When Apex Legends Season 21 kicks off subsequent week, the sport’s fifth battle royale map, Broken Moon, will lastly be getting a facelift. This is the longest any battle royale map in Apex Legends has gone and not using a main replace, as each different map has gotten a everlasting format change inside two seasons of launching. Broken Moon, which was added in Season 15, is simply now getting new focal point landmarks and changes to the environment–that’s six seasons later.”We’ve been working hard on a lot of content,” Apex Legends lead degree designer Steve Young instructed me after I requested why changes for Broken Moon took longer than standard. “I think on the map side of things–and obviously Broken Moon is not the only thing that we’ve been focused on, but to that end–I would say that this is a pretty heavy lift as far as the changes that you’re going to see. And yeah, it’s been a long journey, but I’m really happy personally with where Broken Moon is, and I honestly think that fans are going to dig it too. [Also,] we have a lot of active maps right now. These are very detailed maps and we have to keep up with all of them and develop new maps on the side.”
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The most notable adjustment to Broken Moon is the destruction of Promenade, the centralmost POI that acts as a significant chokepoint given its lengthy, snake-like construction. It’s not unusual to search out your self contending with three or 4 different squads (or extra!) when you determine to rotate by means of that location within the latter half of a match as a result of that is when lots of people select to take action (or are pressured to relying how the ring is closing). This has led many gamers to actively keep away from the landmark altogether. In Promenade’s place, Broken Moon is getting a brand-new POI known as Quarantine.”Since we basically nuked Promenade–which I assume a lot of people may be happy about, I don’t know, but maybe–the whole center of the map had to receive a pretty significant update,” Young mentioned. “Which means that rotations and chokes and all the connective tissue [of the map] is much more intentional and intuitive, and that’s all to accommodate the redesigned center of the map, the Quarantine zone.”Goodbye Promenade, and howdy Quarantine.Broken Moon has a novel type of transportation often known as zip rails–long, yellow rails that curve and twist across the map. If you seize one, you are propelled alongside the road, regularly selecting up velocity. Their main objective is to help squads in shifting in regards to the outskirts of the (frankly, too huge) map earlier than the primary ring begins closing. In addition, all of the rail tracks finally funnel towards the middle, serving to squads get from one half of the map to the opposite. Previously, that meant all roads result in Promenade. Not anymore.[Zip rails] used to bleed into the middle and type of funnel everybody there,” Young said. “And so yeah, plenty of these have been eliminated and it’s arduous to name out specifics, however let’s simply say the entire connective tissue has obtained a fairly important replace throughout the map, however particularly main into the brand new Quarantine zone. And then now we have, in my view, probably the most inventive and enjoyable use of zip rails within the Quarantine zone itself, particularly proper now. They’re designed primarily as a rotational instrument throughout the POI as a result of it is rather a lot sooner paced, but it surely’s extra… managed chaos, I assume, is an efficient manner of placing it. You’re now going to have the ability to determine threats and formulate a method for how one can navigate by means of there. So you possibly can both use the zip rails throughout the POI–they’re solely contained throughout the POI–to both rotate or when you simply wish to make a extremely huge spectacular play off them, that is simple to do now too. Well, simple when you’re like [Apex Legends balance game designer] John Larson.”There will be smaller POIs added to the map to fill empty space.The narrative reasoning for Quarantine’s addition is that after Apex Legends’ third map, Olympus, collided with Broken Moon and destroyed Promenade, alien eggs of an unknown species were discovered and the location was coordinated off. Badly, evidently, if the legends are still using the space as a battleground for their blood sport but that’s neither here nor there. Regardless, I asked if this might hint at future PvE elements coming to Broken Moon, similar to the prowler dens and spider nests on Storm Point.”No,” Young responded, chuckling. “It helps contextualize the containment zone space that was arrange, so the eggs themselves are inside these storage containers you could take a look at. I’m simply making an attempt to hype up how ridiculous the biome replace is as a result of it genuinely seems and seems like a brand-new map, and that was one purpose I used to be calling [the eggs] particularly out, however now I’m realizing I must be somewhat bit extra cautious.”Alongside Quarantine, Broken Moon is receiving a number of smaller changes throughout the map, in addition to the addition of some smaller POIs injected between the bigger ones. The map can also be getting a beauty facelift–the light greens and pinks of grass and shrubbery will rework into sharp reds and purples, and the beforehand clear skies will now seem like Broken Moon has been transported to a different, extra alien realm within the Titanfall multiverse, seemingly in reference to Season 21’s new playable legend, Alter, a tiefling-looking villain who can stroll by means of partitions.