remaining lava has risen, permitting you to stroll throughout it at the price of a little bit of well being.

Probably the most notable modifications, nonetheless, are the brand new Monument and Stacks POIs. Monument is a construction that acts as a type of museum bunker, and it mixes Fragment with the map’s middle – you may see it within the header picture above. Stacks, alternatively, is a bunch of tall development buildings that absolutely exchange Lava Metropolis to the southeast.

“We knew we wanted to do one thing to shake up the map’s middle,” stated Shaw when outlining the modifications made to the ever-popular Fragment hotspot. “It’s been a very long time coming [and] that brings us to Monument… it’s a museum that celebrates Apex’s previous, current, and future.”

Shaw describes Monument as a reminder of how far Apex Legends has come since launch. From a gameplay standpoint, it serves as an underground bunker with a sniper nest up high, and a glass ceiling separating its high and backside halves to offer intel on what’s taking place on each ends.

In distinction, Stacks is a way more vertical POI with interconnected rooftops. The Fragment development constructing is the center of this new location, and it’s the proper playground for artful Legends like Wraith or Octane.

You’ll be capable to study the ins and outs of the World’s Edge map modifications for your self when the Apex Legends season 17 release date rolls round on Could 9. Forward of then, be sure you try our Apex Legends tier list to see the place your faves are at the moment rating.