At the beginning of Apex Legends‘ fifth season, players witnessed Kings Canyon erupt after new Legend Loba went sneaking through a creepy underground lab. She set off all sorts of alarms and caused the facility to explode, changing the landscape of the map for good. Now there’s a whopping nice gap the place Skull Town was once, varied dig websites dotted round, and some mysterious steel bunker doorways within the floor. One dataminer reckons these bunker doorways are about to open, and it appears to be like like there’s some golden loot ready inside.
When these bunker doorways appeared proper initially of the season, they had been very a lot the form of environmental change you take a look at and assume, “oh yeah, something funny is going on here”. I believed they had been all simply going to be quest associated (solely one in every of them is, for now), however in response to information miner “Shrugtal”, they’re set to open in battle royale matches.
From this map, it appears to be like Terminal Station F-85, the bunker in-between Water Treatment and Salvage (or, Skull Town’s stays), will begin opening on June 16th, and be prepared for gamers to discover by June 23rd. This ought to be adopted by Terminal Station W-78 opening between June 23rd and 30th, O-240 between June 30th and July seventh, then L-19 between July seventh and 14th.
The datamine reveals gamers shall be rewarded for exploring these secret underground zones with some beautiful totally kitted out gold weapons (particularly the Prowler, Sentinel, and Havoc), and even a gold knockdown defend in that first one. I’m hoping that’s not all that’s down there although, sneaky bunkers look like a wonderful place to cover easter eggs and lore snippets.
Seeing as this can be a datamine, clearly all this information ought to be taken with a pinch of salt. We’ll simply need to see what occurs when it’s all meant to kick off subsequent week.
Along with the large map adjustments, Apex Legends has a bunch of latest stuff come on this season. We acquired master thief Loba as a brand new playable Legend, and the new story quests that observe her revenge mission towards killer bot, Revenant.
Respawn are actually stepping into all this narrative stuff now. The different week I had an opportunity to speak about all of it with game director, Chad Grenier, and design director, Jason McCord, they usually advised me about the challenges of storytelling in a battle royale, and the how all of it suits into the way forward for Apex.
